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Blankensee-Colloquia

The aim of the program is to promote and delineate the importance of the humanities and social sciences for scholarly research in Berlin and Brandenburg.

To this purpose, every year in general an "idea contest" is held with the title "Cultural and Social Change."  The contest is for scholars of the region who possess doctorates, are university lecturers, or have been newly appointed to university chairs.  They are provided with monies from a "Cooperation Fund" so as to organize an international conference—a so-called Blankensee-Colloquium—at which they introduce participants to their particular field of research and engage in discussions with leading scholars from not only Berlin and the surrounding region but with those from other parts of Germany and the world.  Along with supporting the work of scholars, the program also promotes the development of innovative research fields and new approaches.

Interested parties are invited to send a project outline.  In the spirit of the contest, various disciplinary methods should be linked with various issues as well as integrating comparative perspectives that allow transformative processes at both the cultural and social level to be studied in light of more distant historical events and unfamiliar cultural experiences.  Likewise to be explored is the question as to how the Colloquium can foster mutual projects or long-term cooperation in the region.

Invited to the colloquia are academic institutions from Berlin and Brandenburg as well as observers from organizations that promote scholarly research.

Presidents and rectors from the following institutions share responsibility for the program:

More information on this program can be downloaded from the German-language pages web-site.

 

 

Former Blankensee colloquia:

  1. "Emergent Forms of Life. Towards a Social and Cultural Anthropology of Life Sciences", 11. - 13. Dezember 2003, organised by Dr. Stefan Beck und Dr. Michi Knecht  

  2. "Der Begriff des Politischen in Europa", 11. - 13. Mai 2004, organised by von Professor Dr. Ulrich Haltern, LL.M.

  3. "The Future of Intervention: Intervention,  Legitimacy and the Reconstruction of Statehood", 16. - 18. Juli 2004, organised by Dr. habil. Christoph Zuercher und Dr. Kristof Gosztonyi

  4. "Language Evolution - Cognitive and Cultural Factors", 14. - 17. Juli 2005, organised by Dr. habil. Regine Eckardt, Dr. habil. Gerhard Jäger und Dr. Tonjes Veenstra

  5. "Public and Private Resource Governance: Mutations and Transformations of a Grand Dichotomy", 13. - 15 Januar 2006, organised by Dr. Thomas Sikor, Professor Dr. Eva Barlösius, Dr. Waltina Scheumann und Dr. habil. Susanne Still-Kleemann

  6. "Simulation als Kulturtechnik. Forschung zum Wandel des mathematischen Blicks der Wissenschaft auf die Welt und seine kulturellen und sozialen Folgen für die Gesellschaft.", 20. - 22. September 2007, organised by Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger

  7. "Organisierte Kriminalität als Konstrukt, gesellschaftliche Herausforderung und Forschungsgegenstand", 27. Februar - 3. März 2008, organised by Dr. Klaus von Lampe

  8. "Bridging the gap between Economics and Area Studies", 8. - 10. Juli 2009, organised by Frau Professor Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin), Professor Carsten Herrmann Pillath (Universität Witten/Herdecke) und
    Dr. Stephan Panther (Universität Flensburg)

  9. "Hearing Modern History, Auditory Cultures in the 19th and 20th Century", organised by Dr. Daniel Morat, FU Berlin, 17. - 19. June 2010

 

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Martin Garstecki
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
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