Completed projects of the Wissenschaftskolleg
Below please find information on some of the completed projects of the Wissenschaftskolleg.
Working Futures
Launched in 2018 by the Wissenschaftskolleg and the International Research Center Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History (re:work), the transnational network Working Futures brings together sociologists, historians, philosophers, economists, law experts and anthropologists to discuss current transformations in the world of work and the epistemological challenges they raise for the historical and social sciences.
read onRecht im Kontext
From 2011 to 2018, Recht im Kontext aimed at an enhanced re-contextualization of the law among its neighboring disciplines. From a genuinely legal perspective, the research network sought to initiate new forms of dialogue and to create discursive structures between the law, the humanities and social sciences.
read onBlue Bird Club
In der Zeit von 2006 bis 2008 hat das Wissenschaftskolleg gemeinsam mit dem Centre for Liberal Strategies Sofia den Blue Bird Club organisiert. Der Blue Bird Club war ein Diskussionsforum für engagierte Wissenschaftler und Intellektuelle aus Südosteuropa und Journalisten aus allen Teilen Europas.
read onFinalität Europas
The European Convention's draft-proposal for a new EU constitution has not yet been passed - while the problems that the new rules were intended to address still remain.
read onAgenda for Civil Society in South-Eastern Europe 2001 - 2003 (Blue Bird)
At the beginning of the 21st century, the real challenge of the reconstruction of South-Eastern Europe (SEE) is its re-invention.
read onWorking Group Modernity and Islam
From 1996 to 2006 the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin has hosted the Working Group Modernity and Islam, a Berlin-based interdisciplinary research network of scholars working at various universities and extra-university institutions on the questions of Modernity and Islam.
read onethnoArc - Linked European Ethnomusical Archives
From September 2006 to August 2008, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin headed and coordinated this multi-institution project funded by the European Commission.
read onCirculation of Knowledge. Transregional Studies
The inter-institutional project "Circulation of Knowledge. Transregional Studies" was launched by scholars from a range of different disciplines.
read onEUME
"Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe" (EUME) is a multi-disciplinary research program that was initiated in 2006 by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Since October 2011 EUME is continued by the Forum Transregionale Studien.
read onSIAS Summer Institutes
(previously: "European and American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes")
The "SIAS Summer Institutes" are two-year research programs for young researchers and treat interdisciplinary topics.
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