Join American documentary filmmaker, scholar of American studies, and emeritus professor of constitutional law Mark S. Weiner as he screens and answers questions about his new feature-length indie documentary essay The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home (Hidden Cabinet Films, 105 minutes). The film explores big philosophical and political issues through an unlikely subject: mountain rescue—specifically in the connection between two mountain rescue organizations, one in Seattle, Washington, the other in Tyrol, Austria. This connection ultimately runs through World War II, and Nazism, and their lessons for civic life today. Weiner's underlying premise is that mountain rescue offers a positive, inspiring way of thinking about civic life, especially the relation between local attachment to place and universal human solidarity, that can help transcend political differences.

For several years, Hermílio Santos, Professor of Sociology at PUCRS (Porto Alegre, Brazil), has been making documentary films alongside his research work. His aim is to use these films to discuss and disseminate research findings. The documentary film ‘Lifeworld: The sociology of Alfred Schütz’ (Director: Hermílio Santos, 56 ’, 2018) deals with the sociology of Alfred Schütz and presents interviews on various aspects of the work of the Austrian-American sociologist. The film is divided into four parts that deal with some aspects of his biography, the theoretical influences on his work, the main concepts of his sociological theory and the question of how the sociology of Alfred Schütz is currently used in theoretical and empirical studies. The interviews were conducted and filmed in Vienna, New York, Tokyo, Porto Alegre and Buenos Aires. After the screening, the film's director will discuss some of the topics explored in the film and the process of using documentary film in sociological research. The original languages are English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, French and Portuguese and will be screened with English subtitles.

The CoF Lunch Talk Series invites international fellows and Tübingen researchers to exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere during the lunch break. Each month, a fellow presents his or her research. The CoF Lunch Talks take place in the Villa Köstlin. 

The College of Fellows Lecture Series invites international fellows and Tübingen academics to present their research and network. Every month, fellows and international guest researchers from the University of Tübingen present their research findings. If you are interested, please contact infospam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de 

Online lecture series in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie (GIP). The GIP strives to make intercultural philosophy known as a methodological point of view. This way, they want to facilitate the rapprochement of all world philosophies, in lectures, in research and teaching and in discussion rounds.

We have witnessed in the last years and months a global upsurge of violent conflicts that jettison every form of respect of international law, human rights and principles of justice, despite the decades-long existence of international juridic and peace-keeping instances, such as the United Nations, or of political projects that are built on the idea of universal human rights and rule of law, such as Europe.

 The aim of these workshops is to reflect on the causes which made possible this global critical situation but also and above all on future perspectives which could replace this situation. Read more information on the workshop and its program.