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Series of lectures and workshops in the winter semester 15/16

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Series of lectures and workshops in the winter semester 15/16

This winter semester, the WiZeGG is organising a series of lectures together with the DFG Research Training Group "Selbst-Bildungen", which will take place each evening from 18:00-20:00 in the BIS-Saal at CVO University.

In the winter semester, the workshops are linked to the series of lectures "Genealogy of the Present", i.e. all guest speakers give a public lecture on the first day of their stay and deepen their approach in the form of a workshop on the second day. While the lectures serve to provide an overview of research objects and perspectives, the workshops focus on the concrete approach at the centre. Here, methodological questions are discussed on the respective objects, a joint conceptualisation is undertaken and material (images, photos, documents, videos) is examined.

The workshops are primarily aimed at members of the Centre and participants in the WiZeGG colloquium.

The programme of the series of lectures:

Programm Ringvorlesung

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