Past events

By Alan Kirman (2017 Fellow) What has systematically been asserted since the enlightenment and has been reinforced by the political and social underpinnings of liberal democracy, is that there is an...[more]

By Dr. Kentaro AkiyamaSenior Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Oral Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine,Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical SciencesOkayama University,...[more]

By Alexandre Kostka (2015 Fellow) Strasbourg, laboratory of modernity. New perspectives on a shared "German" past: a research project and its development. The period of 1880-1930 was a crucial time...[more]

By Ursula Apitzsch (2017 Fellow) Are we living in a post-migrant society? Generational experiences among the descendants of immigrant families Migration processes crucially shape the experiences of...[more]

By Florian Banhart & Thomas LaGrange (2017 Fellows) Small and fast: how we can observe rapid movements at the nanoscale in an ultrafast electron microscope We know from our daily life how difficult...[more]

  Current political and media discourses on the questions of “integration”, “belonging” and “borders” are dominated by the perspectives of Western nation states. The objective of this midterm...[more]

By Moreno Andreatta (2017 Fellow) Popular music (pop, rock jazz and songs) represents a very rich object of study, particularly when it is analysed with the simple tools of mathematics and...[more]

By Shannon Whitlock, USIAS Fellow 2017 Quantum mechanics describes nature at the smallest of scales. It is also responsible for the collective behaviour of matter at low temperatures which often...[more]