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What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century

Interviews with experts

What is Enlightenment? 19 Interviews led by the exhibition‘s curator Liliane Weissberg with experts from the field of from science, culture and media will help to show that the Enlightenment still raises important questions and can offer possible answers for the present and the future.

Imagegrafik für die Ausstellung „Was ist Aufklärung?” mit Auge.

Asad Q. Ahmed

Historian, Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Peter-André Alt

Literary studies researcher, FU Berlin; Chairman, Wübben Foundation; former President, FU Berlin; former Chairman of the German Rectors' Conference

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Philosopher, New York University and Columnist, The News York Times

Jens Bisky

Author, publicist

Sebastian Conrad

Historian, FU Berlin

Lorraine Daston

Historian of Science, Former Director, Max Planck Institute Berlin

Adrian Daub

Cultural studies researcher and publicist, Stanford University

Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg

Mayor Frankfurt a.M.

Annette Gordon-Reed

Historian, Havard University

Kurt Grünberg

Psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt a.M.; co-founder of the Meeting Point for Survivors of the Shoah, Frankfurt a.M.

Jack Halberstam

Gender Studies Scholar, Columbia University

Jürgen Kaube

Publicist, Editor FAZ

Neil MacGregor

Art Historian, Former Director British Museum, London

Martha C. Nussbaum

Philosopher, University of Chicago

Alexander Schwarz

Architect, David Chipperfield and Partner, Berlin

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Historian and Director, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

Andreas Trügler

Physician, University of Graz

Drew Weissman

Immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023, University of Pennsylvania

Maryam Zaree

Actress and documentary film maker