The lecture is open to the public and is free of charge. Please note, that the doors will be closed when the theatre is full.

Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

is Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature of French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese at Stanford University, USA.

He has been selected as one of the two winners of the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education 2012 and the prize is awarded for his prolific humanistic research and outstanding influence across continents as a scholar and groundbreaking philosopher.

He has, in particular, opened up fresh perspectives on the so-called historical humanities, developing an original concept that teaches us to look at the presence of the past as a possibility of our own present. His latest book ”After 1945: Latency as the Origin of the Present” is a study in the history of mentality after World War 2. The book is published in English, German, Spanish and Russian.