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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?
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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