Panel discussion — April 24, 2023
The final salon of the Komische Oper Berlin and the Schering Stiftung becomes a lab for farewells and departures: What is the right way to begin? How to let go? What helps us get over a separation?
Learn more Panel discussion — March 13, 2023
What is it that draws us together and that keeps us together? Are we not (anymore) capable of being by ourselves – or is it that we don’t want to?
Learn more Panel discussion — January 09, 2023
Not just for planet Earth but for all other planets as well, water is a gift of the cosmos, full of mysteries.
Learn more Panel discussion — October 17, 2022
On the occasion of the premiere of Pippi Longstocking, we invite you to a salon evening on the power and crux of thinking for yourself.
Learn more Panel discussion — May 30, 2022
Is there such a thing as absolute truth? Or is the definition of what is true and false ultimately always in the eye of the beholder?
Learn more Panel discussion — March 21, 2022
Newness alone has become a sign of quality in many areas of social life. Isn’t this a fatal fallacy, however?
Learn more Dialogue — November 08, 2021
Can human life even work without setting certain boundaries?
Learn more Panel discussion — September 20, 2021
What is rightful in a legal sense is not always seen to be just from a moral point of view. Do we have to live with this contradiction?
Learn more Salon — June 07, 2021
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Learn more Salon — May 03, 2021
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Learn more Salon — November 09, 2020
From the ancient Greeks until well into the 19th century, art has been created time and again through engaging with nature. How has the emergence of the natural sciences changed the artistic view of nature?
Learn more Salon — October 12, 2020
Intoxication and ecstasy stand out from the everyday, as festival, as a fireworks of the senses. To what extent is intoxication a desirable state? And how is it related to addiction?
Learn more Salon — May 04, 2020
The salon will take place digitally via Youtube and Facebook.
Learn more Salon — January 13, 2020
The cult surrounding blood as the symbol of life gave rise to fairy tales, myths, and stories. How is the significance of blood changing in the arts, in science?
Learn more Salon — November 11, 2019
How has it come about that humans as a species consider themselves to be superior to all other species? And what can be offered in opposition to this speciesism?
Learn more Panel discussion — June 03, 2019
What characterizes emotional experience at the opera? What draws people to the sports stadiums? These and other questions will be discussed by Jens Roselt and Christian von Scheve.
Learn more Panel discussion — April 15, 2019
Is the stage a utopian space? In what kinds of cities do we want to live? Is spatial design synonomous with shaping society? These and other questions will be discussed by Susanne Hauser and Klaus Grünberg.
Learn more Panel discussion — January 07, 2019
The salon evening deals with forces and energies – in physics, on the opera stage, and beyond. The discussion will feature the theater scholar Barbara Gronau and the experimental physicist Klaus Lips.
Learn more Panel discussion — November 05, 2018
In this salon at the Komische Oper Berlin, Julia Fischer and Doris Kolesch will talk about the human production of sounds and provide scientific explanations.
Learn more Panel discussion — June 04, 2018
Anthropologist and cultural philosopher Wolfgang Welsch and paleontologist and geobiologist Reinhold Leinfelder discuss the Significance of Man in Nature.
Learn more Panel discussion — April 23, 2018
The economic researcher Heiner Flassbeck and the economist Martina Metzger discuss the Effects of a Globalized Market Economy.
Learn more Panel discussion — February 12, 2018
Jeanette Hofmann expert on internet policy and Volker Gerhardt legal and social philosopher discuss the Future of an Age-Old Form of Government.
Learn more Panel discussion — November 13, 2017
Philosopher and cultural sociologist Wolfgang Engler and anthropologist Gunter Gebauer discuss Self-Presentation in Everyday Life.
Learn more Panel discussion — May 22, 2017
Elke M. Geenen from Institute for Socioeconomic and Cultural International Analysis and psychologist and psychotherapist Borwin Bandelow discuss about Foreignness and Experiencing the Other.
Learn more Panel discussion — March 13, 2017
Michael Pauen from Institute of Philosophy and psychologist and psychophysiologist Stefan Schmidt discuss about Manipulation and Freedom of Decision.
Learn more Panel discussion — February 06, 2017
President and co-founder of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform Gesine Schwan elaborates on the Impact and Imperative of Exerting Power.
Learn more Panel discussion — November 14, 2016
Historian Ute Frevert und behavioral researcher Karl Grammer discuss about Love Yesterday and Today.
Learn more Panel discussion — June 20, 2016
Professor of cultural studies Thomas Macho and neurologist Birk Engmann discuss about Near-Death Experience.
Learn more Panel discussion — May 09, 2016
Brain researcher Moritz Helmstaedter and professor of cultural theory Dirk Baecker discuss about Collectivity and Public Spirit.
Learn more Panel discussion — March 07, 2016
Professor of developmental psychology Lieselotte Ahnert and professor of ecucation Johanna Mierendorff discuss about Childhood and Education.
Learn more Panel discussion — January 11, 2016
Religious studies scholar Michael Blume and theologian and psychologist Michael Utsch discuss about Religion and Religiosity.
Learn more Panel discussion — June 15, 2015
Psychologist and brain researcher Hans J. Markowitsch and egyptologist and professor of religious and cultural studies Jan Assmann discuss about Memory Research.
Learn more Panel discussion — May 11, 2015
The british-german performance group Gob Squad and the mathematician Manfred Hild discuss about Neurorobotics.
Learn more Panel discussion — March 23, 2015
Brain researcher John-Dylan Haynes and emeritus profressor of law and criminology Peter A. Albrecht discuss about Crime Research.
Learn more Panel discussion — January 12, 2015
CEO and Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta and sociologist Hartmut Rosa discuss about Efficiency.
Learn more Panel discussion — October 13, 2014
Neuroscientist Jan Born and psychoanalyst Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber discuss about Dream Research.
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