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 […]
Open Day 2016
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 […]
The Politics of the Human
Public Lecture: Anne Phillips (LSE): The Politics of the Human Wednesday, 22nd June 2016, 2.15 p.m. The notion of the human and, more specifically, the idea that we share a common humanity, […]
Collecting & the Knowledge of Objects
The Lichtenberg-Kolleg and the Zentrale Kustodie (office for collection development) are hosting a summer school for PhD students interested in the material culture of knowledge. Entitled “Collecting and the Knowledge of Objects, 1700-1900”, […]