If you would like to attend one of our public events, please send an email to kfg.zugang@uni-muenster.de.
The lectures take place in room 201 (2nd floor) of the Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, unless otherwise indicated.
Monday, 13 April 2026, 4.15–6.30 Uhr
Semester Opening and Fellow Welcome | How Does AI Describe Images? A Short Research Workshop with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Saerberg (members & fellows only)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Reinold Schmücker
Monday, 20 April to Monday, 27 April 2026
Research Retreat: “Enabling Knowledge: New Directions for Copyright and Library Law in Sri Lanka” (invited participants only)
Scientific organisation: Eberhard Ortland, Reinold Schmücker, Eric Steinhauer
Monday, 4 May 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
Guest Lecture: “Hildesheim Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sources (HePS): An open-access digital infrastructure for the documentation, interconnection, and visualization of philosophical sources and traditions from around the world”
Prof. Dr. Rolf Elberfeld and Dr. Leon Krings (Hildesheim University)
Saturday, 9 May to Wednesday, 13 May 2026
Writing-Retreat: “Zugänge zu Künstlerinnen der Moderne: Auf den Spuren Sophie Taeuber-Arp in Trogen”
For members of the colloquium of Ursula Frohne, Seminarhaus Lindenbühl in Trogen (Switzerland)
Monday, 1 June 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
Fellow Lecture
Eleonora Minna (eCampus University, Milan/Novedrate, Italy)
followed by
8.00 pm
Film: “In den Uffizien” from Corinna Belz as part of “Grenzgänge des Kuratorischen – Filmische Perspektiven auf das Zeigen und Sehen”
Followed by: Conversation with filmmaker Corinna Belz
Schlosstheater Münster
Friday, 5 June 2026 (Bremen)
Künstler*innenpublikationen erforschen, Zugänge schaffen.
Ästhetische Strategien, Netzwerke, Öffentlichkeiten
Monday, 8 June 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
Guest Lecture: “Crystal clear? – Addressing crystals through museum data endpoints”
PD Dr. Angela Dreßen (Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence/Italy)
Monday, 15 June 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
Fellow Lecture: “Zugang und Zirkulation. Gatekeeping im digitalen Wandel”
Dr. Thomas Kater (University of Cologne)
Chair: Lisa-Maria Meier
Monday, 22 June 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
Guest Lecture: “Listening to Early Audio Recordings Today: A Memory Studies Perspective on the First Soviet Collection of Writers’ Voices”
Dr. Valerij Zolotukhin (independent scholar)
Chair: Bernadette Collenberg-Plotnikov
Friday, 26 June 2026, 2.15–4.30pm, Room 201 (2nd floor)
Guest Lecture: “Theater ist Werkstatt. Theater ist Forschung. Theater ist Zukunft.”
Marcus Lobbes (Academy for Theatre and Digitality, Dortmund)
Chair: Lisa-Maria Meier
Monday, 29 June 2026
Fellow Lecture
Carolin Pommert (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Monday, 6 July 2026
Lecture: “Braucht es eine Zugangsbefähigung für kulturelle Güter?”
Dr. Johannes Müller-Salo (University of Münster)
Chair: Finn Marz
Monday, 13 July 2026
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Georg Mohr (University of Bremen)
Chair: Reinold Schmücker
Monday, 20 July 2026
Guest Lecture
Prof. Dr. Beate Fricke (University of Bern)
Chair: Ursula Frohne
27. July to 1 August 2026 (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Alltagskultur)
Sixth Summer School Museology: Curating Materialities
(for registered participants only)
Scientific organisation: Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher and Hon.Prof. Dr. Birgit Johler