Colloquia 2012-2013

Fellow-Colloquium

• 09.07.2013 Charles Briggs: Diseases of Diversity? Making and Erasing Difference in U.S. News Coverage of Health
  Introduction and chair: Regina Bendix
  
  


• 02.07.2013 Ewa Morawska: Comparing the Functioning of Ground-level Multiculturalism Across Time and Space: Report on Work in Progress
  Introduction and chair: Ewa Morawska / Jyotirmaya Sharma
  
  


• 25.06.2013 Holmer Steinfath: Two Forms of Moral Obligation
  Introduction and chair: James Conant
  
  


• 11.06.2013 Steve Vertovec: Conceiving and Researching Diversity
  Introduction and chair: Matthias Koenig
  
  


• 04.06.2013 Annekathrin Schacht: Emotions in Language
  Introduction and chair: Gerhard Lauer
  
  


• 28.05.2013 Solomon Benjamin: The Fear of Slums, the Non-Conforming, Land Mafias, and Corrupt Bureaucrats in India's Globalizing Urban
  Introduction and chair: Jyotirmaya Sharma
  
  


• 14.05.2013 James Conant: How to Distinguish Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism
  Introduction and chair: Holmer Steinfath
  
  


• 07.05.2013 Peter Gemeinhardt: Education and Religion in pre-modern Cultures: Current Research and New Perspectives
  Introduction and chair: Peter Van Nuffelen
  
  


• 30.04.2013 Frank Rexroth: Monasticism and Scholasticism: A Complicated Relationship during the Twelfth Century
  Introduction and chair: James Conant
  
  


• 23.04.2013 Bärbel Tischleder: The Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence
  Introduction and chair: William Uricchio
  
  


• 16.04.2013 William Uricchio: Television before TV: Coming to terms with the televisual in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
  Introduction and chair: Bärbel Tischleder
  
  


• 09.04.2013 Gert Westermann: Objects, Words, Sounds: Infants' Learning in Their First Year of Life
  
  


• 05.02.2013 Jyotirmaya Sharma: Fidelity and Distortion: A narrative from nineteenth century India
  Introduction and chair: Martin van Gelderen
  
  


• 29.01.2013 Bill Bell: Jerome in Antarctica: Reading at the Edge of the World
  Introduction and chair: Barbara Schaff
  
  


• 22.01.2013
  Axel Wittmann: Astronomical History and Collection of the 'Sternwarte': An Overview
  Introduction and chair: Dominik Hünniger


• 18.12.2012
  Lieve Van Hoof: Literature as an Entrance Ticket to the Senate. Constantius, Julian, and the 'Litterati' of the mid-fourth century A.D.
  Introduction and chair: Heinz-Günther Nesselrath


• 11.12.2012
  Roy MacLeod: The Scientists Go to War: Questions, Contexts and Consequences, 1914-1918
  Introduction and chair: Christoph Viebahn


• 04.12.2012
  Christoph Viebahn: Anatomical practice at Göttingen University since the Age of Enlightenment and the fate of victims from Wolfenbüttel prison under Nazi rule
  Introduction and chair: Roy MacLeod


• 27.11.2012
  Marie Luisa Allemeyer, Roy MacLeod: The Göttingen Academic Collections: Past Treasures, Present Status and Future Perspectives
  Introduction and chair: Dominik Hünniger


• 13.11.2012
  Martin van Gelderen: Reading Rembrandt: Visuality and Religious Toleration
  


• 06.11.2012
  Peter Van Nuffelen: Performing values: acts and semantics in late ancient rituals
  Introduction and chair: Peter Gemeinhardt


• 30.10.2012
  Toby Huff: On the Roads to Modernity and Civilizational Analysis
  Introduction and chair: Dominik Hünniger


• 23.10.2012
  Short Introduction of Fellows and Associates and their research projects

Enlightenment-Colloquium

• 24.04.2013 Fania Oz-Salzberger: Göttinger Readers of the Scottish Enlightenment: A Reassessment



• 28.11.2012 Avi Lifschitz: What, who, and where was the Counter-Enlightenment?
  


• 31.10.2012 Daniel Fulda: Wege ins Offene. Ist die moderne Zukunftsvorstellung ein Produkt oder Ausgangsbedingung der Aufklärung?