Scholarship: Further Extension of the Gerda-Henkel PhD Scholarship for Anna Strob, M.A.
We are pleased to announce that Anna Strob was granted a twelve-month extension of her PhD scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The generous grant will allow her to continue her research on the knowledge transmission between Europe and China in the early seventeenth century and to finalize her dissertation project that focuses on the translation of Aristotle’s natural philosophy to late Ming China. The main body of her doctoral thesis consists of an annotated translation and analysis of the Kongji gezhi 空際格致 (Investigation into Phenomena in the Atmosphere, c. 1633), a Chinese adaption of the Coimbra commentaries on Aristotle’s natural philosophy written by the Jesuit author Alfonso Vagnone. Her doctoral thesis is supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel and Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag.
Scholarship: Felix Clausberg selected for Fulbright PhD Program
Felix Clausberg, M.A., has been selected for the Fulbright PhD Program. From 17 January to 17 June 2022, he will conduct research at the Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism (Texas Tech University). Felix will focus on an interdisciplinary and transcultural reading of Charles S. Peirce's semeiotic. The approach promises to open up exciting new prospects for a novel understanding of form construction processes, embodiment, and information theory. Ultimately, his research project aims to provide base coordinates for a textural semeiotic, a universal pattern of relational logic.
