College of Fellows

COLLEGE OF FELLOWS
Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies

The College of Fellows is the Tübingen model of a university-based Institute for Advanced Studies. It is addressed to all international postdocs and research fellows at the University of Tübingen. As a platform for research, networking and events, the CoF invites all university members to actively participate in shaping the international and interdisciplinary exchange within the university and with the public.
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All upcoming events

►9 – 11 May 2024: Annual Conference of the Society for Intercultural Philosophy (GIP) "Topoi, Places, and Spaces in an Intercultural Perspective"

► June 2024: Pride Month Exhibition "Giving Voice"

► 12 June 2024: Film screening "Mary" and "Manju" by Sarala Emmanuel 

►20 – 21 June 2024: Workshop "Landscape and Imaginary: philosophy, arts, literature" organized by Dr. Lorena Grigoletto

News

Fellows

In the summer semester 2024, we welcome 10 new Teach@Tübingen Fellows who will teach at the University of Tübingen together with 9 other Teach@Tübingen Fellows who are based in Tübingen already. 
Together with the Global Encounter Platform, we are pleased to welcome 4 new Global Encounters Fellows who will arrive in Tübingen in April. We will introduce them as Fellows in Focus in April and May.

From April, we also welcome Vittorio Gallese, renowned Professor of Psychobiology, to the College of Fellows and to the University of Tübingen; Gallese is visiting Tübingen as a recipient of a Humboldt Research Award and will collaborate with other researchers in the Focus Group "Neuroscience and Society". We invite you to attend his lecture at our semester opening event on 26 April.

Calls and Vacancies

Call for Contributions

CONTRIBUTE to our exhibition! 
For our exhibition, which highlights LGBTQAI+ experiences from an intercultural perspective, we invite you to contribute your own stories - whether it's about coming out, struggles with acceptance, moments of freedom, or dreams for the future.

Share your narrative texts, poems, images, or any form of expression by 12 May, 2024 by writing an email to yanti.hoelzchen@cof.uni-tuebingen.de.
You can choose to remain anonymous or include your name. 

The exhibition will be shown throughout June 2024 at Tübingen's Brauwerk Freistil

Publications

Porr, Martin und Weidtmann, Niels (Hrsg.): "One World Anthropology and Beyond. A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold" London: Routeledge.

This edited volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold, one of the most influential anthropologists in recent decades. The contributions are drawn from fields such as social anthropology, archaeology, rock art studies, philosophy, and science and technology studies, and critically engage with Ingold’s approaches and ideas. The volume includes contributions from participants in the Masterclass "One World Anthropology" with Tim Ingold, hosted by the CIIS in September 2019.

Past Events

27.10.2023: Semester Opening

At the beginning of the winter semester, The College of Fellows invited all international fellows and interested university members to the semester opening in the Alte Aula on Friday, October 27. The College of Fellows presented its activities and offers for international scientists. Following the guest lecture by Professor Dr Jan Willem Duyvendak (Director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam) entitled "The Return of the Native. Navigating between nostalgic nativism and hopeful liberalism", Professor Dorothee Kimmich and Professor Boris Nieswand took to the podium to talk to Professor Duyvendak and the audience. The concluding reception offered the opportunity to exchange ideas and to network with other fellows and Tübingen scientists over a glass of wine.


New Horizons Fellow 2023: Professor Rita Felski

In October 2023, the College of Fellows welcomed Professor Rita Felski, who visited the University of Tübingen as part of a New Horizons Fellowship. From 23 to 26 October 2023, the New Horizons Workshop "Postcritique, Recognition, Life World" took place as a closed event. The College of Fellows also  invited all members of the university and the interested public to Rita Felski's public lecture entitled "How Not To Talk About Experience" on Wednesday, 25 October 2023.


28 September 2023: Public lecture by Professor Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

On 1 June 2023, renowned Brazilian anthropologist Prof. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro gave an evening lecture entitled "Indigenous Multinaturalism from a Cosmopolitan Point of View". The lecture, as well as the related one-week masterclass with international doctoral students, was organised as part of the CoF's Focus Group "Interdisciplinary Anthropology" and provided an insight into de Castro's anthropological research on Amerindian perspectivism.

You can find detailed information in our events archive.