General studies

Studium Generale is a series of public, non-compulsory courses at the HWG LU, which take place on Tuesdays from 4.00 to 5.30 p.m. during the semester in the university auditorium on a wide variety of topics. The main theme of the lecture series is "Insights and Perspectives".

All lectures in the summer semester 2025 will be offered as a hybrid format, i.e. online and in presence with a limited number of places.

Registration with Ms. Annette Gramer by e-mail annette.gramer@ 8< SPAM protection, please remove >8 hwg-lu.de is absolutely necessary. The dial-in link for the online lecture will be announced one day before the first event will be announced.

18.03.2025: "German - a declaration of love to our amazing language", by Prof. Dr. Roland Kaehlbrandt, non-fiction author/linguist, Frankfurt am Main

25.03.2025: "Heimat als Utopie", by Dr. phil. Klaus Kufeld, author/speaker, Ludwigshafen a. Rhein

01.04.2025: "Radiation exposure in the environment and the effects on humans", by Dr. Friederike Gnädinger, Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Munich

08.04.2025: "State modernization as a policy field - more power, less state?", by Marcel Schepp, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin

15.04.2025: "The bakery trade - challenges of an old profession in modern times", by Bernd Kütscher, Federal College of the German Bakery Trade, Director

29.04.2025: "Punishment is a must! Or not?", by Dr. Maximilian Kohlhof, Verte Rechtsanwälte Düsseldorf

06.05.2025: "The measurement of risk. Can you calculate luck and bad luck?", by Prof. Dr. Christian Hesse, Department of Mathematics, University of Stuttgart

13.05.2025: "Financial education in Germany - importance and perspectives", by Prof. Dr. Tabea Bucher-Koenen, ZWE Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research GmbH, Mannheim

20.05.2025: "Fake news - why false facts are not the problem", by Prof. Dr. Matthias Kohring, Head of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim

27.05.2025: "Burn on, burn out, brain hacking - mentally healthy in life and at university", by Katharina Hiller, Brain Explain

07.10.2025: "Being human in the age of artificial intelligence", Prof. Dr. Ziad Mahayni, Professor of Applied Ethics,
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences

14.10.2025: "Individualized medicine - the promise of biotechnology", Dr. Dr. Saskia Biskup, Managing Partner CeGaT Tübingen

21.10.2025: "Theater - a relic from the past of the perspective for the present/future", Tilmann Gersch, Director of the Pfalzbaubühnen, Ludwigshafen am Rhein

28.10.2025: "The Romans are crazy!-What we can learn about Celts and Romans from Asterix & Obelix". Dr. Ulrich Karl, Association for the Promotion of the Roman Vicus, Eisenberg/Grünstadt

04.11.2025: "Will the market regulate the climate crisis? Society and economy in the age of ecological limits", Vicky Kluzik, Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

11.11.2025: "Stress test for democracy - the fight against disinformation and narratives", Daphne Wolter, Head of Democracy, Law and Political Parties Department, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

18.11.2025: "AI use in journalism - challenges and opportunities", Uwe Renners, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of "Die Rheinpfalz", Ludwigshafen am Rhein

25.11.2025: "Universe - time and space: the riddles of the beginning", Dr. Eduard Thommes, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg

02.12.2025: "Living well in Germany - measuring our well-being and prosperity", Dr. Anna Daelen, Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden / Berlin

09.12.2025: "Of tax fraud, state failure and criminal networks", Prof. Dr. Christoph Spengel, Chair of ABWL and
Business Taxation, University of Mannheim