Lecture series - Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald

Lectures

Another of the Kolleg’s characteristics is its extensive lecture program in which up to 100 events per year are directed at an expert audience and the broader interested public. Readings, topic evenings and evening public lectures during conferences add to the Kolleg’s lecture program.

Alfried Krupp Fellow Lectures

The visiting academics, who come to the Kolleg for either 6 or 12 months, use these public lectures to give insights into their current research, answering questions from the audience.

Greifswald Speeches

The Greifswald Speeches from the Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald Foundation invite well-known people, for example Peer Steinbrück, from science, politics, and culture to the university and Hanseatic town to discuss important topics in their fields of research and work.

Loeffler Lectures

The “Loeffler Lecture” on current virological research topics is meant to commemorate Friedrich Loeffler’s breakthrough achievements in virology. Internationally renowned scientists such as Professor Dr. Curtis Suttle have come to Greifswald for these lectures.

Felix Hausdorff Lectures

The eponym for the lecture series Felix Hausdorff was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Greifswald from 1914 until 1921 and is considered one of the co-founders of general Topology.

Gustaf Dalman Lectures

Since 2011, each summer an internationally renowned researcher has been invited to the Gustaf Dalman Lecture, who researched in Greifswald starting in 1917. For example in 2015, Professor Dr. Peter Schäfer, Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, was a guest in Greifswald and spoke on binitarianism in ancient Judaism.

Caspar David Friedrich Lectures

The Caspar David Friedrich Lectures look back on a long tradition that was started in the winter semester 2005/2006 and since then has brought many renowned researchers of Friedrich and Romanticism to Greifswald.