Additional events
Before and during the Kant Congress, Bonn will host events like the Bonn Humboldt Award Winners‘ Forum and the conference "Kant on Means, Ends and Trolleys" of the Digital Kant Centre NRW.
Global Perspectives on Kant
10th -13th September 2024
The Bonn Humboldt Award Winners‘ Forum, organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, approaches Kant from non-european and postcolonial perspectives. In 31 talks, Humboldt award winners and fellows will discuss with Kant scholars from all parts of the world, zooming in on topics such as Kant and human rights, Kant and colonialism, Kant and world religions, and Kant and East Asia.
Participants of the Kant Congress can attend the events of the Award Winners‘ Forum. Prior registration is required.
Kant on Means, Ends and Trolleys
6th - 7th September 2024
Right before the Kant Congress, the Digital Kant Centre NRW organizes a workshop in cooperation with the project „Using People Well, Treating People Badly“. The workshop on the topic „Kant on Means, Ends and Trolleys“ will take place on the 6th and 7th of September. The announcement and a provisional program can be found here.
The announcement text and a preliminary programme can be found here.
Beethoven and Kant. Genius – Republic – Freedom
Special exhibition in the Beethoven House Bonn
September, 8th 2024 until January, 6th 2025
To mark the 14th International Kant Congress on the 300th anniversary of Kant's birth, the Beethoven-Haus is presenting a special exhibition designed in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bonn. Beethoven's world view was greatly influenced by Immanuel Kant's ideas. He presumably learnt about them through lectures at the University of Bonn. Later in Vienna, he would have come into closer contact with the philosopher's thinking at public lectures and discussions in aristocratic salons, in intellectual circles in coffee houses and by reading journals. However, Beethoven probably never read Kant's texts in the original.
The exhibition uses selected Beethoven exhibits and Kant quotations on the central themes of ‘genius’, ‘republic’ and ‘freedom’ to examine the similarities between the two contemporaries and to trace the ideas of the Enlightenment in the work of Beethoven and Kant. In addition to outstanding documents from the Beethoven-Haus collection, such as the tiny but all the more substantial letter to Heinrich Struve, in which Beethoven expresses his views on human dignity, unique loans from the music department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will also be on display. These include, for example, the conversation notebook in which Beethoven wrote: ‘’the moral law in us, and the starry sky above us‘ Kant!!!’, quoted from an article by ‘Littrow Director of the Observatory’, which he had published in a Viennese journal.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Monday form 10 am until 6 pm
Tickets: Beethoven-Shop, Bonngasse 21 or online-booking.
