Guest Lectures
Euroculture Göttingen has organized more than 100 public lectures since 2008. A list of these lectures are included in this section. Speakers of conferences, lecture series and panels are included in the respective other sections.
- Dr. Arnab Dutta,
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
The National, the European, and the Cosmopolitan: ‘Goethefeier’ 1932 and the Problem of Contesting Categories in European Culture
05.12.2024 - Prof. Dr. Medea Badasvili,
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Gender and Migration: Current Research Perspectives.
12th Migration Research Lab
(together with the Center for Global Migration Studies - CeMig)
25.11.2024 - Dr. Ella Dreyfus / Kevin Neher,
National Art School, Sydney, Australia / Goethe Institute, Sydney, Australia
Dreyfus Drei
20.11.2024 - Hanna Hernández Ortega,
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
The Mexican feminist movement today. A review from the struggles and resistance of women since the late 20th century
14.11.2024 - Dr. Ella Dreyfus / Kevin Neher,
National Art School, Sydney, Australia / Goethe Institute, Sydney, Australia
Dreyfus Drei
21.11.2023 - Prof. Dr. Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
Osaka University, Japan
Music/Literature: Toward a New Holistic Aesthetic of Culture
26.10.2023 - Kevin Neher
Sydney, Australia
Dreyfus Drei - Introducing a documentary by Ella Dreyfus
21.07.2022 - Prof. Dr. Keisuke Takayasu
Osaka University, Japan
Design History in the Transcultural Context
09.05.2022 - Prof. Dr. Michael Snodgrass
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Dreams of Development
(together with the Center for Global Migration Studies - CeMig)
02.05.2022 - Prof. Dr. Michael Snodgrass, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA /
Dr. Peter Birke, University of Göttingen
Transnational Perspectives on the Research on Labour Migration.
10th Migration Research Lab, moderated by Dr. Jelka Günther (CeMig)
(together with the Center for Global Migration Studies - CeMig)
02.05.2022 - Dr. Giulia Carabelli
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
Looking at Cities from the Bottom-Up. On the Importance of Everyday Life for the Study of Conflicts
27.05.2019 - Dr. Shraddha Kumbhojkar
Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Challenges Before the Young People in Contemporary India
09.05.2019 - Dr. Shraddha Kumbhojkar
Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
How the myth of the Aryan Race impacted understandings of Indian History
06.05.2019 - Michael Hindley
Member of the European Parliament, 1984-1999
The EU as International Actor
15.11.2017 - Michael Hindley
Member of the European Parliament, 1984-1999
The Challenges to & of the EU
14.11.2017 - Prof. Dr. Sanjay Kolekar
Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Illusory Marriage and Marginalisation of Women. Caste Hegemony and Politics
18.05.2017 - Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Tanaka
Osaka University, Japan
Art and participation after 3.11
02.05.2017 - Dr. Sabine Selchow
London School of Economics, UK / LMU Munich, Germany
The New EU Global Strategy and the Future of Europe: A Critical Review
24.11.2016 - Michael Hindley
Member of the European Parliament, 1984-1999
The Changing Role of the EU post-Brexit
10.11.2016 - Prof. Dr. Natalia Chaban
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
EU Global Perceptions: International recognition in the Times of Crises
27.10.2016 - Prof. Dr. Yukio Irie
Osaka University, Japan
Ethical Thoughts in Modern Japan Influenced by the West
12.05.2016 - Dr. Tait Keller
Rhodes College, Memphis, USA
Rich and Wretched Earth: Militarized Environments in the First World War
18.06.2014 - Günter Verheugen
Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
10 Jahre EU-Osterweiterung: Politische Reflektionen und Ausblicke
08.04.2014 - Prof. Dr. Pakinam El Sharkawy
American University, Cairo, Egypt
Ägypten im Umbruch. Religionsfreiheit, Pluralismus und gesellschaftliche Neuorientierung
12.12.2012 - Arne Molfenter
United Nations, Berlin/Bonn, Germany
Jobs: World-Employment Opportunities with the United Nations
07.06.2012 - Prof. Dr. Subashchandra Bhelke
University of Pune, India
Non-violence as Foundation for One World
29.11.2011 - Prof. Dr. Mangesh Kulkarni
University of Pune, India
Partha Chatterjee’s Idea of Political Society
18.11.2011 - Prof. Dr. Natalia Chaban
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
The EU in the Eyes of Asia-Pacific: Media, Public and Elite Views
15.11.2011 - Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany,
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
Freedom of Religion in a Secular State
03.11.2011 - Prof. Dr. C.M. Megens
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
Developing European Identity requires Team Spirit. The first Declaration on European Identity, December 1973
11.04.2011 - Dr. Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Global, Glocal, Multi, Transcultural: New Approaches to Irish Literature
02.12.2010 - Dr. Herman Voogsgeerd
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
Does a European social-economic order exist? A Dutch view.
22.11.2010 - Prof. Dr. Toru Takenaka
Osaka University, Japan
Where was a Brandt in post-war Japan? International Environment for Reconciliation in Asia in Comparison with that in Europe
28.10.2010 - Prof. Dr. Donald Sassoon
Queen Mary, University of London, UK
The Provincialism of Dominant Literature. The British and the French in the 19th Century
21.01.2010 - Dr. Asier Altuna-García de Salazar
Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
"The Celts of Ancient Biscay": A Portrait of the Basques in 19th Century Ireland
25.11.2009 - Prof. Dr. Mangesh Kulkarni
University of Pune, India
Nietzsche in India. The Translation of Aristocratic Radicalism into Hindu Fascism
11.11.2009 - Prof. Dr. Niteen Gupte
University of Pune, India
Indische Arbeitswelt aus deutscher Sicht
15.04.2009 - PD Dr. Willfried Spohn
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Unity and Diversity of European Identities - The Religious Dimension
15.12.2008 - Prof. Dr. em. Ekkehart Krippendorff
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Cultural Foundations of a Political Europe
03.12.2008