Online lecture series at Würzburg

As part of our AHRC-DFG funded project, "Cultural Dynamics: Museums and Democracy in Motion", the research team is hosting four public lectures to invite experts from both inside and outside the museum to share their views and experiences in cultural democracy education. 

Bring a cup of tea and join us to listen to these lectures and to share your own experiences in the following discussions. 

These lectures will be online on Zoom (link below), and they will be hosted in German. 

Zoom Link: https://uni-wuerzburg.zoom-x.de/j/66762997943?pwd=9abo3XDBO8TQunladc52T4hABg7glw.1
Meeting-ID: 667 6299 7943 // Password: 657649

(Please note: All lectures will be using the same zoom link!)

Wednesday, 30th October 2024, 1:15-2:45pm GMT (2:15-3:45pm MET): "Social Infrastructure for a better Tomorrow" with Jan Stassen

Co-founder of the Berlin-based Museum of Values, Jan Stassen talks about how social infrastructure can be created and supported by museum intervention. The Museum of Values aims to create a tangible setting to experience values in and of society and thus to strengthen social (infra-)structure, with the long-term goal to stabilise democratic structures. See also: https://www.wertemuseum.de/de

Wednesday, 4th December 2024, 1:15-2:45pm GMT (2:15-3:45pm MET): “Developing Democracy Participatively. A Task for all levels” with Raphael Seifen

BIPAR (Berlin Institute for Participation) aims to not only include citizens in political decision-making processes, but to enable them to participate actively. In so doing, BIPAR hopes to make society – consisting of individual citizens in their individual situations – more resilient to conservative and far-right tendencies. BIPAR developed a tool to evaluate participative structures and processes on a municipal level, and by this is able to develop together with the political and civic actors strategies to perpetuate and strengthen these highly individual democratic structures. See also: https://bipar.de/das-berlin-institut-fuer-partizipation/ 

Wednesday, 15th January 2025, 1:15-2:45pm GMT (2:15-3:45pm MET): “Exhibiting as a Educative Tool for Democratic History. Aims, Processes, Challenges” with Sarah Traub

The GEDG (Society for the Research of Democratic History, Weimar and Mainz) researches ways to educate on German Democratic History, aiming to strengthen German Erinnerungskultur (memory culture). Museum exhibitions are one of many tools to do this. Sarah Traub talks about educating on democracy in practice and about supporting it by sustainable education and development. See also: https://gedg.org/

Wednesday, 21st January 2025, 1:15-2:45pm GMT (2:15-3:45pm MET): “Democracy Education as Aesthetic Education in the Museum” with Claudia Roßkopf

Claudia Roßkopf talks about possibilities and perspectives when explicitly making Democracy the subject of education, sharing experiences of developing an exhibition as part of Week of Democracy, organised at Uni Kassel in Summer 2024, aimed at diverse audiences and using a range of methods. Both the process of planning and making a communal exhibition and methods to teach and educate in the exhibition will be shared in the lecture. Museums as places for educating on democracy are taken into perspective by the notion of museums as places for and of aesthetic education. This opens the discourse for discussing the given (or: to be changed) conditions. See also: https://www.forschung-kulturelle-bildung.de/ 

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