Calendar of the Francke Foundations
Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme
A central component of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship of the Francke Foundations is the presentation of results within the framework of colloquium events with lectures and subsequent discussion rounds, to which all interested parties are cordially invited. The colloquia will take place in the Neubauer Hall, House 52 of the Francke Foundations. They are hybrid events – the respective access link will be published here in a timely manner.
The access link to the event on June 19, 2025 with Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): https://francke-halle.webex.com/francke-halle/j.php?MTID=mff5194ca9c71c371dff6d2ebe556f39f
Program 2025
Thursday, April 24, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Gabriele Carlo Bellinzona (Hamburg): »Restauratio linguae lusitanicae«. The missionary Nicholas Dal (1690-1747) and the Portuguese language in the field of tension between the confessions. (held in German)
Thursday, June 19, 2:30-6:00 p.m.
Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig): Wonders of nature in everyday life in the Arctic? Seals and whales in the context of the Herrnhut Greenland Mission. (held in German)
Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): Freylinghausen's Ordnung des Heyls and the life of Pietist catechization.
Thursday, July 17, 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.
Dr. Michael Rocher (Siegen): Punishments and their negotiation in the network of the Halle orphanage in the 18th century.
Thursday, August 28, 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (Calcutta): Vaishnava Bhakti, Indigenous Piety and Missionary Protestantism: Interfaith Dialogues in Colonial India (1706–1843).
Thursday, September 25, 2.30 – 6.00 p.m.
Daniel Haas (Hamburg): Halle's network in the Ottoman Empire: practices of exchange and networking using the example of Stephan Schultz's journey to the Middle East (1752–1756).
Dr. Nedim Zahirović (Wien): The Miscellanea of Zaimi Mehmed from Gyula in the archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle.
Highlights
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
04. July 2025
Marketing im 18. Jahrhundert
Sommerserenade auf dem Altan
10. July 2025
Ein Abend zwischen Kulturgeschichte, Musik und Sommerstimmung
Kultur-Aperitif
16. July 2025
Kurze, pointierte und unterhaltsame Führung zur Mittagszeit mit geselligem Ausklang
Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme
17. July 2025
Familienstunde im Museum
07. September 2025
Tag des offenen Denkmals
14. September 2025
Erhalten und Erneuern: Denkmalpflege trifft neue Nutzung
Der Besuch des preußischen Königs
14. September 2025
Theatraler Rundgang durch das Historische Waisenhaus
Vernetzen. Verändern. Gestalten. Kulturelle Bildung trifft Soziale Arbeit.
18. September 2025
Praxis-Fachtagung in den Franckeschen Stiftungen
Wissensdurst: Limo + Lauschen + Loslegen
09. October 2025
Miniaturworkshops und interaktive Vorträge
Events
Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme
A central component of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship of the Francke Foundations is the presentation of results within the framework of colloquium events with lectures and subsequent discussion rounds, to which all interested parties are cordially invited. The colloquia will take place in the Neubauer Hall, House 52 of the Francke Foundations. They are hybrid events – the respective access link will be published here in a timely manner.
The access link to the event on June 19, 2025 with Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): https://francke-halle.webex.com/francke-halle/j.php?MTID=mff5194ca9c71c371dff6d2ebe556f39f
Program 2025
Thursday, April 24, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Gabriele Carlo Bellinzona (Hamburg): »Restauratio linguae lusitanicae«. The missionary Nicholas Dal (1690-1747) and the Portuguese language in the field of tension between the confessions. (held in German)
Thursday, June 19, 2:30-6:00 p.m.
Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig): Wonders of nature in everyday life in the Arctic? Seals and whales in the context of the Herrnhut Greenland Mission. (held in German)
Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): Freylinghausen's Ordnung des Heyls and the life of Pietist catechization.
Thursday, July 17, 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.
Dr. Michael Rocher (Siegen): Punishments and their negotiation in the network of the Halle orphanage in the 18th century.
Thursday, August 28, 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (Calcutta): Vaishnava Bhakti, Indigenous Piety and Missionary Protestantism: Interfaith Dialogues in Colonial India (1706–1843).
Thursday, September 25, 2.30 – 6.00 p.m.
Daniel Haas (Hamburg): Halle's network in the Ottoman Empire: practices of exchange and networking using the example of Stephan Schultz's journey to the Middle East (1752–1756).
Dr. Nedim Zahirović (Wien): The Miscellanea of Zaimi Mehmed from Gyula in the archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle.
