Media offerings from the academy
The Academy’s media offerings range from the new video podcast seriesDer Blaue Salonto promotional videos, recordings of lectures, and livestreams. You can find recent media from the past few months below.
All videos are also permanently available on YouTube. Take a look:
Lecture
A Wrong Turn: How Empirical Educational Research Has Led Education Policy Astray
Presentation by Hartmut Esser (Mannheim) at the plenary session’s academic meeting on April 18, 2026.
video
Piano Poetry Slam "Father and Son" with Joshua Steib
In his text, Steib not only picks up on the melody of Cat Stevens' song "Father and Son," but also stages it as a conversation between generations—about the pressing problems of the present, generational justice, and how we can look to the future and move forward together again.
Podcast from the Academy
South-southwest
The podcast offers exciting insights into current research and the challenges facing science, and creates a platform for exchange between different disciplines.
video
Short profiles
Roll film! A short video series providing insights into the work of our research centers.
video
Academy Day 2025 – Understanding Each Other. Together into the Future
The Academy Day took place on September 27, 2025, in Heidelberg.
video
Annual celebration 2025
Annual Celebration of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Photo taken on May 23, 2025, in the Old Auditorium of Heidelberg University.
brief profile
Malala's comment
The Tübingen research center takes us back to the time of Emperor Justinian
Aufgepasst!
High tech from the cave
ROCEEH employees demonstrate how a 29,000-year-old discovery contributed to the development of the principle of the machine—and ensured dry feet.
Der blaue Salon
AI, medicine, and ethics
Florian Steger discusses the work of a medical ethicist and how the use of AI could change the doctor-patient relationship.