The ongoing military assault by Russian troops on Ukraine since 24 February 2022, which is in violation of international law, has severely affected academic life at Leipzig University. On this ocassion, the Department 1 has published a special newsletter.
We annually award doctoral thesis prizes to outstanding doctoral researchers from our Graduate Centres. We also award the Katharina Windscheid Prize to doctoral researchers in the Research Academy Leipzig who have written outstanding dissertations under special life circumstances.
As Leibniz Professor in the winter semester 2021, Professor Iain Macdonald from the Université de Montréal will give his inaugural lecture on "What Would Be Different: Blocked Possibilities in Benjamin and Adorno" in the Lecture Hall of Bibliotheca Albertina on 9 November at 6pm. The lecture will be…
This year’s skills development programme at the Competence School starts in October with workshops for doctoral researchers and postdocs at Leipzig University.
The Max Planck School of Cognition (MPSCog) will start two new online courses in September 2021: Philosophy of Mind & Ethics and Functional Neuroanatomy & -physiology. The MPSCog welcomes a restricted number of doctoral researchers who are members of the Research Academy Leipzig at one (or both) of…
As Leibniz Professor in the summer semester 2021, Prof. Dr. Peter Christen from the Australian National University in Canberra will give his inaugural lecture on "Data, COVID, and LSD – or how LSD can help combat COVID" in the Felix Klein Lecture Hall at Leipzig University on 10 June at 6pm. The…
