🇩🇪 3 October 2026. In the past centuries news papers, photography, and printing technology, cinema, radio, TV, and the internet succeeded one another as new media — and each of them contributed to societal changes. What were the impacts on the global and the local scale? How did scientists and businessmem in Leipzig contribute to the changes?

🇬🇧 16 October 2026. This tour addresses inernational students joining the universities in Leipzig. It will help them to come to know each other, it will inform them about the contributions of researchers in Leipzig during the past 500 years, and it will highlight note-worthy events and contributions in culture, Arts and Sciences. Thus, we hope to aspires them to look beyond the limitations of their field of study during their time in Leipzig.

🇩🇪🧒 7 November 2026. This year, the WissensSpuren organize the festival “Tag des Vergessens. Und des Erinnerns!” in cooperation with the GRASSI Museum of Ethnology and the University of Leipzig’s Museum of Musical Instruments at GRASSI. Together with other friends and partners, we contemplate what is worth remembering, what should be forgotten, and how to preserve what is important. Come along — to participate, to exchange ideas, to marvel.

🇬🇧 5 December 2026. Following up of the very successful tour in 2025 we will perform another exploration of the philosophical and cultural origins of christmas and winter customs — with the aim to figure out how Santa impacts our lives. We will contrast high culture with pop culture, question our traditions and (Christmas) customs, what we know, and what the future holds. The tour ends with a visit to a Chrismas Market.