The weekly ZKF Public Talks are our major forum for exchanging ideas about ongoing research and exciting topics. We seek to maintain a good balance between academic originality and general relevance. After the lectures and discussions, there is an opportunity for social gathering and informal conversation. Citizens, staff and students are very welcome!
Some of the Talks have been recorded by KIM Lecture Recordings.
Generally on Wednesdays, 5:30:00-7:00 p.m., Bischofsvilla + Zoom (unless otherwise indicated)
Thursday, 20.4.23, 5:00-6:30 p.m., Foyer of the Spiegelhalle, Hafenstr. 10
In cooperation with the Research Institute Social Cohesion
Sind wir nicht schon immer postmigrantisch gewesen? Überlegungen zur Sesshaftigkeits- und Bürokratieforschung
Speaker: Dr. Anne-Kathrin Will, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Moderation: Dr. Kathrin Leipold
Keynote as part of the conference „Migration als Perspektive. Das ‚Postmigrantische‘ in Wissensodnungen und gesellschaftlicher Praxis“
Video
Thursday, 27.4.23, 5:30-7:00 p.m., online only
In cooperation with the Cluster initiative "Transforming Infrastructure"
Enduring Infrastructure
Speaker: Prof. Caroline Levine, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Mahlke
Video
Wednesday, 3.5.23
In cooperation with the Kolloquium für Wissensgeschichte and the SFB-Initiative "Serious Gaming"
Game of Bosons am Nerdpol: Wie Spielen wissenschaftliches Arbeiten am CERN prägt und was sich daraus über Menschen in posthumanistischen Zeiten lernen lässt
Speaker: PD Dr. Anne Dippel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Anne Kwaschik, Prof. Dr. Beate Ochsner
Video
Wednesday, 10.5.23
In cooperation with the Research Institute Social Cohesion
'Jedes Wort erregt den Gegensinn'. Eine Soziologie des Taktgefühls
Speaker: Dr. Niklas Barth, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Moderation: Ines Grau, Dr. Steffen Krämer
Video
Wednesday, 17.5.23, 6:00-7:30 p.m., Wolkenstein-Saal + online
Wolfgang-Iser-Lecture 2023: Not All Each Day: The Infrastructures of Racial Life
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Homi Bhabha, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Christina Wald
Video
Wednesday, 24.5.23
Petro-Magic and the Pedestrian; or, Thinking Progress Backward
Speaker: Prof. Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University, New York
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Timo Müller
Wednesday, 31.5.23, online only
In cooperation with the Kolloquium für Wissensgeschichte
Anticipation by Redress: Transforming African Mega-Infrastructure Futures
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kenny Cupers, Universität Basel
Moderation: Dr. Christa Kamleithner, Prof. Dr. Anne Kwaschik
Video
- Holiday break -
Wednesday, 14.6.23
In cooperation with the NOMIS research project "Traveling Forms"
The Sounds of Protest: Exploring Affective Soundscapes in the Revolutionary City of Khartoum
Speaker: Dr. Valerie Hänsch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Moderation: Dr. Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer
Wednesday, 21.6.23
In Your Own Time - An Audio Walk
Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Huber, with the performance artist Kathrin Yvonne Bigler and the musician and sound designer Christine Hasler
Audio file for streaming / download
Wednesday, 28.6.23
Cartographies of Chilean Muralism in Exile: Between Testimony and Memory
Speakers: Dr. Cristóbal Barria Bignotti, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris, und Dr. Sandra Rudman, Universität Konstanz
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Anne Kraume
Video
Wednesday, 5.7.23
Are we all compost? Trümmer- und Abfallnarrative um 1850 bei Gottfried Semper und Adalbert Stifter
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg von Arburg, Université de Lausanne
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Anne-Berenike Rothstein
Wednesday, 12.7.23
Collapsonaut’s Manual for Challenging our Intra-structures
Speaker: Dr. Jacopo Rasmi, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne
Moderation: Dr. Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer, Dr. Philipp Lammers
Wednesday, 19.7.23
In Kooperation mit dem Dr. K. H. Eberle-Forschungszentrum "Kulturen Europas in einer multipolaren Welt"
Emotions, Politics, and the Terror of History: Methodological Considerations
Speaker: Prof. Dirk Moses, City College of New York
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Pavel Kolář