Events

Das sozialistische Humanismusprojekt: von der Utopie zum Gulag



Die Humanisierung des Menschen - anthropologische Grundlagen der Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit



Kann Politik humanistisch sein?



Humanität im säkularen Verständnis der Moderne - Die Verantwortung der Politik für die humane Lebensform



Militanzdebatten – Jihadistische Organisationen und die Gewaltfrage



Humanismus und Mystik - Inspirationen des Islam



Humanismus im Islam - der Fall Murtada az-Zabidi



Religion und Terror in der Geschichte des Islam



Chinesischer Humanismus zwischen Ost und West



What is Intercultural Humanism?

26. November 2008
A public lecture on the subject of Humanism in the Era of Globalization hold by the project director Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen (KWI).
Location: University of North Bengal, India



Prospects of the European Humanism

10. November 2008
A public lecture on the subject of Prospects of the European Humanism hold by the projects' director Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen.
Commentary: André Araújo (Graduate School of the Humanism Project at  KWI)
Begin: 6.15 p.m.; location: KWI



Humanism and Intercultural competence

27. October 2008
A public lecture on the subject of Humanism and Intercultural competence by the projects' new associate director Prof. Dr. Jürgen Straub of the Bochum University.
Commentary: Arthur Assis (Graduate School of the Humanism Project at the KWI)
Begin: 6.15 p.m.; location: KWI



Graduate Semester Meeting of the Humanism Project

9. – 11. Juni 2008
Internal symposium for the members of the Graduate School in the Haus Ortlohn, Iserlohn.
Academic supervision: Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen and Prof. Dr. Erhard Reckwitz.



Controversy on the Image of Mankind. Three Speeches on Religion and Humanism

28. April, 5.-6. May 2008
Three speeches of the Humanism Project hold by the Theologian Friedrich Wilhelm Graf at Aalto-Theater in Essen.



Multiple Universalism. Pathes out of the Globalization of Cultural Confllicts

24.-26 April 2008
A Conference of the Humanism Project in cooperation with the project "Intercultural Contact Zones“ in the Berufsförderungszentrum Essen under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen (KWI) and Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Essen). Contributors: Prof. Dr. Tamotsu Aoki (Director Cultural Policy Program, Japan), Prof. Dr. Yoshiko Ashiwa (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo), Prof. Dr. Tong Chee Kiong (National University Singapore), Prof. Dr. Hongguang Luo (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing), Prof. Dr. Klaus E. Müller (Frankfurt a.M. University), Prof. Dr. Ashis Nandy (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi), Prof. Dr. Nur Yalman (Harvard University), Prof. Dr. Huang Ping (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)



Which Men does the Future Need? A scientific workshop of the Humanism Project

18. February 2008
A public lecture of Prof. Dr. Horst-Eberhard Richter (Giessen University) at KWI.



Humanity and Humanism

31. January 2008
A public lecture of Prof. Dr. Dieter Sturma (Bonn University) at KWI.



Humanity and Life Form. Reports from the Workgroups of the Humanism Project

31. January 2008
Public panel with reports from a workgroup under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dieter Sturma (Bonn University). Contributors and participants: Dr. Katja Crone (Halle-Wittenberg University, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Dr. Jan Hendrik Heinrichs (Erfurt University), Dr. Dietmar Hübner (Bonn University), Dr. Oliver Müller (Freiburg University) and Katinka Schulte-Ostermann (Duisburg-Essen University).



The Idea of Liberty and Concept of Human Nature in Confucianism

21. January 2008
A public lecture of Prof. Dr. Yang Lihua (Tübingen University) at KWI.



Levinas' "Humanism of the Other Human" and the Condition for Meaningful Interaction between the Self and the Other across Cultures

17. December 2007
A public lecture of Dr. Ernst Wolff (University of Pretoria) at KWI.




gefördert durch:

Mercator Stiftung

Projektträger:

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut NRW