Current Topics Alumni

The next “Heidelberg Talks Online” meeting will take place on Friday, 20 Jan 2023. The speaker is Jana Mestmäcker, psychologist (M. Sc.) and activist of the climate protection alliance "Last Generation". After a year abroad as a student in Buenos Aires, she studied psychology at the universities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Örebro (Sweden), graduating with a Master's degree in 2017. Afterwards, Ms Mestmäcker gained professional experience in a specialised psychological publishing house before working as a psychology lecturer in Göttingen from 2019. She gave up this work last year in order to devote all her energy to the goals of the "Last Generation".

The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) takes place on Friday, December 16, 2022. The speaker will be Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda, DAAD alumna from Tajikistan and a doctoral researcher at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde/Germany.

Dr Christine Althauser, alumna of Heidelberg University and German Consul General in Shanghai from 2017 to 2021, accepted the invitation of the alumni network SHAN e.V. at the end of last year and spoke to students and graduates about her professional experiences at the Auswärtiges Amt. She also shared her assessments of the foreign policy situation on this occasion.
We thank Dr Althauser for her commitment!

The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) takes place on Friday, December 2, 2022.
The speaker will be Dr Maria Rentetzi, Professor and chair of Science, Technology and Gender studies at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.