Thomasius Club: Valentin Groebner – Abgefahren. Reisen zum Vergnügen

In the organizer's words:

Five years after the pandemic closed borders, more people around the world are traveling for pleasure than ever before and the news of overcrowding and the destruction of supposed idylls is omnipresent. Intended as a personal reward and time out, travelers nevertheless seem rushed in their search for beauty and authenticity. So it's time to talk to Valentin Groebner about the paradoxes of tourism.

Valentin Groebner is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the University of Lucerne. He has been a fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg and the European University Institute in Florence, as well as Professeur invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of numerous books on the history of culture and science. In 2024, he received the Aby Warburg Foundation Science Prize.

The talk will be led by Uta Karstein and Anna Rieß. Free admission.

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The Thomasius Club is an open discussion group that invites academics to talk about current topics in their research. The Thomasius Club's program is carefully selected and decided by a small group of active members and is named in memory of the Leipzig philosopher and legal scholar Christian Thomasius, who began publishing his Monatsgespräche in 1688. The Thomasius Club follows on from the idea of this journal to convey scientific content in German. The approximately one-hour discussions are made available as a podcast for interested parties(http://www.thomasius-club.de).

Supported by L.I.S.A. - Das Wissenschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the Leipzig University Library and the Institute for Cultural Studies Leipzig.