Opening Week | TURNING POINTS
2022-10-06
Dear Colleagues, Dear Students,
This year, the political scientist Christian Welzel from the Leuphana School of Public Affairs will give the opening speech to kick off the Opening Week. From 6 to 14 October 2022, we will welcome around 1,300 first-semester students at Leuphana College - directly on campus.
TOPIC
The focus of this year's College Opening Week is the theme "TURNING POINTS". We invite first-semester students to venture an initial analysis of the multiple crisis phenomena in times of insecurity and warlike violence in Europe and to illuminate the potential for action in the present and the future. 28 project topics allow to gain insights into the big questions around war and peace, the future of democracy, artificial intelligence or social justice. You can find the programme of the Opening Week on our website:
www.leuphana.de/openingweek
UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
We are particularly pleased that we were able to prepare this year's Opening Week together with the professors Boukje Cnossen, Poldi Kuhl, Daniel Lang and Tobias Lenz, who are acting as hosts for the Opening Week 2022. In total, more than 15 Leuphana professors, 15 research assistants and lecturers from all five faculties as well as around 100 tutors will accompany the new students' project work.
GUESTS
This year's guests at the Opening Week include:
-- Thomas Sattelberger, until June Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and former Chief Human Resources Officer at Deutsche Telekom,
-- Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS),
-- the writer Viktor Yerofeyev,
-- theatre director Amelie Deuflhard,
-- Karen O`Brien, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo,
-- Philipp Justus, Vice President Central Europe, Google,
-- IT security researcher Lilith Wittmann,
-- historian Achatz von Müller,
-- Jörg Stollmann, professor of urban planning and urbanisation at the Technical University of Berlin,
-- Claudia Kemfert, energy economist at Leuphana and head of department at DIW,
-- Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
-- the Head Mayor of Lüneburg Claudia Kalisch.
LUNCH BREAK
The lunch break for the participants of the Opening Week is planned for 6 and 7 October from 12:30 to 2 pm, from 10 to 13 October from 12:45 to 2:15 pm. In addition to the Mensa, culinary services will be provided by the Klippo restaurant and two food trucks on campus.
THANKS
The Opening Week is close to our hearts every year. As always, the Opening Week team works very closely with many units at the university. A particularly big thank you goes to Facility Management, University Communications, the team of the Data Protection officers, the Finance Department, Human Resources and, above all, the MIZ and AVM Service.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Head of Opening Week, Sven Prien-Ribcke at sven.prien-ribcke@leuphana.de.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Steffi Hobuß
Head of Leuphana College
Sven Prien-Ribcke
Head of Opening Week