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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.
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Further information is available on our homepage.
Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.
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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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8. November 2025. Tag des Vergessens. Und des Erinnerns.
In November we will celebrate the first anniversary of the #WissensSpuren, and the German Museum for Books and Writing of the German National Library lauches its new exhibition Forget it?!. In a joint venture we invite you to a #KnowledgeFestival. Together with partners from science, society, and culture we will consider what is worth remembering, what should be forgotten, and how to preserve what is important. And we will discover entirely new aspects of the topic of forgetting. Come along — to participate, to exchange ideas, to marvel.
There will be offererings specifically for children, and a lot of exhibits invite discussions amoung persons of all ages. A substantial part of the exhibits and art installations is described in English and in German. The artists will be around, and some of them prefer to communicate in English.
Further information is available on our homepage.
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11. Oktober 2025. 100 Jahre Sportwissenschaften
In October the Faculty of Sport Sciences will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Our present for the faculty and for the interested public will be a tour searching for traces of highlights and tragic moments of the Leipzig sport history, the contribution of science to the development of sport equipment and the success of athletes, and to the role of sport in school education.
Further information is available on our homepage Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.
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Fri 10 October 2025, 1pm. Welcome Freshers
This tour addresses #InternationalStudents joining the universities in #Leipzig. It will help them to come to know each other, it will inform them about the contributions of researches in Leipzig to the development of #QuantumMechanics — and it aspires to make them look beyond the limitations of their field of study during their time in Leipzig.
, via \[Wikimedia Commons\](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hund_Heisenberg_Born_1966_G%C3%B6ttingen.jpg). © WissensSpuren](https://leipziger-wissensspuren.de/blog/2025-10-10_fresher/2025-10-10_fresher_social_bw.png)
Further information is available on our homepage.
Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.
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13 Sept 2025. Ice Age: 50 Mio years of climate change
Climate change brought about the geological richness of the Leipzig Bay — and men turned it into a unique lakeland. On our tour we will explore the traces of the climate history, and discuss the impact of human interferences.
Further details of the tour can be found on our web site.
Registration for this event can be made on our ticketing site.