News of the Max-Weber-Kolleg

The research group "Religion and Urbanity" at the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt is once again awarding doctoral scholarships amounting to 1400 euros per month. They are granted for twelve months and start in January 2021 at the…

The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt (Max-Weber-Kolleg) announces the Max Weber Prize for Young Researchers.

The international collegiate research group "Religion and Urbanity" of the University of Erfurt invites you to a public tour of the city on June, 30.

An online book presentation about the colonial past and racism today is the subject of an online book launch to which the Thuringian State Centre for Political Education in cooperation with the Max Weber College of the University of Erfurt cordially…

The Paulo Freire Institute of the University of California in Los Angeles has awarded Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, Director of the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt, with the Rob Rhoads Global Citizenship Education Award 2020.

International research cooperation needs not only good scientists and scholars, but also funding institutions that support the international exchange of researchers, such as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. However, these funding institutions…

Since 2015, the Research Center "Dynamics of Ritual Practices in Judaism in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present" at the University of Erfurt has given a home to research into Jewish religious practices and related discourses, which…

According to medieval sources, small silver keys were worn by Jewish women on Shabbat. Such a key is also contained in the unique medieval treasure found in Erfurt in 1998, which was once buried by a Jewish merchant. It is one of the most unusual…