IMPULSE-Focus Event Series 2026/2027: Imagination/Memory

About IMPULSE-Focus

The IMPULSE-Focus program consists of a series of events that combine two closely interrelated elements:

     • Public talks and discussions with high-profile scientists, academics, artists, and intellectual figures, open to a broad audience.

    • Transdisciplinary explorations and experimental workshops with our guests at IMPULSE in the day(s) following the public event.

In 2026 and 2027, IMPULSE-Focus centers on the theme Imagination/Memory, approaching it from diverse disciplinary perspectives and through explicitly transdisciplinary methodologies. The human imagination and its relationship to memory constitute a cutting-edge topic in contemporary research across the neurosciences, psychology, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. By bringing together scientific inquiry, artistic practice, and philosophical reflection, IMPULSE-Focus seeks to open up new ways of understanding imagination and memory as dynamic, relational, and socially embedded processes.

·        Speaker: Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)

·        June 9, 2026: 6 pm (c.t.) to 8 pm (s.t.)

·        University Main Building (Hörsaal 8) - Regina-Pacis-Weg 3, 53113 Bonn

·        Open to the public - no registration required

·        Additional details available here: Focus II

·        June 10, 2026: 9.30 am to 4 pm 

·        IMPULSE – House for Intellectual Innovation and Creativity

         Adenauerallee 131, 53113 Bonn

·        Registration via: maria.ullrich@uni-bonn.de until May 31