The Fellows 1998/1999

Poet
Paris
Continuation of the Cycle of Poems "Al Kitab" (The Book); Study of the Geography of the Hereafter in the Imaginary World of the Islam

Writer
Stockholm
Value Relativism as a Corrupting Force in Shaping Attitudes to Tyranny; The Denial of the Holocaust in Contemporary Antisemitism

Dr. phil., Professor of English and Literary of Studies
University of Constance
In the Labyrinth of Signs: Contributions to a History of Reading

Professor of Hydromechanics and Hydrobionics
National Akademy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev
Body Shape and Elastic Surfaces

Biomimetics

Economics
Université des Frères Mentouri, Constantine

Ph.D., Lecturer in Material Science
Imperial College London
The State of Knowledge in Material Science

Biomimetics

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
Practices of German Nationalism

Ph.D., Professor of Theoretical Physics
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Theoretical Quantum Dynamics

The Meaning of Time in Quatum Theory

Ph.D., Professor of Theoretical Physics
KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest
The Meaning of Time in Quatum Theory

The Meaning of Time in Quatum Theory

Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Humanities
European University at St. Petersburg
Conceiving the Revolution: Religious Sects, Historical Discourse, and Radical Politics

Ph.D., Professor emeritus of Theoretical Physics
IBM T.J. Watson Laboratory New York
The Meaning of Time in Quatum Physics

The Meaning of Time in Quatum Physics

Dr. med., Professor of Pediatrics and Child Neurology
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Manual of Child Neurology

Ph.D., Professor of Social Anthropology
University of Kent at Canterbury
Monograph "Modern Lazistan" (with Ildikó Bellér-Hann); History of Ethnology in Germany

Viola
Artemis Quartet, Lübeck

Ph.D.,
Paris

Helga und Edzard Reuter-Fellow

Dr. oec., Professor emeritus of Sociology
University of Bielefeld
Theoretical Foundations for the Analysis of Developments in the Welfare State

Dr. rer. nat., Research Assistant
University of the Saarland
Ultralight Aerofoil Insect Wings - Natural Construction as a Model for Technical Use

Biomimetics

DaimlerChrysler-Fellow

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Ph.D.,
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Trading Trust - Economies and Cultures in Muslim Societies

Dr. phil., Research Assistant
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Competing Systems of Ethics and Social Conflicts in an Islamic Society: The Emirate of Buchara under the Manghit Dynasty 1747-1920

Composer
Budapest

Professor of Chamber Music
Basel, Switzerland
Interpretation Work With the Artemis Quartet

Ph.D., CSc, Senior Research Fellow
Academy of Science of the Czech Case, Prague
Interest Representation in Transitory Society: the Czech Case

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Ph.D., Professor of Political Science
University of California, Santa Cruz
Sport as Culture in Comparative Perspective

Dr. theol., Professor für Church History
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Identity and Pluralism in Ancient Christianity

History
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr. phil.,
Bamberg, Germany
Economy and Law in Islamic Societies in North Africa and Spain

Violin
Artemis Quartet, Lübeck

Dr. phil.,
University of Cambridge
Economic Theory of Co-evolution

Cultural Foundations of Economic Rationality

Professor of Sociology
Caucasian Institute of Peace, Democracy and Development, Tiflis
Interdependence of Democracy and Nationalism in the Light of Recent Communist and Post-Communist Experience

Dr. phil.,
University of Bielefeld
German Society: History and Self-Description in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Dr. phil., Lecturer in Philosophy and Social Theory
University of Vilnius
Max Weber and Rational Choice

M.Litt. (Oxon), Associate Professor of Sociology
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Islam and Modernity in Malaysia

Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies
Central European University, Budapest

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Violin
Artemis Quartet, Lübeck

Dr. phil., Deputy Director of Schola
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel
Joseph Haydn - Epoch, Work, Effect

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Physics
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Elementary Excitations of Atomic Nuclei, Quantum Chaos, Physics of Heavy Ions

Dr. phil. nat.,
University of Zurich
Comparative Study of Auditory Sensory Systems with Regard to the Diversity of Sensory Ecological Contexts

Biomimetics

Schering-Fellow

Dr. habil.,
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
The Role of Time in Scientific Description: Relations Between Physics, Chemistry and Biology

The Meaning of Time in Quantum Theory

Cello
Artemis Quartet, Lübeck

Dr. iur., Professor emeritus of Civil Law and the Theory of Law
University of Constance

Dr. oec., Professor emeritus of Economic History
University of Zurich
Cultural Foundations of Economic Rationality

Cultural Foundations of Economic Rationality

Docteur d'Etat, Professor of Political Philosophy
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Ivory-sur-Seine
The Periods of Failure of Modernity in Iran: The First Period 1500-1800; Political Philosophy in Greece and in Islam

Dr. phil., M.P.H., Professor of History of Medicine
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Introduction to the Translation of Huang Di Neijing Suwen; Problems of Cultural Heterogeneity

Dr. phil., Professor of Economics
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Rationality, Learning and Institutions as Foundations of Economic Decisions

Cultural Foundations of Rationality

Dr. iur., Professor of Public Law
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Law of Authorization and Planning; Legal Comparison as Cultural Comparison

Dr. phil., Professor emeritus of History
University of Bielefeld
German Social History 1914-1990

Dr. phil., Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Mind Without a World or World Without a Mind? In Search of a Normative Naturalism

Dr. rer. nat.,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla
Learning of Invariances in Neural Systems

Professor of Ancient History
Queens College, New York

Dr. phil., Senior Lecturer in History
Tel Aviv University
Impact of the Holocaust on the Israeli Political Culture; Art and Society: Problems of Classical Esthetic Theory at the End of the 20th Century