Past events
Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine
19.11.2025
25 years Jahre – Clinical ethics counseling through the ages
Symposium marking the 25th anniversary of the Clinical Ethics Committee, with presentations by Dr. Gerald Neitzke, Dr. Anna-Henrikje Seidlein, and Prof. Dr. Claudia Bozzaro
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29.10.2025
“A new beginning is needed”? Human genetic knowledge in the early Federal Republic of Germany, 1940-1965
Talk by Lukas Alex, University of Bayreuth
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8.7.2025
Midwives in Wartheland. Midwifery between privacy and racial politics 1939-1945
Presentation of the book by Wiebke Lisner with Johannes Hürter (IfZ Munich-Berlin), Elizabeth Harvey (University of Nottingham) and Cornelia Rauh
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19.6.2025
Medical reform and mid-level faculty. On the planning of medical academies in post-war West Germany
Presentation of the newly published book by Heiko Stoff
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5.6.2025
Sports physicians on trial: On the historical location of the "doping trials" of the 1990s
Lecture by Jutta Braun, Leibniz Center for Contemporary History (ZZF)
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May/June 2025
Data science methods for digital bioethics
Online workshop as part of the DFG-funded scientific network "Digital Bioethics" in cooperation with the ZB MED and The Carpentries Network
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23.-25.5.2025
Jewish colleagues in the years 1945-1955
Remembrance project "The empty consulting room" of the DEGAM
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9.5.2025
Digital Bioethics Journal Club with Hazem Zohny
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7.2.2025
Digital Bioethics Journal Club with Bjørn Morten Hofmann
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2.1.2025
Digital Bioethics Journal Club with Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
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2.12.2024
"Setbacks and Surprises. Risk and Outbreak Communication in Theory, Planning and Practice
Workshop in cooperation with Leibniz University Hannover
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8.6.2024
Citizens' conference: The physician-patient relationship is being changed by artificial intelligence. What future do we want to shape?
(Project "My physician, AI and me", funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture)
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31.5.2024
No history without midwives! On research and perspectives of a medical and social history of obstetrics
Inaugural lecture by PD Dr. phil. Wiebke Lisner
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16.1.2024
Risk communication in the crisis?
Reflections on dealing with risky uncertainties using the example of the COVID-19 pandemic
Lecture by Dr. Jens O. Zinn, T.R.Ashworth Professor of Sociology, University of Melbourne (Australia)
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7./8.12.2023
Epidemics: Planning, prevention and preparedness as future practices
Workshop
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Winter semester 2023/24
My conscience and me
Lecture series in cooperation with the AStA, with Cornelius Borck, Christian Hartog, Medinetz, Werbefreier Campus, Katja Freund, Kritische Medizin Hannover und Kirsten Achtelik
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22.11.2023
Evidence-based health communication and trust. Lessons from the corona pandemic
Conference in cooperation with Zentrum für Gesundheitsethik (Hanover) and the Institute for Journalism at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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26.1.2023
The age of fitness
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt)
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Winter semester 2022/23
Sensors everywhere: Justice in a digital healthcare system
Lecture series in cooperation with the AStA, with Janina Loh, Cristian Timmermann, Giovanni Rubeis, Zoe Oftring und Moritz Wiegand
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30.9.2022
Medical Citizenship and Pandemic Preparedness
Panel at the international conference "Inclusive Citizenship as Belongings, Practices and Acts", Leibniz Universität Hannover
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15.9.2022
Better care through artificial intelligence? Questions of quality and criteria for the use of AI in medicine and Nursing
Conference in cooperation with the Center for Health Ethics at the Protestant Academy Loccum
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5.-9.9.2022
Animal Research Ethics as Interaction of Research Ethics, Animal Ethics and (Animal Protection) Law
International Perspectives on Theoretical and Cultural Differences
An interdisciplinary European retreat for young scholars
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6.9.2022
Animal.experiment.alternative
Lecture evening with Prof. Dr. Herwig Grimm and Dr. Kathrin Herrmann
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12.7.2022
Medical personnel and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Lecture by Associate Prof. Dr. Dr. Olga Radchenko, Bogdan Chmelnitski University, Cherkassy (Ukraine)
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11.7.2022
Family separations during the National Socialist war
Book presentation with Wiebke Lisner, Johannes Hürter, Cornelia Rauh and Lu Seegers
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Summer semester 2022
A handful of chromosomes. Medicine and the diversity of (biological) gender
Lectures from the series "Philosophy and Medicine" in cooperation with the AStA
Lectures by Ulrike Klöppel, Rainer Herrn, Jürgen Voß, Birgit Stammberger, Kalle Hümpfner and Kai Janik
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10.12.2021
Opening of the permanent exhibition
The Hannover Model. The Hannover Medical School 1961-1971
with Heiko Stoff and Annika Wellmann
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22.6.2021
From the series "Philosophy and Medicine"
Cognition and empathy in the human-machine relationship
With lectures by:
Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Sebastian Schleidgen (FernUniversität Hagen)
An event organized by the AStA of the MHH and the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of the MHH
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15.6.2021
From the series "Philosophy and Medicine"
Does the key to understanding cognition lie in our heads?
Lectures by:
Moritz Helmstaedter (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main)
Tobias Schlicht (Lichtenberg Professorship for Philosophy of Consciousness and Cognition, Ruhr University)
An event organized by the AStA of the MHH and the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of the MHH
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8.6.2021
From the series "Philosophy and Medicine"
Neurocognition - Formal and content-related thought disorders
Lectures by:
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gregor R. Szycik (MHH)
Prof. Dr. phil. Ruth Veckenstedt (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf)
An event organized by the AStA of the MHH and the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of the MHH
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1.6.2021
From the series "Philosophy and Medicine":
Animal Cognition
Lectures by:
Prof. Dr. Hans Werner Ingensiep, Dipl. biol. (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Prof. Dr. Julia Fischer (German Primate Center Göttingen)
An event organized by the AStA of the MHH and the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of the MHH
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February 16, 2021
From the series "Medicine and Philosophy":
Understanding thinking.
Lectures and discussion with
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg)
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Borck (Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies, University of Lübeck)
An event organized by the AStA of the MHH and the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of the MHH
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September 30, 2020
Forget or remember? Contemporary witness talk with Dr. Eva Umlauf on National Socialism and the post-war period
An event organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, MHH
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March 8, 2020
A misunderstood ensemble. Architectural history tour through the MHH
Leader of the tour: Dr. Sylvia Necker (University of Nottingham)
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February 20, 2020
Workshop on the history and new building of the MHH
An event organized by the Administrative Unit MHH 2025 and the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine
with Sylvia Necker, Heiko Stoff, Bernd Gausemeier and Ute Winnfeld
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January 15, 2020
Lecture in the lecture series "Philosophy and Medicine":
Stephanie Beyer:
Truth and science
Organizer: AStA of the MHH; Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, MHH
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November 25, 2019
Lecture in the series on the contemporary and scientific history of medicine (MHH) and the social and cultural history colloquium of the History Seminar (LUH):
PD Dr. Claudia Kemper:
"We won't be able to help you". Physicians in the conflict over nuclear armament in the 1980s
Organizer: Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, MHH
Historical Seminar of Leibniz Universität Hannover
in cooperation with the Leibniz Research Center "Inclusive Citizenship" (CINC)
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November 21, 2019
Public lecture:
PD Dr. Heiko Stoff:
The Coma Method. Free will, self-responsibility and the beginning of the end of the Red Army Faction in the winter of 1984/85
Organizer: Leibniz Research Center "Center for Inclusive Citizenship" (CINC) in cooperation with the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School
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July 14, 2019
A misunderstood ensemble. Architectural history tour through the MHH
Leader of the tour: Dr. Sylvia Necker (University of Nottingham)
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July 10/11, 2019
Workshop:
War Separations in the Second World War - Family Destruction between "Collateral Damage" and Biopolitics
July 10-11, 2019 at the Hanns-Lilje-Haus Hanover
Conference report (H-Soz-Kult)
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June 6, 2019
Public lecture in the series on the contemporary and scientific history of medicine:
Speaker: Prof. Isabel Heinemann (University of Münster)
Location: MHH, Lecture Hall H, Building J1, Level 01
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May/June 2019
Lecture series:
Organizer: AStA of the MHH, Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine
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February 21, 2019
Public lecture in the series on the contemporary and scientific history of medicine:
Dr. Florian Greiner (University of Augsburg)
Location: Hannover Medical School, Lecture Hall H
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November 15, 2018
Public lecture in the series on the contemporary and scientific history of medicine:
Rationality and Humanity. The MHH and other hospital buildings by Konstanty Gutschow (1902-1978)
Dr. Sylvia Necker (University of Nottingham)
Location: Hannover Medical School, Lecture Hall H
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June 4, 2018
Symposium:
Personnel continuities in psychiatry in Lower Saxony after 1945
Location: Hannover Medical School, Lecture Hall H
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November 21, 2017
Public lecture in the series on the contemporary and scientific history of medicine:
History of computer-aided medical diagnostics
PD Dr. Rudolf Seising, LMU Munich
Location: Hannover Medical School, Lecture Hall G
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September 28-30, 2017
Annual Conference 2017 of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine e.V.
Good medicine - ethics' contribution to the discussion on quality in patient care and research
Location : Hannover Medical School
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May 26, 2016
Inaugural lecture:
The "Hannover Model". On the prehistory of medical reform universities around 1960
PD Dr. Heiko Stoff
Location: MHH, Building J1, Lecture Hall M
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April 8, 2016
Current positions in the history of medicine: Sigrid Stöckel on her 60th birthday
Venue: MHH, Building J1, Lecture Hall H
Organizer: Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, MHH
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August 26-30, 2013
Location: Hannover Medical School
Organizer: CELLS - Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
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July 23, 2013
Public lecture and discussion event:
Location: Leibnizhaus, Hanover
Organizer: Lower Saxony Bioethics Research Network
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November 10-11, 2012
11th Scientific Conference of the Lower Saxony Institute for the History of Sport (NISH) and the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine (MHH)
Contact: Dr. Christine Wolters
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June 20, 2012:
Tradition and Transformation. Personal and political continuities in post-war medicine
Location: Ärztehaus Hannover, Berliner Allee 20
Organizer: Working Group on the Fate of Jewish Doctors in Hanover
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Jan.-Nov. 2011:
Lecture series:
Psychiatry in the 20th century - continuities and breaks in its development
Location: Leibnizhaus Hanover, Holzmarkt 5, 30159 Hanover
Contact: Dr. Christine Wolters
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February 14-18, 2011
European interdisciplinary retreat week
Public Health Ethics. Scientific methods, foundational concepts, and case analyses
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Contact: Dr. Irene Hirschberg, MPH
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September 24-27, 2009
Joint conference
Science, Ideologies and Mentality
92nd Annual Conference of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology
45th Symposium of the Society for the History of Science - Société d'Histoire des Sciences - Society for History of Science
Location: Hannover Medical School
Contact: Prof. Brigitte Lohff
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May 13, 2009
Electronic health card - more transparency in the healthcare system [?!]
Interdisciplinary symposium on the opportunities and risks of a new technology
Place: Hanover, Leibnizhaus
Cooperation partner: Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Funding: TUI Foundation, Leibniz University Research Fund
Contact: Dr. Irene Hirschberg