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The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Projects

»Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«
beginning 2021
The research focus »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World« explores the Atlantic World’s potentials and limitations in addressing the future of democracy. We take as our guide the American poet Walt Whitman, who, in his 1871 essay Democratic Vistas, recognized democracy’s contingency.
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»Complexity in Science, Culture and Society«
beginning 2021
Scientists and scholars from the natural and life sciences, the humanities and social sciences at Goethe University are conducting joint research on the question of what constitutes »complex systems« and how »systems« that we deem to be »complex« can be understood more precisely.
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»Planetary Crises – Planetary Thinking?«
beginning 2020

The working group »Planetary Crises – Planetary Thinking?« starts from the diagnosis of crisis – humanity is currently facing challenges that are unique in its history. The current situation can justifiably be described as a planetary crisis.
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»Religious Dynamics in History and the Present«
beginning 2019
»Religion« is the subject not only of theology, but also of other disciplines, especially history, cultural studies, social sciences and philosophy. For this reason, a group of scholars from Goethe University came together at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in 2019 to exchange views on their respective religion-related research.
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»Perspectives of Social Democracy in Europe«
beginning 2020
Throughout Europe, social democratic and democratic socialist parties have suffered dramatic losses of voter support in recent years. The series of lectures analyses and compares the causes that have led to the current situation of social democracy in different countries.
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»EuropaDialoge/Dialogues d’Europe«
beginning 2014

The lecture series EuropaDialoge/Dialogues d’Europe invites representatives from different fields to present thier view on the history and future of Europe. It is conducted by Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Sandra Eckert and Pierre Monnet.
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Completed projects
Since 2009, the following projects have been hosted at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Justitia Amplificata« (2009?2020), History Programme (2014?2018), Italy–Germany (lecture series, 2017?2019), »The digital self« (2012?2014), »Reconfiguring American Politics« (2010/11), »Commodity aesthetics« (2010), »Development cooperation« (2009/2010).
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Digital launch event on February 18, 2021 »Democratic Vistas, Autocratic Specters: Must We Reinvent Democracy?« with Masha Gessen (The New Yorker), Shalini Randeria (IWM), Slawomir Sierakowski (Krytyka Polityczna Warsaw) and Johannes Völz (Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.) for the new research focus »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«.
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21 April 2021
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Roman Krakovsky (Université de Genève): »Entwicklungen der Sozialdemokratie in Mittel- und Osteuropa«
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News

New institute
Board member Christian Wiese establishes the Buber Rosenzweig Institute for Research on Modern Judaism
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Interview
Johannes Völz on the transatlantic relations and the new research focus »Democratic Vistas« (Deutschlandfunk, Kultur heute, 4.2.21)
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Summer term 2021
Continuation of the lecture series »Perspectives of Social Democracy in Europe«
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Board of directors
Church historian Irene Dingel accepts the baton from Gisela Trommsdorff
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Goethe Fellows
»On the Interplay of Semantics and Pragmatics in Discourse«: Cornelia Ebert awarded funding for German-British research project
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Video
Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College): »Racism in America: The Past and Future of Black-Jewish Relations« (Martin Buber Lecture 2020)
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