Max-Weber-Kolleg hands over doctoral hats to doctoral candidates

After the laudators presented and honoured the doctoral dissertations, seven of last year's successful graduates were able to receive their doctoral hats in person. The doctoral hats were presented by the directors of the programme, Hartmut Rosa and Jörg Rüpke, together with the laudators.

The diversity of the topics dealt with at the Max-Weber-Kolleg is reflected in the titles of the dissertations: Sarah Al-Taher wrote on "What is love? A philosophical examination of Plato's Symposium and Meister Eckhart's treatise Vom edlen Menschen: Love as Ascent and Way of Becoming Human", Trang Huyen Christ on "'Naked' Life: Dignity, Autonomy, and Social Integration on the Street. The case of undocumented Vietnamese migrants selling illicit cigarettes in Berlin", Jörg Lange on "Lernorte für Menschenrechte? On the significance of values in the development process of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camp memorials", Varun Patil on "Ownership-rights-in-practise: An ethnographic study of bottom-up construction of housing and tenure security in Dharavi, Mumbai", Konrad Pfeffel on "Länder machen Leute. Foreignness as the basis of Roman northern anxiety", Joao Tziminadis on "Affluent Survivalism. Prolongevity and the Reconfiguration of Mortality in the Era of Biotechnology" and Simone Wagner on "Gender and Urbanity. The authority of abbesses and provosts in south-west German abbeys".

This was followed by the  Max-Weber-Kolleg's summer party, which provided an exuberant atmosphere with a table football tournament and karaoke.