The "Verein der Freunde und Mitglieder des Wissenschaftskollegs e. V." or "Fellow Club" is a recognized nonprofit organization. According to the Charter, everyone who once stayed at the Kolleg as a Fellow or as a Guest can (and should) be a member.
The Fellow Club provides former Fellows the opportunity to maintain or revive their relationships to the Wissenschaftskolleg and to Fellow colleagues. To this purpose, possibilities are created for Fellows from different "classes" to encounter each other – including an annual meeting to which all former Fellows are invited. This Fellow meeting usually begins with a dinner together on the first Thursday in July, continues on the following Friday with events, excursions, and discussions, and concludes on Saturday morning. There are a variety of opportunities to talk with other Fellows, both current and from other "classes". The Fellow meeting is also the framework for the members’ meeting stipulated by Germany’s law on associations, where the activities of the association and the Wissenschaftskolleg are reported on. Fellows from all academic years are expected at this annual meeting. But the Fellow Club is addressing the "classes" of the 10-year as well as the 20-year anniversary in particular, in hopes of seeing as many Fellows from these years as possible again in Berlin.
The Fellow Club does not collect annual fees, but to fulfill its tasks it depends on donations from the members. The tasks of the Fellowclub are essentially to organize the meeting, to inform former Fellows about the Wissenschaftskolleg, and also to support scientific projects of former Fellows with small contributions for badly needed pieces of technical equipment, books, or travel expenses and organizational help.
Address of the Fellow Club:
Verein der Mitglieder und Freunde des Wissenschaftskollegs e. V.
Wallotstrasse 19
14193 Berlin,
Telephone: +49 30 89 00 1-213
Telefax: +49 30 89 00 1-400
- President: Professor Dr. Peter Hammerstein
- Vice President: Dr. Claudia Schmölders
- Secretary: Prof. Dr. Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus E-mail
- Organisation: Nina Kitsos E-mail
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President and Vice-President of the Fellowclub
Peter Hammerstein is one of the founding professors of the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University in Berlin, chair of Berlin's Collaborative Research Center for Theoretical Biology (Sonderforschungsbereich Theoretische Biologie), and a founding editor of the new journal Biological Theory (MIT Press). With a strong background in mathematics, he started his scientific career as a student of two eminent scientists, the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith and the Nobel Prize winning economist Reinhard Selten. Hammerstein's work in evolutionary biology investigates conflict and cooperation within and among organisms, bridging the disciplines of his mentors, and extending the field of game theory to genetics, immunology, and biological studies of human sociality. Peter Hammerstein was elected as President of the Fellowclub June 1995.
Claudia Schmölders studied German Literature, Musicology and Philosophy in Cologne, Zurich, Berlin and New York. Ph.D. at the Free University Berlin, 1973. Habilitation at Humboldt University, Berlin, 1998. 1975-1999 Editor at various publishing houses (Diogenes, Diederichs, Insel, Rowohlt) as well as independent author and academic editor. Taught at the Universities of Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Berlin. Her work is mainly on the History of Physiognomy. Her book Hitlers Gesicht, 2000, was published in English in 2005 (Pennsylvania University Press). 1990-1992 she received Fellowships at the Maison de Science de L'homme and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Since 2000 Member of the German PEN club. 2004 Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Claudia Schmölders was elected in 1996 as Vice-President of the Fellowclub. See also www.claudiaschmoelders.de
Annual Meeting of the Fellowclub 2010
10th Anniversary for the Fellows of the year 1989/90
20th Anniversary for the Fellows of the year 19999/00
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
2.30 p.m. Prologue: „Conceptual Confusion in Life Sciences“
Discussion of the Fellowclub in cooperation with SFB Theoretische Biologie / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
5:30 p.m. Apéritif
6:30 p.m. Dinner – former and present Fellows
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
9:45 a.m. Boat trip
3:30 p.m. Members' assembly
5:00 p.m. Discussion: „Is there anything unique about humans?”
7:00 p.m. Buffet dinner
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
10:00 a.m. Breakfast at Café Einstein
Fellow Club Book Sponsorship for the Central Library of the Humboldt University (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center)
On the occasion of its 200th birthday, Berlin’s Humboldt University will receive a new central library in the middle of the city – a state-of-the-art, architecturally appealing complex of buildings characterized by a high degree of user-friendliness. Along with the stocks of current research literature, the collections of scientific literature from the 19th century and valuable special collections will be made accessible to the interested public. With 2.5 million books and other media available "open shelf", it is one of the largest library inventories in Germany.
Part of this collection is Wilhelm von Humboldt’s private library with 240 mostly linguistic works, most of them rarissima, for example the earliest language scripts from Central and South America, as well as works on Asian, African, Oceanic, American, and Middle Eastern languages. Thanks to his diverse diplomatic contacts, Wilhelm von Humboldt was able to acquire scripts that are otherwise very difficult to find.
In the past, the Fellows of the Wissenschaftskolleg have profited from the stocks of the Humboldt University; now, for the opening of the new Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center, the FellowClub has taken on a book sponsorship. With its aid, it will be possible to restore 22 books from Humboldt’s collection and make them usable again.
Here are three examples of books to be restored with the help of the FellowClub:
1. Wilhelm von Humboldt: Ueber die Aufgabe des Geschichtsschreibers: eine in der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften vorgelesene Abhandlung / von Wilhelm von Humboldt. - Berlin. - 1822
2. Pierre Amédée Émilien Probe Jaubert: Éléments de la grammaire turke: à l'usage des élèves de l'École Royale et Speciale des Langues Orientales Vivantes / par P. Amédée Jaubert. - Paris. : Impr. royale. - 1823
3. Maurizio Garzoni : Grammatica e vocabulario della lingua kurda / composti dal Maurizio Garzoni. - Roma : Stamp della Sac. congreg.di propag.fide. - 1727
