Hands-on science: University of Kassel invites to the second Campusfest

North Hesse's university will present itself in all its diversity on June 29 (3 to 9 p.m.) in and around the Campus Center on Moritzstrasse. "With this festival, we want to invite residents from the city and region and get them excited about science and our, their university," says University President Prof. Reiner Finkeldey. "It won't stop at abstract treatises, but we'll offer science and culture to participate in and touch."

Visitors can, for example, extract their own DNA, meet robots or discuss with philosophers in the flesh. Lectures on the last secrets of the Brothers Grimm, for example, are aimed at a broadly interested audience. Many campus tours take guests into otherwise closed laboratories, the modernized library and the university's new buildings. For the first time, staff members lead tours into the heart of the Studentenwerk, the dining hall kitchen on Moritzstraße. The Studentenwerk will also cater to the guests.

At 4:30 p.m., theologian and multiple science slam winner Dr. Nils Neumann ("Rüpeljesus") will moderate the Kassel Science Slam, in which scientists present their current research to the audience in the most humorous and easy-to-understand way possible and thus compete against each other. The audience decides by applause (Lecture Hall 4, Campus Center). At 6:15 p.m., science cabaret artist Vince Ebert will present his program "Zukunft is the Future" in Lecture Hall 1 at the Campus Center. In addition, there will be sports, art and lots of music, from jazz to an '80s cover band to a public rehearsal of a student orchestra.

Many program items will take place outside on the redesigned campus. The festival begins at 3 p.m. and runs through 9 p.m. Admission to all events is free.

Location: Campus Center, Moritzstraße 18

Full program at www.uni-kassel.de/go/campusfest

Photos:

View of the model factory, destination of guided tours (Photo: Uni Kassel): http://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/fileadmin/datas/uni/presse/anhaenge/2017/Modellfabrik_Uni_Kassel.jpg

Picture of the poster (photo: Paavo Blafield) at http://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/fileadmin/datas/uni/presse/anhaenge/2016/Campusfest_2017_Banner_Alternative.pdf

Photos of Vince Ebert are downloadable at http://www.vince-ebert.de/presse/
 

Contact:

Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
Communications, Press and Public Relations
Tel.: +49 561 804-1961
E-mail: presse[at]uni-kassel[dot]de