News of the Max-Weber-Kolleg

A series of events organised by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Thuringia this spring will focus on "natural rights". The University of Erfurt is also taking part and invites all interested parties to its campus on Wednesday, 24 April. Starting at 6…

The ‘Förderverein des Generallandesarchivs Karlsruhe e.V.’ has once again awarded the Johann Daniel Schöpflin Award. The winner of the 2024 award is Ms Simone Wagner for her dissertation "Gender and Urbanity. The authority of abbesses and provosts in…

In the summer semester 2024, TU Ilmenau is offering a lecture series on "Circular economy - perspectives, challenges and potential". As part of the KLIMA-network for more sustainability in Thuringia, this lecture series will also be made digitally…

Dr. Christopher Degelmann has received the prestigious Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award 2024 from the German Research Foundation (DFG), one of the most important awards for researchers in the early stages of their careers. The prize, which was awarded to a…

The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt is once again welcoming a number of new researchers for the summer semester 2024.

You can find all information on the current call for applications of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations“ (DFG, FOR 2779) here.

For its project entitled "Revolution revolutionieren. Walter Benjamin und die Frage nach Revolution und Revolte", the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin honours Marcus Döller, doctoral candidate at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the…