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Monday, 23. June 2025 6:00 pm
Focus: COSMOS

What are special spinors? An introduction to one of geometry‘s best-kept secrets

Fellow Lecture by Dr. Jordan Hofmann (Fellow of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald / King’s College London)

Spinors, which can be thought of as "square roots" of vectors, play a key role in differential geometry (the study of multidimensional smooth, curved spaces), with beautiful and often surprising connections to many areas within the subject. The most…

Tuesday, 24. June 2025 6:00 pm
Focus: SOCIETY

A Conundrum in the History of Scholarship: Why Did Gerhard von Rad Co-Nominate a Former Nazi (Karl Georg Kuhn) to Admission in the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften?

14th Gustaf Dalman Lecture by Professor Bernard M. Levinson, Ph. D. (Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible, University of Minnesota)

A neglected question in the history of scholarship is how and why Gerhard von Rad, the great Protestant theologian, nominated Karl Georg Kuhn to the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kuhn, who pioneered the field of German Dead Sea Scrolls…

Tuesday, 1. July 2025 6:00 pm
Focus: SOCIETY

Haunting times: Ghosted memory and epistemic revenants in Serhiy Zhadan’s Voroshilovgrad (2010) and NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory (2022)

Public lecture by Professor Sarah Colvin, Ph. D. (University of Cambridge, Schröder Professor of German) as part of the summer school "Writing Styles of the Present: Time Representation and Time Reflection in Contemporary Literature"

In reading Serhiy Zhadan’s novel Voroshilovgrad (2010), set in a fictional Ukraine in the early 2000s, an imaginative world where the dead and the living intermingle, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory (2022), set in a fictional Zimbabwe in the 2010s,…

Wednesday, 2. July 2025 6:00 pm
Focus: HEALTH & LIFE

Human clinical surveillance in the African tropics/Antimicrobial resistance in the Baltic Sea

Public double lecture by Dr. Sarah-Matio Elangwe Milo and Dipl.-Pharm. Phillip Lübcke (both Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Greifswald), organised by the Junges Kolleg Greifswald

Human clinical surveillance in the African tropics
Dr. Sarah-Matio Elangwe Milo (Helmholtz-Institut für One Health, Greifswald)
At the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) in Greifswald, we acknowledge the interconnection between the health of…

Wednesday, 9. July 2025 6:00 pm
Focus: HEALTH & LIFE

Functional, multidimensional optical microscopy to analyze the function of myeloid cells during bone regeneration

Public lecture by Professor Dr. Anja Erika Hauser (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin & German Rheumatology Research Center Berlin) as part of the LIFE SCIENCES lecture series with the focus on "Spatial Immunobiology in Health"

Functions of immune cells are linked to metabolic profiles, which are affected by changes in the tissue microenvironment. Focusing on bone regeneration after injury, we aim to understand how the microenvironment affects the metabolism of myeloid…

Monday, 11. August 2025 Saturday, 23. August 2025
Summer school, Focus: SOCIETY

Ukraine and the World: Paradise(s) Lost?

XXIX Greifswalder Ukrainicum – Greifswald Ukrainian Summer School under the academic direction of Professor Dr. Roman Dubasevych (Greifswald)

The initial triumph of Ukrainian society‘s resilience against Russian aggression often overshadows the growing sense of nostalgia and mourning. Deep sorrow over the losses and destruction intertwines with an awareness of irreversible changes and even…

Monday, 1. September 2025 Wednesday, 3. September 2025
Internationale Fachtagung, Focus: COSMOS

Spins, Waves and Interactions 2025

International conference under the scientific direction of Dr. Michaela Lammel (Konstanz), RNDr. Lukáš Nádvorník, Ph.D. (Prague), and Miina Leiviskä, Ph.D. (Prague)

The 10th jubilee of the international workshop on new trends in spintronics, Spins, Waves and Interactions 2025, will take place from the 1st to 3rd of September 2025, in Greifswald, Germany. This year, the focus sessions cover recent advances in…

Wednesday, 3. September 2025 6:00 pm
Digital event, Focus: HEALTH & LIFE

Engineering timing and location for next-generation vaccines

Public digital lecture by Professor Darrell J. Irvine, Ph. D. (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA) as part of the LIFE SCIENCES lecture series with the focus on “Spatial Immunobiology in Health”

Following infection, even “acute” viral and bacterial infections are often accompanied by prolonged antigen and/or inflammatory cue exposure, which can extend weeks after infectious pathogen is cleared. This is in contrast the relatively short…

Thursday, 4. September 2025 5:00 pm
Focus: COSMOS

Fusion energy for a sustainable future

Public lecture by Professor Dr. Thomas Klinger (Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald/Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics) as part of the international summer school “SustainMV” in cooperation with the International Office of the University of Greifswald

For decades, scientists have been researching the possibility of harnessing the processes of solar energy production on Earth. Nuclear fusion - the fusion of light hydrogen nuclei to form helium - holds enormous potential as an almost inexhaustible,…

Monday, 8. September 2025 6:00 pm
Focus: SOCIETY

Ideologies and Attitudes in Poland: Cases of Stereotypes, Hate Speech, and the Exclusion of National, Ethnic, Linguistic, Religious, and/or Sexual Minorities

Opening of the XI. Greifswalder Polonicum – Greifswald Polish Summer School by Professor Dr. Tomasz Wicherkiewicz (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Polska, Katedra Polityki Językowej i Studiów nad Mniejszościami / Instytut Różnorodności Językowej Polski, Warszawa)

Hate speech, stigmatization, and exclusion are increasingly common and gaining acceptance in some circles, disproportionately affecting national, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and sexual minorities, as well as both real and imagined migrants in…