Editorial
The Wissenschaftskolleg is turning 40. Birthdays divisible by 10 are occasions to recollect and take stock. Has the Kolleg remained young? Aged well or poorly? Moved with the times? For this jubilee newsletter, we browsed a little in the archives and talked to two contemporary witnesses: the sociologist of science Helga Nowotny, who was a Fellow in the very first class of 1981/82, and Wolfgang Neudorfer, the IT specialist and longest-serving Wiko staff member.
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Between Eigenzeit and Interdisciplinarity
Helga Nowotny, Fellow 1981/1982, speaks about the Wissenschaftskolleg’s founding year, its aftereffects, and the consequences of the pandemic
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Moments
Was war und zu welchem Ende studiert man Trumpismus?
Virtual Evening Colloquium
Jan-Werner Müller
December 4, 2020
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Nostalgia
When Computers Took Their First Steps
Wolfgang Neudorfer, Head of IT Administration and longest-serving staff member of the Kolleg, remembers the beginnings of digitalization
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Blog Series on Academic Freedom
In the weeks to come the Blog for Transregional Studies will publish a series of articles on academic freedom, curated by former Fellows as result of a workshop of the Fellow Forum.
read onSave the dates – Meetings of the Fellows’ Club 2021 and 2022
Due to the pandemic, the meetings of the Fellows’ Club can unfortunately not be held as planned. These are the new dates that we would kindly ask you to reserve:
June 11, 2021, 3-4.30 pm. (UTC+2): Annual assembly of the members of the Fellows’ Club as video conference
June 9 & 10, 2022: Meeting of the Fellows’ Club 2022
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