COLLEGE OF FELLOWS
Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies
The College of Fellows is the Tübingen model of a university-based Institute for Advanced Studies. It is addressed to all international postdocs and research fellows at the University of Tübingen. As a platform for research, networking and events, the CoF invites all university members to actively participate in shaping the international and interdisciplinary exchange within the university and with the public.
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All upcoming events
► 29 Mai 2024: Globel Encounters Lunch Talk: Lecture by Dr Weiao Xing
► June 2024: Pride Month Exhibition "Giving Voice"
► 12 June 2024: Film screening "Mary" and "Manju" by Sarala Emmanuel
► 20 – 21 June 2024: Workshop "Landscape and Imaginary: philosophy, arts, literature" organized by Dr. Lorena Grigoletto
News
Fellows
In the summer semester 2024, we welcome 10 new Teach@Tübingen Fellows who will teach at the University of Tübingen together with 9 other Teach@Tübingen Fellows who are based in Tübingen already.
Together with the Global Encounter Platform, we are pleased to welcome 4 new Global Encounters Fellows who will arrive in Tübingen in April. We will introduce them as Fellows in Focus in April and May.
From April, we also welcome Vittorio Gallese, renowned Professor of Psychobiology, to the College of Fellows and to the University of Tübingen; Gallese is visiting Tübingen as a recipient of a Humboldt Research Award and will collaborate with other researchers in the Focus Group "Neuroscience and Society".
Calls and Vacancies
Call for Papers
Sustaining Human Rights against Far-right Threats to Democracy
Workshop, University of Connecticut, 19-20 September 2024
Organizers: Lynne Tirrell (UConn, Philosophy, HRTS), Niels Weidtmann (U. Tübingen, College of Fellows), Sara Bangert (U. Tübingen, College of Fellows), Rolf Frankenberger (U. Tübingen, Institute for Research on Right-Wing Extremism (IRex))
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS! Please submit a title and abstract for a presentation proposal (max. 500 words; in English) by email to info@cof.uni-tuebingen.de
Deadline: 1 June 2024 | Feedback will be given until 30 June 2024.
The full text of the call for papers can be found here. Please direct any queries to lynne.tirrell@uconn.edu
Call for nominations for New Horizons Fellowships
The aim of the New Horizons program is to invite researchers who have the potential to provide innovative impulses for research in specific subjects and for the university as a whole. The fellows should represent (inter- and trans-)disciplinary research perspectives that are not yet firmly established in Tübingen and help to open up new horizons.
Fellows are invited to the College of Fellows on the recommendation of researchers at the University of Tübingen. All academics with a doctorate are eligible to submit proposals. The nominators must clearly state that a group of at least five researchers at the University of Tübingen are interested in working with the proposed candidate and would like to become involved in a Focus Group. The group should be composed interdisciplinary.
The nomination documents must be sent by e-mail to the responsible dean’s office by 15 June 2024. All details about the call for nominations can be found here.
Call for Applications: Teach@Tübingen Fellowship
The Teach@Tübingen fellowship is a good opportunity for international PostDoc scholars to familiarize themselves with research and teaching at a German university. It aims to expand English-language instruction at the University of Tübingen. For the fellows, the program offers the opportunity to gain teaching experience, to establish international networks, and to broaden their individual research horizons.
Application deadline: 20 June 2024
All information about the fellowship can be found here.
Publications
Porr, Martin und Weidtmann, Niels (Hrsg.): "One World Anthropology and Beyond. A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold" London: Routeledge.
This edited volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold, one of the most influential anthropologists in recent decades. The contributions are drawn from fields such as social anthropology, archaeology, rock art studies, philosophy, and science and technology studies, and critically engage with Ingold’s approaches and ideas. The volume includes contributions from participants in the Masterclass "One World Anthropology" with Tim Ingold, hosted by the CIIS in September 2019.
Past Events
27.10.2023: Semester Opening
At the beginning of the winter semester, The College of Fellows invited all international fellows and interested university members to the semester opening in the Alte Aula on Friday, October 27. The College of Fellows presented its activities and offers for international scientists. Following the guest lecture by Professor Dr Jan Willem Duyvendak (Director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam) entitled "The Return of the Native. Navigating between nostalgic nativism and hopeful liberalism", Professor Dorothee Kimmich and Professor Boris Nieswand took to the podium to talk to Professor Duyvendak and the audience. The concluding reception offered the opportunity to exchange ideas and to network with other fellows and Tübingen scientists over a glass of wine.
New Horizons Fellow 2023: Professor Rita Felski
In October 2023, the College of Fellows welcomed Professor Rita Felski, who visited the University of Tübingen as part of a New Horizons Fellowship. From 23 to 26 October 2023, the New Horizons Workshop "Postcritique, Recognition, Life World" took place as a closed event. The College of Fellows also invited all members of the university and the interested public to Rita Felski's public lecture entitled "How Not To Talk About Experience" on Wednesday, 25 October 2023.
28 September 2023: Public lecture by Professor Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
On 1 June 2023, renowned Brazilian anthropologist Prof. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro gave an evening lecture entitled "Indigenous Multinaturalism from a Cosmopolitan Point of View". The lecture, as well as the related one-week masterclass with international doctoral students, was organised as part of the CoF's Focus Group "Interdisciplinary Anthropology" and provided an insight into de Castro's anthropological research on Amerindian perspectivism.
You can find detailed information in our events archive.