News of the Max-Weber-Kolleg

The Max Weber Centre for Cultural and Social Science Studies at the University of Erfurt invites applications for the Max Weber Prize for Young Researchers. This prize is intended to honour outstanding work by an early-stage researcher within the…

The Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt is offering Distinguished Fellowships for the academic year 2027/28. They are awarded for three to ten months, start on 1 October 2027 or 1 April 2028 and end on 31 July 2028 at the latest.…

The new volume "Antike Religion im Kontext" by Jan N. Bremmer, Georgia Petridou and Jörg Rüpke has just been published in the series "Der Neue Pauly Supplemente".

The Max-Weber-Kolleg for Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt welcomes numerous new international fellows, doctoral candidates and researchers working on projects in the cultural and social sciences in the summer semester of 2026.…

From March 18 until March 19, 2026, the results conference for the funding programme “Pathways to Transformation for Sustainable Universities” took place in Berlin, where the Thuringian KLIMA-N project also presented its research findings. On behalf…

On the coming Monday, March 30, the Max-Weber-Kolleg will host the Symposium “Technology and the Good Life”, organized by James William Santos and João Tziminadis within the International Graduate School "Resonant Self–World Relations in Ancient and…

After the Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, the University Jean Moulin in Lyon also awards an honorary doctorate to Professor Hartmut Rosa, Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt.

The closing panel emphasised the crucial role of social participation for successful sustainable development in Thuringia. Experts from science, politics and civil society discussed the link between ecological responsibility and social justice and…