Julian Nida-Rümelin is one of Germany’s best-known philosophers and intellectuals. He has taught at the universities of Tübingen, Göttingen, Munich and Berlin, and has held visiting professorships in the USA, Italy and China. He served as Minister of State for Culture in the first Red-Green federal government. He also served as President of the German Society for Philosophy and was Vice-Chair of the German Ethics Council. From 2022 to October 2026, he was the founding rector of the Berlin University of the Humanities.

The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with academics from the University of Wuppertal. The panellists will be Prof. Dr Rita Casale, who will also chair the discussion, Prof. Dr Julia König, Prof. Dr Fabian Kessl and Prof. Dr Michael Städtler.