Every other year, the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich open their doors and invite the general public to experience the world of scholarship first-hand. This year from 1 to 3 September Scientifica examines what holds the world together.
5.6.2023, 18:00: Kultur und Geschichte als Mittel zur Verwaltung der Gegenwart: Berichte zur Instrumentalisierung des kollektiven Gedächtnisses in Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine
Climate change challenges society socially, economically, legally and politically. This topical lecture series addresses interdisciplinary problem areas such as food security and social inequality.
Since antiquity, humans have been asking what they actually are. Experts take a deep dive into the various ideas about humankind elaborated in the Ancient World and people's orientation to them.
How do we understand the world and ourselves? Could, or should, we see things completely differently? This lecture series presents perspectives from the past and from contemporary knowledge systems.
The lecture series of the Initiative Geisteswissenschaften (humanities initiative) explores projects, renewals and latencies in society after two years of a global pandemic and in view of ongoing global crises.
How does the discipline of theology deal with religious diversity? What is its relationship to other disciplines? Representatives from various areas of culture and religion present their ideas about what theology is.
