The Max Weber Kolleg welcomes new fellows and kollegiaten

In the winter semester 2017 many new fellows and kollegiaten (PhD-candidates) from Germany and abroad are starting their research at the Max Weber Center for Cultural and Social Studies, which is currently located at Steinplatz 2.

Within the framework of the research group "Religious Individualization in a Historical Perspective", the following researchers will be working at the Max Weber Kolleg: guest doctoral candidate Marialilia Cavallaro, she will be working in Modena and at the Max Weber Kolleg on "Social transformations and religious practices, The Cult of Apollo in Archaic and Classical Greece ". Teresa Morgan (Oxford) will be working on her research project "The faith by which it is believed ...": the development of interior faith and individual devotion in Christianity between c. 100-400 CE ". Prof. Dr. István Keul, who is working on a project entitled "Individualization and institutionalization using the example of two recent Asian New Age religions". Guest doctoral candidate Tomás Bartoletti, will research on "Comic oracles as a paradigm of superstition in Early Modern Europe. The epistemological discourse of "Greek divination" in classical sources and colonial chronicles of the Americas ".

The research group "Urban Religion" welcomes: Dr. Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, scientific associate who is working on her project "Mutual Transformations between New Gods and the City"; Junior Fellow  Dr. Giulia Pedrucci, COFUND-Fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg, and working on the project "Mothering and (Wet) Nursing: A Metadisciplinary Study on Parenting Strategies in Greek and Roman Worlds".

In the ICAS project welcomes COFUND-Fellow Dr. Juhi Tyagi. She is working on her research project entitled "Peasant Discontent & States: How armed groups impact state-capital trajectories and forward peasant interests".

The International Graduate School "Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices" welcomes, in cooperation with the University of Graz, the first doctoral candidates: Olivera Koprivica, who will discuss the topic "Female Bodies and Angelic Likeness: The Place and Role of the Body in Everyday Life of Orthodox Women Monasticisms - A Qualitative Study "; Diana Pavel, who will talk about" Platform of encounters or a table for offerings? The aspects of the Etruscan Altar in the Public and the Private Sphere in the 7th-2nd Centuries B.C.". Bennet Bergmann is researching “In Harmony with God and the World. Examining the Relationship of Meditation Rituals and Phenomenological Resonance Relationships to the World". Stella Rehbein, who is authoring a paper entitled" Romanticism in Times of Declining Resonance - A Sociology of Inequality and Gender-Sociology of Love between Ritual and Routine ".

In the project “Natural Law” we welcome Prof. dr. Emmanuelle de Champs (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), a COFUND Fellow at the Kolleg who is working on the subject of "Happiness, Law and Progress in the Age of Revolution (1780-1800)"; Dr. Alexander Hugh Jordan, with his postdoctoral project “The Battle for Hegel: 'Center' Hegelianism in German and British Political Thought, 1830-1920". He is also one of this year's COFUND-Fellow.

Dr. Kathi Beier is a Junior Fellow and new at the “Meister Eckhart Research Group”. She  works on the topic "Reasons of Virtue - On the Foundation of the Aristotelian Virtue Ethics in Thomas Aquinas".

Anton Röhr works in the field of "Social Philosophy and Social Theory" on the doctoral project "The Ritual as a Space of Serenity - Resonance in the Dialectic of Identity and Non-Identity".

At the Research Center "Dynamics of Ritual Practices in Judaism in Pluralistic Contexts from Antiquity to the Present" Dr. Rebecca Sebbagh started her habilitation project "The Use of Psalms in the Jewish Liturgy" in the summer semester. Prof. Dr. Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig (Jerusalem) is a Fellow at the Center during November and works on "Huppah: The Cloth that Determines Spacial Sacrality". Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zangenberg (Leiden) begins his six-month research stay as a Fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg in January 2018; Prof. Dr. em. Günter Stemberger (Vienna) and Prof. Dr. Clemens Leonhard (Münster) also start their research stays at the end of the winter semester and work together on the theme "Images of the Temple Cult in Early Rabbinic Literature - Remembrance and / or Creativity".

 

Another component of the study program at the Max Weber Kolleg is the doctoral preparation, which should enable particularly good graduates to prepare an exposé for applying for a doctoral scholarship. At present, Niklas Gebauer and Rebecca Selz are in this position to prepare for doctoral studies at the Kolleg.