Gotha Research Campus starts the winter semester with a new programme

Various conferences are planned at the Gotha Research Centre in cooperation with the Gotha Research Library and the universities of Wuppertal and Hamburg. Exciting guests are also expected in Gotha once again: Dr Astrid Ackermann (Erfurt), for example, will reflect on infrastructures in the early modern period from a military history perspective in a lecture, Professor Anne-Charlott Trepp (Kassel) will talk about narratives of time and development of man and nature in the 18th century and Professor John Brewer (Boston) will address the so-called "travel writing" of the Romantic period in his lecture.
>> Details of the Gotha Research Centre programme (in German only)

The Centre for Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection will continue its programme in the winter semester with the Tuesday Talks and the Mappings research seminar. Both lectures by current scholarship holders and contributions from visiting scholars are planned. Among others, Lemuel Magaling will speak about the politics of the Pacific, Dr David Kuchenbuch will talk about global knowledge and counter-knowledge and Dr Daniel Hedinger about trans-imperial history. The events take place in cooperation with the Professorship for the History of Science at the University of Erfurt and the Göttingen Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, as well as the series in memory of the historian Professor Rebekka Habermas, who died in December 2023, which will continue in winter. Professor Isabel Richter, Professor Alexandra Przyrembel and Professor Rebekka von Mallinckrodt will be guests to pay tribute to Habermas' academic work.
>> Details of the programme of the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (in German only)

The Gotha Perthes Collection, which is held by the Gotha Research Library, will also be on display again during the winter semester as part of various events. Dr Petra Weigel will present the collection as an "exceptional scientific and cultural treasure of Thuringia" at the "Long Night of Sciences" on the University of Erfurt campus on 8 November. On 28 November, the lectures and guided tours already planned for the nationwide Digital Day in June, "Perthes.digital. Insight into digitisation", which had already been planned for the nationwide Digital Day in June. The tried and tested event formats will also be continued: In the "Perthes in Conversation" series, Albert Feierabend will speak on 11 December about "The 'Expedition in the Beer House'. A different look at 19th century African explorers". On 19 March 2025, Dominic Keyßner will speak on the topic "A 'Stieler' for socialism? The project of the 'Haack Great World Atlas'". And the next "Gotha Perthes Collection Open Day" with four special tours on the history of the Gotha court calendar will take place in March 2025. You can find the entire programme of events at the Gotha Research Library in our flyer (in German only).