Summer Semester 2025
If you would like to attend one of our public events, please send an email to kfg.zugang@uni-muenster.de.
The lectures take place in room 201 (2nd floor) of the Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, unless otherwise indicated.
Wednesday, 2 April – Friday, 4 April 2025
Masterclass: “Zugang zu sensiblen Sammlungen – Digital und analog” (“Access to Contested Collections – Digital and Analog”) (in German)
Scientific organisation: Maria Engelskirchen, Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne, Dr. Dorothea Schöne
Keynotes: Greta de León (The Americas Research Network, Mexico City), Dr. Yilmaz Dziewior (Museum Ludwig, Köln) and Mathilde Heitmann-Taillefer (Museum Folkwang, Essen)Monday, 7 April 2025, 4.15–8.30 pm
Meeting of the Glossary working groups (group-wise) (members and fellows only)Monday, 14 April 2025, 4.15–8.30 pm
Glossary Debate (in German) (members and fellows only)
Chair: Dr. Eberhard OrtlandMonday, 28 April 2025, 4.15–7 pm
Fellow Welcome and Glossary Debate (in German) (members and fellows only)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Reinold SchmückerMonday, 5 May 2025, 4.15–8.30 pm
Concept Debate: Culture and Culture (in German) (members and fellows only)
Chairs: Prof. Dr. Ludger Jansen, Jesko Veenema and Leonie SpielbrinkMonday, 12 May 2025, 4.15–8.30 pm
Concept Debate: Restitution (in German) (members and fellows only)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ursula FrohneTuesday, 13 May 2025, 10.00 am (s.t.!) – 12.00 pm
Guided Tour: “Art on the Campus” (in English, if requested) (members and fellows only)
Meeting point: Entry Hall of the Philosophikum (in front of the Studiobühne)
Guide: Dr. Eckhard Kluth (Head of the Central Custody of the University of Münster)Monday, 19 May 2025, 4.15–6.30 pm
“Strukturprobleme des digitalen kulturellen Gedächtnisses – am Beispiel des neuen niedersächsischen Pflichtexemplargesetzes” (“Structural problems of digital cultural memory – using the example of the new law on deposit copies in Lower Saxony”) (in German)
Prof. Dr. Eric Steinhauer (Hagen/Berlin)Monday, 26 May 2025, 2.00–4.00 pm
Opening of the exhibition “case study #1: Access to Curatorial Networks – Postcards from Kasper König”
Panel discussion with Dr. Marianne Wagner (curator, LWL Museum of Art and Culture) and Jana Bernhardt (Skulptur Projekte Archiv, LWL Museum of Art and Culture)
Idea, concept, and organization: Students of the colloquium course taught by Ursula Frohne and Berit Hummel (summer semester 2025)26 May to 30 June 2025, Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 19.00 pm
Exhibition “case study #1: Access to Curatorial Networks – Postcards from Kasper König”
Idea, concept, and organization: Students of the colloquium course taught by Ursula Frohne and Berit Hummel (summer semester 2025)Monday, 26 May 2025, 4.15–6.30 pm
Guest Lecture: “Kopieren als Adaptieren” (“Copying as adaptation”) (in German)
Prof. Dr. Ludwig D. Morenz (Bonn)
Chair: Dr. Eberhard Ortland
Monday, 2 June 2025, 4.15–6.30 pm
Fellow Lecture: “Ur & Alexandria: Counter-narrating museum history to access diverse heritage” (in English)
Dr. Isabel Hufschmidt (Vienna)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Reinold Schmücker
Monday, 16 June 2025, 4.15–6.30 pm
Fellow Lecture: “Digital guest books – A cultural good that has been neglected until now?” (in German)
Prof. Dr. Henry Keazor (Heidelberg)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ursula FrohneTuesday, 17 June 2025, 7.00 pm (Auditorium of the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Domplatz 10)
Film series “Zugang und Rückgabe: Restitution im Film” (“Access and Return: Restitution in films”), Part 1: Restitution as an act of recognition
Introduction: Jolanda Saal (Münster)
Filme: YOU HIDE ME, Nii Kwate Owoo, 1970, 16 Min. | DAHOMEY, Mati Diop, 2024, 71 Min.
The event is organised in cooperation with the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur.
Admission: 5 Euros (no registration required)Monday, 23 June 2025, 4.15–8.30 pm
Concept Debate: Levels, dimensions and conditions of access (in English) (members and fellows only)
Chairs: Dr. Thomas Kater and Dr. Eberhard OrtlandTuesday, 24 June 2025, 7.00 pm (Auditorium of the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Domplatz 10)
Film series “Zugang und Rückgabe: Restitution im Film” (“Access and Return: Restitution in films”), Part 2: Opposing voices and rhythms of resistance
Introduction: Maria Engelskirchen und Corinna Kühn (Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”)
Filme: OBJECT ID, Pauline Hafsia M’barek, 2012, 6 Min. | UNEARTHING. IN CONVERSATION, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, 2017, 15 Min.
UN-DOCUMENTED: UNLEARNING IMPERIAL PLUNDER I Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, 2019, 36 Min. | ONE HUNDRED STEPS, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, 2021, 32 Min.
The event is organised in cooperation with the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur.
Admission: 5 Euros (no registration required)Monday, 30 June 2025, 4.15–6.30 pm
Fellow Lecture: “Zugang FAIR gestalten: Was sind und was können Referenzontologien?” (“Making access FAIR: What are reference ontologies and what can they do?”) (in German)
Prof. Dr. Ludger Jansen (Brixen)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Reinold SchmückerTuesday, 1 July 2025, 7.00 pm (Auditorium of the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Domplatz 10)
Film series “Zugang und Rückgabe: Restitution im Film” (“Access and Return: Restitution in films”), Part 3: Reparative practices of remembering
Introduction: Sam Hopkins (Köln)
Films: MBARODI, Mamadou Khouma Gueye, 2024, 21 Min. | CRACKS IN THE MASK, Frances Calvert, 1997, 57 Min.
The event is organised in cooperation with the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur.
Admission: 5 Euros (no registration required)Wednesday, 2 June 2025
Workshop at the Exposition „Droste digital“ (in German)
at Burg Vischering in Lüdinghausen on the question of the added value of digital forms of communicating literatureMonday, 7 July 2025, 4.15–6.30 pm
Fellow Lecture: “Reimagining Access: Immersive Media for Transforming Cultural Engagement”
Dr. Susanne Thurow (Sydney)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ursula FrohneMonday, 14 July 2025, 4.15–6.30 pm
Fellow Lecture
Dr. Christopher Nixon (Hamburg)
Chair: Maria Engelskirchen, M.A.
Wednesday, 16 July – Friday, 18 July 2025New date will be announced
Conference “Digital Access. Bridging Restitution, Conservation, and Ethical Challenges”Monday, 21 July – Saturday, 26 July 2025
Fifth Summer School Museology
at the LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold (Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Alltagskultur)
Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher (Münster) and Dr. Birgit Johler (Graz/Vienna, Austria)Winter Semester 2024/25
If you would like to attend one of our public events, please send an email to kfg.zugang@uni-muenster.de.
The lectures take place in room 201 (2nd floor) of the Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, unless otherwise indicated.
Sunday to Thursday, 22 September to 26 September 2024
#digital|denken. XXVI. Deutscher Kongress für PhilosophieMonday, 7 October 2024, 4.15–6.30 pm
Welcoming the new fellows | Introducing the new format “Concept Debate”Monday, 14 October 2024, 4.15–8.30 pm
Concept Debate: “Cultural Goods/Cultural Heritage” (in German)
Chair: Lukas Daum
(Members and fellows only)Monday, 21 October 2024, 4.15–6.30 pm
“Cultural Goods – Approaching a Difficult Concept”
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ruben Apressyan (Münster)Monday, 28 October 2024, 4.15–6.30 pm
“‘Kulturfrevel’ oder kulturelle Teilhabe? Vereinfachter Zugang zu Literatur als kunstethisches Problem” (in German)
Dr. Thomas Kater (Berlin)Monday, 4 November 2024, 4.15–8.30 pm
Concept Debate: “Access” (in German)
Chair: Lisa-Maria Meier
(Members and fellows only)Monday to Tuesday, 11 to 12 November 2024
“Zugänge zum Textilen – wissenschaftliche, kuratorische und digitale Perspektiven” (in German)
Congress of the Kommission Materielle Kultur und Museum in der DGEKW (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaften e. V.)
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher and Dr. Kirsten Bernhardt (Münster)
Registration at kulturanthropologie@uni-muenster.deMonday, 18 November 2024, 4.15–6.30 pm
“Does digitalization force us to forget? Performing arts as an example”
Dr. Johanna Laakkonen (Helsinki)Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 6.15–8.30 pm (Lecture hall 102, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23)
“Slow humanities and computerized sciolism”
Prof. Dr. Ossi Naukkarinen (Helsinki)Monday, 25 November 2024, 4.15–6.30 pm
Concept Debate: “Digital Change” (in German)
Chair: Leonie Spielbrink
(Members and fellows only)followed by
7.30–9.00 pm (Lecture hall 102, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23)
Fellow-Lecture: „Kunst für alle? Kunstgeschichte, Kunstbegriff, Kanon – Zugänglichkeit und Wertungsfragen im digitalen Wandel“
Prof. Dr. Hubert Locher (Marburg)Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 6.00–7.45 pm (Lecture hall F2, Domplatz 20–22)
“Fülle und Leere. Kuratieren als Ermöglichen” (in German)
Lecture as part of the lecture series “Making of: Geschichtsorte neu denken” of Villa ten Hompel
Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher (Münster)Monday, 2 December 2024, 4.15–6.30 pm
Concept Debate: “Curating” (in German) cancelled
Chair: Maria Engelskirchen
(Members and fellows only)Monday, 9 December 2024, 4.15–6.30 pm
“Die Ausstellung als Interface. Analoge und digitale Displays” (in German)
Prof. Dr. Sophia Prinz (Zürich)Monday, 16 December 2024, 4.15–7.00 pm
Concept Debate: “Canon” (in German)
Chair: Fabian Neteler
(Members and fellows only)23 December 2024 to 6 January 2025: Christmas Holidays
Monday, 13 January 2025, 4.15–8.30 pm
Concept Debate: “Law and Morality” (in German)
Chair: Daniel Schlageter
(Members and fellows only)Monday, 20 January 2025, 4.15–6.30 pm
Fellow Lecture „‚Page Not Found‘: Zur (Un-)Zugänglichkeit künstlerischer Publikations- und Ausstellungsprojekte im digitalen Zeitalter – eine Bestandsaufnahme“
Dr. Regine Ehleiter (Berlin)Monday, 27 January 2025, 7.30–9.00 pm (Lecture hall 102, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23)
Fellow Lecture: “Zugangsdynamiken romantischer Kunst: Zwei Schlaglichter auf französische Malerei”
Prof. Dr. Johannes Grave (Jena)Tuesday, 18 March to Sunday, 23 March 2025
Research Retreat at the Schlüßhof
(Members and fellows only)Summer Semester 2024
If you would like to attend one of our public events, please send an email to kfg.zugang@uni-muenster.de.
Thursday, 4 April to Saturday, 6 April 2024
Workshop “Protecting and Accessing Cultural Goods in Wartime”
Monday, 8 April 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
“Cultural Heritage goes digital: GLAM institutions at the digital turn – from object provider to research partners”
PD Dr. Angela Dreßen (Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence/Italy)Monday, 15 April 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
“Digital Visual Journalism: Ethical Considerations in the Making. A Defining Photo from Ukraine”
Dr. Evelyn Runge (Universität zu Köln)Monday, 29 April 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
“More than Real? Raumerfahrung in virtuellen Bildumgebungen am Beispiel interaktiver Stadtpanoramen” (in German)
Berit Hummel M.A. (Universität Münster)Monday, 6 May 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
“Physical Loss and Digital Reclamation – The Curatorial Concept of the China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale”
Dr. Jiang Jun (School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai), co-curator of the China Pavilion of the 60th Biennale di VeneziaMonday, 13 May 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
“The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age” (in German)
Prof. Dr. Ursula Ströbele (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig)Monday, 3 June 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
“Problemstellungen wissenschaftlicher Praxis: Elektronisches Publizieren und die Bewertung philosophischer Expertise”
PD Dr. Nicola Mößner (Leibniz Universität Hannover/RWTH Aachen)Monday, 17 June 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
Fellow-Lecture: “Embodied Aesthetics – Exploring the Creation and Perception of Artistic Works in the Realms of Human Cognition and Artificial Intelligence”
Dr. Fatemeh Masdari (Universität Münster)Monday, 8 July 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
Fellow-Lecture: “‘Cultural Appropriation’. Questions about a concept”
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gutmann (Universität Münster)Monday, 15 July 2024, 4:15–6:30 pm
“Digital Access to Library Content – Legal Frameworks in Germany and Sri Lanka”
Dr. Prathiba Mahanamahewa (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka), Prof. Dr. Nishantha Sampath Punchihewa (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka), Prof. Dr. W. K. M. Mervin Kumara Weerasinghe (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka)
Monday, 22 July to Saturday, 27 July 2024
Fourth Summer School Museology
at the LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold (Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Alltagskultur)
Prof. Dr. Lioba Keller-Drescher (Universität Münster) und Dr. Birgit Johler (Graz/Vienna, Austria)Winter Semester 2023/24
Wednesday to Friday, 4 October to 6 October 2023
„Zugang gestalten! Mehr Verantwortung für das kulturelle Erbe: Hindernisse überwinden“
Conference4 October to 5 November 2023
Oliver Laric – „Reclining Pan“
Special exhibition at the Archaeological Museum of the University of MünsterMonday, 9 October 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
„Caroline Tisdall and Joseph Beuys. Photography, Ephemeral Art and Law“ und „Zugang gestalten! Mehr Verantwortung für das kulturelle Erbe: Hindernisse überwinden“ – was bleibt?
RoundtableMonday, 16 October 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
„Zugang zu gemeinfreien Werken: Zwei aktuelle Beispiele“
Dr. Eberhard Ortland (Universität Münster)Sunday, 22 October 2023, 2.15–3.15 pm
Introduction to the Special Exhibition of Oliver Larics „Reclining Pan“ I
Lecture at the Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster
Marei Klapproth and Jon Wiggermann (Universität Münster)Monday, 23 October 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
„Open access publizieren beim FID Philosophie“
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Andreas Speer and Eric Eggert, M.A. (Universität zu Köln)
RoundtableSunday, 29 October 2023, 2.15–3.15 pm
Introduction to the Special Exhibition of Oliver Larics „Reclining Pan“ II
Lecture at the Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster
Jon Wiggermann (Universität Münster)Monday, 30 October 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
“Zugang zu historischen Manuskripten. Zur digitalen Edition von Friedrich Schleiermachers Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik”
Dr. Holden Kelm (Berlin-Brandeburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin)Monday, 6 November 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
“Aspekte einer Ethik des Zugangs zu kulturellen Gütern”
Prof. Dr. Reinold Schmücker and Dr. Eberhard Ortland (Universität Münster)
Lecture and RoundtableMonday, 13 November 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
„Der Wert von Kulturgütern“
Dr. Moritz von Kalckreuth (Universität Wuppertal)Montag, 20 November 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
„Zumutung, Zugang, Zusammenarbeit? Kunst in der Wikipedia als fachliche Herausforderung“
Rainer Halama (Wikipedia-Kulturbotschafter, Münster), PD Dr. Henrike Haug (Universität zu Köln) und Dr. Anja Schürmann (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)Monday, 27 November 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
“Konzeption einer Tagung zum Thema ‘Digitizing colonial archives: trends, challenges, new perspectives’”
Maria Engelskirchen, M.A., and Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulz (Universität Münster)
(members & fellows only)Monday, 4 December 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
Fellow Lecture: “Die Öffnung des Museums und das Geheimnis der Sammlungen”
Prof. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz (Universität Siegen)
Public fellow lecture
Room 201, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, 48143 MünsterMonday, 11 December 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
“Why do we still need humanities when we have ChatGPT?”
Prof. Dr. Ossi Naukkarinen (Aalto-yliopisto, Helsinki, Finland)Monday, 18 December 2023, 6.15–8.30 pm
“Access to books and libraries in Sri Lanka”
Dr. Wathsala Athukorala (Sri Palee Campus, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)Monday, 15 January 2024, 7.00 pm
Studiobühne, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23
„Memes in Transformation of the Ukrainian Media Landscape in the Context of War“
Public Lecture
Prof. Dr. Mariya Rohozha (Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv)Monday, 22 January 2024, 6.15–8.30 pm
“Ethische Aspekte des Zugangs zu audiovisuellen Inhalten im digitalen Zeitalter”
Dr. Pavel Zahrádka (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Czech Republic)Monday, 29 January 2024, 6.15–8.30 pm
“How to Deal with Cultural Goods in War and Post-war Times: An Ethical Analysis”
Prof. Dr. Ruben Apressyan
“The Potential of Open Science in Pakistan: Evidence from the Global South”
Arslan Sheikh
(members & fellows only)Monday, 5 February 2024
Excursion to the special exhibition in Witten
Oleg Yushko: X3-Box
Chaired by: Prof. Dr. Renate Buschmann (Witten-Herdecke)
(members & fellows only)Summer Semester 2023
18 April 2023
“Das Urherberrecht an 3D-Scans”
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Paul Klimpel (Berlin)
25 April 2023
Opening Ceremony of the Centre for Advanced Study2 to 5 May 2023
“Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”
Retreat of the Centre for Advanced Study in Bernkastel-Wehlen9 May 2023
“Power to the people. Crowdsourcing in Museen – Das Beispiel artigo.org”
Fellow Lecture
Prof. Dr. Hubertus Kohle (München)16 May 2023
“Kulturgut / Eigentum. Philosophische, historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche und rechtswissenschaftlich-ökonomische Überlegungen zu Kulturgut, Eigentum und der Frage, wem ein Gegenstand kulturell und eigentumsrechtlich gehören soll”
Sebastian Ambros (München)23 May 2023
“Die Toten lehren die Lebenden. Sensible Sammlungen im Verhältnis von Kunst, Technologie und Öffentlichkeit”
Maria Engelskirchen, M.A. (Münster)6 June 2023
“Kulturelles Eigentum und Kulturerbe in der philosophischen Diskussion – Begründungsansätze und begriffliche Implikationen”
Lukas Daum, B.A. (Münster)13 June 2023
“Ermöglichung von Zugang zu (insbesondere auch bildender) Kunst für Menschen mit Sehbeeinträchtigungen”
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Saerberg (Hamburg) und Fabian Korner (Frankfurt)20 June 2023
„Aspekte von Zugang und Teilhabe im Kulturrecht“
Prof. Dr. Eric Steinhauer (Hagen/Berlin)22 June 2023
“Der Bericht Nr. 4 über Föderierte Dateninfrastrukturen für die wissenschaftliche Nutzung”
Prof. Dr. Petra Gehring (Darmstadt)27 June 2023
“Der ‘Garden of Fine Art’ in Kyoto als Infrastruktur des Zugangs zu Meilensteinen der west-östlichen Kunstgeschichte”
Fellow Lecture
Dr. Eberhard Ortland (Münster)29 June to 31 October 2023
“Where the plastics live”
Special exhibition of the study project “Kunststoffalltage” of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology4 July 2023
“Rafaël Rozendaal. Color, Code, Communication”
Curator’s tour at the sepecial exhibition in the Museum Folkwang, Essen
Thomas Seelig (Essen)11 July 2023
“Art in the City, the City in Art”
Fellow Lecture
Dr. Elisha Masemann (Auckland/New Zealand)28 August 2023, 13 September, 26 September, 4 October
“Where the plastics live”
Curator’s tour of the special exhibition of the study project “Kunststoffalltage” of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology14 September 2023
“Kulturelles Gedächtnis und Dekolonisierung: Die Digitalisierung des Nationalarchivs in Gambia”
Public lecture
Dr. Katrin Pfeiffer (Hamburg)29 September 2023
“Caroline Tisdall and Joseph Beuys – Photography, Ephemeral Art and Law”
Interdisciplinary Workshop