FIW News
Call for Participation: Is there an African University?
The workshop „Is there an African University?“ takes place from 15 to 16 July 2021 in a hybrid format.
DAAD-Visiting-Professorships
The Forum Internationale Wissenschaft invites applications for Visiting Professorships „Internationalization of Higher Education in Times of Global Crises“ (full-time, for 6 months within the period from 1 October 2021 until 30 September 2023, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD).
Digitalization Project Complete: British Library Publishes Digitalized Archive of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Dept. f. Religion Studies)
The Endangered Archive Programme of the British Library has financed a digitalization project conducted by Prof. Dr. Adrian Hermann with support of the research and digitalization assistants Emyrrh Breccio Y. de Jesus, Ace Lawrence A. Antazo, and Philipp Kuster. Since 2015 the team has been working on a digitalization of the historical sources of the archive of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente in the Philippines.
03.02. Socio-Ecological Metamorphosis in Praxis / Interactive Panel
Our lecture series on 'Ecology and the Metamorphosis of Modern Society' is coming to a close on Wednesday February 3 between 6 and 8 pm CET with a panel discussion on 'Socio-Ecological Metamorphosis in Practice'.
FIW Working Paper No. 13 published
The FIW working paper No.13 by Ariane Kovac on evangelical communities in Ayacucho, Peru, was published. The working paper can now be downloaded as PDF.
27.1. Anthropocene Islands: A Critial Agenda for Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene (Perspektiven der Moderne)
The next evening of the series "Ecology and the Metamorphosis of Modern Society" takes place on Wednesday, January 27. David Chandler (University of Westminster) and Jonathan Pugh (Newcastle University) will give a lecture on "Anthropocene Islands: A Critial Agenda for Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene".
09.12. Knowing and Managing Socio-Ecological Transformation: Urban Agriculture in London (Perspektiven der Moderne)
The second evening of the series "Ecology and the Metamorphosis of Modern Society" takes place on Wednesday, December 9. Prof. Dr. Jens Lachmund (Maastricht University) will give a lecture on "Knowing and Managing Socio-Ecological Transformation: Urban Agriculture in London".
18.11. From climatic paradigm to socio-ecological metamorphosis? (Perspektiven der Moderne)
On Wednesday at 6 pm, Prof. Dr. Kaat Louckx and Dr. Damien Krichewsky will give an opening lecture as part of the new lecture series of the FIW on 'Ecology and the Metamorphosis of Modern Society'.
Why internationalization?
The lecture "Internationalization and Diversity: Competing or Complementary Imperatives?" by Prof. Dr. David Kaldewey is now available as video on FIW-to-go.
Start of the colloquium in the winter term 2020/21
At the FIW colloquium, FIW employees and other scientists present the latest news from their research projects. The first lecture in the winter term will take place on October 27.
5./6.10. Why Internationalization?
In cooperation with the International Office of the University of Bonn, a conference on the internationalization of universities will take place on October 5 and 6 at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft.
New publication: Hijacked: A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion (hrsg. von L.D. Smith, S. Führding, A. Hermann)
On the conference "Hijacked! A Critical Treatment of the Public Rhetoric of 'Good' and 'Bad' Religion" held at FIW from June 7-11, 2017
Department of Religious Studies receives project funding in the competition "Kleine Fächer: Sichtbar innovativ!"
From July 2020 Rudolf Stichweh joins the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) as Visiting Scholar
Rudolf Stichweh receives the „Sarton Medal“ of Ghent University (Belgium) for the year 2020/1
New publication in the FIW book series "Global Studies & Theory of Society"
A new book by Stefan Priester, "Film als Weltkunst" has been published in the book series edited by FIW and transcript.
