On the occasion of the anniversary of Fritz Lang’s silent film “The Nibelungen” from 1924, the interdisciplinary Lecture series “Nibelungen in motion” at the LMU From April 30th, the most important film adaptations of the medieval heroic saga will be presented every Tuesday at 6 p.m. At the start, Christoph Petersen will speak about “The Nibelungen by Harald Reinl between the Adenauer era and the spirit of adventure”, followed on May 7th by Pia Selmayr with a lecture on Uli Edel’s “The Nibelungen”. Here, as in the following lectures, the aim is to explore how the filmed hero myths reflect social change. That too movie museum is part of the party, where both parts of Fritz Lang’s epic will be shown on May 26th at 5 p.m. – “The Christmas festival play that drags itself endlessly across the screen like the lindworm,” as Siegfried Kracauer once said quite well.
He proposes unusual ways of imparting knowledge “Science Slam of the Munich University Society” on May 16th: Students, scientists and scientists will compete in the three categories Poetry Slam, TED Talk and Freestyle at 7 p.m Walther Straub lecture hall (corner of Nußbaumstrasse and Schillerstrasse) against each other. There are no limits to the creativity of the participants: the topics can be slammed, rhymed, danced or rapped. Whether it’s astrophysics, literary studies or veterinary medicine – you should come on time; last year the fully occupied lecture hall with 450 listeners reached its limits.
Explaining research in an exciting but also understandable and entertaining way in just a few minutes is something that scientists have also tried to do Science Slam at the adult education center on May 2nd at 7 p.m. at Einstein 28, which this time is all about origins. The audience is allowed to join in the discussion and then choose the winner of the Grüter Foundation Audience Prize, which is worth 3,000 euros. With its commitment, the foundation primarily wants to reward younger scientists who succeed in making their research accessible to a broad public.
In the prominent adult education center series “Politics of the Week,” former mayor Christian Ude addresses pressing questions of the time.
(Photo: Alea Horst/Loredana La Rocca)
Older world explainers will be making their appearance on May 8th Adult education series “Politics of the Week” at Einstein 28 in search of the conflict lines of the future: Munich’s former mayor Christian Ude and Herfried Münkler, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin, will dedicate themselves to the event from 7 p.m “World in Turmoil. The Order of Powers in the 21st Century”. In the conversation, Herfried Münkler develops the model of a system of regional zones of influence, dominated by the five major powers: USA, EU, Russia, India and China. A multipolar world order that is no longer based on the values and norms of the West and will present Germany with major challenges.
You can’t start early enough to impart knowledge and explain the world: That’s why it’s starting Children’s University Munich on April 26th in the summer semester with the lecture “How did children live in the Bronze Age?”. Through excavations and completely new scientific research methods, archaeologists have now found out what life was like in the Bronze Age a good 4,000 years ago. The speaker is Professor Philipp W. Stockhammer from the Chair of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at LMU, starting at 5 p.m. in lecture hall A 140.