In the winter semester 2025/26, Paderborn University is once again inviting all interested parties to various lecture series on numerous socially relevant topics. Lecturers and researchers from the five faculties, as well as external experts, will deal with a wide range of scientific aspects every week.
"Knowing, working, becoming - radical questions about science, art and technology"
The lecture series is dedicated to ways of producing knowledge that exist beyond traditional academic processes. From Tuesday, 21 October, current forms of knowledge generation will be discussed weekly from 7 to 8.30 pm, digital infrastructures and knowledge archives will be examined and questions will be asked about the distribution of power in determining what is considered knowledge. Scientific communication will be addressed as well as the use of modern technologies that are constantly changing the perception of knowledge. The lecture series is organised in cooperation with the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, which also serves as the venue for the event. Speakers include the artists' collective "Quadrature", author Sibylle Berg and podcasters, YouTubers and authors Ole Nymoen and Wolfgang M. Schmitt.
"Music and peace"
The lecture series "Music and Peace" of the Detmold/Paderborn Musicology Seminar focuses on compositions and performance contexts from the 17th to 21st centuries and the associated questions about the respective musical form, the effect, their instrumentalisation for power politics or their usability in educational contexts. The lectures will take place fortnightly from Wednesday 15 October from 6.15 to 7.45 pm in the Kuppelsaal at Detmold University of Music. Dr Florian Henri Besthorn, Director of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, will kick off the programme with the topic "Et in terra pax? On the appeal for peace in J?rg Widmann's compositions".
"UPB for Future"
In the winter semester, the Office of Educational Innovation and University Didactics is once again organising a joint lecture series on the topic of sustainability together with the department of Prof. Dr. René Fahr, Vice President for Transfer and Sustainability at Paderborn University. From Thursday, 16 October, the ecological, social and economic dimensions of sustainability will be addressed and discussed in alternating lectures every week from 4 to 6 p.m. in lecture theatre L1.
"Cultural Perspectives on Media"
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Paderborn University is continuing the successfully established international lecture series. Under the title "Cultural Perspectives on Media", the series of events in the winter semester 2025/26 is dedicated to the multifaceted topic of "media" from interdisciplinary and international perspectives. The lectures, which will be held in English, will take place every Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. in lecture theatre O1. The starting date is Wednesday, 15 October.
"Language & Transcendence"
Under the title "(Un)certainty of language and the (in-)absoluteness of divine transcendence: On the role of linguistic mediation in religious truth systems", the contributions to the lecture series deal with how different religious traditions deal with the insight that language not only communicates, but always also interprets, contextualises, transforms and thus creates uncertainty as well as meaning. The series of events organised by the Paderborn Institute for Islamic Theology (PIIT) combines theological, philosophical, linguistic, religious studies and mystical perspectives. The lecture will take place for the first time on Thursday, 9 October, and from 23 October onwards every week from 6 pm. All dates of the lecture series will take place digitally via Zoom.
"Concepts of Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective"
In the lecture series "Europa-Konzeptionen aus interdisziplin?rer Perspektive", academics from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics will present perspectives from their respective subject areas on the phenomenon of "Europe" using specific examples. The series of events will take place every Thursday from 16 October from 6 to 7.30 pm in room H3.203. The topics of the individual lectures range from European history, European politics and European law to economic issues and literary, philosophical and theological perspectives.
"Interdisciplinary Gender Studies"
A series of public lectures will be held as part of the "Interdisciplinary Gender Studies" seminar. These provide an insight into gender studies at Paderborn University and open up diverse perspectives on the research field of gender studies. Guest lectures by experts from various disciplines make it possible to familiarise oneself with current debates, research perspectives and fields of application in gender studies. Gender is reflected upon as a societal, cultural and social category from various academic perspectives. The lectures will take place weekly from Tuesday, 4 November, from 4.15 to 5.45 pm in room P1.102.
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