Annemarie Schimmel’s life and work has built bridges between East and West, between Islam and Christianity and has inspired researchers of religion around the globe. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, the Annemarie Schimmel Fellowship was established to give international PhD students and young scholars the opportunity for a stay at the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues (CTSI) at Bonn University to pursue research in the field of Comparative Theology.
The Fellowship will support the CTSI’s goal of providing a space for exchange and bridge-building between various religious traditions.
A) For PhD students
What we offer
- 4-month research stay at the CTSI from April-July including working space, access to library, participation in events, and the opportunity to discuss your project with international researchers. You can use your stay to develop a full research proposal for a scholarship application or focus on a specific part of your PhD project.
- Participation in the networking activities of the Transdisciplinary Research Area Individuals, Institutions and Societies (TRA 4)
- Travel allowance depending on country of destination
- Financial support for visa and health insurance
- Housing in Bonn
- 600 Euros monthly scholarship to cover your daily expenses
How to apply
The deadline for application is 15 August each year for the Fellowship in the following year. Decisions will be made by the end of September. Please provide
- a 5-page proposal of your research idea in the area of Comparative Theology, including the concrete questions you would like to pursue during your stay in Bonn
Your CV - Contact details of two members of academic staff that would write a letter of recommendation upon our request
B) For Postdocs
What we offer
- 2-month research stay at the CTSI from May-June including working space, access to library, participation in events, and the opportunity to discuss your project with international researchers
- Participation in the networking activities of the Transdisciplinary Research Area Individuals, Institutions and Societies (TRA 4)
- Travel allowance depending on country of destination
- Financial support for visa and health insurance
- Housing in Bonn
- 600 Euros monthly scholarship to cover your daily expenses
How to apply
The deadline for application is 15 August each year for the Fellowship in the following year. Decisions will be made by the end of September. Please provide
- a 5-page proposal of your research idea in the area of Comparative Theology, including the concrete questions you would like to pursue during your stay in Bonn
Your CV - List of publications
Please send all documents combined in one PDF-file to lwiesenh@uni-bonn.de.
Find out more about the CTSI
Find out more about TRA 4
Die sechs Transdisziplinären Forschungsbereiche (TRA) der Universität Bonn veröffentlichen hier eine gemeinsame Ausschreibung, um hochinnovative, transdisziplinäre Forschungsprojekte von Forscher*innen aus mindestens zwei verschiedenen TRAs zu fördern. Die geförderten Projekte sollen neue und relevante Fragestellungen an der Schnittstelle zwischen den Disziplinen behandeln oder auf die Entwicklung neuer Methoden abzielen, die die Grenzen bestehender Forschungsfragen erweitern.
Der innovative und disziplinenübergreifende Charakter des Antrags ist die wichtigste Voraussetzung für eine Förderung. Die Fortführung bereits etablierter Projekte wird nicht gefördert.
In association with the Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum and the TRA 4 – Individuals, Institutions and Societies (University of Bonn), the International Centre for Philosophy (IZPH) is offering up to 10 Forum Humanum fellowships to qualified doctoral and masters students from any department in the social sciences or humanities at the University of Bonn to participate in an event to be held at the recently founded Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities at the New School for Social Research (NYC).
Researchers within the TRA 4 – Individuals, Institutions and Societies investigate how institutions mediate complex relationships between individuals and society and from there develop a new view of micro-phenomena (development of personality, agency, individualization) as well as macro-phenomena (world society, globalization). Sharing this research objective, the Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities is founded on the premise that genuine knowledge acquisition, truth and objectivity are not the exclusive preserve of any single discipline or method. The concepts we deploy to understand and evaluate human cultural and scientific achievements also have to be placed within their broader social, political and intellectual context and therefore have to be approached from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. The Institute thus aims to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines and draw on the resources of the social sciences, philosophy, and the humanities more generally, in order to pursue a collaborative understanding of the nature and goals of the humanistic and social scientific disciplines and to grapple with the challenges they face in light of the increasing prevalence of intellectual models imported from other disciplines.
Klimawandel, Nachhaltigkeit und ökologisch bedingte Ungleichheit sind als entscheidende gesellschaftlich Herausforderungen unserer Zeit sowohl auf nationaler als auch auf internationaler Ebene anerkannt. Dabei erzeugt der Klimawandel seinerseits globale, gesellschaftliche sowie intergenerationale Ungleichheiten und macht somit eine ökologische Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft zwingend erforderlich, die wiederum einer weiteren Vertiefung sozialer Ungleichheiten entgegenwirken muss. Welche institutionellen Mechanismen sind hierfür relevant und wie können gesellschaftliche Prozesse angestoßen und begleitet werden? Zugleich korrelieren hiermit Fragen nach individuellen Kenntnissen und Kompetenzen, nach Gewohnheiten, Verhaltensstilen und Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen, aber auch nach Motiven, Zielen und (Bildungs-) Kontexten, die sich nur in der Zusammenarbeit von Ökonomie, Soziologie, Rechtswissenschaften, Psychologie u.a. beantworten lassen.
Annemarie Schimmel’s life and work has built bridges between East and West, between Islam and Christianity and has inspired researchers of religion around the globe. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, the Annemarie Schimmel Fellowship was established to give international PhD students and young scholars the opportunity for a stay at the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues (CTSI) at Bonn University to pursue research in the field of Comparative Theology.
The Fellowship will support the CTSI’s goal of providing a space for exchange and bridge-building between various religious traditions.
DETECTING UNUSUAL CONSCIOUSNESS:
FROM BRAIN ORGANOIDS TO AI SYSTEMS
Bonn, 27–28 September 2023
Are some brain organoids, or sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) systems (e.g., ChatGPT 4) conscious? In some cases, it may seem so. But how can we tell? The Center for Science and Thought (CST) at the University of Bonn and the Epileptology Clinic of Bonn invite abstracts for talks at a two-day conference. The conference will focus on unusual candidates for consciousness such as isolated hemispheres after split brain or hemispherotomy surgery, and advanced AI systems (e.g., ChatGPT). The main aim of the conference is to explore cases and investigate what kind of (traditional or innovative) demarcation criteria could be used to detect whether an entity or its local states are conscious.
DATE: 27-28 September, 2023
VENUE: University of Bonn (Germany)
Sept 27. IZPH philosophy building: Poppelsdorfer Allee 28
Sept 28. Life & Brain Building (University Hospital): Venusberg-Campus 1
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Tim BAYNE (Monash)
Jonathan BIRCH (LSE)
Marcello MASSIMINI (Milan)
Elizabeth SCHECHTER (Maryland)
The future is in question and there is an urgent need to act in the face of multiple crises. These socio-ecological emergencies, like the climate crisis or the corona pandemic, happen in a globalised, interconnected world. The questions now are: how do we respond? How do such decisions shape our futures? And in which way do we want these futures to be designed? How can we find shared answers despite a plurality of values around the world? We urgently need to discuss and reflect over the plurality of values and how to decolonise such futures.
In association with the Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum, the TRA 4 – Individuals, Institutions and Societies (University of Bonn) is offering up to 10 Forum Humanum fellowships to qualified doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers from any department in the social sciences or humanities at the University of Bonn to participate in an event to be held at the recently founded Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities at the New School for Social Research (NYC).