Public Lectures & Events
Regular activities during term
The following offers are in German if not indicated otherwise.
- “What's going on?” - informal discussion and chat about current affairs in the English-speaking world (Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m., room U5/01.17, An der Universit?t 5; in English)
- Weekly meetups to chat, discuss, and catch up (Stammtisch)
- Foreign Language Discussion Groups (Italian, Spanish, French, Romance languages)
- Philosophy-Stammtisch: Wednesdays starting 8 p.m. at the Rotenschild (Ob. Sandstra?e 18)
- Historical Geography Seminar (Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m., KR1/00.05)
- Lecture series “Wood, Timber, Lumber. A Universal Material of Pre-modern European Cultures”(573.4 KB, 1 page)
- Mondays, 7 p.m.
- An der Universit?t 2, U2/00.25
- Medieval seminar “Wood: Material, Medial, and Metaphorical Dimensions”(1.3 MB, 1 page)
- Thursdays, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.
- Am Kranen 10, Raum KR10/03.03
- Archaeological Colloquium
- Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
- Am Kranen 12 (Hochzeitshaus), KR12/02.18
- Geographical Colloquium
- Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m.
- Am Kranen 12 (Hochzeitshaus), KR12/02.18
- Bavarian Orient-Colloquium
- Thursdays, 6:15 p.m., c.t.
- Schillerplatz 17, SP17/00.13
- Archaeology workshop both for children and adults (Fridays from 12 to 4 p.m., room KR14/01.22, Am Kranen 14; in German)
- TheoWerk
- Networking and exchange of experiences in the theological workshop for teaching and learning (workroom with different theological materials and ‘tools’)
- Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
- An der Universit?t 2, U2/02.30
Coming up soon...
| Date | Event | Time | Room | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29.04.26 | Podium 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. | U7/01.05 | German |
| 29.04.26 | PD Dr. Andreas Hartmann: “Theory Without Practice? The Talk About Genocide in the Antiquity.” | 6:15 p.m. | KR12/00.05 | German |
| 04.05.2026 | Michael Rief: “Rough Men Dressing Wood. Art Technological Research and Technical Art History.” | 7 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 05.05.26 | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brassat: “Frederic Remington's Bronco Buster in the Oval Office” | 12:15 p.m. | U5/00.24 | English |
| 06.05.2026 | Prof. Dr. Verena Schulz: “Creative Forgetting in Cicero, Horace, and Valerius Flaccus' Jupiter” | 6:15 p.m. | U5/01.22 | German |
| 06.05.26 | Opening lecture and discussion with Ingo Schulze (Poetics Professorship) | 7 p.m. | ETA-Hoffmann-Theater | German |
| 07.05.26 | Lorenz Korn: “Wood in Islamic Architecture” | 2:15 p.m. | KR10/03.03 | German |
| 08.05.26 | Reading 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. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 11.05.26 | PD Dr. Olaf Briese: “The Mirror in the Age of Metternich. Inividualist Anarchist Figurations in Louise Aston's Poems” | 10:15 a.m. | U5/01.17 | German |
| 11.05.26 | Ann-Sophie Lehmann: “Wood as a Material in Art Theory” | 7 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 12.05.26 | Reading and discussion with Daniela Danz: “Portolan” | 6 p.m. | U7/01.05 | German |
| 12.05.26 | Dr. Thomas Maurer: “In loco nomine Boiotro trans Aenum fluvium: New Research on Passau/Innstadt in Late Roman Times” | 6:30 p.m. | KR12/02.18 | German |
| 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. program | U7/01.05 | German |
| 18.05.26 | Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik: “The Letter and the Novel” | 12:15 p.m. | U5/00.24 | English |
| 18.05.26 | Britta Dümpelmann: “Material Affordances and Artistic Knowledge. Masterly Design in late Medieval Wooden Sculptures” | 7 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 19.05.2026 | Reading with Dorothee Elmiger: “Die Holl?nderinnen” ('The Dutch Women') | 6 p.m. | U7/01.05 | German |
| 20.05.26 | 1st Poetics Lecture with Ingo Schulze ("Three Travels with a Manuscript"): In the West - London | 6 p.m. | U2/00.25 | German |
| 21.05.26 | Werner Scheltjens: “The Beginnings of Practical Forestry in the works of Johann Jacob Trunk (1745-1816)” | 2:15 p.m. | KR10/03.03 | German |

