Events
The event program at the Collegium engages different audiences around topics of societal and scholarly importance. As part of their fellowship, each fellow organizes an event that is open to the public. In addition, the Collegium hosts events that link up with current interdisciplinary academic discussions.
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- Upcoming events
- Ludwik Fleck Lecture
- Past events
Upcoming events
All events are free-of-charge and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. The events take various forms, from lectures or conferences to more performative formats such as exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, or theater productions. Most events take place at the Semper Observatory, but the Collegium also cooperates with local academic and cultural institutions.
Ludwik Fleck Lecture
From 2005 to 2022, the Collegium was home to a research center on the life and work of Ludwik Fleck, a microbiologist and pioneering philosopher of science. The annual Ludwik Fleck Lecture invites outstanding speakers to honor the thinking of Ludwik Fleck, who continues to be an essential reference for cross-disciplinary research at the Collegium. Since 2006, the Ludwik Fleck Lecture has been delivered by renowned speakers, notably Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Gordin, Bruno Latour, Annemarie Mol, and Christian Drosten.
Past events
Inclusive Cities New Methods to Understand Informal Infrastructure Access
A Virologist's Look Back on Covid-19 Ludwik Fleck Lecture by Christian Drosten
Drivers of Ethical Consumption in Switzerland and Japan
Ghostly Currency The Afterlife of Celebrity
Acapulco Working in Progress or First Cut
Data Alchemy Observing Patterns from Galileo to Artificial Intelligence
The Role of Culture in the Exploration of Post-Trauma Suffering
Real-Life Impacts of Security Vulnerabilities
Developing Effective Climate Policy
Politics in Proximity On Inequality and Local Governance
Climate Crisis and the Humanities With Nayanika Mathur
Digital Money and Digital Futures for Value Exchange
Can We Be Smarter than the Phytoplankton? A Perspective on the Global Climate and Sustainability
Ukrainian Chamber Music An Autobiography
Docu & Demo Archiving Programmed Media Art
Accelerating Replacement Toward Animal-free Science Research at Swiss Universities
Docu & Demo Condensed Knowledge Formats
In Between Performance and Documentation By Dragan Espenschied
The Global Tax Evasion Report 2024 Panel discussion with Gabriel Zucman
(Re-)Searching for Resonances Contemporary Music at the Collegium
Bespoke Artificial Cells and Tissues for Drug Discovery
SustainAgro Strengthening Economic Growth, Sustainability, and Innovation in Agriculture
I Prefer Not To Hito Steyerl in conversation
Structural Media
Structural Media
Structural Media
Corpses, Casts, and Copyrights Displaying Human Remains
Working the Image Exch W/ Turkers and Other Collective Experimentations
Sample Delivery Methods For In-Situ Studies and Serial Crystallography
Rise of Atmospheric Drought Integrating Across Scales and Disciplines To Boost Plant Resilience
Dense + Green Cities Architecture as Urban Ecosystem
Politics and Poetics of Exile by Didier Fassin
Brauchen wir kurze Bücher? (Do We Need Short Books?) mit Anke te Heesen, Valentin Groebner, David Hesse und Niki Rhyner
Radical Reading
Time to Socialize Does the Timing of Brain Development Predict Prosocial and Play Behavior?
Literatur und Recht in der römisch-griechischen Tradition Literature and Law in the Greco-Roman Tradition
Francesca Melandri im Gespräch mit Zora del Buono
Hidden Deep Demystifying the Coca-Plant for Science and Beyond
How AI is Disrupting Developer Productivity It’s More Complicated Than We May Think
Epistemic Authority
Integrating Diverse Forms of Knowledge in Health Care Research
+/- 1632m: Disturbing the Swiss/African Commons
The Moral Underpinnings of Political Preferences An Interdisciplinary Approach
Die Orte, an denen meine Träume wohnen The Places Where My Dreams Live
The Problem with Pseudoscience Ludwik Fleck Lecture by Michael D. Gordin
The Tragic Case of Cleanliness–Styles (Logics, Worlds) in Tension Ludwik Fleck Lecture by Annemarie Mol
Metabolism Spiralling Out of Control
Building Blocks for Reuse Art, Ethics, and Engineering
Central Bank Digital Currencies
The Role of Technological Innovation in Environmental and Climate Policy How Can the Energy Transition Succeed?
Bubbles, Droplets, Membranes, and Interfaces Materials Science Meets Visual Arts
Einstein Shock The Making of a Global Celebrity
Rethinking Law beyond Linear Time and the Individual Subject
Rethinking Science in Times of Open Science?
Forests | An Evocation
Ethnography, Economy and Ecology of Pastoralism in Kazakhstan Capitalism and the Future of Central Eurasian Grasslands
Do We Write Differently after Artificial Intelligence? A conversation between Hannes Bajohr, Monika Rinck, and Ann Cotten
