The Labor of the Mind – Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures A Book Launch & Conversation with Tony La Vopa, Joanna Wharton and Julia Voss (Historic Observatory, Red Hall, Wednesday 29th […]
The Labor of the Mind
Global Natural History Around 1800
Workshop: Global Natural History around 1800: Collections, Media, Actors Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Historic Observatory, 7-9 December 2017 Limited spaces are available upon prior registration. Please contact Dominik Hünniger until 29th November 2017. The later […]
Open Day 2016
What a wonderful Open Day! We would like to warmly thank the over 700 visitors who have joined us today for our exhibition ‘Sturm der Bilder’, live music from the award-winning ensemble […]
Exhibition Opening
Impressions from the vernissage of ‘Sturm der Bilder’. Our new exhibition on Dutch and Flemish graphic art from the 16th century will run until 11 December 2016. We would like to thank […]
Exhibition ‘Sturm der Bilder’
Questions about the moral qualities and virtues of politicians have very much come back to the forefront of current debate. Questions about what we, as citizens, should do in case politicians and […]
Ausstellung ‘Sturm der Bilder’
Die Ausstellung ‘Sturm der Bilder’ zeigt Bilder aus der Göttinger Stichesammlung von Künstlern wie Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Pieter Bruegel, Hendrick Goltzius und Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert. Das berühmte Erasmus-Porträt von […]
Grazie!
We would like to warmly thank everybody for making last night’s charity event in support of the Protezione Civile (helping the people of central Italy affected by the series of earthquakes that […]
Charity Concert & Dinner
Coming Friday, the 4th of November we will host a charity concert in support of the people of Amatrice and other central Italian regions hit hard by the series of earthquakes that started […]
Crime. Dis/Order. Narration
Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute 2016 August 30 to September 3, 2016 – Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Historische Sternwarte Criminality, it seems, has become a global preoccupation in the early twenty-first century, a preoccupation strikingly disproportionate, […]
Rites, Rights and Rituals
On Tuesday, 28th June, 11.00 a.m. Michael Puett (Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History at Harvard) will give a public lecture entitled: “Rites, Rights, and Rituals: Comparative Reflections from China”. The lecture […]