College of Fellows
Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies
The College of Fellows (CoF) was officially inaugurated in April 2022 as a central institution of the University of Tübingen within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. With the CoF, the University of Tübingen is establishing a university-based Institute for Advanced Studies, which is aimed at all international guest researchers. In doing so, the University is developing the Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies further. In addition to the centrally nominated fellows, the CoF is open to all research fellows invited to the faculties and financed by third-party funds.
At the College of Fellows, Research Fellows are given the opportunity to present their research to a broader university public. Moreover, they can participate in longer-term interdisciplinary working groups (focus groups) or initiate them themselves. Besides the international Research Fellows, the CoF invites all university members to set innovative research topics by participating and contributing to various event formats and Focus Groups, and to actively shape the collegial international and interdisciplinary exchange at the University of Tübingen and with the public.
The College of Fellows is a place where interdisciplinary exchange is fostered and where topics and questions can be raised that do not immediately give rise to new research projects. In this way, the CoF complements the research work at the faculties and within the framework of already existing interdisciplinary initiatives and offers a forum for intensive and open exchange where new impulses can be set. In addition to interdisciplinarity, the focus is on global and intercultural issues. The CoF aims to unite the innovative potential of the many outstanding academics from all over the world at the University of Tübingen and their different perspectives, to create a place where questions of global social relevance can be discussed. To this end, the CoF regularly invites internationally renowned guests for short stays in order to address current topics and to set focal points around which discussions and events can form. With its events, the CoF also reaches out to the broader public and thus contributes to making the internationality of the academics at the University of Tübingen visible.
Team
Director
Dr Niels Weidtmann
Personal details
Research Areas
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Intercultural Philosophy, African Philosophy, Structural Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Science
4/2020
Umbenennung des Forum Scientiarum in Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies
12/2019
Wahl zum Präsidenten der Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie (GIP)
SoSe 2017
Gastprofessur an der Universität Wien
4/2006
Wissenschaftlicher Leiter des Forum Scientiarum, Universität Tübingen Ständiger Lehrbeauftragter am Philosophischen Seminar
7/2004-3/2006
Leitung des Berliner Büros der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
5/2002-6/2004
Wissenschaftlicher Referent im Bundespräsidialamt, Berlin, im Bereich Bildung, Forschung, Familie, Jugend und Sport
12/1998-4/2002
Wissenschaftlicher Referent bei der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2/1999
Promotion zu Interkultureller Philosophie (Professor Dr. Heinrich Rombach, Universität Würzburg)
10/1993
Diplom Biologie
1990-1991
DAAD-Stipendiat an der Duke University in Durham, N.C., USA
1987-1995
Studium der Biologie (Diplom) und der Philosophie, Politik und Religionswissenschaft (Magister) an der Universität Würzburg
Publications
Monographs:
- N. Weidtmann, Interkulturelle Philosophie. Aufgaben, Dimensionen, Wege. Tübingen: Narr/UTB 2016.
- N. Weidtmann, Der Weltcharakter der Kulturen in der interkulturellen Welt. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Hermeneutik und Strukturphänomenologie am Beispiel Afrika. Dissertation, MF: Würzburg 1998.
Edited:
- N. Weidtmann, S. Rinofner-Kreidl und S. Luft, Phänomenologie und Pragmatismus. Gastherausgeberschaft der Phänomenologischen Forschungen (2) 2019.
- S. Pihlström, F. Stadler und N. Weidtmann, Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism. Vienna Circle Yearbook. Dordrecht: Springer 2017.
- G. Stenger und N. Weidtmann (Mitarbeit), Studienführer „Philosophie der Interkulturalität“. Hagen 2015.
- D. Koch, M. Ruppert und N. Weidtmann, Globalisierung – eine Welt? Philosophische Annäherungen. Tübingen: Attempto 2015.
- M. Frank und N. Weidtmann, Husserl und die Philosophie des Geistes. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2010.
- N. Weidtmann, Interdisziplinäre Studien am FORUM SCIENTIARUM. Bislang sieben Bände. Berlin: LIT 2008-2016 (und fortlaufend).
- I. Männlein-Robert, D. Koch und N. Weidtmann, Antike Studien. Fünf Bände. Tübingen: Attempto 2010-2016 und Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2019.
Secretariat
Dorothea Stieler
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz / 1. OG, Raum 134
72074 Tübingen
dorothea.stieler @cof.uni-tuebingen.de
sekretariat @cof.uni-tuebingen.de
Academic staff
Dr Sara Bangert
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz / 1. OG, Raum 133
72074 Tübingen
sara.bangert @cof.uni-tuebingen.de
Dr Yanti Hölzchen
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz / 1. OG, Raum 133
72074 Tübingen
+497071 - 29-77243
yanti.hoelzchen @cof.uni-tuebingen.de
Research Assistants
Madalina Guzun | madalina.guzun @cof.uni-tuebingen.de | |
Lisa Holler | lisa.holler @student.uni-tuebingen.de | |
Benedikt Holzschuh | benedikt.holzschuh @uni-tuebingen.de | |
Kristina Janačková | kristina.janackova @student.uni-tuebingen.de | |
Abbed Kanoor | abbed.kanoor @cof.uni-tuebingen.de | |
Marco Wallis | marco.wallis @student.uni-tuebingen.de | |
Katharina Wurzinger | katharina.wurzinger @student.uni-tuebingen.de |
Former Employees
Dr. Michael Stadler
Bodies
Board of Directors
- Rector Prof. Dr. Karla Pollmann
- Vice Rector for International Affairs and Diversity Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer
- Director of Division II – Research Dr. Andrea Schaub
- Director of the CoF Dr. Niels Weidtmann
- Chairperson of the Advisory Board Prof. Dr. Dorothee Kimmich
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Alexander Easton, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Durham
Prof. Dr. Christina Garsten, Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
Prof. Dr. Masashi Haneda, Director of the Tokyo College, Tokyo
Prof. Dr. James Ogude, Collegium for the Advancement of Scholarship, Pretoria
Prof. Dr. Sandu-Dediu, Rector of the New Europe College, IAS, Bukarest
Prof. Dr. Dorothee Kimmich, Philosophische Fakultät
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pull, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Prof. Dr. von Bernstorff, Juristische Fakultät
Prof. Dr. Felix Wichmann, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Prof. Dr. Stephan Zipfel, Medizinische Fakultät
Prof. Dr. Johanna Rahner, Katholische Theologie
Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Rektorat