Fellow-Kolloquium

Veranstaltungen

25.06.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium

Ordeal in Susa in its Old Babylonian Context

Hossein Badamchi (University of Teheran)

24.06.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium
Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«

Parliamentary ethics in the EU and the US

Laure Gillot-Assayag (Research Focus »Democratic Vistas«)

18.06.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Tbilisi Courtyard as Assemblage – Conviviality, Permeability, and Multispecies Coexistence in Urban Space

Ketevan Gurchiani (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)

28.05.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Limits of Procedural Autonomy: Competency, Authenticity, and the Case for a Normative Account

Azizjon Bagadirov (Justitia Center for Advanced Studies)

21.05.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium

On the Possibility of Deep Moral Change

Henry Krahn (Justitia Center for Advanced Studies)

30.04.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium

Rag-Picking: Siegfried Kracauer and the Redemption of Historical Reality

Till van Rahden (Université de Montréal)

26.02.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium
Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«

Reconstructing transatlantic democracy in times of crisis

Patrick Nitzschner (Research Focus »Democratic Vistas«)

12.02.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium

Is Revenge Inherently Wrong?

Daniel Statman (University of Haifa)

29.01.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium

Meaning in Life: Intelligibility-based Narrativity vs. Value

Iddo Landau (University of Haifa)

15.01.2026

Fellow-Kolloquium
Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«

Hannah Arendt and the Overcoming of Philosophy of History

Courtney Hodrick (Research Focus »Democratic Vistas«)

04.12.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Myth, Metaphor, and Gender Performance: Medieval Ashkenazi Wedding Rites Reconsidered

Avital Davidovich-Eshed (Tel Aviv University)

13.11.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Loyal Dissent: Towards an Agonistic Theory of the Civil Service

Maurits de Jongh (Utrecht University)

06.11.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Deficits of Law – Reflections on Euripides’ Medea

Guido Pfeifer (Goethe University)

23.10.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Emmanuel Levinas around 1968

Elad Lapidot (Université de Lille)

17.07.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Perilous, imperative talk: the moralization of speech in white American anti-racism

Paul Lichterman (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

10.07.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Targeting archaeology: Emotions and agenda behind ISIS heritage destruction

Nimrod Hurvitz (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

26.06.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

A philosophical reflection on the early history of Senegambia

Peter A. Mark (Wesleyan University)

12.06.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Adam Smith in the Anthropocene: matter, contingency, and the foundations of a critical social theory

Leo Steeds (Glasgow University)

15.05.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Political Theory of Aldo Moro: A Research Project

Clementina Gentile Fusillo (Justita Centre for Advanced Studies)

08.05.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium
Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«

What Is It That We (Should) Do When We Engage in Public Discourse?

Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez (Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«)

24.04.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Towards a Theory of Angels

Galili Shahar (Tel Aviv University)

30.01.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Reconstructability of the Historical Qur’an Based on Early Islamic Traditions

Ömer Özsoy, Misbahur Rehman, Sercan Üstündag (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

23.01.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Canonizing a New Narrative: Archaeology between Science, Ideology, and Popularization in Contemporary China

Iwo Amelung (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

16.01.2025

Fellow-Kolloquium

Having a Home as a socio-political Achievement. A polyphonic approach to finitude, guest-status and communicability centered around Hannah Arendt

Larissa Wallner (Justitia Center for Advanced Studies)

19.12.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

(Re-)Writing Exile: German Romanticism and the History of the French Revolution

Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

05.12.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium
Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«

Towards a Transformative Philosophy of Poetry

Philip Mills (Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«)

28.11.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

The School of Salamanca

Thomas Duve (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory), Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Goethe University Frankfurt)

24.10.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium
Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«

Visualising Resistance in Post-Independence African Nations

Gladys Kalichini (Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«)

11.07.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

On the Interplay of Landscape, Architecture, and Interfaith Relations in a Medieval Mediterranean Society

Dana Katz (Universität von Toronto)

04.07.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

Financial Markets: the Dynamics of Domination

Hannah McHugh (Justitia Center for Advanced Studies)

20.06.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

Towards a Social Theory of Populism (Left and Right)

Pierre Ostiguy (Universität von Valparaíso)

06.06.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

Moral Universalism and Pluralism of Values: Remarks on Habermas’s Theory of Discourse Ethics

Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez (Justitia Center for Advanced Studies)

23.05.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

Migrations and the Formation of Chinese Muslim Visual Culture: Pre-modern Mosques and Perso-Arabic Manuscripts in China

Shunhua Jin (Fudan University)

16.05.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

A Labor of Food: Food-related Occupations in Byzantium and the Islamic World (ca. 5th to 11th c.)

Joanita Vroom (Universität Leiden)

02.05.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium
Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«

Alienation today: Categories of mental health and politics of self-defense in the series Beef (2023)

Alenka Ambrož (Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«)

25.04.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium
Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas«

A Democratic Knowledge Machine: The Theory and History of Literature Series and the Postmodern Epoch of Strong Theory across the North Atlantic, 1979-1997

Gregory Jones-Katz (Forschungsschwerpunkt »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«)

18.04.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

Class Consciousness After the Intersectional Turn

Cain Shelley (Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies)

01.02.2024

Fellow-Kolloquium

Max Weber and the Idea of the Charismatic Social Movement

Peter Giraudo (Justitia Center for Advanced Studies)

07.12.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Significant movements

Wim Pouw (Radboud University Nijmegen)

23.11.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Making the Killings and Enslavements by Proxy Legal: The EU and Its Lawlessness Law

Sarah Ganty (Yale University), Dimitry Kochenov (Central European University)

16.11.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Émigré Soldiers on Trial: Revolutionary Justice from Quiberon to the Calais Affair

Kelly Summers (MacEwan University)

19.10.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Atlantic Slavery and the Spirits of Racial Capitalism

Andrew Apter (University of California, Los Angeles)

13.07.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Capitalist Class Power: Why It Is Dominating

Cain Shelley (Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies)

06.07.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Homo absconditus in times of global warming.Helmuth Plessner reconsidered, or: Liberal Democracy in the Anthropocene

Carlotta Voß (Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies)

29.06.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Great Minds in Despair – The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America

Frank Stahnisch (University of Calgary)

22.06.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Cognition and Morality: The Role of Intuition

Hadi Adanali (Ankara)

15.06.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Decolonisation: Incompleteness and Convivial Scholarship

Francis Nyamnjoh (Universität Kapstadt)

25.05.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Zionism Meets Political Philosophy, Part I: Just War Theory and the First Israeli-Arab War

Yitzhak Benbaji (Universität Tel Aviv)

11.05.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

You cannot take away someone’s story without giving them a new one: Dominant and Counter Narratives on Child Sexual Abuse

Talia Glucklich (Goethe-Universität/Tel Aviv University)

04.05.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

German Romanticism and the Age of Emigrations

Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

09.02.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Travel and the Poetics of Dissent: Migrations of Hafez through Iran and the West

Nojang Khatami (Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies)

26.01.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Qur’an and St. Paul. An Analysis of Surah Nisâ 157 and Surah Mâide117

Zafer Duygu (Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir)

12.01.2023

Fellow-Kolloquium

Hope and the Climate Crisis

Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe-Universität)

15.12.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Generational Context of Child Maltreatment. Children's Perceptions of Physical and Emotional Abuse

Ayelet Noam-Rosenthal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Haruv Institute)

08.12.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

Visual Communication with a closer look at perspective shift

Cornelia Ebert (Goethe University), Markus Steinbach (University of Goettingen)

10.11.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

Bad image and good policy: Nebuchadnezzar, the Bible and new information in tablets from Babylonian Iahud

Cornelia Wunsch (Assyriologin und Verlegerin, Dresden)

27.10.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

Fraternal Enmity: Violence as Popular Sovereignty

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (Kazi Nazrul University)

30.06.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Model of Human Nature as a ›Being of Reason‹ (Ens Rationis)

Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Toronto)

09.06.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

Autonomy-oriented foundation of norms as trust-building conflict management in the age of global digitalisation

02.06.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

From Perpetual Peace to the Räterepublik: Neo-Kantianism and the Great War

William Levine (University of Chicago)

19.05.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Separateness of Persons Objection and Teleology

05.05.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

Another ›Cloak of Ideas‹? Critical Analyses and Reflections on a Digitized Lifeworld

Thomas Schimmer (Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften)

21.04.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

Contested Multilateralism and Multilateral Contestation. A Conceptual Exploration

Gunther Hellmann (Goethe Fellow)

10.02.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

Childhood and Violence. Experiences with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Germany and outline perspectives for further research

Sabine Andresen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

20.01.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

Constituting European Citizenship

Sandra Seubert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

13.01.2022

Fellow-Kolloquium

German-Jewish Modernity from Its Muslim Margins

Abraham Rubin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

16.12.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Algorithmic Justice for Deciding on Criminal Matters?

Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi (Aristoteles-Universität Thessaloniki)

09.12.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Simulations of Capital Punishment in Early Modern Jewish Literature

Patrick B. Koch (Hamburg University)

02.12.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Law and the digital transformation of society – the case of criminal law

Beatrice Brunhöber (Goethe-Fellow)

25.11.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Facing Authority: Legitimacy, Judgment, and the Practical Point of View

Thomas Fossen (Leiden University)

11.11.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Prophethood and the Prophet Mohammad in the Qur'an

Mehmet Akif Koç (University of Ankara)

04.11.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability: Some Propositions and Axioms

Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

08.07.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Why Newcomers Should Come First

Lea Klarenbeek

24.06.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Idealist Confucianism, Democratic Centralism, and Wartime Collaboration: The Paradox of Wang Jingwei (1883–1944)

Zhiyi Yang (Goethe-Fellow)

17.06.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

An Injury to All: International Solidarity in the Time of Climate Change and Covid-19

Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe-Universität)

10.06.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Knowledge Teams, Careers, and Gender

Guido Friebel (Goethe-Fellow)

27.05.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

When, How, and Why Did Jews Become a ›Minority‹? Remapping Differences in Central Europe since 1815

Till van Rahden (Senior Fellow)

18.03.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

The past future of the crises of democracy : Analytical tools to examine the current state of European post-democracy

Aliénor Ballangé (Postdoctoral Fellow)

11.02.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

Speech is silver, gesture is golden – on the semantic contribution of speech-accompanying gestures

Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität)

14.01.2021

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Complexity of Cultural Reality: Simultaneous Normativities and other Lifeworld Structures

Thomas Schimmer (Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften)

03.12.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

Two cheers for snowflakes: Free speech in fractured societies

Volker Heins (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

26.11.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

Criminal Law and Political Compromise: A Research Overview

Stephanie Classmann (London School of Economics and Political Science)

12.11.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

Democracy and the Challenge of Oligarchy: A Research Overview

Gordon Arlen (Postdoctoral Fellow)

05.11.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

In God We Trust

Ingolf Dalferth (Claremont Graduate University)

22.10.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Political Philosophy of Public Insurance

Maurits de Jongh (Universität Utrecht)

15.10.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

Corona and Collective Memory

Astrid Erll (Goethe-Universität)

29.05.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

Das ›Strafrecht‹ der Prädiktionsgesellschaft

Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität)

07.05.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

Action, Intersubjectivity and the performative character of the subjective identity in the thought of Hegel

Miriam Madureira (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexiko-Stadt)

25.02.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

Sovereignty, Exile, and the Politics of Translation

Julie Cooper (Tel Aviv University), Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University)

06.02.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

Naturally Catholic? Religious Positioning in the Missionary Museum of the Societas Verbi Divini in Steyl

Alberto Saviello (Goethe-Universität)

23.01.2020

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Habermasian Concept of Democracy

Gustavo Leyva (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexiko)

12.12.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

What (if anything) is Wrong with Gerrymandering?

Gregory J. Whitfield (University College London)

05.12.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Religious positioning in Judaism and Christianity - considering the 1916 correspondence between Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Claudia Welz (Universität Kopenhagen)

07.11.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Of Goats and Dogs: Island Literature, Island Biogeography and the Entangled Island of Juan Fernandez

Roland Borgards (Goethe-Universität)

24.10.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

When the Hand of Israel Overpowers the Nations: Contemporary Rabbinic Debates on Israeli Sovereignty

Karma Ben Johanan (Polonsky Fellow, Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem)

17.10.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Rethinking Responsibility

Dmitri Nikulin (The New School for Social Research, New York)

11.07.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Rudolph Hermann Lotze and Global Philosophy on the Verge of Modernity

Aljoscha Berve (Universität Düsseldorf)

27.06.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Consequences of Imagination: Holocaust Memorial and Political Fantasy

Alana Vincent (University of Chester)

13.06.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Commentary, Time, and Communities of Interpretation

Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto)

06.06.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Performing Peace in a Multi-Religious Village in Georgia

Ketevan Gurchiani (Ilia State University,Tiflis)

23.05.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Human Rights and Economic Inequality

Jiewuh Song (Seoul National University)

16.05.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Democratic Bases of Milton Friedman’s Corporate Misanthropy

Theodore M. Lechterman (Kollegforschergruppe »Justitia Amplificata«)

09.05.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Juan Donoso Cortés and the Schism of the Modern Age

Felix Steilen (Tel Aviv University)

02.05.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Ought, Good, Better: Some Normative Themes, Formally

Federico Faroldi (»Johanna Quandt Young Academy«)

28.02.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Dueling Humanitarianisms: Russia, Crimea, and Norms

Betcy Jose (University of Colorado), Christoph Stefes (University of Colorado)

14.02.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

Migration and Equity in the Social Welfare State (working title)

Astrid Wallrabenstein (Goethe Fellow)

07.02.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Act of Voting or Why Compulsory Voting Is Not Justified

Chiara Destri (Kollegforschergruppe »Justitia Amplificata«)

24.01.2019

Fellow-Kolloquium

On the identification of ›schools‹ in ancient Chinese economic thought: a critique

Terry Peach (Manchester/Shanghai)

13.12.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

A new beginning of philosophizing? The idea of systemic hermeneutics

Jing-Jong Luh (National Central University of Taiwan)

06.12.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

No pain, no gain: The realization and sufferings of Iranian women's presence in the public domains

Mohamad Rezaei (Frankfurt am Main/Teheran)

29.11.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Public Halting Sites for British Gypsy Travellers: Kymlicka and an Argument from Compensation

Marcus Häggrot (Kollegforschergruppe »Justitia Amplificata«)

08.11.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Recent research on Chinese and European History of Economic Thought in Comparison

Bertram Schefold (Goethe-Fellow),
Tengda HUA (Goethe-Universität),
Hong JIANG (Goethe-Universität)

08.11.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Intellectual Origins of China’s Dual Track Price System

Isabella Weber (University of London)

31.10.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS): Tiere und Film

Roland Borgards (Goethe-Fellow)

25.10.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Mobility versus Solidarity? Challenges to EU citizenship

Sandra Seubert (Goethe-Fellow)

09.07.2018

Das Historische Kolleg
Fellow-Kolloquium

Dharma and Halacha: Hindu-Jewish Encounters and Scholarly Engagements

Yudit Greenberg (Rollins College)

28.06.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Namibian-German Relations and Normative Challenges: Beyond the Constrictions of International Development and International Relations?

07.06.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Cultural and Literary Animal Studies

23.05.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

As good as ›Enough and as Good‹

03.05.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Dialogical Turn? Changing Perceptions of Christianity in Modern Jewish Thought

26.04.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

A Study of Religion and Media – Muslim Adolescence in Post-Secular Germany

19.04.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Choosing our immigrants: justice and the problem of preference in immigration

15.02.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

The Significance of Economic Theorizing for Economic Growth and Prosperity. Chinese and Western Perspectives

08.02.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

An Unjust Condition is Distinct from the Injustice of Its Persistence. Continuity-Dependent Features of Historical Injustice

01.02.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Beyond East and West? An Analysis of the Views of Rabindranath Tagore

18.01.2018

Fellow-Kolloquium

Can we talk? Examining Willingness and Facilitating Deliberative Capital

14.12.2017

Fellow-Kolloquium

Reconfiguration of Internalized Social Structure (RISS)

30.11.2017

Fellow-Kolloquium

Economics and Society: Between Cynicism and Utopia

02.11.2017

Fellow-Kolloquium

The criminal respression of racist rhetoric, racist crimes, and race discrimination – the Greek example