Max-Weber-Kolleg welcomes new fellows and collegiate students for the summer semester

As part of the collaborative research group "Religion and Urbanity" led by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke, Benedikt Brunner (project: Between earthly vale of tears and heavenly Jerusalem. Mutual Influences of Religious Norms and Urban Conceptions of Space in Nuremberg, Basel, London and Boston (1600-1750)), Christopher Degelmann (project: Urban Voice(s) of Deity. Rumour, Religion and Urban Space in Classical Athens), Vera Henkelmann (project: The City as a Light Space - Natural and Artificial Light in the Context of Urban Concepts on the Threshold from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period), Jon Keune (project: Transnational Buddhism and Dalit Migration), Carolin Kosuch (project: Modern Cremation: The Secularist and the City), Heinrich Lang (project: Genoese and Florentine merchant bankers in the Maghreb and the Levant. Accounting for travelling objects, social complexities, and religious diversities in an urban context (1450-1550)), Harry Maier (project: Religious Group Definition, Mercantilization, Boundary Demarcations and Urbanity in Mutual Formation among Christ Groups of the First Four Centuries), Martina Stercken (project: Reformation and the urban space. Ways of Staging religious change in the 16th century) and Constanze Schaller (project: Educated urban citizens and their religious identity. On the interrelationship of urbanity and religion using the example of donation practices for the Erfurt Ministerial Library) come to the Max-Weber-Kolleg.

The research group Social Philosophy and Social Theory is hosting Bram van Boxtel from the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht. Together with partners from this university, a workshop was held at the beginning of the semester to initiate further cooperation.

Ling Li from China, a doctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre "Structural Change of Property", was able to come to Erfurt after Corona for the first time and will work with local colleagues for one semester.

In May, Peter Gottschalk is expected to stay in Erfurt as a follow-up fellow in the context of the Merian Centre ICAS:MP in Delhi. His research is on: "Fanaticism, Muslims, and the Emotive Construction of Secular Urban Subjectivities: Britain, India, and the United States in the 19th Century".

Two new PhD students have started their work at the International Graduate School: Elizaveta Boiko is working on "Development of cult urban places in Sicily in the end of 6th - the beginning of 5th century BC" and Heinrich Hofer has a project on: "Investigation on the foundations of the "social division"". In addition, Alina Dimitrova Kamenou has been associated with the project "Conceptualising Intercultural Mediation in the Greek-Roman Antiquity. A multidisciplinary approach".

Freimut Löser was also newly associated with the Meister Eckhart Research Unit to work on joint long-term projects on Meister Eckhart.

"We are once again delighted to welcome so many exciting academics and researchers from Germany and abroad to Erfurt and are looking forward to the exchange with each other," say Hartmut Rosa and Jörg Rüpke, the directors of the Max-Weber-Kolleg.