EULiST Art Lunch: A digital lecture for the lunch break, Organised by LUH, November & December 2025

Art fulfils high aesthetic demands and yet has always also fulfilled other functions, including, for example, representative stagings or religious rituals. The Art Lunch lecture series focuses on how to recognise and explore art, why you should look at it and what exactly you can learn from it.

Every week at lunchtime, a work of art is presented in all its facets in 30 minutes. A chronological order or treatment according to genre will be avoided; instead, the Art Lunch will focus on the diversity of artistic production. It could be a cycle of paintings by a contemporary artist, but also a medieval carved altar by an unknown Lower Rhine master or objects from a chamber of curiosities from the early modern period.

Particular attention will be paid to the methods used in the scientific approach to art, as their complexity says a great deal about the scientific approach to the world of life in the various epochs, including our own.

Let yourself be surprised by the selection and sophistication of historical and contemporary works of art and the methodology of their research.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elke Katharina Wittich and team, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Location: virtual

Time: Wednesday 12:30-13:00

Dates: 05.11.2025, 12.11.2025, 19.11.2025, 26.11.2025, 10.12.2025 and 17.12.2025

Art Lunch link: https://studip.uni-hannover.de/plugins.php/BigBlueButtonPlugin/public_rooms/index/a239241d49487d1323d6a865?cancel_login=1