A shot from the pulpit – watch guest lecturer Rosi Braidotti from Utrecht University answering the question why matter matters

Haunted by specters – watch guest lecturer Stefan Herbrechter from Coventry University explaining why he distrusts matter

Early modern time foldings – guest lecturer Michael Kempe, Director of the Leibniz Research Center and the Leibniz-Archive in Hannover, explains why Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ alternative conceptualizations of time are still inspiring today

Time and the other – guest lecturer Antje Flüchter from the University of Heidelberg talks about modern Western chronocentrism and why India was thought to be non-contemporary to the contemporary Western norm

Whom the bell tolls – listen to what postdoctoral scholar Michelle Bastian from the University of Edinburgh says about clocks

Mapping Rice - watch Elaine Gan from the University of California at Santa Cruz talking about multispecies temporalities

Living on the edge of time – PhD candidate Anna McFarlane of the University of St. Andrews suggests a utopian novel

Between the immanent and transcendent – Florian Zemmin, PhD candidate from the University of Bern, tells you whether we live in secular or post-secular times

WS participant Michael Toggweiler writes in the latest issue of the Mercator News about his appreciation of a space allowing for encounters beyond power struggles and the resulting respectful discussions that took place during the Winter School 2012. Read his article in German →

Watch guest lecturer Roland Wenzlhuemer from the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg drawing a conclusion on this year’s Winter School.