Funding Initiative »Käte Hamburger Collegia«
In the Year of the Humanities 2007, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research launched its funding initiative »Freedom for Research in the Humanities«, which provides new opportunities to highlight and advance achievements in the humanities at national and international level. At the heart of this funding initiative are the »Käte Hamburger Collegia«.
Between 2007 and 2011, an international panel of experts selected a total of ten »Käte Hamburger Collegia« on the following topics:
2007: Interweaving Performance Cultures
Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter, Dr. Christel Weiler, Prof. Dr. Matthias Warstat, Freie Universität Berlin
www.interweaving-performance-cultures.com
2007: IKKM - Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Siegert, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2007: Dynamics in the History of Religions
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Krech, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
www.khk.ceres.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
2008: Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies to cope with the Future in East Asia and Europe
Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner, Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers, Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2008: Morphomata. Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Boschung, Prof. Dr. Günter Blamberger, Universität zu Köln
www.ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de
2008: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch, Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler, LMU Munich
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
2008: Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History
Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2009: Law as Culture
Prof. Dr. jur. Werner Gephart, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
2009: Imre Kertész Kolleg: Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert: Historische Erfahrungen im Vergleich
Prof. Dr. Joachim von Puttkamer, Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Borodziej, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
www.imre-kertesz-kolleg.uni-jena.de
2011: Political Cultures of World Society (Centre for Global Cooperation Research)
Prof. Dr. Tobias Debiel, Universität Duisburg Essen
Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Advanced Institute for Study in the Humanities
Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, German Development Institute, Bonn