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Issue 10 | February 2021

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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Trajectories

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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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My favourite

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The Masked Kolleg Unmasked

Andreas Dorschel on the Wissenschaftskolleg in Corona Times

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Moments

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Was war und zu welchem Ende studiert man Trumpismus?

Virtual Evening Colloquium

Jan-Werner Müller

December 4, 2020

 

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Nostalgia

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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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A Farewell to Sonja Grund

By Laurenz Lütteken, Chair of the Fellows’ Club

 

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Angelika Leuchter

Angelika Leuchter was an employee of the Kolleg for 37 years ...

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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.

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Save 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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