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Covid-19
Just all other institutes of higher education and academic research the Lichtenberg-Kolleg had to close its doors– we did so on Thursday 12 March. We are all working from home and we […]
Workshop: Virtue and Sociability
Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen27-28 February 2020 Friendship is a basic feature of ethics and social life, and our workshop will investigate friendship in a historical perspective. We […]
Workshop: Rembrandt – Lasting Impressions
Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University Tuesday 10 December/Wednesday 11 December 2019 Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte Geismar Landstraße 11 Tuesday, 10 December 10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction (Martin van Gelderen, Ivan Gaskell) 10:15-11:15 Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate […]
Workshop: Intersections of Earth Sciences and Theology in the Long 18th Century
Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte Geismar Landstraße 11 Organized by Hanna Roman, Volkswagen‐Mellon Fellow in Residence & Lichtenberg‐Kolleg Programme Thursday, 11 July Arrival of conference participants 16:30 Meeting point at the Eden Hotel […]
Workshop: Jews and Jewish Religion in Western Postwar Fiction Film
International conference at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg August Universität Göttingen in partnership with the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute London, and the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen […]
Exhibition: Lichtenberg’s Human Figurations
12 April to 30 June 2018, Historic Observatory Focusing on the work of the Kolleg’s namesake Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) and his colleague Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) this exhibition examines a controversial part […]
Freedom with & without Europe
Freedom with and without Europe: Indian and European Ways of Thinking Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study 14th-15th December 2017 Venue: Historische Sternwarte, Geismar Landstrasse 11, Göttingen K. Ramanujan’s […]
Enlightenment Man
Enlightenment Man – Workshop in Honour of Hans Erich Bödeker 30 November 2017 Part 1: Theory and Methodology 10.00 – 11.00 Tony La Vopa, The Process of the Political: […]
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 […]
