Previous Marsilius lectures
| Frank C. Worrell (25.01.2024) | Educational Psychology |
| Donald E. Ingber (10.07.2023) | Bioengineering |
| Ute Frevert (27.10.2022) | History |
| Mathias Risse (21.06.2022) | Philosophy |
| Ingolf U. Dalfert (24.02.2022) | Claremont Graduate University, California, USA |
| Antje Boetius (22.07.2021) | Helmholtz Center for Polar and marine research |
| Lambert Wiesing (4.02.2021) | Philosophy |
| Bernhard Schölkopf (16.07.2020) | Informatics |
| Angelika Nußberger (30.01.2020) | Law |
| Daniel J. Müller (23.05.2019) | Biophysics |
| Hermann Parzinger (31.01.2019) | President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz |
| Petra Schwille (17.05.2018) | Biophysics |
| Marina Münkler (30.11.2017) | German Language and Literature |
| Kevin Esvelt (1.6.2017) | Biotechnology |
| Elke Seefried (26.1.2017) | Contemporary History |
| Joachim von Braun (12.5.2016) | Agricultural Economics |
| Jutta Allmendinger (3.2.2016) | Sociology |
| Elio Riboli (11.6.2015) | Medicine/ Public Health |
| Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (29.1.2015) | Musicology |
| Felix Schürmann (5.6.2014) | Physik |
| Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (6.2.2014) | History of Science |
| Onur Güntürkün (16.5.2013) | Neuroscience |
| Alvin Roth (7.2.2013) | Economics |
| Simon White (10.5.2012) | Astrophysics |
| Edna Foa (1.2.2012) | Medicine/ Psychiatry |
| Douglas Price (30.6.2011) | Archaeometry |
| Gerd Gigerenzer (3.2.2011) | Psychology |
| Jörg Widmann (8.7.2010) | Music |
| Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (4.2.2010) | Biology |
| Dieter Grimm (2.7.2009) | Law |
| Wolfgang Frühwald † (19.2.2009) | German Language and Literature |
| Günter Blobel † (18.7.2008) | Biomedicine |
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 4 o'clock p.m. online
Politik und Gefühl – eine unheilige Allianz?
Marsilius Lecture with Ute Frevert
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
© Andreas Reeg
Thursday, June 21, 2022, 4 o'clock p.m.
Digitaldemokratie. Künstliche Intelligenz und die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft kollektiven Entscheidens
Marsilius Lecture with Mathias Risse
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, February 24, 2022, 4 o'clock p.m. online
Hoffnung - Grundlinien einer menschlichen Orientierungsweise
Marsilius Lecture with Ingolf U. Dalfert
Claremont Graduate University, California, USA
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, July 22, 2021, 4 o'clock p.m. online
Mensch und Meer - zur Zukunft von Ozeanen und Polarregionen
Marsilius Lecture with Antje Boetius
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research / Bremerhaven
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, February 4, 2021, 4 o'clock p.m. online
Wahrnehmung und Selbstbewusstsein
Marsilius Lecture with Lambert Wiesing
Professor of philosophy with a focus on image theory and phenomenology, Jena University
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, July 16, 2020, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Wahrnehmung und Selbstbewusstsein
Marsilius Lecture with Bernhard Schölkopf
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, January 30, 2020, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Europa, deine Menschenrechte
Marsilius Lecture with Angelika Nußberger
Professor of Law, Köln University
She is the former vice president of the European Court of Human Rights
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, May 23, 2019, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Engineering Molecular and Cellular Systems for a Better Life
Marsilius Lecture with Daniel J. Müller
Professor of Biophysics, ETH Zürich
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, January 31, 2019, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Cultural Property Gone Astray. Between Provenance Research, Reparation and Shared Heritage
Marsilius Lecture with Hermann Parzinger
President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, May 17, 2018, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Life. The (Small) Step to Living Matter
Marsilius Lecture with Petra Schwille
Director at the Max-Planck-Institut of Biochemistry, Martinsried
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, November 30 2017, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Foreignness. Medieval Solutions and Modern Problems
Marsilius Lecture with Marina Münkler
Professor for German Literature and Culture at TU Dresden
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, June 1 2017, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Wisely Engineering Shared Ecosystems. Leveraging gene drive to ensure open and community-responsive genetic engineering research
Kevin Esvelt
Leader Sculpting Evolution Group und Assistant Professor at MIT Media Lab
The video of the Marsilius Lecture is available here.
Thursday, January 26 2017, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Futures. A history of future research since 1945
Marsilius Lecture with Elke Seefried
Second acting director of the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin and professor of new History at the University of Augsburg
The video of the Marsilius lecture is available here.
Thursday, May 12 2016, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Bioeconomics: Sustainable living and economic activity
Marsilius-Lecture with Joachim von Braun
Professor of Economic and Technological Change and Director of the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn.
Wednesday, February 3 2016, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Science as a vocation? Careers in the scientific system of the 21st century
Marsilius lecture with Prof. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.
Prof. Jutta Allemendinger, Ph.D., President of the Social Science Research Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB) and Professor of Sociology of Education and Labor Market Research at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Invitation / Poster
Thursday, June 11 2015, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Can we prevent Chronic Disease? The role of Nutrition and Lifestyle
Marsilius lecture with Prof. Dr. Elio Riboli
Professor of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention und Director School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Thursday, January 29 2015, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Why do you love Brahms? Music taste research between history, sociology and neuroscience
Marsilius lecture with Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
Director of the Max-Planck Institute for empirical aesthetics
Invitation / Poster
Thursday, June 5 2014, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
"Race to the brain?" - Das europäische Human Brain Project
Marsilius lecture with Prof. Dr. Felix Schürmann
ETH Lausanne / Switzerland
Here you can view the video of the marsilius Lecture
Thursday, February 6 2014, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Nature and culture in the context of knowledge
Marsilius-Lecture with Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Max-Planck-Institut for the History of Science / Berlin
Thursday, May 16 2013, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
The Evolution of the thinking
Marsilius-Lecture with Onur Güntürkün
Ruhr-University Bochum
Thursday, February 7 2013, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
"Kideney Exchange and other market and near-market approaches in transplantation"
Marsilius Lecture with Alvin Roth (Stanford University, USA)
Here you can watch the video of the Marsilius Lecture
Thursday, May 10 2012, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
„Cosmic evolution: The origin of our universe"
Marsilius Lecture with Prof. Dr. Simon White
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
Thursday, February 1 2012, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
„Post-traumatic Stress: Etiology and treatment taking social aspects into account“
Marsilius Lecture with Prof. Dr. Edna B. Foa
Thursday, June 30 2011, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
„Isotopes and ancient teeth:
a new window on the human past“
Marsilius Lecture with Prof. Dr. T. Douglas Price (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
This Marsilius Lecture, organised in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, is a part of the festival events on the occassion of Heidelberg University's 625th Anniversary.
For the live recording of the Marsilius Lecture please follow this link.
Thursday, February 3 2011, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
"The illusion of certainty. How statistics can mislead us."
Marsilius Lecture with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gerd Gigerenzer
Click here to view the Opening Ceremony of the Marsilius Kolleg.
Thursday, July 8 2010, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
"The future should be the higher echo of the past" (Robert Schumann) - Tradition and Innovation in Music
Marsilius Lecture with Prof. Jörg Widmann (Komponist / Klarinettist) / Press Release
Foto: ©Felix Broede
Review: Blog by Prof. Dr. Joachim Funke
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Thursday, February 4 2010, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
"Growth in Nature and Culture"
Marsilius Lecture with
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1995)
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Thursday, July 2 2019, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
"Art shall be free - but what is art?"
Marsilius Lecture with
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Grimm (Humboldt University Berlin)
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Thursday, February 19 2009, 4 o'clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
"Just read the left pages of a book!" - On increase and decay of modern worlds of knowledge
Marsilius Lecture with
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Frühwald (LMU Munich)
Press Release
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Thursday, July 18 2008, 2:15 p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
Dedication speech: "The Future of the University - Perspectives for Research and Teaching"
Federal Minister for Education and Research Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan, MdB
Thursday, July 18 2008, 4 o’clock p.m. in the lecture hall of Old Heidelberg University
First Marsilius Lecture: "The Cell - A Work of Art"
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Günter Blobel († 18.02.2018)
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999
