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16 Dec, Physics & Art Mondays extra: Black Holes: A Trading Zone Between the Sciences and the Humanities

With Peter Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor & Director, Black Hole Initiative Science Team Lead, Black Hole Explorer Harvard University).

Physics & Art Monday Extra (on a Tuesday)
16 December 2025

18:30 Get-together with light drinks and snacks
19:00–20:00
It is too easy – and false – to see the humanities and sciences as opposed. Black holes are objects of equations and code, but they also resonate culturally as symbols of passage from life to death. The Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University has, over the last decade, brought together mathematics, physics, astronomy, history and philosophy, around these massive distortions of space and time. In his lecture, Peter Galison will discuss the BHI’s interdisciplinary and cutting-edge practice in responsibly locating future telescopes and engaging communities across the Pacific, the Americas, and Africa. 
At the intersection of physics, history & philosophy of science, and filmmaking, Peter Galison’s practice explores the interaction between principal subcultures of physics, and the embedding of physics in the wider world. As part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, he shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for capturing the first image of a black hole. His books include How Experiments End; Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps; with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity. Peter’s latest film is Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know. He collaborated on The Refusal of Time and Refuse the Hour with William Kentridge (2012).

Venue: Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Akademiestr. 2 (Old Building), Old Assembly Hall,  room A.EG.01

16 Dec, Physics & Art Mondays extra: Black Holes: A Trading Zone Between the Sciences and the Humanities

With Peter Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor & Director, Black Hole Initiative Science Team Lead, Black Hole Explorer Harvard University).

Physics & Art Monday Extra (on a Tuesday)
16 December 2025

18:30 Get-together with light drinks and snacks
19:00–20:00
It is too easy – and false – to see the humanities and sciences as opposed. Black holes are objects of equations and code, but they also resonate culturally as symbols of passage from life to death. The Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University has, over the last decade, brought together mathematics, physics, astronomy, history and philosophy, around these massive distortions of space and time. In his lecture, Peter Galison will discuss the BHI’s interdisciplinary and cutting-edge practice in responsibly locating future telescopes and engaging communities across the Pacific, the Americas, and Africa. 
At the intersection of physics, history & philosophy of science, and filmmaking, Peter Galison’s practice explores the interaction between principal subcultures of physics, and the embedding of physics in the wider world. As part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, he shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for capturing the first image of a black hole. His books include How Experiments End; Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps; with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity. Peter’s latest film is Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know. He collaborated on The Refusal of Time and Refuse the Hour with William Kentridge (2012).

Venue: Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Akademiestr. 2 (Old Building), Old Assembly Hall,  room A.EG.01

16 Dec, Physics & Art Mondays extra: Black Holes: A Trading Zone Between the Sciences and the Humanities

With Peter Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor & Director, Black Hole Initiative Science Team Lead, Black Hole Explorer Harvard University).

Physics & Art Monday Extra (on a Tuesday)
16 December 2025

18:30 Get-together with light drinks and snacks
19:00–20:00
It is too easy – and false – to see the humanities and sciences as opposed. Black holes are objects of equations and code, but they also resonate culturally as symbols of passage from life to death. The Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University has, over the last decade, brought together mathematics, physics, astronomy, history and philosophy, around these massive distortions of space and time. In his lecture, Peter Galison will discuss the BHI’s interdisciplinary and cutting-edge practice in responsibly locating future telescopes and engaging communities across the Pacific, the Americas, and Africa. 
At the intersection of physics, history & philosophy of science, and filmmaking, Peter Galison’s practice explores the interaction between principal subcultures of physics, and the embedding of physics in the wider world. As part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, he shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for capturing the first image of a black hole. His books include How Experiments End; Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps; with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity. Peter’s latest film is Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know. He collaborated on The Refusal of Time and Refuse the Hour with William Kentridge (2012).

Venue: Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Akademiestr. 2 (Old Building), Old Assembly Hall,  room A.EG.01

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