Interdisciplinary    Public    Lecture    Series

P   3    |    Philosophicum 

WiSe 23 / 24 | Tue   6    c.   t.   –    8   pm

In the Year 2525 – The Future Face of the Humantities

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.

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