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00:04:43
February 20, 2018
Symposia and Conferences at Herrenhausen Palace
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00:01:07
February 07, 2018
Are you a researcher and Freigeist
Audio
November 02, 2017
Können wir HIV besiegen?
Audio
October 25, 2017
Was haben sich Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft noch zu sagen?
Audio
September 11, 2017
"Das ist DEINE Sammlung!" – Museen als kollektives Eigentum
Audio
September 11, 2017
Open Access - Chance oder Ausverkauf? Expertengespräch im Rahmen der Tagung KUNST AUF LAGER
Audio
September 05, 2017
Religion und Gewalt - Von der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart
Audio
June 29, 2017
Paul Thompson: Capitalism, Contradictions and Conflict
Video
00:18:14
June 27, 2017
The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories: Conference Opening
Video
00:32:37
June 26, 2017
Radhika Desai: The First World War as a Crisis of the Imperial Order
Audio
June 15, 2017
Frühkindliche Prägung - Wie glückt der Start ins Leben?
Audio
May 31, 2017
Political Turbulence: How Social Media Turn Political Mobilization Upside Down
Audio
April 05, 2017
Schöner Leben als Cyborg? Über den technisch veränderten Menschen
Audio
March 17, 2017
Anforderungen an die Hochschule in der Migrationsgesellschaft.
Audio
March 16, 2017
Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt. Eine Herausforderung im Rahmen des Verfassungsrechts
Audio
March 16, 2017
Zuwanderung - Eine Herausforderung für Politik und Gesellschaft
Audio
March 16, 2017
Integration neu denken - Die postmigrantische Perspektive in der Integrationsforschung
Audio
March 16, 2017
Darum sollt ihr auch die Fremdlinge lieben
Audio
February 28, 2017
Die Nation schaut in die Röhre - Fernsehen in der BRD und der DDR
Audio
February 21, 2017
Genom-Chirurgie in der Humanmedizin? Gibt es bald Fortschritte in der Gentherapie?
Audio
February 15, 2017
Klimaschutz ade? Wie kann die Gesellschaft mobilisiert werden?
Audio
February 09, 2017
ÜberTRUMPft! Wie die US-Wahlen gewonnen wurden
Audio
February 07, 2017
"Eine Minute vor Mitternacht" - Die Kuba-Krise 1962
Audio
December 01, 2016
Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen - Ein Gewinn für die Gesellschaft?
Audio
November 21, 2016
In die Wiege gelegt? Von Talentschmieden und Wunderkindern
Audio
November 08, 2016
Was nun? Die Europäische Union und der Brexit
Audio
November 03, 2016
Revolution in der Gentechnik - Mit Gen-Scheren gegen HIV und Krebs?
Audio
November 01, 2016
Kommen, Ankommen, Weiterkommen in einer postmigrantischen Gesellschaft
Audio
October 31, 2016
Leben mit und gegen die innere Uhr
Audio
October 29, 2016
Hannah Arendt Tage 2016 - Welches Europa wollen wir?
Audio
October 13, 2016
Bee Speaking and Ecopoetics in the Anthropocene
Audio
October 11, 2016
Gegen das Vergessen - Neue Wege in der Alzheimer-Forschung
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29:10
October 06, 2016
Dynamics in the History of Religions
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October 06, 2016
Religious Pluralisation - A Challenge for Modern Societies
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26.54
October 05, 2016
Governance of Religious Diversity - Socio-Legal Dynamics in Europe
Audio
September 05, 2016
Medizinische Bedürfnisse im Alter. Wie können Menschen in dieser Lebensphase bestmöglich versorgt werden?
Audio
June 15, 2016
Wohin führt uns Digitales Nudging?
Audio
June 10, 2016
"Knave Proof": The Macroeconomics of Stabilization in Europe and the U.S., 1919-1926
Audio
June 10, 2016
Colonial Modernity, National Subjectivity and Subaltern Everydayness
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June 10, 2016
International Dada: Between Aesthetic and Political Revolution
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June 10, 2016
Audio: Entangling Collective Action and Imaginaries of Threat, c. 1916-23
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June 10, 2016
After Empire, Before Nation: Competing Visions of Order in the Ottoman Empire After 1917
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61:22
June 09, 2016
1917-1920 and the Global Revolution of Rising Expectations
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May 23, 2016
Mehr Licht. Goethe mit Newton im Streit um die Farben
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April 27, 2016
Im Kern solidarisch? Politik auf dem Prüfstand
Audio
April 26, 2016
Leibniz über die Vielfalt der Menschheit
Audio
April 14, 2016
Wie viel ist Natur uns wert?
Audio
April 11, 2016
Datensicherheit in der Quantenwelt: Wie können unsere Informationen geschützt werden?
Audio
April 06, 2016
Die "Flüchtlingskrise" - eine "Krise des Journalismus"?
Audio
March 17, 2016
Wege aus dem Flüchtlingsdilemma
Audio
March 08, 2016
Leibniz als Jurist und Rechtsphilosoph
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February 24, 2016
Long-Term Processes of Socio-Economic Development
Audio
February 24, 2016
Goethe: Die Spuren der Geschichte in der Natur
Audio
February 16, 2016
Leibniz über Schäden, Schulden und Pensionen
Audio
February 11, 2016
Der feine Unterschied: Was macht uns Menschen aus?
Audio
February 10, 2016
Leopoldina Lecture: Digitale Revolution - Wie verändert sie unsere Demokratie?
Audio
February 02, 2016
Atombombe: Wissenschaft und Kernwaffen in Deutschland von 1938-1957
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January 19, 2016
Leibniz-Jahr 2016: Feierliche Eröffnung
Audio
January 13, 2016
Karikatur und Terror - Ein Jahr nach dem Anschlag auf Charlie Hebdo
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December 08, 2015
Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Research
Audio
November 24, 2015
Making Immigration Work: How Europe can Overcome its Immigration Crisis
Audio
November 24, 2015
Gesundheit und Kinder: Zwischen Schulbrot und Smartphone
Audio
October 13, 2015
Reiseführer: "...und dann ein bißchen baedekern"
Audio
October 09, 2015
If Mayors ruled the world
Audio
October 08, 2015
Herrenhäuser Forum: Gesund essen, gesund bleiben? Auf den Spuren guter Ernährung
Audio
September 28, 2015
Leopoldina Lecture: "Burnout, Angst und Depression am Arbeitsplatz"
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September 03, 2015
Mobilität: Von der Zukunft eines Lebensgefühls
Audio
July 01, 2015
Wahlen sind bald - Die Jugend lässt‘s kalt?
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June 23, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "The First Steps of the New"
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June 22, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "Some Notes on Repatriation, Restitution, Provenance Research and the Historiography of Collecting"
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June 22, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "Restitution of Ethnological Objects: Legal Obligation or Moral Dilemma"
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June 22, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "Colonial Power Plays, Commodities and State Presents"
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June 22, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "The Museum as Maloca? A Cooperation Project with Indigenous Partners"
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June 22, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "Return and Dialogue. Two Sets of Experiences from Vienna"
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June 22, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "From Curiosa to World Culture: And What Comes Next?"
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June 21, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "Positioning Ethnological Museums in the 21st Century"
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June 21, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "From Völkerkundemuseum to the Humboldt-Forum"
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June 21, 2015
Ethnological Museums: "Ethnographic Museums and the New Humanities"
Audio
June 16, 2015
Supercomputer: Mit Simulationen die Welt erklären?
Audio
June 08, 2015
Deutsche Universitäten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
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June 05, 2015
Indiens Weg zur Unabhängigkeit
Audio
May 18, 2015
Leopoldina Lecture: Wie gut ist die Palliativversorgung in Deutschland?
Audio
April 23, 2015
Antibiotika: Von der Wunderwaffe zum stumpfen Schwert
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March 27, 2015
Ignore the Facts, Forget the Facts: European Principles in an Era of Big Data
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March 27, 2015
Big Data and Challenges for Research and Research Funding
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March 25, 2015
Picture Gallery: Herrenhäuser Konferenz "Big Data in a Transdisciplinary Perspective"
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March 25, 2015
Big Data in the Arts and in the Humanities
Audio
March 25, 2015
Data, Scholarship, and Disciplinary Practice
Audio
March 24, 2015
Gesundheit! Wohin entwickelt sich unser Gesundheitssystem?
Audio
March 10, 2015
50 Years of Research Collaboration and Cultural Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany – A Retrospective
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February 02, 2015
Impfen: Forschung und Entwicklung zum Schutz gegen Infektionskrankheiten
Audio
January 14, 2015
Afrika-Berichterstattung: Aus der Sicht von Zeit- und Augenzeugen
Audio
December 12, 2014
The New Dual Use Dilemma
Audio
December 12, 2014
Finding the Balance Between Fear and Progress
Audio
December 12, 2014
Dual Use Research and Gain-of-Function: Perspective of a Junior Scientist
Audio
December 12, 2014
Moral and Ethical Responsibilities of Life Scientists
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December 12, 2014
Supporting the Public’s Trust in Scientific Research in Ethically Challenging Settings
Audio
December 11, 2014
Gain of Function and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Audio
December 11, 2014
Biorisks Management – Standards, Risks and Oversight
Audio
December 11, 2014
Biosecurity – Freedom and Responsibility of Research
Audio
December 11, 2014
The EU Export Control policy – Provisions for Research
Audio
December 11, 2014
Biorisk Management Challenges in Gain-of-function Research
Audio
December 11, 2014
Advice on Dual Use Research Policy in The Netherlands
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December 11, 2014
Why not all Research is Free – Constitutional Limits of Science
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December 11, 2014
Considering Publication of Dual Use Research of Concern
Audio
December 10, 2014
Decisions about Gain-of-function Research: Who Bears the Burden of Proof?
Audio
December 10, 2014
Vaccines: How Protection is Elicited?
Audio
December 10, 2014
Influenza Viruses - Facts, not Fear
Audio
December 10, 2014
Risks and Benefits of Potential Pandemic Pathogen Creation
Gallery
December 10, 2014
Dual Use Research on Microbes
Audio
December 10, 2014
Problems with Avian Influenza GOF Virology
Audio
December 03, 2014
Wie viel Streit braucht die Demokratie? Über das Verschwinden des Politischen
Audio
November 28, 2014
China-Berichterstattung: Aus der Sicht von Zeit- und Augenzeugen
Audio
November 05, 2014
Der Nahe Osten - Berichterstattung von Augenzeugen, Übersetzer, Zeitzeugen
Audio
October 27, 2014
Soziale Gerechtigkeit: Wie wollen wir morgen leben?
Audio
October 23, 2014
Vortrag Prof. Dr. Ute Frevert: Europas Schiller
Audio
October 10, 2014
Environmental Microbes in the Hygiene Hypothesis
Gallery
October 10, 2014
Herrenhausen Conference: Beyond the Intestinal Microbiome – From Signatures to Therapy
Audio
October 09, 2014
Hundert Billionen Mitbewohner: Wie Mikroorganismen unsere Gesundheit beeinflussen
Audio
October 09, 2014
Diet, Gut Microbiota and Western Lifestyle Diseases
Audio
October 09, 2014
Games Between Microbes with Rules Set by the Host?
Audio
October 08, 2014
The Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease
Audio
September 26, 2014
Kindliche Gesundheit - Referenzwerte und Risikofaktoren
Audio
September 20, 2014
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ortwin Renn: Warum wir uns vor dem Falschen fürchten
Audio
September 19, 2014
Innovations - Managing Risk, not Avoiding it
Audio
September 19, 2014
Prof. Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer: Risiko. Wie man die richtigen Entscheidungen trifft.
Audio
September 02, 2014
Sozioökonomische Herausforderungen der Energiewende: Der Strombürger und das liebe Geld
Audio
July 21, 2014
Großbritannien und Deutschland zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
Audio
July 14, 2014
Evolutionsbiologie: Wie hat die Evolution das Lernen gestaltet?
Audio
June 19, 2014
"Was Hänschen nicht lernt...?" – Biologische, psychologische und ökonomische Perspektiven auf die frühkindliche Sozialisation
Audio
June 10, 2014
Fußballweltmeisterschaften: Viel mehr als nur Sport
Audio
June 05, 2014
Schlafforschung: Schlaf schön! Über die Geheimnisse unseres nächtlichen Seins
Audio
May 28, 2014
Migration: Die schwierige deutsche Zuwanderungsdebatte
Audio
May 27, 2014
1914! - Deutsch-Britische Collagen zum Nachhören
Video
00:01:44
May 19, 2014
Freigeist-Fellow Dr. Elmar Behrmann im Interview
Video
00:01:18
May 19, 2014
Freigeist-Fellow Dr. Barbara Caspers im Interview
Video
00:01:41
May 19, 2014
Freigeist-Fellow Dr. Marijn van Wingerden im Interview
Gallery
May 12, 2014
Herrenhausen Conference "Re-Thinking Social Inequality"
Audio
April 09, 2014
Trauerbewältigung: Wie lange darf man traurig sein?
Audio
April 02, 2014
Psychische Erkrankungen: Wollen können - Wille, Selbstbestimmung und psychische Krankheit
Audio
March 13, 2014
Cornel West: "Justice!" - Opening of the 4th Festival of Philosophy, Hanover
Audio
February 24, 2014
Schlossbau: Über "falsche" Schlösser und "kritische" Rekonstruktionen
Audio
February 11, 2014
Tian’anmen-Massaker: Der Drache zeigt die Zähne – Aufstand im Reich der Mitte
00:04:37
January 13, 2014
The Reconstruction of Herrenhausen Palace
Audio
December 10, 2013
Friedensnobelpreis 2013: OPCW - Auf weltweiter Mission im Kampf gegen Chemiewaffen
Audio
December 08, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: Detmar Meurers
Audio
December 08, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: Daniel A. Keim
Audio
23:32
December 08, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: John H. Weitzmann
Audio
December 08, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: Julia Flanders
Audio
December 08, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: Luis von Ahn
Audio
December 07, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: Gregory Ralph Crane
Audio
December 05, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Gallery
December 05, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: Impressions
Audio
December 05, 2013
Digital Humanities 2013: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Gallery
October 28, 2013
8. Herrenhäuser Symposium
Gallery
October 16, 2013
Compiling Geodata to Fight Tropical Disease
Gallery
October 15, 2013
Grantees Meeting of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs within the Africa Initiative
Gallery
October 14, 2013
Knowledge for Tomorrow: Meeting of African Junior Researchers Boosts Research Network
Audio
01:28:04
June 04, 2013
Bedrohte Sprachen: Sprachwelten in der Südsee
Audio
May 15, 2013
The Importance of Access to Professional Training and Higher Education
Audio
May 14, 2013
Market Liberalism, Marginalized Citizens and the Counter-Movements in India
Audio
May 14, 2013
Democracy and Social Equity: Potential Tensions
Audio
May 14, 2013
Re-Imaging Equality: Reflections on Civil Society and Markets
Gallery
May 07, 2013
DobeS - Grafiken und Bilder
Gallery
April 03, 2013
Herrenhausen Conference "Mental Health Throughout Life"
Audio
April 03, 2013
Mental Health: "Mental Health Equity" by Pamela Y. Collins
Audio
March 04, 2013
Conflicts of Interest in Public Health
December 12, 2012
Herrenhausen Conference on Nanoscience
Audio
November 29, 2012
Limits to Growth: What shall we eat? (Audio)
Audio
November 29, 2012
Limits to Growth: Closing Remarks by Wilhelm Krull (Audio)
Audio
November 29, 2012
Limits to Growth: What happens if Fossile Energies are Depleted?
Audio
November 29, 2012
Limits to Growth: Saved by Society? (Audio)
Audio
November 28, 2012
Limits to Growth: Feeling a bit uneasy?
Audio
November 28, 2012
Limits to Growth: Can we remain ignorant? (Audio)
Gallery
November 28, 2012
Picture Gallery: Herrenhausen Symposium "Already Beyond? - 40 Years Limits to Growth"
Audio
November 28, 2012
Limits to Growth: Where shall they all go? (Audio)
Audio
November 28, 2012
Limits to Growth: Opening Addresses
Audio
November 28, 2012
Limits to Growth: What’s Next? (Audio)
Audio
November 28, 2012
Limits to Growth: Growth with less? (Audio)
Video
00:51:19
November 27, 2012
Interview with Dennis Meadows
Gallery
November 25, 2012
Picture Gallery: The Winterschool "Limits to Growth Revisited"
Gallery
September 06, 2012
Dr Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation
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