College of Fellows

COLLEGE OF FELLOWS
Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies

The College of Fellows is the Tübingen model of a university-based Institute for Advanced Studies. It is addressed to all international postdocs and research fellows at the University of Tübingen. As a platform for research, networking and events, the CoF invites all university members to actively participate in shaping the international and interdisciplinary exchange within the university and with the public.
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All upcoming events

► 8-10 October 2024: Conference on Rombachs Denken und die ostasiatische Philosophie

► 16 October 2024: New Horizons Workshop with Professor Patrick Haggard

► 17 October 2024: Workshop with Dr Noam Leshem

► 17 October 2024, 7.00 PM: Semester Opening Event with Lecture by Dr Noam Leshem

► 17-18 October 2024: DFH-Workshop

► 16 November 2024, 2.00 PM: Science & Innovation Days: Lecture and Panel Discussion with Professor Andreas Zick

News

Annual Report 2023

We are very excited to present our 2023 annual report to you. In it you will find interviews with some of the fellows who were with us last year in which they talk about their research and their time in Tübingen; you will also find reports on events and brief introductions to all of last year's visiting scholars. Read about the documentary films of Brazilian sociologist Hermilío Santos, Indian ethnographer and historian Ponni Arasu and her social activism, Tetjana Midjana’s analysis of presidential speech types in times of war, and many intriguing stories more. Download the Report here


We have moved!

The time has finally come: In September the College of Fellows has moved into the Villa Köstlin at Rümelinstr. 27! There we have offices for visiting scholars as well as for our staff; in addition, we have our own seminar-room and "common room" which besides hosting our library will be used for meetings of and with our fellows. Villa Köstlin will be an open house for all international guest researchers and their friends at the University of Tübingen. Feel invited and just drop by!


Semester Opening event the winter semester 2024/25

Thu, 17 October 2024, 7.00 PM
Alte Aula, Tübingen (Münzgasse 30)

Following a lecture by Dr Noam Leshem, we invite you to join us for a glass of wine. The event offers the opportunity to meet and network with international and Tübingen researchers and guests and to find out about the programmes offered by the College of Fellows for international fellows. For more information please click here.

Calls and Vacancies

Call for Contributions

Workshop: The Complexities and Dynamics of Social Interaction and Encounters in Neighborhoods

University of Tübingen, 30-31 January 2025

The College of Fellow's Focus Group Global Encounters: Neighbourhoods and the Global Encounters Platform at the University of Tübingen are organizing a two-day international workshop in January 2025 to provide an interdisciplinary platform for academics, researchers, policymakers, activists, and professionals to reevaluate the ways of doing and thinking in the neighborhood. It will sharpen the sociological, anthropological, historical, philosophical, cultural, religious, linguistic, and economic dimensions of the complexities and dynamics of social interaction in neighborhoods considering spatiality, temporality, and the agency of change and resistance.

We seek submissions from scholars, activists, and policymakers whose work addresses the following conceptual, theoretical, and practical questions: What are the factors of social change in the neighborhood? What is the role of agency that shapes social interaction within the neighborhood? How did colonialism transform contemporary neighborhoods? How do people utilize temporal and spatial dynamics to (re)organize neighborhood encounters and sociality? How do migration, international mobility, industrial capitalism, urbanization, and technological developments affect neighborhoods? How do neighborhoods resist the changes occasioned by heterogeneity? How do neighborhoods communicate with each other? What guarantees cohesion in a neighborhood? And how do neighborhoods deal with conflict and contradictions?

Interested participants are invited to submit a title and abstract of not more than 300 words in English and institutional affiliation to global-encountersspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de by 30 October 2024.

The full text of the call can be downloaded here.

Publications


Porr, Martin und Weidtmann, Niels (Hrsg.): "One World Anthropology and Beyond. A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold" London: Routeledge.

This edited volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold, one of the most influential anthropologists in recent decades. The contributions are drawn from fields such as social anthropology, archaeology, rock art studies, philosophy, and science and technology studies, and critically engage with Ingold’s approaches and ideas. The volume includes contributions from participants in the Masterclass "One World Anthropology" with Tim Ingold, hosted by the CIIS in September 2019.

Past Events

9. – 11. May 2024: SIP Annual Conference

From 9 to 11 May 2024, the annual conference of the Society for Intercultural Philosophy (SIP) "Topoi, Places, and Spaces in an Intercultural Perspective" took place at the University of Tübingen and online via Zoom. The conference, organised by the Society for Intercultural Philosophy in cooperation with the University of Tübingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), featured keynote speakers such as Augustin Berque, Edward Casey, Nathalie Depraz, Tao DuFour, Workineh Kelbessa Golga, Anke Graness, Tim Ingold, Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, Kwok-ying Lau, Rita Segato, and Jaroslava Vydrová. The conference focused on the study and intercultural comparison of topoi, places, and spaces, emphasising their importance in intercultural philosophy and other disciplines. 

For more detailed information, please go to our events archive.


7 – 8 February 2024: Workshop "Kenosis and Its Ethics"

In February 2024 the Workshop "Kenosis and Its Ethics in a Contemporary and Intercultural Perspective" took place at the College of Fellows. It was organized by  Dr Norihito Nakamura, Dr Niels Weidtmann.  Find the full programme here


27 October 2023: Semester Opening

At the beginning of the winter semester, The College of Fellows invited all international fellows and interested university members to the semester opening in the Alte Aula on Friday, October 27. The College of Fellows presented its activities and offers for international scientists. Following the guest lecture by Professor Dr Jan Willem Duyvendak (Director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam) entitled "The Return of the Native. Navigating between nostalgic nativism and hopeful liberalism", Professor Dorothee Kimmich and Professor Boris Nieswand took to the podium to talk to Professor Duyvendak and the audience. The concluding reception offered the opportunity to exchange ideas and to network with other fellows and Tübingen scientists over a glass of wine.


New Horizons Fellow 2023: Professor Rita Felski

In October 2023, the College of Fellows welcomed Professor Rita Felski, who visited the University of Tübingen as part of a New Horizons Fellowship. From 23 to 26 October 2023, the New Horizons Workshop "Postcritique, Recognition, Life World" took place as a closed event. The College of Fellows also  invited all members of the university and the interested public to Rita Felski's public lecture entitled "How Not To Talk About Experience" on Wednesday, 25 October 2023.


28 September 2023: Public lecture by Professor Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

On 1 June 2023, renowned Brazilian anthropologist Prof. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro gave an evening lecture entitled "Indigenous Multinaturalism from a Cosmopolitan Point of View". The lecture, as well as the related one-week masterclass with international doctoral students, was organised as part of the CoF's Focus Group "Interdisciplinary Anthropology" and provided an insight into de Castro's anthropological research on Amerindian perspectivism.

You can find detailed information in our events archive.