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.
Wednesday, 30 September to Friday, 2 October 2026 (State Library Berlin)
Conference: “Zugang gestalten! Mehr Verantwortung für das kulturelle Erbe” (“Shaping Access! More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage”) 2026 | Main topic: “Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerung” (“Politics of History and Memory”)
The Centre for Advanced Study is one of the conference’s partners.
Monday, 12 October 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
Semester Opening and Fellow Welcome
Guest Lecture: “‘if walls could tell’ – Methoden von Teilhabe und Partizipation” (“‘if walls could tell’ – Methods of Participation and Involvement”)
Dr. Zoran Erić (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Prof. Mischa Kuball (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne) and Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter (University of Reading, UK)
Chair: Ursula Frohne
Monday, 19 October 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Monday, 26 October 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
Internal event
Monday, 2 November 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
Internal event
Monday, 9 November 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Tuesday, 10 November 2026, 11.00am–4.00pm (LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Domplatz 10, Münster, Auditorium)
Symposium: “Performing Provenance – Art, Memory and Colonial Resonances”
Event as part of the research project “PERFORM – Performing Provenance: Contemporary Art, Digital Spaces, and Things from the Cameroon Grasslands”
Concept and scientific organisation: Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne, Marlene Knut, Jolanda Saal-Basar
Registration: kfg.zugang@uni-muenster.de.
Wednesday, 12 to Friday, 14 November 2026 (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cäcilienstraße 29–33, 50667 Cologne)
Conference: “TRANCEcolonial | Beyond Restitution: Reconnecting – Reimagining – Repairing Relations”
Concluding event of the research project “PERFORM – Performing Provenance: Contemporary Art, Digital Spaces, and Things from the Cameroon Grasslands”
Scientific organisation: Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne, Alexandra Galitzine-Loumpet, PhD, Julie Peghini, Jolanda Saal-Basar, Nanette Snoep
Monday, 16 November 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Monday, 23 November 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Thursday, 26 and Friday, 27 November 2026 (Seminar room KTh I, Johannisstr. 8–10, 48143 Münster)
Interdisciplinary workshop “Open Science: Ein Ideal auf dem Prüfstand” (“Open Science: An Ideal under Scrutiny”) (in German and English)
Scientific organisation: PD Dr. Nicola Mößner
Monday, 30 November 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Monday, 7 December 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Monday, 14 December 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Monday, 21 December 2026, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Monday, 11 January 2027, 4.15–6.30pm
Guest Lecture: “Between Access and Censorship? Book Banning in the 21st Century” (in English)
Prof. Dr. Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl (University of Münster)
Chair: Ursula Frohne and Nora Kluck
Monday, 18 January 2027, 4.15–6.30pm
Guest Lecture
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Freist (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
Monday, 25 January 2027, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Monday, 1 February 2027, 4.15–6.30pm
To be announced
Monday, 15 February 2027
“Das (post-)partizipative Museum – wissenschaftliche, kuratorische und digitale Perspektiven” (“The (Post-)Participatory Museum – Scientific, Curatorial, and Digital Perspectives”)
Conference of the Commission for Material Culture and Museum in the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies e. V. (DGEKW) (with a subsequent commission meeting)
Scientific organisation: Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher