Guest Lectures




Euroculture Göttingen has organized more than 100 public lectures since 2008. A list of these lectures are included in this section. Speakers of conferences, lecture series and panels are included in the respective other sections.



  • Dr. Ella Dreyfus / Kevin Neher,
    National Art School, Sydney, Australia / Goethe Institute, Sydney, Australia
    Dreyfus Drei
    21.11.2023

  • Prof. Dr. Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
    Osaka University, Japan
    Music/Literature: Toward a New Holistic Aesthetic of Culture
    26.10.2023

  • Kevin Neher
    Sydney, Australia
    Dreyfus Drei - Introducing a documentary by Ella Dreyfus
    21.07.2022

  • Prof. Dr. Keisuke Takayasu
    Osaka University, Japan
    Design History in the Transcultural Context
    09.05.2022

  • Prof. Dr. Michael Snodgrass
    Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
    Dreams of Development
    (together with the Center for Global Migration Studies - CeMig)
    02.05.2022

  • Prof. Dr. Michael Snodgrass / Peter Birke
    Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA / University of Göttingen
    Transnational Perspectives on the Research on Labour Migration.
    10th Migration Research Lab, moderated by Dr. Jelka Günther (CeMig)

    (together with the Center for Global Migration Studies - CeMig)
    02.05.2022

  • Dr. Giulia Carabelli
    Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
    Looking at Cities from the Bottom-Up. On the Importance of Everyday Life for the Study of Conflicts
    27.05.2019

  • Dr. Shraddha Kumbhojkar
    Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
    Challenges Before the Young People in Contemporary India
    09.05.2019

  • Dr. Shraddha Kumbhojkar
    Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
    How the myth of the Aryan Race impacted understandings of Indian History
    06.05.2019

  • Michael Hindley
    Member of the European Parliament, 1984-1999
    The EU as International Actor
    15.11.2017

  • Michael Hindley
    Member of the European Parliament, 1984-1999
    The Challenges to & of the EU
    14.11.2017

  • Prof. Dr. Sanjay Kolekar
    Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
    Illusory Marriage and Marginalisation of Women. Caste Hegemony and Politics
    18.05.2017

  • Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Tanaka
    Osaka University, Japan
    Art and participation after 3.11
    02.05.2017

  • Dr. Sabine Selchow
    London School of Economics, UK / LMU Munich
    The New EU Global Strategy and the Future of Europe: A Critical Review
    24.11.2016

  • Michael Hindley
    Member of the European Parliament, 1984-1999
    The Changing Role of the EU post-Brexit
    10.11.2016

  • Prof. Dr. Natalia Chaban
    University of Canterbury, New Zealand
    EU Global Perceptions: International recognition in the Times of Crises
    27.10.2016

  • Prof. Dr. Yukio Irie
    Osaka University, Japan
    Ethical Thoughts in Modern Japan Influenced by the West
    12.05.2016

  • Dr. Tait Keller
    Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
    Rich and Wretched Earth: Militarized Environments in the First World War
    18.06.2014

  • Günter Verheugen
    Europa-Universität Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder)
    10 Jahre EU-Osterweiterung: Politische Reflektionen und Ausblicke
    08.04.2014

  • Arne Molfenter
    United Nations, Berlin/Bonn
    Jobs: World-Employment Opportunities with the United Nations
    07.06.2012

  • Prof. Dr. Subashchandra Bhelke
    University of Pune, India
    Non-violence as Foundation for One World
    29.11.2011

  • Prof. Dr. Mangesh Kulkarni
    University of Pune, India
    Partha Chatterjee’s Idea of Political Society
    18.11.2011

  • Prof. Dr. Natalia Chaban
    University of Canterbury, New Zealand
    The EU in the Eyes of Asia-Pacific: Media, Public and Elite Views
    15.11.2011


  • Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt
    University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Freedom of Religion in a Secular State
    03.11.2011


  • Prof. Dr. C.M. Megens
    Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
    Developing European Identity requires Team Spirit. The first Declaration on European Identity, December 1973
    11.04.2011

  • Dr. Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
    Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
    Global, Glocal, Multi, Transcultural: New Approaches to Irish Literature
    02.12.2010

  • Dr. Herman Voogsgeerd
    Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
    Does a European social-economic order exist? A Dutch view.
    22.11.2010

  • Prof. Dr. Toru Takenaka
    Osaka University, Japan
    Where was a Brandt in post-war Japan? International Environment for Reconciliation in Asia in Comparison with that in Europe
    28.10.2010

  • Prof. Dr. Donald Sassoon
    Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    The Provincialism of Dominant Literature. The British and the French in the 19th Century
    21.01.2010

  • Dr. Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
    Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
    "The Celts of Ancient Biscay": A Portrait of the Basques in 19th Century Ireland
    25.11.2009

  • Prof. Dr. Mangesh Kulkarni
    University of Pune, India
    Nietzsche in India. The Translation of Aristocratic Radicalism into Hindu Fascism
    11.11.2009

  • Prof. Dr. Niteen Gupte
    University of Pune, India
    Indische Arbeitswelt aus deutscher Sicht
    15.04.2009

  • PD Dr. Willfried Spohn
    Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    Unity and Diversity of European Identities - The Religious Dimension
    15.12.2008

  • Prof. Dr. em. Ekkehart Krippendorff
    Freie Universität Berlin
    Cultural Foundations of a Political Europe
    03.12.2008