Interdisciplinary Public Lecture Series
In the Year 2525 - The Future Face of the Humantities
Tue 6–8 pm, P 3 (Philosophicum)
While technology and innovation are changing paradigms in natural scientific fields, how do the humanities need to react as we look to the year 2525? Considering that the humanities are the disciplines raising crucial questions concerning human responsibility, ethics, and existence as social beings, the humanities are needed to engage in discourses to rethink manifested paradigms not only in their own disciplines but also beyond their own disciplinary spheres. This lecture series addresses those issues and asks, in how far will looking forward also mean looking back? What role will the humanities play in a future world? These are issues already raised in 1969 in the famous song which inspired the title of this lecture series. We invite students, researchers, staff, and all interested individuals to join our public lecture series, in which we discuss the significant role of the humanities in the light of the year 2525.
07 Nov. 23:
Prof. Dr. Stephan Jolie
Vice President for Learning and Teaching
No One Size Fits All.
The Future of Higher Education Between Diversity and Standardization
21 Nov. 23:
Mirjam Haas, M.A.
Department of English and Linguistics: American Studies
2525: Reading an Unwritten World?
28 Nov. 23:
Natasha Audrey Anderson, M.A.
Department of English and Linguistics: English Literature and Culture
Creative Communities and Computer Competition
05 Dec. 23:
Ruth Gehrmann, M.A.
Department of English and Linguistics: American Studies
Medical Futures:
Imagining Organ Transplantation and Health Care in Speculative Fiction and Life Writing
12 Dec. 23:
Dr. Julia Velten
Department of English and Linguistics: American Studies
Science in Fiction:
Cultures of Knowledge between Colliding and Converging in U.S. Literature
19 Dec. 23:
Dr. Wolfgang Funk
Department of English and Linguistics: English Literature and Culture
'To Thine own Self be True':
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in English Literature
09 Jan. 24:
Prof. Dr. Cornelis Menke
Department of Philosophy
Popper vs. Keynes: Philosophical Origins of the Replication Crisis
&
Dr. Mitchell Gauvin
Department of English and Linguistics: American Studies
The Role of the Humanities in the Future of Citizenship
16 Jan. 24:
Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee
Department of English and Linguistics: American Studies
Towards a Humanities of Care:
Life Writing and Thanatic Ethics in Yusra Mardini’s Autobiography Butterfly
23 Jan. 24:
Dr. Alina Jašina-Schäfer
FTMK - Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Whose Stories Do We Tell and How?
Decentering Research on Eastern Europe in Humanities
30 Jan. 24:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. David Paul Gerards
Department of Romance Studies
X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram:
Pros and Cons of Zuckerbergian Linguistics
Downloads:
In the Year 2525 - Program
Contact:
Damla Özkan
Internationalization Faculty 05
E-Mail: oezkan@uni-mainz.de