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

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. 

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.

“Edges of Care. Living and Dying in No Man's Land”

The ceremonial semester opening of the College of Fellows took place on Thursday, October 17, 2024. In his talk, Noam Leshem from the University of Durham presented excerpts from his cutting-edge research, in which he takes a closer look at areas and their inhabitants that seem to have been forgotten by the government as well as society for which no one feels responsible. In his book of the same title, “Edges of Care. Living and Dying in No Man's Land,” Leshem brought together his years of research from conflict and crisis areas and thus devotes himself to a topic that is currently extremely politically explosive: what happens to spaces and people - entire cultures even - when no one cares about them and they are left to their own devices and forgotten. 

"Action, Body, and Space"
On Wednesday, 16 October 2024, from 09:30 am.– 5pm, the New Horizons Workshop “Action, Body, and Space” took place at the Villa Köstlin (Rümelinstr. 27, Tübingen) with a keynote by New Horizons Fellow Professor Patrick Haggard titled "Is Space Motoric?" and with further lectures by an interdisciplinary group of Tübingen scientists. The programme can be found here.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.