New fellows and junior researchers in the summer semester at the Max-Weber-Kolleg

The research group "Religion and Urbanity" directed by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke, welcomes the fellows Supriya Chaudhuri (Kolkata) with the project „Merchants, religion and urbanism: The entanglement of trade, travel, and faith in pre-modern South Asia“, Tom Hamilton (Durham) with the project "Group Formation in French Cities during the Wars of Religion (1562-1598)", Edmund Kizik (Gdańsk) with the project "Burials and Commemoration of the Dead in the Public Spaces of Large Protestant Baltic Cities from the 16th to the Beginning of the 19th Century. The examples of Danzig, Elbing, Königsberg and Stettin", Harry Maier (Vancouver) with the project "Epistolography, Interurban Social Networking, and Group Formation in Cyprian's North Africa and Beyond", Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati (Munich) with the project "Utopia as a Challenging Imagination of the City. Religion and Urbanity in The Handmaid's Tale" and Katja Rakow (Utrecht) with the project "Materialising Urban Religious Aspirations: New Creation Church and the Building of The Star Performing Arts Centre Singapore". 

The Social Philosophy and Social Theory research group has William E. Scheuerman as a guest, one of the Max-Weber-Kolleg's distinguished fellows, with the project "Beyond Civil Disobedience? Politically Motivated Property Damage". Furthermore, James William Santos (Porto Alegre, Brazil), funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, will join this research group in Erfurt with the project "Critique of Social Movements".

In the context of the Merian Centre ICAS:MP (Metamorphoses of the Political) in Delhi, several fellows from India are coming to Erfurt for research stays. In addition, as part of so-called "follow-up fellowships", researchers who have held a fellowship in Delhi are expected to come to Erfurt for a further stay in order to further intensify cooperation with India as an important cooperating country: Lars Aaberg is coming with the project "Owning Sexuality in India: Value, Difference, and Authenticity in the Emerging Market of LGBTQ Diversity Management Consultancy in Corporate Bengaluru", Prathama Banerjee (currently Director of the Consortium) is working on Political Ideas in India and the Future of Democracy, Rajeev Bhargava will work on the project "Political Theory and Political Thought" and Peter Gottschalk on the project "Emotional Dimensions of British and American Newspaper Reporting on Muslims and Hindus, 1798-1809".

The International Graduate School (IGS) "Resonant Self-World Relations in Antiquity and Modernity"  welcomes several junior researchers: Daniela Fazio Vargas with the project "Experiencing a Song: The Aesthetic and Political Possibilities of Art", Gianmarco Grantaliano with the project "Paganus. Towards a transformation of citizenship in Late Antiquity" and Paul Klausing with a doctoral project on "Skateboarding and Urban Space: An Examination grounded in Resonance Theory". Rubina Raja (Aarhus) is coming to the IGS as a Mercator Fellow with the project "Archaeology of Urban Landscapes".

"We are delighted to once again welcome so many exciting academics and researchers from Germany and abroad to Erfurt and are looking forward to exchanging ideas with each other - especially with our colleagues from the Global South, with whom we will also be organising a series of workshops," say Hartmut Rosa and Jörg Rüpke, the directors of the Max-Weber-Kolleg.