Events in English

Do / 15:00

Freedom for the Philosopher: Lina Tumanova’s Scholarship and Human Rights Activism in the Late USSR

Part of the series "Women’s agency during wars and social conflicts: new sources and a fresh look at Eurasian history"

Tatiana Levina (KWI)

University of Turku, Arcanum, A229

29.11.23

Events in English Mehr oder Weniger | More or Less

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Cake Baking and Knowledge Making

How to Talk About Research in 19th and 20th Century East Africa

Morgan Robinson, KWI International Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

28.11.23

Di / 18:00

POSTPONED: BOOK PRESENTATION: WELFARE FOR MARKETS

A Global History of Basic Income

Anton Jäger (Catholic University of Leuven), Daniel Zamora Vargas (Free University of Brussels)

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

20.11.23

Mo / 18:00

The Administrative Grotesque. Affective Economies in Contemporary Bureaucratic Fiction

Part of the Auerbach Lectures

Alexandra Irimia (KWI Associate Fellow & Erich Auerbach Fellow)

Bibliothek Erich Auerbach Institut, Weyertal 59 (Rückgebäude, 3. OG), 50937 Köln

15.11.23

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Plant-Animal Analogies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Justin Begley, KWI International Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

15.11.23

Mi / 15:15 – 16:15

The Romani LGBTI Movement in Europe

Online Open Lecture | UiS Gender Studies

Dezso Mate, KWI

Online (ZOOM)

09.11.23

Do / 09:00 – 16:00

Conference on Critical Engagement with the History of Sinti and Roma

Memory, Representation, and Reparations

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

08.11.23

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Water / and / being / sufficient

The Stakes of Continuum in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!

Tom Allen, KWI International Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

06.11.23

Mo / 16:00

The Sources of Suprematism

Kazimir Malevich in Ukraine and Belarus

Tatiana Levina, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen and Visiting Fellow at the IWM Moderation

Spittelauer Lände 3, IWM Library, Vienna, 1090

04.10.23 – 06.10.23

Panel: Art as Public History

Part of "To Be Continued." Virtual NCPH Conference 2023

Sasha Gora (Universität Augsburg), Egemen Özbek (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Marissa Petrou (University of Louisana), Fatemeh Rezai (KWI)

Online

13.09.23

Mi / 18:00

A Preview of an Exhibition Under Construction

Fiona Connor, Friederike Sigler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Christian Berger (KWI Essen)

Online (Zoom) & Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Goethestr. 31, Gartensaal

04.07.23 – 07.07.23

HISTORICIZING THE REFUGEE EXPERIENCE, 17TH–21ST CENTURIES

Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), Duisburg

21.06.23 – 23.06.23

International Conference: History and Theory of Compromises

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethstr. 31, 45128 Essen

15.06.23

Do / 09:00 – 17:00

ENIS WG2 Meeting in Vilnius

Sanam Roohi, KWI International Fellow

Online (Microsoft Teams) & Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3, Senate Hall, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lithuania

14.06.23 – 16.06.23

Conference: Nowhere(to)land?

What Science Studies Contribute to Science Communication

Universität Bonn, Bonner Universitätsforum, Heussallee 18-24

12.06.23

Events in English Lesung

Mo / 18:00

Book Presentation with Anna Della Subin

"Accidental Gods. On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine"

Anna Della Subin

Online (Zoom)

05.06.23

Events in English Lesung

Mo / 18:00

Book Presentation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Elite Capture. How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Georgetown University

Online (Zoom)

16.05.23

Di / 17:30

KISDtalk: Photobook Highlights

A look at the history of the photobook and the current situation

KISD Köln International School of Design, Room 12
Ubierring 40, Köln

13.05.23

Sa / 10:00 – 17:00

Symposium: Research Meets Artist

Artist Meets Archive #3

Marissa Petrou u.a.

Rheinisches Bildarchiv im Historischen Archiv
Eifelwall 5, 50674 Köln

08.05.23

Events in English Lesung

Mo / 18:00

Book presentation with Alex von Tunzelmann

"Fallen Idols. Twelve Statues That Made History"

Alex von Tunzelmann

Online (Zoom)

24.04.23

Mo / 18:00

Book presentation with Deborah Cohen

"Last Call at the Hotel Imperial. American Foreign Correspondents, Interwar Geopolitics and the History of Private Life"

Deborah Cohen

Online (Zoom)

20.04.23

Book Talk: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe

Sanam Roohi (KWI International Fellow), Aslı Vatansever (Bard College Berlin)

University of Amsterdam

08.03.23

The communicative construction of gambling addiction as a means of solving other social problems

Jo Reichertz, KWI

University of Auckland, New Zealand

17.02.23 – 18.02.23

/ 10:00 – 17:00

Administory Authors’ Workshop

Administrative Cultures and their Aesthetics

Jonathan Foster (University of Stockholm), Alexandra Irimia (KWI International Fellow), Stefan Nellen (Swiss Federal Archives), & Burkhardt Wolf (University of Vienna)

Online (ZOOM) & Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

15.02.23

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

POSTPONED: The Manifestations of Anti-Gypsyism

Dezso Mate, Academy in Exile@KWI Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

01.02.23

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Gentrification and Queer Exile in Istanbul

Diren Demir, Academy in Exile

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

25.01.23

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Appetites and Other Ghosts

Sasha Gora, KWI International Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

23.01.23

Mo / 16:00

Lecture: On Twitter

Nan Z. Da, Johns Hopkins University

Online (Zoom)

18.01.23

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

The Totalitarian Subject

On Psychology, Political Theory, and Literature of the 1930s and 1940s

Sandra Janßen, Thyssen@KWI Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

11.01.23

Mi / 10:00

The Case against Story

Literary Strategies against Narrative Supremacy

Samir Sellami, KWI Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

21.12.22

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Art, activism and archives from the perspective of exile and displacement

Claudia Tazreiter, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), University Linköping

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

14.12.22

Mi / 18:00

Wheatscapes and Culinary Ghosts

Maya Marshak (Delfina Foundation), L. Sasha Gora (KWI). David Bates (Chatham House)

Delfina Foundation, 29/31 Catherine Place, London SW1E 6DY

14.12.22

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Red Tape Narratives

Fractured Subjects and the Administrative Grotesque in Bureaucratic Fiction

Alexandra Irimia, KWI International Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

10.12.22

Sa / 14:00 – 16:50

Polyphonic Bodies II

L. Sasha Gora (KWI), Erin Li (Delfina Foundation), Songsoo Kim

Asymmetry HQ,
102a Albion Drive, London, E8 4LY

08.12.22 – 09.12.22

Philosophical Steamboat 1922–2022: On the Centenary of the Exile of Intellectuals

Internal Workshop

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

07.12.22

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Commemoration of/for Entrepreneurship in the Late 19th – Early 20th Century

Tetiana Vodotyka, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences / Georg-August University Göttingen

Online (Zoom)

30.11.22

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Mapping Blackness in Southeast Asia and Oceania

German Anthropology ca. 1900

Marissa Petrou, KWI International Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

23.11.22

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Four or Five Footnotes to the Climate Crisis

Kris Decker, KWI International Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

17.11.22

Do / 18:00

Stop Writing! Curate!

Digital Curation and Photobook Research

Verena Kick, KWI International Fellow

Folkwang University of the Arts, Campus Welterbe Zollverein, Quartier Nord, Room 2.13

16.11.22

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Picturing Weimar Publics

Montage Strategies and Counter Publics in Interwar Photobooks

Verena Kick, KWI International Fellow

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

14.11.22

Mo / 16:00

Lecture: Auerbach’s Mimesis as an Anthropology of Violence

Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University

Online (Zoom)

09.11.22

Mi / 18:00

Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave-Art to K-Pop

Martin Puchner, Harvard University

Online (Zoom) & Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

26.10.22

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Opening the Toolbox…

Current Sustainability in and of Cities

Britta Acksel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

24.10.22

Mo / 18:00

Environmental Crisis and the Problem of Realism

Ursula K. Heise (UCLA)

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen

15.10.22

Sa / 12:00 – 16:00

What are the conditions for habitability?

As part of "Where is the Planetary?"

L. Sasha Gora, KWI International Fellow

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Auditorium, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin

14.10.22

Fr / 18:30

Harm Reduction and Beyond – Transatlantic perspectives

Narcotic City Event Series at 1014

Tamara Oyola-Santiago (NYC), Sebastian Bayer (Berlin), Machteld Busz (Amsterdam), Ashley Quinones (NYC), Celia Joyce (NYC), Nancy Campbell (NYC))

1014 5th Avenue
New York, NY, 10028 United States

13.10.22

Do / 18:30

Intoxicating the Archive – Preserving Narcotic Heritage and including Marginalized Voices in Collections and Libraries

Narcotic City Event Series at 1014

Machteld Busz (Amsterdam), Kenneth Cobb (New York), Jen Hoyer and Brooke Shuman (New York), Stefan Höhne (Essen), Kimberly Springer (New York)

1014 5th Avenue
New York, NY, 10028 United States

12.10.22

Mi / 10:00 – 12:00

Emission, Infection and Olfaction

Air and Health Crisis in Early Modern London

Birgit Näther, FU Berlin

Online (Zoom)

11.10.22

Di / 18:30

Struggles over the Narcotic City – Histories of Policing Opioids and other Drugs from the 1970s until the present

Narcotic City Event Series

Gemma Blok (Netherlands), Sam K. Roberts (New York), Matthew Vaz (New York), Frederieke Westerheide (Germany)

1014 5th Avenue
New York, NY, 10028 United States

14.07.22

Do / 20:30

Public Keynote: Women and Children in Exile in and from France, 1830-1939

Second Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies: "Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th - 21st Centuries"

Delphine Diaz (University of Reims)

German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC

14.07.22 – 16.07.22

Let’s Talk About Revenge! Retributive Emotions, Justice, and Moral Repair

International Conference at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

13.07.22

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Benjamin, Boltanski, Blockchain

On Art and the Value Form

Nathan J. Taylor, Goethe University Frankfurt

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

13.07.22 – 16.07.22

Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th – 21st Centuries

Second Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies

German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC

06.07.22

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

From Morphology to Trope

Flowers as Living Beings and Linguistic Signs

Isabel Kranz, Universität Wien

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

29.06.22

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Fiction with Footnotes

Writing Art History as Literary and Epistemic Practice

Tilo Reifenstein, KWI

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

23.06.22

Do / 18:00

The Perversion of Art, Or Something ‘Otherwise’

‘Pulsive Theorizations’ as an Aesthetic Project, 1974-1990

Gregory Jones-Katz, KWI

IG Farben-Gebäude 1.414
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

22.06.22

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Manufactured Disorder

Race, Policing, and Tickets Issued in Error

Kasey Henricks, KWI International Fellow

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

15.06.22

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Cartographies of Belonging

Embodiment and Gender In Contemporary Writing from South Asia and Beyond

Nisha Kommattam, KWI International Fellow

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

08.06.22

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Expert Discourse on Cultural Diversity

Between Science and Politics

Irit Kornblit, KWI International Fellow

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

01.06.22

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

The Voice of the Ruhr’s Cultural Landscape

Exploring the Artistic and Scholarly Potential of Soundwalkings

Weronika Kobylińska, KWI International Fellow

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

25.05.22

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Theory as a Cognitive Good and the ‘New Spirit of Capitalism’

Gregory Jones-Katz, KWI International Fellow

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

03.05.22

Di / 18:00

New KWI Fellows: Welcome and Introduction

New KWI Fellows

Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31. 45128 Essen

27.04.22

Carte Blanche IV - UA Ruhr Meets International Guests Events in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Holy Circle, Revolutionary Square

Malevich, Lenin, and Philosophy of Nothingness

Tatiana Levina, KWI International Fellow

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

13.04.22

Mi / 18:00

Lecture: From the Welfare State to the Eco-State? Production and Protection in the Twenty-First Century

In the Series "Carte Blanche IV"

Pierre Charbonnier (CRNS-Sciences Po Paris), Corinna Mieth (RUB)

Online (Zoom)

06.04.22

Mi / 17:00 – 19:30

War, Peace and Pacifism

Roundtable

Online (Zoom)

24.03.22

Carte Blanche IV - UA Ruhr Meets International Guests Events in English

Do / 19:30

Governing the Narcotic City: Stories from the Margins

Opening of the Narcotic City Archive

Live from Aquarium, Berlin Kreuzberg via Zoom and Youtube

15.02.22

Di / 18:00

Lecture: Anna Aslanyan presents her book “Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History”

In the Series "Carte Blache IV"

Anna Aslanyan, Friedrich Balke (RUB)

Online (Zoom)

20.12.21

Carte Blanche IV - UA Ruhr Meets International Guests Events in English

Mo / 18:00

Lecture: Beyond Prediction: Artificial Intelligence and the Crisis of Decision

In the Series "Carte Blache IV"

David Bates (UC Berkeley), Eva Weber-Guskar (RUB)

Online (Zoom)

08.12.21

Mi / 17:00 – 18:30

Workshop with Saša Stanišić and Martin Mittelmeier

Conversation in German and English organised by the German Department at Rutgers University

Saša Stanišić, Martin Mittelmeier, Damion Searls, Regina Karl

Online (Zoom)

19.11.21

Fr / 19:00 – 20:30

KWI on Tour: CCA Working Group “The Cliché”: Zones of Transition, Part II

"Breathing: A cliché?"

John Durham Peters (Yale University), Tim Altenhof (University of Innsbruck), Regina Karl (Thyssen@KWI Fellow, Rutgers University)

Online (ZOOM)

05.11.21

Fr / 19:30 – 21:00

KWI on Tour: A Necessary Utopia

Rethinking Borders

Volker Heins (KWI), Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai‘i), Gabriella Etmektsoglou (NYU Berlin)

Online (ZOOM)

02.11.21

Di / 16:00 – 17:30

KWI on Tour: Institution and Utopia

Leif Randt, Wolfgang Hottner (FU Berlin), Regina Karl (Thyssen@KWI Fellow)

Online (ZOOM)

28.10.21 – 29.10.21

De/Legitimizing Global Migration Control

International Conference

Volker Heins (KWI), Darshan Vigneswaran (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research)

Online (ZOOM) & University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus

26.10.21

Di / 16:00 – 18:00

Lecture: Without God and without Hell

Hannah Arendt and the Principle of Beginning

Facundo Vega, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez / ICI Berlin

Online (Zoom)

18.10.21

Mo / 19:00

KWI on Tour: Wie offen bleibt die Zukunft? Der Einsatz algorithmischer Systeme in historischer Perspektive

Mercator Salon mit Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore, Julika Griem, Louis Klamroth

Online

12.10.21

Carte Blanche III Events in English

Di / 18:30 – 20:00

Public Keynote: Learning by Doing: Reflections on Refugee History

As part of the First Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies

Peter Gatrell, University of Manchester

Online (Zoom)

04.10.21

Mo / 18:00 – 19:00

Lecture: The Right to Sex

In the Series "Carte Blanche III"

Amia Srinivasan, All Souls College, Oxford

Online (Zoom)

23.09.21

Events in English KWI on Tour Lesung

Do / 18:00 – 19:00

KWI on Tour: Stefan Höhne Presents “Riding the New York Subway: The Invention of the Modern Passenger”

Book Presentation

Stefan Höhne, KWI

Online

16.09.21

ANGST+ | FEAR+Events in English

Do / 18:00 – 20:00

Fear & Image

A guided tour through Museum Folkwang

Online (WebEx) & Museum Folkwang, Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen

02.09.21 – 04.09.21

ANGST+ | FEAR+Events in English

Ecologies of Fear: Spatial Politics and Imaginaries of Crisis and Danger

A "Narcotic City" conference in the FEAR+ series

Online (Zoom) & Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen

14.07.21

Carte Blanche III Events in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Literary Populism

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Bécquer Seguín, KWI International Fellow

Virtual Meeting

13.07.21

Di / 18:00 – 19:00

On Call: The labour of African American nurses during the 1918 Flu

Lecture in the Series "Carte Blanche III"

Edna Bonhomme, LMU München

Virtual Lecture

01.07.21 – 02.07.21

Reemerging Iconoclasms. On the contemporariness of image controversies

Online-Workshop

Virtual Workshop

30.06.21

Mi / 16:00 – 17:30

Statelessness: A Modern History

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Mira Siegelberg, University of Cambridge

Virtual Meeting

16.06.21

ANGST+ | FEAR+Events in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Environmental aesthetics and landscape photographic practices. From natural to urban, technological and post-industrial sublimes

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Chiara Salari, Thyssen@KWI Fellow

Virtual Meeting

09.06.21

Mi / 18:00 – 20:00

Exile: Fear, Creativity, New Dissidence?

FEAR+ Seminar

Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi, Christina von Braun, Volker Heins, Yevgeniy Fiks, Kader Konuk, Pawel Leszkowicz, Tomasz Kitlinski

Virtual Seminar

02.06.21

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Building the Theme Park of Your Imagination: Virtualising the Theme Park Experience in Digital Games

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Péter Kristóf Makai, KWI International Fellow

Virtual Meeting

17.05.21

Mo / 14:30 – 20:30

Drugs in Party Spaces & Gender

Third conference of the “Drugs, Genders, Cities" cycle

Roxane Scavo (CNRS Passages), Gemma Blok (Open University of the Netherlands), Jenny Künkel (CNRS Passages), Emily Nicholls (University of Portsmouth)

online

21.04.21

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

On Some Proceedings for Rationally Forming Characters. US Utopian Communities 1825-45 and the Advent of Social Engineering

Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Dr. Jacob Birken, Universität zu Köln / Hochschule Düsseldorf

Virtual Meeting

09.03.21

Di / 18:00 – 19:30

Virtual Lecture: “Dismantling a World Culture Museum”?

Dealing with the collection area "Archaeology, World Art, Applied Arts" at the Museum Folkwang

Nadine Engel, Museum Folkwang

Virtual Lecture

09.03.21

Carte Blanche II – My Favourite Lecture Events in English

Di / 11:00

Virtual Lecture: Hanging out at the Riviera. Drug Consumption in Zurich, c. 1965-1975

Narcotic City Public Lecture Series

Peter-Paul Bänziger, University of Basel

Virtual Lecture

16.02.21

Di / 18:00

Lecture: Science Communication as the Social Conversation Around Science

Massimiano Bucchi, University of Trento

Virtual Lecture

10.02.21

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Two cheers for snowflakes: Free speech in fractured societies

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Volker Heins, KWI

Virtual Meeting

03.02.21

Carte Blanche II – My Favourite Lecture Events in English

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Impressive Miniature Scenes Full of Life and Humour: The Changing Interpretation of Netsuke at the Museum Folkwang 2010-2021

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Ryan Nutting, KWI International Fellow

Virtual Meeting

26.01.21

Di / 18:00

Lecture: Public Spaces under Cover – People in the Library

Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Leipzig University Library

Virtual Lecture

25.01.21

Mo / 16:00

Fiction’s Functions: Three Data-Driven Hypotheses

Andrew Piper, McGill University

Virtual Talk

20.01.21

Events in English KWI Sachbuch-Diskussion

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

The Promise of Technocracy in Interwar Europe

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Danilo Scholz, Thyssen@KWI-Fellow

Virtual Meeting

16.12.20

Mi / 16:00 – 17:30

Das neue Wir. Warum Migration dazu gehört. Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen

KWI Book discussion with Jan Plamper

Jan Plamper, Autor

Virtual Meeting

15.12.20

Carte Blanche II – My Favourite Lecture Events in English

Di / 18:00

Lecture: The Gimmick as Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago

Virtual Lecture

09.12.20

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

A historical approach to the discovery of black holes

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Carla R. Almeida, KWI International Fellow

Virtual Meeting

25.11.20

Mi / 10:00 – 11:30

Making science the star in Africa: beyond a simple passion, an imperative need

Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)

Stéphane Kenmoe, University of Duisburg-Essen

Virtual Meeting

12.11.20

Do / 14:00

The Turkishness Contract and the Formation of Turkishness

Barış Ünlü

Virtual Lecture

09.11.20

Mo / 09:00 – 18:00

Workshop: Gender Studies in Exile

Academy in Exile

Virtual Workshop, Closed Event

15.10.20

Do / 18:00

Disciplining (Homo-) Sexuality in State-Socialist Hungary

Judit Takács

Virtual Lecture

07.07.20