WissensSpuren Newsletter

Retrospection of the tour on 8 March 2026.

Discussing women's rights at the [Gedenkstätte Riebeckstraße 63](https://riebeckstrasse63.de/der-ort/), the former location of the pediatric university hospital, and in the Lene-Voigt Park. Photos: Team WissensSpuren.

A comprehensive #Retrospection of our #citytour conducted on the 8th of March, »235 Jahre Frauenrechte« (»235 years of women's rights«), is available on our homepage.

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Sun 8 March 2026. 235 Jahre Frauenrechte

235 years ago, author and political activist Olympe de Gouges published the Déclaration des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne (Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens), and it took almost 200 years for them to be implemented in Western Europe. On the International Women’s Day, we will trace the long road to their adoption, search for traces of the important contributions made by women in Leipzig, — and we will discuss where we stand today.

Portrait of Olympes de Gouges (1748–1793) by Alexander Kucharsky (1741–1819). Public domain, via [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olympe_de_Gouges.png).

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Retrospection of the tour on 7 February 2026.

Announcement based on a drawing of Joachim Ringelnatz: [„Kinder-Verwirr-Buch“](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kinder-Verwirr-Buch). Public Domain, via [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinder-Verwirr-Buch_07.jpg)

A comprehensive #review of our #EnglishTour of the 7th of February is available on our homepage

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Retrospection of the tour on 31 January 2026.

Prof Flöter, Dr Goll and tour participants in the Exhibition entitled »Freiräume für Bildung – Schule und Architektur im Dialog« (»open spaces for education – schools and architecture in dialogue«). Photo: Team WissensSpuren.

A comprehensive #review of the #citytour conducted on the 31st of January 2026, »Innovative Schulen und Pädagogik« (»Innovative Schools and Pedagogics«) is now available on our web site.

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7 February 2026. The Benefits of Diversity

We will explore new research on the benefits of diversity: Learning is enhanced when students tackle new concepts form a multitude of different perspectives. A team of consultants comes up with more diverse and better ideas when it involves specialists of many different disciplines. Ecosystems tend to be more resilient to external perturbations when they feature a higher biodiversity. How can our society profit from embracing diversity?

Different fruit of the forest canopy on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Photo: Christian Ziegler. [CC BY 2.5](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5), via [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_fruits_from_Barro_Colorado.png).

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31 January 2026. Innovative Schulen und Pädagogik

The School Museum is currently hosting a special exhibition entitled “Freiräume für Bildung – Schule und Architektur im Dialog” (Freedom for Education – Schools and Architecture in Dialogue). We are taking this as an opportunity to venture out on a tour exploring old and new school buildings, as well as classic, still relevant, and brand-new educational concepts.

Announcement based on a photo from [pxhere.com](https://pxhere.com/en/photo/696434)

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Retrospection of the tour on 6 December 2025.

Impressions of the tour on the 6th of December. Photos: Team WissensSpuren.

A comprehensive #review of the #citytour conducted on the 6th of December 2025, »Does Santa exist?« is now available on our web site.

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6 November 2025, 2pm. »Does Santa exist?«

Inspired by Eric Kaplan’s quest concerning the existence of Santa, we dive into epistomology, dispute proofs for the existence of Santa, and explore the practical sites of life in a city with many x-mas markets. On the way we will take a fresh look at the christian and non-christian roots of x-mas traditions, markets, music, and myths.

“When We All Believe”, eine Farblithographie von Rose O’Neill mit Kindern, die sich um einen Nikolaus mit Geschenken scharen. [Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division](https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.25801/).

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8.–16. November 2025. CTRL Z / CTRL Y

In the context of the „Tag des Vergessens. Und des Erinnerns.“ the class for Artistic Action and Research at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig contributed artistic interventions to the exhibition Forget it?! in the German Museum of Books and Writing. The interventions made use of research-based, site-specific, speculative, and power-critical working methods that question processes of remembering and forgetting from different perspectives. In doing so they also established references to thematic focal points of the permanent exhibition.

A comprehensive #review of the #exhibition is available on our web site.

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Retrospection of the tour on 8 November 2025.

Announcement based on a Drawing of [Karl Wiener](https://www.wienmuseum.at/verschollen_im_museum_karl_wiener): [Niemals Vergessen](https://artvee.com/dl/niemals-vergessen/) via [Artvee](https://artvee.com/artist/karl-wiener/) .

A comprehensive #review of the #festival conducted on the 8th of November 2025, »Tag des Vergessens. Und des Erinnerns.«, is now available on our web site.

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