Public Lectures & Events

The following offers and events are open to everyone interested in participating. Simply come along on the day, we're happy to have you!

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Regular activities during term

The following offers are in German if not indicated otherwise.

Coming up soon...

DateEventTimeRoomLanguage
29.04.26Podium Discussion: “The 40th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Desaster”(1.6 MB, 1 page) with Sandra Birzer, Daniel G?ler, Johannes Grotzky, Thomas Wabel, and Christian Zehnder (moderated by Monika Heupel)6:15 p.m.U7/01.05German
29.04.26PD Dr. Andreas Hartmann: “Theory Without Practice? The Talk About Genocide in the Antiquity.”6:15 p.m.KR12/00.05German
04.05.2026Michael Rief: “Rough Men Dressing Wood. Art Technological Research and Technical Art History.” 7 p.m.U2/00.25German
05.05.26Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brassat: “Frederic Remington's Bronco Buster in the Oval Office”12:15 p.m.U5/00.24English
06.05.2026Prof. Dr. Verena Schulz: “Creative Forgetting in Cicero, Horace, and Valerius Flaccus' Jupiter”6:15 p.m.U5/01.22German
06.05.26Opening lecture and discussion with Ingo Schulze (Poetics Professorship)7 p.m.ETA-Hoffmann-TheaterGerman
07.05.26Lorenz Korn: “Wood in Islamic Architecture” 2:15 p.m.KR10/03.03German
08.05.26Reading and discussion with Manuel Niedermeyer and Katharina Hierling: “Das ist einer, der bleibt!” ('He is one of the ones who stay!'; as part of the Bavarian Writing Academy)7 p.m.U2/00.25German
11.05.26PD Dr. Olaf Briese: “The Mirror in the Age of Metternich. Inividualist Anarchist Figurations in Louise Aston's Poems”10:15 a.m.U5/01.17German
11.05.26Ann-Sophie Lehmann: “Wood as a Material in Art Theory” 7 p.m.U2/00.25German
12.05.26Reading and discussion with Daniela Danz: “Portolan”6 p.m.U7/01.05German
12.05.26Dr. Thomas Maurer: “In loco nomine Boiotro trans Aenum fluvium: New Research on Passau/Innstadt in Late Roman Times”6:30 p.m.KR12/02.18German
13 to 17 May 2026

54th Koldewey Conference for Excavation Sciences and Building Research  

(participation possible in person or online; program and zoom link(1.5 MB, 2 pages))

cf. programU7/01.05German
18.05.26Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik: “The Letter and the Novel”12:15 p.m.U5/00.24English
18.05.26Britta Dümpelmann: “Material Affordances and Artistic Knowledge. Masterly Design in late Medieval Wooden Sculptures” 7 p.m.U2/00.25German
19.05.2026Reading with Dorothee Elmiger: “Die Holl?nderinnen” ('The Dutch Women')6 p.m.U7/01.05German
20.05.261st Poetics Lecture with Ingo Schulze ("Three Travels with a Manuscript"): In the West - London6 p.m.U2/00.25German
21.05.26Werner Scheltjens: “The Beginnings of Practical Forestry in the works of Johann Jacob Trunk (1745-1816)” 2:15 p.m.KR10/03.03German