What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century
Interviews with experts
What is Enlightenment? 19 Interviews led by the exhibition‘s curator Liliane Weissberg with experts from the field of from science, culture and media will help to show that the Enlightenment still raises important questions and can offer possible answers for the present and the future.
Asad Q. Ahmed
Historian, Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Peter-André Alt
Literary studies researcher, FU Berlin; Chairman, Wübben Foundation; former President, FU Berlin; former Chairman of the German Rectors' Conference
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher, New York University and Columnist, The News York Times
Jens Bisky
Author, publicist
Sebastian Conrad
Historian, FU Berlin
Lorraine Daston
Historian of Science, Former Director, Max Planck Institute Berlin
Adrian Daub
Cultural studies researcher and publicist, Stanford University
Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg
Mayor Frankfurt a.M.
Annette Gordon-Reed
Historian, Havard University
Kurt Grünberg
Psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt a.M.; co-founder of the Meeting Point for Survivors of the Shoah, Frankfurt a.M.
Jack Halberstam
Gender Studies Scholar, Columbia University
Jürgen Kaube
Publicist, Editor FAZ
Neil MacGregor
Art Historian, Former Director British Museum, London
Martha C. Nussbaum
Philosopher, University of Chicago
Alexander Schwarz
Architect, David Chipperfield and Partner, Berlin
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Historian and Director, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
Andreas Trügler
Physician, University of Graz
Drew Weissman
Immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023, University of Pennsylvania
Maryam Zaree
Actress and documentary film maker
