In the summer semester 2025, the Heinrich Scholz Lectures will take place for the first time - an interdisciplinary public lecture series on the history of logic, mathematics and the philosophy of technology organised by the Heinrich Scholz Centre. The lectures will take place on Tuesdays at 6 pm in lecture hall 102 (Domplatz 23). All interested parties are welcome.

History, geography and politics/economics have been taught as a combined subject (Gesellschaftslehre) at numerous types of school since the 1970s. However, there is still no cross-phase teacher training programme that qualifies teachers to teach the combined subject. A series of lectures organised by the Institute for Didactics of History is now discussing perspectives for the subject of Gesellschaftslehre. It is aimed at students, didacticians, subject coordinators and teachers.

Naturalistic views of the human mind challenge widespread notions of free will and conscious action: If all thought and action can be traced back to neuronal mechanisms of action, freedom appears to be a mere illusion and consciousness a superfluous by-product. The lecture series presents two current proposals for solutions, each of which will be explored in three lectures and a concluding commentary with a joint discussion.

The lecture series deals with the connection between music and Islam. Being a much debated subject within Islamic discourses, we will deal with the variety of theological positions on the definition, permissibility and the forms of use of music, drawing on Islamic dogmas and the history of Muslim societies. Ethnographic research from around the world will help to highlight not only the religious function of music, but its social, political and identity-forming role for Muslims in Western and Muslim-majority countries around the world as well.

Every semester, the Chair of Early Modern History invites external researchers to give lectures in Münster, thus giving advanced students, doctoral candidates and postdocs in early modern history the opportunity to participate in current research debates. The colloquium is also open to those interested in general history.

The research colloquium is organised jointly by the two Chairs of Modern and Contemporary History and the Chair of Latin American History as well as in cooperation with the lecture series of the Centre for Empire Studies. On thirteen dates, researchers from Münster, Germany and the rest of the world will give presentations on current research topics.