Einstein Forum
The Einstein Forum is a foundation of the German federal state of Brandenburg that serves the public as an open laboratory of the mind. Through a varied program of conferences, workshops, podium discussions, and lectures it brings together original thinkers from all over the world to test new ideas—and interrogate conventional ones—with a general audience.
Topics span the arts and humanities, natural and social sciences, ethics and politics. Whatever the subject, speakers are urged to think outside traditional academic boundaries. Our multidisciplinary emphasis encourages dialogue not only among experts from different fields but also, and just as importantly, between specialists and the public at large.
Pankaj Mishra: The World After Gaza
David Konstan: Emotions across Times and Cultures
Valentin Groebner: Nostalgie als historischer Bastelbogen
Eva Menasse: Das eitle Ich. Lesung aus "Alles und nichts sagen"
Catherine Newmark:“Things got emotional…”. On Historical Cycles of Interest in Feelings and Passions
Rüdiger Zill: Once More with Feeling. Introductory Remarks
Sean Wilentz: Historic Historical Misjudgment (+ closing remarks Albie Sachs)
Martin Schaad: Des Kaisers Hunnenrede. Unbotmäßige Anmerkungen zum 125. Jahrestag
Avrum Burg, Konstanty Gebert, Nahed Samour: Judging Israel. Why It Matters
Peter Galison: AI Has No Judgment
Judith Simon: Knowing, Thinking, and Being with Artificial Intelligence
Bettina Stangneth: Judgment: The Willful Step in Heraclitus’ River. Thinking and Time—Movement 1
Thomas Chatterton Williams: Is It Racist?
Peter Kramer: What Else We Know: The Role of Judgment in the Conduct of Psychotherapy
Ulrich Baer: Great Books Banned: Aesthetic and Legal Judgments
Jennifer Homans: Judging Ghosts: Reflections on Dance Criticism
James Wood: Reflections on the Practice of Literary Criticism
Naika Foroutan, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: Antisemitismus in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft
Kai Sina: Was gut ist und was böse. Thomas Mann als politischer Aktivist
Katja Maria Vogt: The Guise of the Good. Human Motivation and Ways of Life
Indah Wahyu Puji Utami: Remembering Bandung
Bernd Greiner: Roads Not Taken
Jolita Zabarskaitė: Bandung, Greater India, Indonesia: Incompatible Visions of (Afro-)Asia?
Benjamin Zachariah: Anniversaries and Travelling Conferences:
Adam Shatz, Zadie Smith: 100 Years of Frantz Fanon. Rethinking the Canon
Andrea Benvenuti: Nehru’s Bandung
Albie Sachs: The Importance of Paul Robeson to the South African Struggle
Benjamin Zachariah: Paul Robeson, Travelling Ideas, Migrating Songs
Victor Grossman: The German Democratic Republic’s Engagement with Paul Robeson
Daniel G. Williams: Paul Robeson and Wales: Towards a Particularist Universalism