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.
For information on future IMPULSE events, you can join our newsletter by writing an email to impulse@uni-bonn.de.
The Next Event in Our Series: Focus II
Event Overview
Lecture “Imagination as Sensory Power: An Energy at the Edge of Human Existence”
· Speaker: Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)
· June 9, 2026: 6 pm (c.t.) to 8 pm
· University Main Building (Hörsaal 8) - Regina-Pacis-Weg 3, 53113 Bonn
· Open to the public - no registration required
· Additional details available here: Focus II
Transdisciplinary Workshop (for PhD candidates & postdoctoral scholars): "Exploring the Interplay of Imagination and (Human) Existence: Between Fiction and Physics"
· 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