Winter semester is underway at the University of Bonn where more first-year students are enrolled than usual. Two fields of study are especially in demand. The Bonn chapter of Fridays for Future distances itself from the global organization over comments made on the conflict in the Middle East. And Astronomy on Tap Bonn welcomes everyone to their next event coming up this week. These are our news briefs on this Sunday.
Like Christianity, Europe's history is one of migration. Both have strong roots in the Orient and in cultures thousands of years old. Cultural historian Bernhard Braun invites us on a journey of discovery
We human beings have a seemingly insatiable desire to experience the bodies underneath our skins. While many scholars have treated the subject of looking into or through bodies via medical imaging, one perhaps understudied trope is that of body voyaging. A few writers and artists have imagined what it would be like to travel inside a body, to be a searching body in a body as landscape. This presentation will use images and text from a few more and less well-known 20th and 21st-century fantastic voyages to ask questions like, Is the purpose of such biotourism to make these spaces foreign or familiar? What kinds of relationships between our bodies and ourselves are being promoted? And perhaps most pressing of all, could you really do that?