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Public Lecture Series in the 2012 Summer Semester Tuesdays, 6 p.m. for 6.15 p.m. Aula am Wilhelmsplatz During the Summer Semester of this celebratory year, Göttingen University is presenting a cycle of lectures on topics grouped within two thematic areas: in the first half of the cycle, running until the beginning of June 2012, seven lectures will be held on the history of the University’s founding in the Age of the Enlightenment and the festivities held in celebration of its subsequent anniversaries, up to the University’s 250th anniversary in 1987. The historically oriented lectures will consider the aims, motives and prevailing contemporary conditions that led to the founding and further development of the ‘Georgia Augusta’. For a variety of reasons, the anniversary festivities were not crowned with success and here the political circumstances largely responsible for this will be examined. From mid-June 2012, five further lectures will deal with the future of academia. These will venture to piece together an outlook for the future of the sciences and humanities, presenting individual subject areas in paradigmatic manner. The intention is that this will build up a picture of the University’s prospective future development. |
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