{"title": "Philosophy, Politics, and the Possible: Plato's Seventh Letter in Dialogue with the Republic", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-29T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bard College", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/philosophy"], "description": "A lecture on Plato's much debated Seventh Letter and its relation to the Republic. The speaker is Schuyler Curriden, an alumnus of Bard College Berlin who now studies Ancient Greek philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He presents Plato's failed attempt to convert the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II to philosophy and the resulting limits of theory and education in the political realm. With these limits in mind, the feasibility of the Republic's political program is reevaluated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/philosophy-politics-and-the-possible-platos-seventh-letter-i-21837/", "official_url": "https://berlin.bard.edu/events/philosophy-politics-and-the-possible-platos-seventh-letter-in-dialogue-with-the-republic", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1da3cecc06e7d94bf02336d065ecc160acf3f4fc36a48a671c48708dde93281e-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-29T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bard College", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Felix Heidenreich - Demokratie unter Druck. 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Once a month, Jean Peters of the media house CORRECTIV speaks there with strategists from campaign teams, social movements, parties and politics about how to win against the authoritarian backlash. This edition is about the law itself: how courts can be protected from authoritarian capture, which tactics can move things within the legal system, and which mechanisms prove surprisingly fragile in practice. The guests are Christina Clemm, Seda Başay-Yıldız and Jean Peters.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geheime-plane-uphill-battle-rechtssystem-274/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/reihen-und-projekte/geheime-plaene/geheime-plaene-uphill-battle-rechtssystem/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Büro der öffentlichen Sache: Teilhabe", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste", "address": "Luisenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin", "price": "7,50 EUR (Ermäßigt: 5 EUR)", "price_from": "7.50", "price_to": "7.50", "tickets_url": "https://adk.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=20889", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/civic-engagement"], "description": "An evening talk titled „Büro der öffentlichen Sache: Teilhabe“ at the Akademie der Künste. Gregor Gysi, senior president of the 21st German Bundestag, speaks with Manos Tsangaris, president of the Akademie and composer, about how more people can gain influence on political decisions. They also ask what art and politics can learn from each other and where understanding reaches its limits. Anh-Linh Ngo gives the welcome and closing remarks, with moderation by Bettina C. Huber.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buro-der-offentlichen-sache-teilhabe-79988/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/11/buero-der-oeffentlichen-sache-november/596633", "image": ""}, {"title": "In den Sternen geschrieben? Die philosophische Verteidigung der Astrologie", "start": "2026-11-12T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Innospace, Betahaus", "address": "Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 23 10969 Berlin", "price": "free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/h/a-history-of-philosophy-ahp/?cc=de&lang=en&", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/history-of-science"], "description": "A public lecture titled „Written in the Stars? The Philosophical Defense of Astrology“ examining how astrology was philosophically justified in the ancient and medieval worlds. The speaker is Peter Adamson, Chair of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich, hosted by the ASTRA research group of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science as part of its High Gravity Talks series. The talk shows how Greek and Arabic thinkers such as Alexander of Aphrodisias, Plotinus, al-Kindī and Abū Maʿshar defended astrology—some seeing the stars as directly influencing events, others as a kind of „sky writing“, signs that point to events without causing them. Attendance is free but registration is required; the event is sold out but will be live-streamed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/in-den-sternen-geschrieben-die-philosophische-verteidigung-d-24469/", "official_url": "https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/written-stars-philosophical-defense-astrology", "image": "https://noky.io/images/03a18ff32ad67df992fb91fc280d5ec9495d8d8f7f144e294ceb56bea34c2dc9-600.webp"}, {"title": "Büro der öffentlichen Sache: Teilhabe", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "7,50 EUR (Ermäßigt: 5 EUR)", "price_from": "7.50", "price_to": "7.50", "tickets_url": "https://adk.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=20889", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/democracy"], "description": "“Büro der öffentlichen Sache” is a public series of discussions. 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Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva develop experimental forms of reading from their artistic practices, using reading tools such as tarot, Political Therapy, palmistry, Fake Therapy, Reiki, astrology and philosophy. The readings work with images and seek to make complexity visible rather than deliver answers or fix single meanings. Conceived as a form of self-defense, they aim to expand perception and open up new possibilities for action beyond settled certainties.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/poethical-readings-mit-valentina-desideri-und-denise-ferreir-269/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/20261031-1300/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5d390c74b35b5fb1c2a19685e60bdaaf785bf4c06f19f56206287c8af75a71d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Politik und Moral - Vortrag mit Dr. Michael Fuchs zum Festmonat in der Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 3, 12165 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A lecture titled \"Politik und Moral\" at the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek. The speaker is Dr. Michael Fuchs, a former ministerial official and a PhD holder in law, politics and administrative sciences, who knows the Berlin political scene from many years of professional experience. Using concrete and practical examples, he discusses fundamental questions about the relationship between politics and morality, such as whether there is \"moralische Politik\" and \"politische Moral\" and what distinguishes them from \"moralisierender Politik\" and \"politisierender Moral\". The event is a cooperation with the Volkshochschule Steglitz-Zehlendorf; admission is free, and registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/politik-und-moral-vortrag-mit-dr-michael-fuchs-zum-festmonat-57706/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=293854&ls=0&c=11&date_start=28.10.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dcf336a6c8efbc386f59592d726982b44312cfed02b1dbd6b03ae85f5b2fbdb0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Neu-Zeit: Dr. Neu trifft Michael Müller", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturhaus \"Peter Edel\"", "address": "Berliner Allee 125, 13088 Berlin", "price": "16,52 Euro (inkl. 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One source lists the event as cancelled.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/neu-zeit-dr-neu-trifft-michael-muller-17617/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/93fb5a245eac465f1d0fed335185ce743e1673431eabd9370d7f1c3919e2fd4a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DDR-Philosophie 1945–1995. Vom Schließen und Aufstoßen der Fenster", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Helle Panke e.V.", "address": "Kopenhagener Straße 76, 10437 Berlin", "price": "2 €", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A conversation about philosophy in the GDR and its effects reaching into the present. Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Rauh speaks with the long-time publisher Dr. Christoph Links, drawing on his latest book \"DDR-Philosophie 1945-1995. Geschichte und Kritik\". They discuss how the party built up its \"Kader-Philosophie\", pushed aside free thinking and its representatives, and what outcomes there were from this \"philosophy for a closed world\". The talk is deliberately held on the anniversary of the 1989 Alexanderplatz mass demonstration, where Stefan Heym declared: \"It is as if someone has opened the windows\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddr-philosophie-19451995-vom-schlieen-und-aufstoen-der-fenst-22789/", "official_url": "https://www.helle-panke.de/de/topic/3.termine.html?id=4124", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4972af2a261b6bb7198937851254d498f329892de982a7f39f3945016bb6e767-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Key Visual der Konferenz \"Curating - Caring for Knowledge and Society\" © Design: Dina Fluck", "start": "2026-11-05T09:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/curation", "society/democracy"], "description": "The conference \"Curating - Caring for Knowledge and Society\" asks how universities and museums, as democratic institutions, can \"care for\" society. In four thematic panels – \"Natur erleben\", \"Gemeinsam leben\", \"Gesünder werden\" and \"Zukunft gestalten\" – curators from Berlin cultural institutions and researchers from the Berlin Excellence Alliance present and discuss curatorial practices through specific case studies. The programme is complemented by a keynote from Elke Krasny and a conversation with Marion Ackermann and Joachim Baur titled \"Sorge, Wut, Mut\". The conference is jointly organised by the Berlin University Alliance, the Humboldt Labor and the Zentrum für Kulturtechnik.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/key-visual-der-konferenz-curating-caring-for-knowledge-and-s-2549/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d36e687bce1005c3b34865848ab1f1a6e99fc8721bcf49b42c34ed96ca175eab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ins Mikro denken: Podcasting als öffentliche Praxis", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Publix Kantine", "address": "Hermannstraße 90", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A conversation on podcasting as public practice, held in German, about the space new forms of storytelling take in a medium shaped by the crisis of democracy, wars of aggression, AI and climate change. Julia Tieke and Viktoria Tkaczyk talk with Rasha Khayat and Moritz Metz. The talk is part of a book project in the series \"Humanities in Action\" at intercom Verlag.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ins-mikro-denken-podcasting-als-offentliche-praxis-72385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9973cd6b0137bfff051a75bb5ad66f239874c22fa1c270798f7817eba36da135-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Morten Paul »Was war Faschismustheorie?«", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T21:30:00+01:00", "place": "Brecht-Haus", "address": "Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin", "price": "6,- € / ermäßigt: 4,- €", "price_from": "6.80", "price_to": "9.95", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.lfbrecht.de/produkte/4285-tickets-zeitanalyse-morten-paul-was-war-faschismustheorie-mit-sebastian-friedrich-literaturforum-im-brecht-haus-berlin-am-10-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/fascism", "literature"], "description": "A book presentation and discussion at Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus. Scholar Morten Paul presents his work on the long history of fascism theory and discusses it with Sebastian Friedrich. His thesis: the theories of the past, their controversies and their struggle over the relationship between understanding and preventing are especially productive today. The question is what the term fascism explains – and whether it can be saved at all.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/morten-paul-was-war-faschismustheorie-75805/", "official_url": "https://lfbrecht.de/event/morten-paul-was-war-faschismustheorie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1bfd4546ac43fc08e6ec7abf69d603564d534b28fee089afa1f290b2ba95ea3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden. Rosa Luxemburg und die Demokratie heute", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/politics", "society/democracy"], "description": "A talk at the Deutsches Theater as part of the series \"Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte\" takes up Rosa Luxemburg and the lasting relevance of her famous sentence on the freedom of those who think differently. The series is run by DT Kontext, the theatre's discussion programme. The panel features political and social scientist Naika Foroutan and historian Uwe Sonnenberg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, moderated by André Mumot. The discussion asks what her idea of a living democracy and free speech can mean in the crises of the 21st century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-freiheit-der-andersdenkenden-rosa-luxemburg-und-die-demo-4405/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-andersdenkenden", "image": ""}, {"title": "Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 3: Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Theater", "address": "Schumannstraße 13a, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/politics", "society/democracy"], "description": "„Auf der Schotterpiste der Geschichte 3: Die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“ is a discussion event in the DT Kontext series, held in the Rangfoyer of the Deutsches Theater. The panel features political and social scientist Naika Foroutan, head of the German Institute for Migration and Integration Research, and historian Uwe Sonnenberg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, moderated by André Mumot. At its centre is Rosa Luxemburg's famous line „Freiheit ist immer auch die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden“ and her legacy at a time when democratic values are under pressure worldwide. The discussion asks what her courage, her critique of the system and her idea of political participation can teach us for the challenges of the 21st century. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-ande-16847/", "official_url": "https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/auf-der-schotterpiste-der-geschichte-3-die-freiheit-der-andersdenkenden", "image": ""}, {"title": "Stechschritt des Friedens. Texte zur Kriegsertüchtigung", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/war", "literature"], "description": "A reading and discussion titled „Stechschritt des Friedens. Texte zur Kriegsertüchtigung“ at Literaturhaus Berlin, in Kamins Zimmer. Luis Löwenstein and Sean Pfeiffer take a literary stroll through more than a hundred years of German war propaganda. It shows how democratic civic duty resembles loyalty to the Kaiser, and how culture casts off its artistic mantle to throw itself into the battle for minds in times of conflict. Critical voices from the past are also drawn upon, to hold up to today's criticism its lack of sharpness, political foresight and artistic skill.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/stechschritt-des-friedens-texte-zur-kriegsertuchtigung-203/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/stechschritt-des-friedens-texte-zur-kriegsertuechtigung/", "image": ""}, {"title": "“Politik und Moral” - Vortrag mit Dr. Michael Fuchs zum Festmonat in der Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gottfried-Benn-Bibliothek", "address": "Nentershäuser Platz 1, 14163 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A lecture by Dr. Michael Fuchs for the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek's anniversary month. The former civil servant and holder of a doctorate in law, politics and administration explores fundamental questions about the relationship between politics and morality using concrete examples, such as whether there is such a thing as \"moral politics\" or \"political morality\". The event, held in cooperation with the Volkshochschule Steglitz-Zehlendorf, provides a framework for assessing current political questions as well. Admission is free, and advance registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/politik-und-moral-vortrag-mit-dr-michael-fuchs-zum-festmonat-57836/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=293854&ls=0&c=67&date_start=25.10.2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dcf336a6c8efbc386f59592d726982b44312cfed02b1dbd6b03ae85f5b2fbdb0-1200.webp"}]}