On October 06, the "Market of Opportunities" will take place again - organized and carried out by the WittenLab and the Initiative Lab. In the course of this semester kick-off, Witten/Herdecke University warmly welcomes all first-year students. After a welcome in the Audimax by the presidium, the directorate of the WittenLab and the Initiativlabor, the students will move to the large hall, where…

All UW/H members are warmly invited to the first inter-faculty, university-wide Day of Teaching on Thursday, 7 October 2022, on the UW/H campus. Further information, the registration link and the programme can be found on the website of the University Didactics.

On October 12, the lecture series "Between Rigour & Relevance" of the Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU), based at Witten/Herdecke University, will focus on the central topic of "Succession".

In the RMI Distinguished Lecture, Mark Ebers outlines the ways in which companies seek to orient and adapt under VUCA conditions.

+++ IN GERMAN +++ Author Petra Gockeln offers a little murderous time-out as part of the KULTURZEIT. She reads murderous short stories from her books - suspense and black humor guaranteed! If you like weird murderous short stories spiced with a pinch of black humor, you are in good hands with Petra Gockeln. Look directly over the shoulder of her creative murderers in their nefarious deeds. Whether…

In this salon we want to work together on a work by economist and historian Dipesh Chakrabarty: The Climate of History in the Planetary Age. From globe to planet! Indian historian Dipesh Chakrabarty is one of the most internationally influential scholars to have addressed the meaning of climate change in recent years.

In cooperation with VHS and Partnership for Democracy Witten, WittenLab organizes the Witten Democracy Conference. The main topic of the evening is the 'Postmigrant Society'. For this we welcome different initiatives and projects from the region. The evening will conclude with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Erol Yildiz from the University of Innsbruck, followed by a panel discussion with representatives…

The Chair of Didactics and Educational Research in Health Care, the AG Digital Planetary Health and Health for Future organize in cooperation with the Department of General Medicine of the Ruhr-University Bochum the online lecture series "Digital Medicine goes Planetary Health". The event will take place weekly online from 20.10.2022 on Thursdays from 17:30 to 19:00 (winter break 29.12. + 05.01).…

With this piano recital Helge Antoni celebrates his work at Witten/Herdecke University as a lecturer in the Studium fundamentale. Where he has enriched the students with his seminars and the citizens of Witten and the university community with his concert evenings.

+++ In German +++ Worldwide, most countries have declared the Corona pandemic over. Germany has chosen a different path. For this reason, taking into account the values of our university - freedom, truth and social responsibility - we want to discuss the following questions with you: Where is or was human dignity threatened and how can it be preserved? Are we moving towards increasing control of…