June 18, 2026, 5:15 PM

Sigrid Weigel (ZfL Berlin)
Making a Difference:
Humanities Knowledge in the Sciences

This lecture examines the aims of humanities cooperation with science, beyond our traditional role of criticizing the ethical problems and cultural side effects of certain scientific developments. What challenges, possibilities, and difficulties arise when humanities scholars intervene, with their expertise and epistemology, in the knowledge and methods of leading fields of science? I will discuss these questions by evaluating my experiences with interdisciplinary research projects during my years as director of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL)—including examples of collaboration with colleagues from the neurosciences, empirical psychology (affective computing), informatics, demography, and medicine (plastic surgery).

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