Alumnae und Alumni
Hier finden Sie eine Übersicht und Profile der Alumnae und Alumni des College of Fellows | CIIS.
Abiodun Afolabi
Ethik
2023
Fellowship: Intercultural Studies Fellowship |
Affiliation: College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies; host: Dr Niels Weidtmann |
Stay in Tübingen (from - until): Mai 2023 – Januar 2024 |
Research Project: Eliciting the phenomenology of culture in global environmental ethics |
Research Areas: Applied Ethics, Climate Ethics, Environmental Justice, Eco-Phenomenology |
Publications: Veröffentlichte Artikel siehe hier. |
Contact: abiodunafoo / @gmail.comabiodun.afolabi @aaua.edu.ng |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of the CoF Focus Group “Intercultural Studies”, participation and organisation of workshops z.B. Workshop "Eco-phenomenology: Exploring Eco-phenomenological Concepts and Theories from and for Africa’s Ecological Lifeworld" (13.– 15. Dezember 2023), attending lectures and seminars, writing and publishing articles |
About: Dr. Afolabi holds a Bachelor and Honors Degree in Philosophy from Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. He received his M.A. Degree in Philosophy from the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. He completed his PhD research at the Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, South Africa. During his PhD, Dr. Afolabi was a recipient of the prestigious Doctoral scholarship from Allan Gray Center for Leadership Ethics, Rhodes University between 2019-2021. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is currently a faculty member at the Department of Philosophy, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. He is keenly interested in the conceptualisation and resolution of peculiar development and global justice problems afflicting vulnerable people around the world, particularly in African societies. His research interests are in the areas of applied ethics, climate change ethics, migration studies, global (environmental) justice, and bio-politics. |
Personal Website: http://abiodunafooworld.com/ |
Ada Agada
Philosophie
2020
Affiliation: Intercultural Senior Fellow am College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies 2020/21 |
Research Project: Consolationism in and beyond African Philosophy: A Systematic Approach to Intercultural Philosophy |
Research Areas: African Philosophy, Phenomenology |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Contact: ada.agada @ciis.uni-tuebingen.de |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of the CoF Focus Group 'Intercultural Studies' |
About Ada: Beginning with the summer semester 2019 until February 2021, Dr. Ada Agada is a Research Fellow at CIIS. Dr. Agada is a George Forster Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Agada's research project is entitled "Consolationism in and beyond African Philosophy: A Systematic Approach to Intercultural Philosophy." It is based on the thesis that African philosophy will only be able to assert its relevance in the age of globalization in the context of an intercultural perspective. The new school of thought of "Consolationalism" (philosophy of consolation) leaves behind the tension between tradition and modernity that has long characterized African philosophy. It therefore appears to be particularly suitable for elaborating the intercultural dimension of African philosophy. |
New Book Publication! "Consolationism and Comparative African Philosophy: Beyond Universalism and Particularism". More |
Frankie Augustin
Health Administration
April 2023
Fellow Profile
Affiliation: American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow; Full Professor in the Health Administration Program at California State University, Northridge (CSUN); 2022-2023 ACE Fellow Benedict College, South Carolina HBCU |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Podiumsdiskussion Leadership in Higher Education: A Transatlantic Dialogue (27. April 2023), hosted by the German American Institute (DAI) and College of Fellows. |
Stay in Tübingen: April 2023 |
About: Dr. Augustin is a Full Professor in the Health Administration Program at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She earned a bachelor’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology, her Master of Science degree in Health Administration, and her doctorate in Policy, Planning and Development. Some of Dr. Augustin’s appointed roles include Interim Department Chair for the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health; Special Assistant to the Dean of the College of Health and Human Development; and Equity Faculty Affiliate for CSUN’s Office of the Provost and the Office of Student Success. Dr. Augustin’s research interests include cultural humility, workplace readiness, eliminating racial equity gaps for African American and Black students, and investigating strategies that increase racial diversity in the healthcare workforce. |
Eleonora Bedin
Archäologie
2022
Fellowship: Teach@Tuebingen Fellowship |
Affiliation: Institute of Classical Archaeology; Host: Prof. Dr. Richard Posamentir |
Stay in Tübingen (from - until): Oktober 2022 - September 2023 |
Research Project: "The Political Side of Motherhood: Kybele from a Protective Deity to the Great Mother" |
Research Areas: History and Archaeology of the Graeco-Roman Near East; History of Religions; Cultural Anthropology |
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Contact: bedin.eleonora90 @gmail.com |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Fellow Lunch Talk "The Ancient Mediterranean as a Global Stage: Tracing the Mother Goddess Across Borders" (20. Juli 2023) |
About: Eleonora Bedin is a Teach@Tuebingen Fellow at the Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Tuebingen. She holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Classics from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, with a final thesis on Hellenistic Epigraphy. Recently, she was awarded her Ph.D. at the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa, Israel. During her doctoral studies, Eleonora's research focused on the topic of "Micro and Macro Identities in the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean." Her investigations delved into the intricate dynamics of connectivity, religious patterns, imperial dominance, and adaptation strategies that significantly influenced the cultural identities of the period. Through her scholarly endeavors, she aimed to provide valuable contributions to our understanding of the multifaceted interplay between individual and collective identities in the Mediterranean basin during antiquity. The culmination of her research resulted in the publication of her thesis in three distinct articles, which collectively contribute to painting a multilayered image of the Mediterranean in the Graeco-Roman period. By disseminating her findings through these publications, Eleonora has enriched the scholarly discourse and shed new light on the complexities of the ancient Mediterranean. Beyond her primary field of interest, Eleonora demonstrates a keen interest in adopting a multidisciplinary approach, skillfully incorporating methodologies from anthropology, epigraphy, archaeology, and literary culture to enhance her investigations. Embracing this holistic perspective, she continually strives to offer fresh insights and uncover novel layers of knowledge within her field of study. As a Teach@Tuebingen Fellow, Eleonora is passionately dedicated to offering a comprehensive understanding of the Graeco-Roman Near East. Her teachings not only explore the dynamics of connectivity, globalization, and regional particularity but also introduce students to the main aspects of Coastal and Underwater archaeology. Through her expertise, she endeavors to illuminate the broader concept of Mediterranean connectivity, making a significant impact on the study and appreciation of ancient civilizations. |
Carolina Carrasco Pulido
Biologie
2022
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Cellular Nanosience Department |
Research Project: Studying DNA-Rad52 interaction at the single-molecule level |
Research Areas: Biophysics of single-molecule, molecular motors, DNA-protein interactions, viruses, atomic force microscopy, magnetic tweezers, optical tweezers and biochemical techniques |
Contact: carolina.carrasco-pulido @zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture: "Studying DNA-Rad52 Interaction at the Single Molecule Level" (9. Februar 2022) |
About: Carolina Carrasco studied Physics at the University of Granada. Because of her interest in the field of single-molecule biophysics, she moved to Madrid to obtain her PhD in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid by studying the mechanical response of single viruses upon deformation with Atomic Force Microscopy. After that, she extended her expertise to the Magnetic Tweezers technique at the National Centre of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) at Madrid. Her research is focused on understanding DNA repair and replication by motor proteins at the single-molecule level. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of nanomachines is important for molecular biology and medicine because they are involved in cellular repair pathways of which defects are associated with human disease. Currently, she enjoys a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers to study DNA-protein mechanisms by using Optical Tweezers at the Cellular Nanoscience Department in the ZMBP, Tübingen University. |
Jan Chromý
Slavisches Seminar
2021
Affiliation: Slavisches Seminar; Host: Professor Tilman Berger |
Research Project: Quantitative Analysis of the Use and Mutual Relationship between Frequent Variables in Common Czech |
Research Areas: Language variation, Psycholinguistics, Empirical Linguistic Methodology, Synesthesia |
Publications: Siehe hier. |
Contact: jan.chromy @ff.cuni.cz |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Conference Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages 2022, PsychoSlav2022 (14.–16. Juli 2022) |
About: I am an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague). I am the head of the ERCEL lab ("Experimental Research on Central European Languages Lab"). From 2021 to 2023 I am an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen, hosted by Professor Tilman Berger. My project aim in Tübingen lies in the quantitative analysis of language variation in Czech, but I also focus on various psycholinguistic issues, such as language comprehension (how do we understand each other) and the impact of knowledge and use of more than one language on processing the native / first language. Moreover, I am interested in language processing from a cross-linguistic perspective (i.e. to what extent speakers of different languages process language structures differently). |
Personal Website: https://ercel.ff.cuni.cz/ |
Elise Coquereau-Saouma
Philosophie
2021
Affiliation: Intercultural Fellow am College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies 2021 |
Research Project: Interculturalizing our Selves: Inward and Outward Models |
Research Areas: Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Modern and Contemporary Continental (French-German) Philosophy |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Organisation des Workshops: "Freedom from Others or Freedom with Others? Alienation, Independence and Liberation in Contemporary Indian Philosophy" (11. und 13. Dezember 2021); Organisation der GIP Lectures mit Prof. Dr. Bhagat Oinam (18. November 2021) und Prof. Dr. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (7. Dezember 2021) |
About: Elise Coquereau-Saouma works in the area of intercultural philosophy, within which she aims at creating spaces for voices from modern and contemporary Indian philosophy that remain at the margins of the global philosophical canon. Before being a Senior Research Fellow at the College of Fellows, she was a research affiliate at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and a Fellow of the PostDoc Track program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Vienna and Charles University with a work on the saṃvāda experiments, or dialogical experiments between traditional Sanskrit-speaking Indian philosophers and English-trained Indian philosophers led by Daya Krishna. The results of this work will be published in two monographs for Routledge, Intercultural Dialogues: Conceptions, Divergences and Limits and Creativity of Knowledge and Intercultural Dialogue: Thinking with Daya Krishna. She is also the co-editor with E. Freschi of a special issue of Sophia on ‘The Challenge of Postcolonial Philosophy in India: Too Alien for Contemporary Philosophers, too Modern for Sanskritists?’ (2018). |
Project: Theories in comparative, postcolonial and intercultural theories have not yet led to the integration of contemporary Anglophone Indian philosophy, neither in India nor globally. Neither are the texts available, nor are much secondary resources written, historical or philosophical, to comment the work of post-independence Indian academic philosophers. Paying attention to this lacuna, in the present project I reflect on the margins of our global philosophies and intercultural models that for now remain mostly developed in Western academia, where ‘Indian philosophy’ is restricted to its classical texts and concepts. I argue that the inclusion of contemporary Indian philosophy is not only historically just, but also helpful to think about intercultural models of conceiving our relation to Otherness. Indeed, intercultural theories such as Waldenfels’ distinguish between der Andere (other) and der Fremde (alien). Such theories explain that the intercultural Other is an ‘extra-ordinary’ phenomenon, beyond any categorical order and given understanding. For postcolonial cultures such as India, however, the question cannot be reduced to this alternative of an Other who is different from me and an alien who is radically elsewhere. The specificity of a colonial heritage implies an ‘own’ altered by the other, to the extent that the other became the own, but an own who is also different from the other, due to a process of alienation, hybridity of thoughts, in a search for authenticity. This leads to an interesting difference in conceiving intercultural models. For intercultural theories, the conception is organized around the idea of reaching cultural otherness. They aim at creating adequate forms able to engage with the Other without reducing her to one’s own conceptual framework. However, in a postcolonial world, it is no longer a question of reaching otherness, but of reconnecting with the own – the identity and unity of which raises great complexities. Thus, I propose to consider the differences between two models, the ‘outwardization’ of Otherness and the ‘inwardization’ of Otherness: the first considers that the Other is something out of my reach, that ought to be reached. In the inwardization model, the Other is already part of me, or I am already with her/him, and I have to ‘realize my essentiality’ with Others. The ‘inwardization’, ‘realization’, ‘seeking’ to become what I am by realizing that the reality has never been other than me, are frequent terms in twentieth century India. There two dimensions of my research meet, where the models for framing ‘global philosophy’ emerge from local reception of neglected philosophers. |
Websites: https://uni-tuebingen1.academia.edu/EliseCoquereauSaouma https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2411-2010 |
Report: During my research stay at the College of Fellows (August-December 2021), I organised and moderated two lectures collaboratively organized by the College of Fellows and the Society for Intercultural Philosophy (GIP), delivered by Prof. Bhagat Oinam (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Prof. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster University): the recordings are available in the section Mediathek. I also organized, introduced and moderated the workshop Freedom from Others or Freedom with Others? Alienation, Independence and Liberation in Contemporary Indian Philosophy, on 11 and 13th December 2021. With these, I wanted to contribute to the Focus Group Intercultural Studies of the College. The two lectures were thought for a broad audience to engage with diverse Indian philosophies (classical Sanskrit texts and indigenous oral accounts from the North-East, in dialogue with phenomenological discourses). The workshop benefitted from the fellowship in Intercultural Studies at the College of Fellows in Tübingen to obtain an academic space that otherwise does not exist, in order to discuss specific developments within contemporary Indian philosophy. The openness of the College of Fellows and the freedom granted to researchers enabled our contemporary Indian research and discussions, and it also created a truly international platform, with most participants from India. Further workshops and conferences organized by my colleagues in Tübingen were fruitful opportunities to think collectively, raise methodological questions or discover new authors and concepts, which helped me clarify my own thoughts on interculturality.
In addition to these events at the College of Fellows, I delivered a lecture in the Course “Geschichte der Philosophie in globaler Perspektive” (History of Philosophy in a Global Perspective) in a seminar organized in cooperation between the Universities of Wuppertal, Freiburg and Hildesheim (online talk). My talk was meant to introduce historiography practiced in contemporary Indian philosophy with special regards to Surendranath Dasgupta’s opus magnum History of Indian Philosophy (in five volumes) and entitled :“How to write the ‘history’ of 3000 years of a subcontinent’s philosophies, in English, during colonization or in the wake of Independence, in one book?”, in a project to diversify the teachings of History of Philosophy up to what it should be, namely a truly global history. It has been an enriching and inspiring experience to see such collaboration between experts of all regional areas to work together for delivering one Course.
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Nicolas De Maeyer
Theologie
2022
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Lehrstuhl Kirchengeschichte mit Schwerpunkt Alte Kirche, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät |
Research Project: Augustine as preacher of morality: critical edition and content analysis of the Sermones de diuersis of Augustine of Hippo (ss. 341-363) |
Research Areas: Latin literature from the Late Antique and Early Medieval period, Patristic theology and exegesis, transmission and reception studies, manuscript studies, textual criticism |
Publications: You can find his most recent publications here. |
Contact: nicolas.demaeyer @kuleuven.benicolas.demaeyer @arts.kuleuven.benicolas.de-maeyer @ev-theologie.uni-tuebingen.de |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture: "The Construction of Patristic Authority in the Middle Ages: the Sermones ad populum of Augustine of Hippo" (12. Januar 2022) |
About: Nicolas De Maeyer studied Classical and German philology at the University of Leuven, and received his PhD in Latin Literature from the same university (2019), with a dissertation on the reception of the works and thinking of Augustine of Hippo in the writings of Beda Venerabilis. He is currently postdoctoral researcher at the universities of Leuven (2019-2023) and Tübingen (2021-2022), with a project on Augustine’s Sermones de diuersis. His field of research is the transmission and reception of Patristic literature in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the works of Augustine of Hippo, Patristic sermons and florilegia, Latin homiliaries, and the reconstruction of Medieval libraries. For the Series Latina of the Corpus Christianorum (Brepols Publishers), he is preparing an edition of Bede’s Pauline commentary and of Augustine’s Sermones de diuersis. |
Philippe Descola
Ethnologie
Juni 2022
Research Areas: Ethnology, Social Anthropology |
Publications: Les Natures en question: Colloque de rentrée du Collège de France (2017); La Fabrique des images (2010); Outras naturezas, outras culturas; Anthropologie de la nature: Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 29 mars 2001; u.w. |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Summer Lecture 2022 |
Stay in Tübingen: Juni 2022 |
About: French anthropologist Philippe Descola is a prominent critic of the nature-culture dualism. Building on ethnographic research in the Ecuadorian Amazon, he distinguishes four different forms of "worlding" as analytic frame for understanding collective life, subjectivity and social relations beyond an ethnocentric naturalism. Descola taught at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and is emeritus Professor at the Collège de France, as was his teacher Claude Lévi-Strauss. He holds the CNRS gold medal, one of the most renowned academic awards in France. |
Courtney Dorroll
Middle Eastern and North African Studies
April 2023
Research Areas: Middle Eastern and North African Studies/Religion |
Publications: Teaching, Self-Care, and Reflective Practice during a Pandemic (PS Political Science, 2022); Seeing and Hearing Omar Ibn Said (Review of Middle East Studies, 2021); Creating Virtual Exchanges: Promoting Intercultural Knowledge When Study Abroad Is Not Possible (Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 2020); u.w. |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Podiumsdiskussion Leadership in Higher Education: A Transatlantic Dialogue (27. April 2023), hosted by the German American Institute (DAI) and College of Fellows. |
Stay in Tübingen: April 2023 |
About: Courtney Dorroll is a champion of the teacher-scholar model, where faculty research informs the classroom, students participate in research opportunities with their teachers, and the results inform best practices in the job market. She has experience with student-faculty collaborative research within her classroom and in the summer. Her research is focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning where she publishes widely on experiences ranging from self-care pedagogy to teaching difficult topics to virtual exchange pedagogy. Dorroll played a key part in developing Wofford College, and she previously served as founding coordinator of their Middle Eastern and North African Studies Program and interim Director of their Center for Innovation and Learning. As a 2022-2023 ACE Fellow, Dorroll will shadow the president and senior leaders at Furman University. The fellowship program combines retreats, interactive learning opportunities, visits to campuses and other higher education-related organizations, and placement at another higher education institution to condense years of on-the-job experience and skills development into a single year. |
Mohammed Ech-Cheikh
Philosophie
Januar 2023
Affiliation: College of Fellows | Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies; Host: Dr Niels Weidtmann |
Research Project: Arab philosophy and transcultural philosophy |
Research Areas: Modern and contemporary Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Theory of Values, Hermeneutics, Islamic Philosophy and Theology |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Fellow Lunch Talk "Would we need to re-read classical Arab philosophers?" (26. Januar 2023) |
Publications: The Intellectual and the Power in modern French Thought (1990), Approaches to Modernity and Post-Modernity in Continental Philosophy (1996), The Issue of Modernity in ArabThought (2004), Moroccan intellectuals and Modernity (2004), The theory of Modernity in Hegel’s Philosophy (2008), The Book of Arab Wisdom (2008), The critique of Modernity in Nietzsche’s Philosophy (2009), The critique of Modernity in Heidegger’s Philosophy (2010), Initiation to Philosophy (2013), Initiation to Values (2014), What is Deconstruction? (2015), Ethics (with Heinz Gaube) (2016), Initiation to Islamic philosophy (2018), Philosophical Theology (2020), Introduction to Aesthetics (2021) |
Contact: mohammed.ech-cheikh; @ev-theologie.uni-tuebingen.deEch_Cheikh @yahoo.fr |
About: - Professor of Political Philosophy, philosophy of religion and philosophy of values, faculty of Humanities Ben Msik, University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco |
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Eva Falaschi
Philologie
2023
Fellowship: Global Encounters Fellowship |
Affiliation: Philosophische Fakultät, Philologisches Seminar ;host: Prof. Dr. Anja Wolkenhauer |
Stay in Tübingen (from - until): April 2023 - März 2024 |
Research Project: “Natural Histories in a Global Perspective. Pliny, Oviedo and the Americas: An Ancient Encyclopedia as a Model to Transfer and Transmit Knowledge” |
Research Areas: Latin and Greek Literature, Classical Philology, Early Modern Literature, Classical Archaeology |
Publications: Περιηγηταί nel mondo antico. Usi e interpretazioni del termine in una prospettiva cronologica (Studi e Ricerche). Milano: LED, 2021.
More publications here. |
Contact: eva.falaschi@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de; eva.falaschi@gmail.com |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Global Encounters Lecture: "Natural Histories in a Global Perspective. Pliny, Oviedo and America: An Ancient Encyclopaedia as a Model to Transfer and Transmit Knowledge" (23. Januar 2024) |
About: Eva Falaschi holds a diploma and Ph.D. in archaeology from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and a Master of Arts in Classics from the University of Pisa. From 2014 to 2020, she was a research fellow at the Scuola Normale, working on the reception of Greek art in Roman Imperial literature and, in particular, in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia. Between 2021 and 2022, her project on art treatises and artists’ biographies in ancient times was funded by the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), the James Loeb Gesellschaft / Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (München), and the Getty Research Institute. Her Global Encounters research aims at a historical analysis of global knowledge formation. It examines the impact of Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia (c. AD 70) on the understanding and global transmission of America’s natural history in the 16th century. |
Personal Website: ORCID: 0000-0002-0609-5827 |
Rita Felski
Ästhetik
Oktober 2023
Fellow Profile
Research Areas: Ästhetik, Literaturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaften, feministische Theorie, Moderne und Postmoderne |
Publications: Rethinking Tragedy, editor (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007); Uses of Literature (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 2008). Blackwell’s Manifesto Series; Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses, co-edited with Susan Stanford Friedman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2013); The Limits of Critique (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015); Critique and Postcritique, co-edited with Elizabeth Anker (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017); Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies, co-authored with Amanda Anderson and Toril Moi (University of Chicago Press, 2019); Latour and the Humanities, co-edited with Stephen Muecke (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020); Hooked: Art and Attachment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020); Love Etc, co-edited with Camilla Schwarz (University of Virginia Press, 2024) |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Workshop "Postcritique, Recognition, Life World"; Public Lecture "How Not To Talk About Experience" |
Stay in Tübingen: Oktober 2023 |
About: Rita Felski ist John-Stewart-Bryan-Professorin für Englisch an der University of Virginia und Niels-Bohr-Professorin an der University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Sie ist eine führende Wissenschaftlerin in den Bereichen Ästhetik, Literaturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaften, feministische Theorie, Moderne und Postmoderne und hat etwa die Entwicklung der Postkritik und die Diskussion der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie (ANT) Bruno Latours in den Literaturwissenschaften maßgeblich geprägt. |
Melissa Jane Johnston
Neurobiologie
2021
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology |
Stay in Tübingen: November 2021 bis Oktober 2023 |
Research Project: Tempus fugit: Interval timing in crows |
Research Areas: Comparative cognition, avian neurophysiolog,; interval timing |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Contact: melissa.johnston @biologie.uni-tuebingen.demilliej.johnston @gmail.com |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture: "Tempus Fugit: Interval Timing in Crows" (10. November 2021) |
About: Melissa (Millie) Johnston studied psychology for her Bachelor of Science at the University of Otago (Dunedin, News Zealand) from 2011–2013. Staying at Otago, she then completed her Master of Science (2014–2015) and doctorate in the Department of Psychology (2016–2019). Her postgraduate research focused on higher-order cognitive abilities in pigeons associated with the nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL), a brain region considered to be the avian homologue to the mammalian prefrontal cortex. Here she used both temporary lesion and electrophysiology techniques to investigate the role of the NCL in various working memory and serial-order tasks. During her doctorate, she was awarded an Elman Poole Travelling Scholarship to support her during a research visit to Ruhr Universität Bochum where she helped establish an open arena for jackdaw research. Millie has continued her NCL research in Tübingen first as a postdoc and now Humboldt Fellow at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Her current research investigates the role of the NCL in interval timing behaviour in crows. |
Han-luen Kantzer Komline
Theologie
2022
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Protestant Faculty of Theology; host: Prof. Dr. Volker Drecoll. |
Stay in Tübingen: Juni 2022 bis Juli 2023 |
Research Project: The Idea of the New in Early Christian Thought. |
Research Areas: Christian Theology, History of Christianity, Systematic Theology. |
Publications: - Fourth edition of Turning Points, co-authored with Mark Noll and David Komline (Baker Academic, 2022). |
Contact: han-luen @westernsem.edu |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Attendance and presentation at Humboldt Lecture Series: "The Idea of the New in Early Christian Thought" (8. Februar 2023) |
About: Han-luen Kantzer Komline is Associate Professor of Church History and Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, USA and the author of Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2020), which received the Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2020. Her research focuses on early Christian theology. Many of her publications concern topics in Augustine or his relationship to other thinkers, ranging from Ambrose and Cyprian to Karl Barth and Marilynne Robinson. She has also published on more recent figures such as John Calvin, Jürgen Moltmann, and Erich Przywara, and serves as co-editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology. Kantzer Komline’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Louisville Institute, the Augustinian Institute at Villanova, and the Humboldt Foundation. Her current book project, The Idea of the New in Early Christian Thought, analyzes how Christians of late antiquity conceptualized and defended the innovative character of the Christian faith. |
Webpage: https://www.westernsem.edu/faculty/kantzer-komline/ und https://westernsem.academia.edu/HanluenKantzerKomline |
Workineh Kelbessa
Philosophie
2022
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies |
Research Project: Remapping global realities: the need for building a more sustainable and inclusive world. |
Research Areas: African philosophy, indigenous knowledge, environmental ethics, development ethics, climate ethics, water ethics, globalization, and the philosophy of love and sex. |
Publications: He has published widely on many topics. His most recent publications are: "African Environmental Philosophy, Injustice, and Policy" (2022), "Environmental Injustice and Disposal of Hazardous Waste in Africa" (2022), and "Africa's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Guiding Ethical Principles" (2022). A full list of his publications can be found here. |
Contact: workineh, @aau.edu.etworkineh-kelbessa.golga @izwew.uni-tuebingen.de |
About: Workineh Kelbessa is Professor of Philosophy at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University, United Kingdom, an MA in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and a BA in Philosophy from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Kelbessa has taught philosophy at Addis Ababa University since 1988. He was the Head of the Department of Philosophy from 2001 to 2004, 2006 to 2007, and from 2016 to 2019. He has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Rostock, Stellenbosch University, the University of Greifswald, the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, and the University of Oxford. He has traveled widely and visited various universities and has given invited lectures and conference papers in Africa, Europe, America, Asia and Australia. He served as a member of UNESCOs World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) from 2012-2019. He was also a member of the International Panel on Social Progess (IPSP) and a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is currently a member of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and serves as a member of several other international professional associations. Moreover, he was a member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Ethics and has served on the Editorial Boards of various journals including Health Care Analysis, the African Journal of Environmental Ethics and Values, and the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Currently, he is a Visiting Research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. |
Webpage: Workineh Kelbessa | College of Social Sciences (aau.edu.et) |
Diana Liao
Tierpsychologie
2019
Fellow Profile
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology |
Stay in Tübingen: November 2019 bis Januar 2023 |
Research Project: Investigating the behavioral and neural foundations of vocal flexibility in corvid songbirds. |
Research Areas: Communication, social behavior, comparative cognition, neural circuit dynamics. |
Publications: - Liao DA, Brecht KF, Johnston M, & Nieder A. (2022) Recursive sequence generation in crows. Science Advances, 8(44), eabq3356 |
Contact: diana.a.liao, @gmail.comdiana.liao @biologie.uni-tuebingen.de |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture: "Vocal Flexibility in Crows" (08. Februar 2023). |
About: Dr. Diana Liao is interested in the evolution of complex cognitive and social behaviors using the comparative approach. She first got interested in cognitive neuroscience during her bachelor studies at Johns Hopkins University. She then did a doctorate at Princeton University studying vocal interactions and development in marmoset monkeys. For her postdoc, she switched animal species and traveled to Germany on a Humboldt fellowship to study the complex vocal capabilities of crows at the University of Tübingen. |
Roberta Locatelli
Philosophie
Januar 2022
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Philosophisches Seminar |
Research Project: Tempus fugit: Interval timing in crows |
Research Areas: Philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, with a focus on the philosophy of perception, introspection, and consciousness, the metaphysics of colour, epistemology |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Contact: roberta.locatelli @uni-tuebingen.de |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture: "The Puzzle of Colour and the Perspectival Nature of Perception" (12. Januar 2022) |
About: Roberta Locatelli is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the philosophy department of the University of Tübingen. Before that, she was a postdoctoral DAAD PRIME Fellow at the same department. She earned her doctorate from the University of Warwick and the University Paris-1. She works in the philosophy of mind and psychology, with a specific focus on the philosophy of perception, and on the metaphysics of colour and other observational properties. |
Website: https://locatellirobe.wixsite.com/robertalocatelli |
Sarah Lohmann
Anglistik und Literatur
Juli 2022
Fellowship: Teach@Tuebingen Fellowship |
Affiliation: Institute of English Languages and Literatures; host: Prof. Ingrid Hotz-Davies |
Research Project: Publication of thesis ‘The Edge of Time: The Critical Dynamics of Structural Chronotopes in the Utopian Novel’ alongside other publications; teaching of courses 'Women Writing Worlds: Feminist Utopian Literature through the Ages’ and ‘Ghosts and Others: Systems, Selves and the Supernatural in Gothic Literature’ |
Research Areas: feminist utopian literature, utopian studies in general, science fiction, systems theory, climate fiction, Gothic literature and analytic philosophy |
Publications: see my ORCID iD here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2798-8939 |
Contact: sarah.lohmann@gmail.com |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Fellow Lunch Talk: “Utopian Chronotopes and the Feminist Utopia as Critical Thought Experiment” (20. Juli 2022) |
About: Sarah Lohmann is a Teaching and Research Fellow under Professor Ingrid Hotz-Davies in the Department of English as part of the Teach@Tübingen programme. She previously completed her PhD in English literature under the supervision of Professors Patricia Waugh and Simon James at Durham University in England, following the completion of two master's degrees, in English literature and gender studies and in analytic philosophy, at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She also previously attained a First-Class joint undergraduate degree in English literature and philosophy at St Andrews, bringing her total time spent in the UK so far up to 13 years - enough time to attain citizenship and develop a fondness for ceilidh dancing and academic pub culture. Sarah’s research and teaching focus on feminist utopian literature, utopian studies in general, science fiction, systems theory, climate fiction, Gothic literature and analytic philosophy. Her PhD thesis presented a case for the classification of utopian literature in terms of structural Bakhtinian chronotopes based on systems theory, with a particular focus on the feminist ‘critical utopias’ of Joanna Russ, Marge Piercy and Ursula K. Le Guin. At the University of Tübingen, Sarah taught a course last semester entitled 'Women Writing Worlds: Feminist Utopian Literature through the Ages’, which further developed her work on feminist utopias, and this semester, she is teaching one entitled ‘Ghosts and Others: Systems, Selves and the Supernatural in Gothic Literature’, which also builds on the systems-theoretical chronotope framework she developed in her PhD thesis. After recently publishing a book chapter on utopia as living organism for a Festschrift in the Ralahine Utopian Studies Series, Sarah is currently working on further publication projects, including the publication of her thesis and of a commissioned book-length introduction to Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time. She is also continually developing her pedagogical practice, including recently becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and attaining a masters-level Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), the highest teaching qualification available to early-career university lecturers in the UK. |
Personal Website: www.sarahlohmann.com Further information on her work can be found in her interview with the SFRA Review as an 'up and coming science fiction scholar'. Sarah is happy to be contacted (for example via the contact form on her website) regarding possible collaborations as well as postdoctoral and funding opportunities for the future. |
Àlex Mas-Sandoval
Archäologie
2023
Fellowship: Global Encounters Fellowship, short term |
Affiliation: Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA,) Archaeo- and Paleogenetics Group, Cosimo Posth |
Stay in Tübingen (from - until): Six short stays from June 2023 - March 2024 |
Research Project: Social inequalities and population genetic structure across time and space |
Research Areas: Population genetics, genetic anthropology |
Publications:
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Contact: alex.massandoval @unibo.it |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Talk at College of Fellows; Global Encounters Lecture: "The genetic footprint of racial and gender hierarchies" (12. Dezember 2023) |
About: Àlex Mas-Sandoval is a population geneticist that studies how evolutionary processes driven by social structure and cultural changes impact the genetic diversity of populations. He got his PhD at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF), in Barcelona, and at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre. There he focused on the reconstruction of the precolonial demographic history from admixed populations of Brazil. Then, during a Postdoc at Imperial College London, he studied how social hierarchies constrain the mating patterns and the admixture dynamics of the populations of the Americas. As a postdoctoral researcher at Università di Bologna, he is focused on understanding the socioeconomic factors that drive assortative mating in these populations. Dr. Mas-Sandoval is currently a short-term visiting researcher at Universität Tübingen in the framework of the Global Encounters platform, aiming to disentangle how social inequalities and population stratification have impacted a wide range of populations across time and space. |
Carlos Nazario Mora Duro
Soziologie
2022
Fellow Profile
Affiliation: Global Encounters Fellowship, host: Professor Boris Nieswand |
Stay in Tübingen: September 2022 – August 2023 |
Research Project: Integration process of migrants in the post-pandemic period, focusing on Mexican migration to Germany. |
Research Areas: Sociology of Religion; Migration and Integration; and the use of Information Technologies and Social Networks in social and cultural changes. |
Publications: -The Aim Was Not To Meet a German and Marry: Experiences of Mexican Women in Intermarriages in Berlin in Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers (209). ISSN 1615-4568, 2022. -Religión en los procesos de integración: una mirada a la migración mexicana en Alemania (Religion in Integration Processes: Overview of Mexican Migration in Germany) in Korpus 21, vol. 4, no. 5, 2022: 345-361. |
Contact: cmora @colmex.mx |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Global Encounters Lecture Series: Migration for Love, Education and Work. An approach to recent Mexican migration to Germany (22. November 2022). |
About: Carlos Nazario Mora Duro holds a PhD in Social Sciences from El Colegio de México (El Colmex), and a Master in Social Sciences from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Flacso Mexico). Between 2018 and 2020, he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, conducting a project on the migration experience of Mexicans in the city of Berlin. Afterwards, he was a research associate at The Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences: “Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” at the University of Leipzig. Member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico, level 1. He is also part of the International Graduate Program “Between Spaces” of the University of Berlin, of the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society, and of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. |
Personal Websites: |
Norihito Nakamura
Philosophie
2023
Fellowship: Intercultural Studies Fellowship |
Affiliation: College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies; host: Dr Niels Weidtmann |
Stay in Tübingen (from - until): April 2023 – March 2024 |
Research Project: Kenosis and Eschatologies in an Intercultural and Contemporary Perspective |
Research Areas: History of Philosophy, German Classical Philosophy in the 19th century, critical theory, political theology, aesthetics |
Publications: Articles
Books |
Contact: norihito.nakamura @cof.uni-tuebingen.de |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of the CoF Focus Group “Intercultural Studies”, participation and organisation of workshops, attending lectures and seminars, writing and publishing articles |
About: Dr. Norihito Nakamura studied intercultural studies at the University of Kobe, and received his PhD at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University (2023), with a dissertation about Political Philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling. From 2016 to 2017, he was an exchange student at Freie Universität Berlin. His recent interest is in the political philosophy of apocalyptic discourses with an intercultural perspective, especially focusing on Ernst Bloch, Paul Tillich, Kiyoshi Miki, Keiji Nishitani, and Kazo Kitamori. He has worked as a translator of various papers and books such as Christoph Menke, Fredric Jameson, Iain Hamilton Grant, Markus Gabriel and Adrian Johnston. |
Dalia Nassar
Philosophie
2022
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: University of Sydney |
Stay in Tübingen (from - until): May 2022-July 2023 |
Research Project: Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt |
Research Areas: History of Philosophy, Nineteenth-century German philosophy, environmental philosophy, aesthetics, ethics |
Publications:
Articles |
Contact: dalia.nassar@sydney.edu.au |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Attending workshops and talks; giving a paper in a colloquium, giving Humboldt lecture |
About: Dalia Nassar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Her research sits at the intersection of environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of German philosophy. She is the author of two books including, most recently, Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Oxford, 2022), and editor of several books, including an anthology of works by women philosophers in the long nineteenth century. |
Personal Website: Associate Professor Dalia Nassar (sydney.edu.au) |
Eric Nelson
Phänomenologie
April 2023
Fellow Profile
Research Areas: Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and critical social theory / Comparative philosophy / Ethics / Philosophy of nature and environment / Philosophy and religion |
Publications: - Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom (Bloomsbury, 2023) - Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life (London: Routledge, 2022) - Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other (Albany: SUNY Press, 2020) - Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought (London: Bloomsbury, 2017) |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Gastvortrag "Daoist wuwei in the Anthropocene" (18. April 2023) |
Stay in Tübingen: April 2023 |
About: Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has published on Chinese, German, Jewish, and intercultural philosophy. He is the author of Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom (Bloomsbury, 2023), Daoism and Environmental Philosophy (Routledge, 2020), Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other (SUNY Press, 2020), and Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought (Bloomsbury, 2017). |
James Ogude
Philosophie
2018
Affiliation: Intercultural Fellow am College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies 2018, University of Pretoria. |
Ryōsuke Ōhashi
Philosophie
Affiliation: Intercultural Fellow am College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies, Direktor des Japanisch-Deutschen Kulturinstituts. |
Jonathan Chimakonam Okeke
Philosophie
2022
Affiliation: Intercultural Fellow am College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies 2022 |
Research Project: The Structure of Conversational Thinking |
Research Areas: African Philosophy, Intercultural Philosophy, Aesthetics |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Contact: jonathan.okeke @up.ac.za |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of the CoF Focus Group 'Intercultural Studies'; Section Moderation at GIP Annual Conference 2021 |
About Jonathan: Jonathan O. Chimakonam PhD is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He taught at the University of Calabar, Nigeria for several years. He was a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (2017-2019). His teaching and research interests cover the areas of African Philosophy, Intercultural Philosophy, Logic, Environmental Ethics and Postmodern/postcolonial/decolonial thought. He aims to break new grounds in African philosophy by formulating a system that unveils new concepts and opens new vistas for thought (Conversational philosophy); a method that represents a new approach to philosophizing in African and intercultural philosophies (Conversational thinking); and a system of logic that grounds both (Ezumezu). His articles have appeared in refereed and accredited international journals. |
Francesco Padovani
Griechische Philologie
Januar 2023
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Philologisches Seminar Host: Prof. Dr. Irmgard Männlein-Robert |
Research Project: Plutarch als Literat: Studien zum platonischen Dialog in der früheren Kaiserzeit |
Research Areas: Ancient Greek Literature, Classical Philology, Ancient Philosophy, History of Religion, Literary Theory, Comparative Literature |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Contact: padovanifrancesco89 @gmail.com |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture on Rethinking the Platonic Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age: The Case of Plutarch (11. Januar 2023) |
About: Francesco Padovani is currently Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Ancient Philology Department of the University of Tübingen. He had already been awarded with a DAAD postdoctoral grant at the same Department (2019). He is alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, where he has also defended his PhD dissertation about the etymologies of the divine names of Plutarch`s works. He has conducted his researches mainly in Italian and German institutions. His research interests cross the boundaries between literature, philosophy and ancient religious studies, focusing on Plutarch of Chaeronaea, Plato and the history of Platonism. In the last few years, he has also intensively explored the fields of classical reception studies, literary theory and translatrion. |
Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas
Linguistik
2022
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship 2022 |
Affiliation: Department of Quantitative Linguistics. Host: Professor Harald Baayen |
Research Project: FORMULEARN: Chunking in verbal art and speech |
Research Areas: Quantitative linguistics, cognition and poetics, conceptual integration, 4E cognition, time across language and the arts, oral poetry, and multimodal communication |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Contact: cpcanovas @um.es |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture on Modeling the Multimodal Flow of Human Communication: Big Data and Novel Quantitative Approaches (8 December 2021) |
About: I am a Ramón y Cajal Researcher (tenure-track research professorship funded by national grant scheme) at the Department of English Philology, University of Murcia. I co-direct the Daedalus Lab, the Murcia Center for Cognition, Communication, and Creativity. From 2019 to 2022, I am also an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Quantitative Linguistics at the University of Tübingen, hosted by Professor Harald Baayen. I am a member of the Red Hen Lab, an international consortium for research into multimodal communication. I am the Principal Investigator of the Spanish National Grant (Knowledge-Generation Program): Creativity and cognition in the expression of time across modalities (CREATIME). I have been a EURIAS fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, an FBBVA Leonardo Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the AHRC project History of Distributed Cognition, University of Edinburgh, a postdoctoral fellow at the Classics Faculty of the University of Oxford (Emotions: The Greek Paradigm, ERC AdG to A. Chaniotis), and a Linguistics-Poetics Tandem Fellow (FRIAS: German Excellence Initiative) at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. I was also a Marie Curie Fellow at the universities of Murcia, Case Western Reserve, California San Diego, and Oxford. |
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/cristobalpagancanovas/ https://daedalus.um.es/ |
Rodolfo Palomo-Briones
Geowissenschaften
2021
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Center for Applied Geoscience (ZAG) |
Stay in Tübingen (from - until): April 2021 bis März 2024 |
Research Project: Assessment of caproate production with defined cultures |
Research Areas: Environmental biotechnologies → anaerobic biotechnology, Biohydrogen production (dark fermentation), Anaerobic chain elongation (reverse ß-oxidation), Microbial ecology (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics), Synthetic microbial communities, Lignocellulosic residues as feedstock in anaerobic biotechnologies |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Contact: rodolfo.palomo-briones @mnf.uni-tuebingen.de |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture: "Production of Biofuels and Feedstocks with Anaerobic Microbiomes" (9. Februar 2022) |
About: I was born in the sunny city of Torreón, Mexico, in 1989. A short time later, my family and I moved to a small and beautiful town called Maravatío (meaning beauty land, in purépecha), where I received my elementary education. Then, I studied Biochemical Engineering from 2006 to 2010 at the Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia (Morelia, Mexico), from which I graduated in 2011 after defending my bachelor thesis about microbial fuel cells. From 2011 to 2013, I studied a master´s degree in environmental sciences at the Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT, San Luis Potosí, Mexico); I investigated the biofiltration of organic compounds coupled to heterologous proteins production. From 2013 to 2014, I worked as an associate researcher to investigate wastewater reuse in gold mining activities (San Luis Potosi, Mexico). From 2015 to 2018, I did my doctoral studies in environmental sciences about microbial communities in biohydrogen (H2) production from organic residues (IPICYT, San Luis Potosí, Mexico). In 2019-2020 I worked as a postdoc investigating the H2 and methane (CH4) potential of lignocellulosic residues. In 2021, I was granted a Georg Forster Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to do research on chain elongation with anaerobic microbiomes in the Environmental Biotechnology Group at the University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany). |
Personal Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Palomo-Briones |
Raluca Rădulescu
Germanistik
Dezember 2023
Fellow Profile
Fellowship: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Research Fellowship |
Affiliation (host institution, host scholar): Universität Trier, Prof.Dr. Herbert Uerlings; Universität Flensburg, Prof. Dr. Iulia-Karin Patrut |
Stay in Tübingen (from - until): September bis Dezember 2023 |
Research Project: Koloniale Seefahrten in der deutschen Literatur im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert |
Research Areas: Postcolonial Studies, Intercultural Literature, Migrant Literature |
Publications: Selected publications: |
Contact: raluca.radulescu @lls.unibuc.ro |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture Series: "Koloniale Seefahrten in der deutschen Literatur" (13. Dezember 2023) |
About: Raluca Rădulescu, Prof. Dr. phil., since 2019 Professor of Intercultural German Studies at the Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest. PhD in 2008 on contemporary Romanian-German literature. Research interests: Exile literature, migration literature, cultural theory, modernist poetry, intermediality. From February 2021 fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Trier and Flensburg with a project on colonial sea voyages in German-language literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. |
Webpage: Raluca Radulescu | UniBuc - Universitatea din București |
Juan Rivera
Anthropologie
2020
Affiliation: Intercultural Studies, host: Dr Niels Weidtmann |
Research Project: Indigenous Conceptualizations of Land, Belonging and Ownership in Contemporary Extractivist Andes |
Research Areas: Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Extractivism, Ownership, Ontologies, Anthropocene, Nature-cultures |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek
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Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of the CoF Focus Groups 'Intercultural Studies' and 'Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie' |
Contact: juan.rivera @ciis.uni-tuebingen.de |
About: Juan Rivera´s research examines cosmologies among indigenous groups of the Andes of South America, particularly Quechua-speaking people of central and Northern Peruvian highlands. Among his publications are "Non-Humans in Amerindian South America" (Berghahn Books, 2019), “Andean Musical Expressions. Ethnographic notes on materialities, ontologies and alterities” (In: The Andean World. Routledge. 2019), "Indigenous Life Projects and Extrativism" (co-edited with C. Ødegaard, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), "Warriors and Caimans surrounding the Andes: Recent approaches to indigenous peoples of the South American lowlands in contexts of violence and transformations" (Social Anthropology 25, 2017), "Recent methodological approaches in ethnographies of human and non-human Amerindian collectives" (Reviews in Anthropology 48, 2019), and "La vaquerita y su canto. Cantos rituales ganaderos en los Andes peruanos contemporáneos" (Ethnographica, 2016). He has also co-produced a video installation and a set of four films named "The Owners of the Land. Culture and the Spectre of Mining in the Andes" (Coalface, 2013). |
Mykola Saltanov
Philosophie
2023
Fellowship: Intercultural Studies Fellowship |
Affiliation: College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies; host: Dr Niels Weidtmann |
Stay in Tübingen: March – November 2023 |
Research Project: „Der interkulturelle Dialog und die Anerkennung vor den Herausforderungen der Globalisierung“ |
Research Areas: German classical and modern practical philosophy |
Publications: A full list of publications can be found here. |
Contact: mykola.saltanov @karazin.ua |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of the CoF Focus Group “Intercultural Studies”, participation and organisation of workshops, work on a monograph and in the library, attending lectures and seminars, writing and publishing articles |
Dr. Mykola Saltanov graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philosophy (2010), postgraduate studies (2013) of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. In 2014, at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, defended his doctoral thesis, called "The problem of recognition in German classical and modern practical philosophy" (specialty - History of Philosophy). Participated in international scientific conferences and summer schools in Germany, Austria, Spain, Armenia, Moldova, China, etc. From November 2014 to February 2015, as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), conducted research at the Goethe University (Institute of Philosophy) in Frankfurt am Main. In March 2015, as a scholarship holder of the Austrian Academic Exchange Service (OeAD), conducted research at the University of Vienna (Faculty of Philosophy). In 2018 took part in summer school training at the University of Ingolstadt-Eichstadt (Bavaria, Germany). In 2022, he conducted research in the field of bioethics at the University of Münster (Germany) at the Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine. |
Webpage: http://philosophy.karazin.ua/ua/kafedra/staff_tpf/saltanov.html |
Olusegun Samuel
Philosophie
2021
Affiliation: Research Fellow at the Center for Intercultural Studies |
Research Project: Building environmental justice and sustainability from within the African space |
Research Areas: African Philosophy, Intercultural Philosophy, Environmental philosophy, Ethical and Epistemological theory, Philosophy of race, and justice towards the environment. |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek - Samuel, O.S (2023) “Ubuntu and the Problem of Belonging” Ethics, Policy, and Environment, available at doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2023.2179818. - Samuel, O.S (2023) “Addressing fragmented human-nonhuman interactions through ubuntu ‘mixed’ ethics,” The Philosophical Forum, 00, 1–23. doi.org/10.1111/phil.12335. - Samuel, O.S. and Fayemi, A.K. (2020) “A Critique of Thaddeus Metz’s Modal Relational Account of Moral Status" Theoria 67 (1): 28-43. DOI: doi/org/10.3167/th.2020.6716202. - Samuel, O.S and A.K, Fayemi (2019) “Afro-communal Virtue Ethic as a Foundation for Environmental Sustainability in Africa and Beyond" South African Journal of Philosophy, 38 (1): 75-95. doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2019.1581393 - Fayemi, A.K. and Samuel, O.S (2014), “Africa versus the West on Reparation,” Peace Review, 26 (3): 380- 389. doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2014.937997 |
Contact: olusegun-steven.samuel; @fsci.uni-tuebingen.de samuelolusegunsteven@gmail.com |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of Cof focus Group: ‘Intercultural Studies’ |
About: I studied Philosophy at Bachelor, Master, and PhD levels. After my bachelor’s degree, I won a Faculty Prize, an award for the Best Graduating Student, Faculty of Arts, Lagos State University, Nigeria in 2011. I obtained my master’s degree (Distinction) from University of Lagos, Nigeria, in 2014. I received my PhD from University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia in 2021. My PhD dissertation addressed environmental concerns, focusing on issues of inter-and-intra-species fragmentation, displacement, and wellbeing. My research drew me to different intellectual spaces, including ecological ethics, notion of wellbeing, gender and ubuntu (in African philosophy), thereby helping to chart a new path for engaging environmental problems. My candidature was supported by an Australian Government University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA), a scholarship that covered both the fee component and a stipend. Over the course of my candidature, I also received other grants and awards, including the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Top-Up Scholarship, Arts & Social Sciences Higher Degree Research Equity Scholarship, and Higher Degree Research Career Development Grant in 2020. I was appointed as a tutor in Truth and Existence (ARTS 1360), for which I graded the quizzes, assignments, and examinations. |
Project: Since graduation I have been awarded a Research Fellowship in Intercultural Studies by the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany, where I am considering a different issue, that of decolonising indigenous epistemological and ethical values. I am focusing on how a decolonised lens could help address the issue of environmental injustice and sustainability in and beyond the African space. My project entitled “Building environmental justice and sustainability from within the African space” aims to show how the African ideas of ubuntu (between 1999-2021), and its philosophical values can help shape a more interlocking and participatory approach to environmental justice and sustainability. My project draws attention to the complex and pluralistic dimensions of socio-ecological problems. In order to enrich my work, I seek a robust advice in intercultural philosophy from Dr Niels Weidtmann (my host), and I am very grateful to collaborate with research fellows in intercultural studies gathering in his group. |
Horácio Santa Vieira
Astrophysik
2022
Fellowship: Humboldt Research Fellowship 2022 |
Affiliation: Theoretical Astrophysics, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Physics |
Research Project: Study of the interaction between gravitational fields and quantum systems |
Research Areas: My field of study is Physical Sciences, in which my main research line is Gravitational Physics and Cosmology, in particular Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology, whose subfield of study is Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Contact: horacio.santana.vieira @hotmail.com |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture on Perturbations, Heun Functions and Quasispectrum in Black Holes Physics (10. November 2021) |
About: Bachelor in Physics from the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil, 2013), Master of Science in Physics and PhD in Physics from Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil, 2014-2018), in which I focused my studies on the interaction of quantum systems with gravitational fields, and on the quantum cosmology approaches used to find the wave function of the universe. I had a one-year term as Visiting PhD Student at Tufts University (United States, 2017-2018), in which I worked on the quantum fluctuations of the spacetime geometry and its signature in the gravitational waves. As a CNPq Postdoctoral Fellow at Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil, 2018-2019), I developed a new simply technique to find the scalar resonant frequencies of both acoustic and astrophysical black holes. As a CAPES Postdoctoral Fellow at University of São Paulo (Brazil, 2019-2020), I investigated the dynamical interpretation of the quantum relativistic cosmology. As a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Tübingen (Germany, 2020-present), I have developed a new simply technique, which uses the polynomial condition of the Heun functions, to study the resonant frequencies related to the quasibound states. |
Personal Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0909-2717 |
Hermílio Santos
Soziologie
2023
Fellowship: CAPES Lectureship programme in cooperation between CAPES (Brazilian Higher Education Agency) and the University of Tübingen |
Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Center for Global South Studies (ICGSS); Hosts: Prof. DR. Sebastian Thies and Prof. Dr. Susanne Goumegou |
Research Project: "Black Heiresses: Biographical Narratives of three generations of black women in the same family in three slave economy regions in Brazil" |
Research Areas: Sociology, Biographical Research, Social Phenomenology, sociological documentary filmmaking |
Publications: List of publications here. |
Contact: hermilio @pucrs.br |
Activities at the College of Fellows: |
I am Professor of Sociology at the School of Humanities (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). I am the head of CAES-PUCRS (Center for Economic and Social Analysis). From April to July 2023 I am the Visiting Professor of the CAPES Chair (Brazilian Higher Education Agency) at the University of Tübingen. Since 2018 I am the President of the Research Committee "Biography and Society" of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and a documentary filmmaker. So far I concluded 6 sociological documentary films, and right now I am working simultaneously in the production of 3 documentary films and 3 documentary series, among them "Black Heiresses", with 5 episodes. The first two episodes should be ready to screen by the end of next year. |
Webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/newsletter-uni-tuebingen-aktuell/2023/1/forschung/7/ |
Masatake Shinohara
Philosophie
Oktober 2023
Research Areas: Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Environmental Humanities, Architecture, and Art |
Publications: His publications include Kokyo Kukan no Seiji Riron [Political theory of public space] (Jimbun Shoin, 2007), Kukan no tame n i : Henzaika suru Suramuteki Shakai no Nakade [For spaces: In omnipresent slum-like world] (Ibunsha, 2011), Zen-Seikatsuron: Tenkeiki no Kokyo Kukan [All theories of living: public space in transformation] (Ibunsha, 2012), and Ikirareta Nyu Taun: Mirai Kukan no Tetsugaku [New town that would have survived: philosophy of future space] (Seidosha, 2015). |
Activities at the College of Fellows: GIP Lecture "An Undecided Dimension of Depth: On the Question of the Place in the Thought of Kitaro Nishida" |
Stay in Tübingen: 31. Oktober bis 3. November 2023 |
About: Masatake Shinohara was born in 1975 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, he went on studying at the Graduate School of Human and Environment Studies of the same university for a doctoral program. He currently serves as a specially appointed associate professor at Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University. His publications include Kokyo Kukan no Seiji Riron [Political theory of public space] (Jimbun Shoin, 2007), Kukan no tame n i : Henzaika suru Suramuteki Shakai no Nakade [For spaces: In omnipresent slum-like world] (Ibunsha, 2011), Zen-Seikatsuron: Tenkeiki no Kokyo Kukan [All theories of living: public space in transformation] (Ibunsha, 2012), and Ikirareta Nyu Taun: Mirai Kukan no Tetsugaku [New town that would have survived: philosophy of future space] (Seidosha, 2015). In 2016, he participated in Venice biennale as a vice-curator of Japan pavilion. He contributed to formulate the main conception of “En”, and to become a mediator through which plural architects communicate and share the idea. |
Georg Stenger
Philosophie
2008
Affiliation: Intercultural Fellow am College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies 2008, Universität Wien. |
Ritu Vij
Soziale Theorie
Mai 2023
Fellow Profile
Research Areas: Social theory; International Political Economy; Social Policy and Civil Society; Affect and Political Subjectivity. |
Publications: Precarity and International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); Hegelian Encounters: Subjects to International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Globalization and Welfare: A Critical Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); Japanese Modernity and Welfare: State, Civil Society and Self in Contemporary Japan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Global Encounters Lecture "De-Pathologizing Precarity" (4. Mai 2023) |
Stay in Tübingen: Mai 2023 |
About: Ritu Vij joined the Department of Politics and International Relations in 2006, after completing a two-year fellowship at Keio Univerity (Tokyo) as the recipient of a Fellowship awarded jointly by the Social Science Research Council (USA) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Her doctoral degree is from the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), at the University of Denver, USA. She has been affiliated with several universities in Japan including, Kobe, Meiji Gakuin, Meiji, Ritsumeikan and Tokyo Universities. In the UK, her research has been funded by the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust of Scotland, the British International Studies Association and the University of Aberdeen. |
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Anthropologie
September 2023
Fellow Profile
Research Areas: Anthropology, Perspectivism, Multinaturalism |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Masterclass "Anthropology of Perspectivism"; Public Lecture "Indigenous Multinaturalism from a Cosmopolitical Point of View" |
Stay in Tübingen: September 2023 |
About: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is an internationally renowned Brazilian anthropologist whose work focuses on the ethnography of indigenous peoples of the Amazon and on the development of a decolonial anthropology through concepts such as "controlled equivocation", "perspectivism" and "multinaturalism". He has published numerous books and articles at the forefront of Americanist ethnology, among them: "From the Enemy’s Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society" (1992); "Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism" (1998); "Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies" (2004); "Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocation" (2004); "The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-century Brazil" (2011); "Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere" (2012); and "The Ends of the World" (with philosopher Déborah Danowski, 2016). |
Janet Ward
Moderne deutsche und jüdische Kultur
April 2023
Fellow Profile
Research Areas: Modern German and Jewish cultural and intellectual history; Holocaust studies; modernism and visual culture; urban and architectural history; border studies; human rights and migration; memory studies; Weimar Germany, Nazism, World War II, and Cold War Europe. |
Publications: Author of over 35 peer-reviewed articles and essays; and author/coeditor of eight books: Sites of Holocaust Memory (forthcoming); Fascism in America: Past and Present (forthcoming); Transnationalism and the German City (2014); Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe (2012); Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity (2011); Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (2001); German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity (2000); and Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest (1997). Editor of a special issue on “Confronting Hatred: Neo-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today” for The Journal of Holocaust Research (2021); and coeditor of a special issue (“Terror, Trauma, Memory”) on the Oklahoma City bombing for the journal Social Science Quarterly (2016). |
Activities at the College of Fellows: American Council on Education Fellows visit. Roundtable participant, Podiumsdiskussion Leadership in Higher Education: A Transatlantic Dialogue (27. April 2023), hosted by the German American Institute (DAI) and College of Fellows. |
Stay in Tübingen: April 2023 |
About: Janet Ward, Brammer Presidential Professor of History and Faculty Fellow for Strategic Initiatives (DFCAS) at the University of Oklahoma, is an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow with Yale University, working on global engagement and affiliated with Yale’s Office of International Affairs. She is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Leadership Institute for a New Academy (LINA) funded by the Mellon Foundation. Prof. Dr. Ward recently served as the University of Oklahoma’s inaugural Faculty Director of the Arts and Humanities Forum, and as Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships. She has received awards from the ACLS, DAAD, Fulbright, Getty Research Institute, NEH, Summer Institute for Israel Studies, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her professional service includes the immediate past Presidency of the German Studies Association (2021 and 2022) which has members from over 40 countries. Prof. Dr. Ward received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, her M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her B.A. (First Class Combined Hons.) from the University of London. As an undergraduate Janet spent a transformative year abroad as a DAAD-Stipendiatin at the University of Tübingen, and she is always delighted to return to Swabia. |
Daniel Weiss
Protestantische Theologie
2022
Fellowship: Humboldt research Fellowship |
Affiliation: Faculty of Protestant Theology |
Stay in Tübingen: August - November 2022; May - July 2023 |
Research Project: 'Jesus-followers and Non-minim in Tannaitic Literature' |
Research Areas: Jewish Studies, Inter-religious Relations, Philosophy of Religion |
Publications: - Tsimtsum and Modernity: Lurianic Heritage in Modern Philosophy and Theology (co-edited, 2021, De Gruyter); - Scripture and Violence (co-edited, 2020, Routledge); - Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies (co-edited, 2019, Brill); - Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives (co-edited, 2016, Routledge); - Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2012). A full list of publications can be found here. |
Contact: dhw27 @cam.ac.uk |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Humboldt Lecture "Revisiting Early Jewish-Christian Relations" (9 November 2022) |
About: Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is author of Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (2012) and Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence (forthcoming 2023), among other publications, and co-editor of multiple books, including Scripture and Violence (2020). Actively involved in the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, he is a recent recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. |
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Hora Zabarjadi Sar
Philosophie
2020
Affiliation: Intercultural Fellow am College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies 2020/21 |
Research Project: To Which Home Do We Belong? Phenomenology of Interculturality and the Problematic of 'Belonging' |
Research Areas: Western Philosophy, Phenomenology |
Publications: Recent Fellow publications are listed in our Mediathek |
Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of the CoF Focus Groups 'Belonging' and 'Intercultural Studies'; Section Moderation at GIP Annual Conference 2021 |
About Hora: Dr. Hora Zabarjadi Sar completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2020 with the thesis "The Other at the Threshold: A Husserlian Analysis of Ethics and Violence in the Home/AlienEncounter." In her current research project, "To Which Home do We Belong? Phenomenology of Interculturality and the Problematic of 'Belonging'" she works from a phenomenological perspective in engagement with postcolonial theory on the 'culturally other'. |