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.
General studies in the summer semester 2025
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: "Living well in Germany - measuring our well-being and prosperity", by Dr. Katja Patzwald, Federal Institute for Population Research Wiesbaden/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 must be - or not", by Dr. Maximilian Kohlhof, Verte Rechtsanwälte Düsseldorf
06.05.2025: "The measurement of risk. Can luck and bad luck be calculated?", by Prof. Dr. Christian Hesse, Department of Mathematics, University of Stuttgart
13.05.2025: "Financial education in Germany - significance and prospects", 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 studies", by Katharina Hiller, Brain Explain
