Käte Hamburger Kollegs for research in the humanities
The Käte Hamburger Kollegs for research in the humanities are temporary research institutions in the humanities that are based on the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , but each pursue a specific, overarching research question or topic. To this end, internationally renowned scientists (fellows) are invited to research for a longer period in Germany free of any other obligations. These research colleges, named after the literary critic Käte Hamburger , are funded for six years, but can be extended for a further six years if the evaluation is positive.
background
The creation of international colleges for research in the humanities is the central element of the Freiraum für Geisteswissenschaften initiative launched by the BMBF in 2007 on the occasion of the year of the humanities . The establishment of the colleges aims to achieve the following goals in particular:
- To promote an internationally as well as European visible and effective focus of the German humanities at the universities and to strengthen the connections to foreign research centers and institutions.
- To give outstanding humanities scholars personal freedom to pursue research questions of their own choosing by largely exempting them from university obligations.
- To enable a learning community that, through systematic confrontation with other knowledge cultures, puts its own, mostly unquestioned, self-evident facts to the test.
- Involve internationally high-ranking specialist colleagues and representatives in research at German universities.
- To further develop the humanities methods - including cross- cultural research .
- To improve the cooperation of disciplinary and regionally specific research on a common problem.
- To intensify cooperation in the humanities, including small subjects .
Colleges
- International Research College "Interweaving of Theater Cultures", Free University of Berlin . Management Erika Fischer-Lichte .
- IKKM - International College for Research on Cultural Technology and Media Philosophy , Bauhaus University Weimar . Direction Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert .
- "Käte Hamburger Kolleg" Dynamics of Religious History between Asia and Europe ", Ruhr University Bochum, headed by Volkhard Krech .
- International College for Humanities Research (IKGF). "Fate, Freedom and Forecast. Coping Strategies in East Asia and Europe", Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . Management Michael Lackner , Klaus Herbers and Thomas Fröhlich.
- " Internationales Kolleg Morphomata . Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations", University of Cologne . Direction Dietrich Boschung and Günther Blamberger
- " Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society ", Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich . Direction Christof Mauch and Helmuth Trischler .
- "International Humanities College. Work and curriculum vitae from a global historical perspective", Humboldt University Berlin . Head of Andreas Eckert .
- "Käte Hamburger Kolleg" Law as Culture ", Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, headed by Werner Gephart .
- "Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena: Europe's East in the 20th Century. Historical Experiences in Comparison", Friedrich Schiller University Jena . Management Włodzimierz Borodziej and Joachim von Puttkamer .
- "Center for Global Cooperation Research / Käte Hamburger Kolleg", University of Duisburg-Essen . Head: Sigrid Quack (University of Duisburg-Essen), Tobias Debiel , Dirk Messner ( DIE ) and Jan Aart Scholte ( University of Gothenburg ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BMBF, description of the funding measures
- ↑ Press release of the Ruhr University Bochum from September 12, 2007
- ^ Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Center for Global Cooperation Research: Welcome to the Center for Global Cooperation Research. Accessed July 24, 2018 (en-EN).