From a conceptual-historical perspective, the lecture will present and discuss what the long 20th century (i.e. from around 1880 to the present day) has produced in terms of other concepts, theories and ideas of time in addition to the mathematical-scientific concept of time. The focus will be on historical and sociological, philosophical and political ideas whose relationship to the development of the mathematical-scientific concept of time will be examined.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christian Geulen (University of Koblenz, Modern/Modern History and its Didactics)
Christian Geulen[only available in German] is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and its Didactics at the University of Koblenz. He studied history and social sciences at the University of Bielefeld and at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He was a fellow and visiting professor at the FRIAS in Freiburg, at the ZZF in Potsdam and at Stanford University, California. His areas of research include the history of political ideologies (nationalism, racism, colonialism, populism), historical theory and historical semantics. His publications include Vom Sinn der Feindschaft, ed. w. B. Liebsch and A. von der Heyden, Berlin 2002; Wahlverwandte. Rassendiskurs und Nationalismus im späten 19. Jahrhundert, Hamburg 2004; Geschichte des Rassismus, 4th ed. Munich 2017.
The event will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Küfer. He is the spokesperson of the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics and head of the division »Optimization« and the department »Optimization in the Life Sciences« at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM.
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM
