News of the Max-Weber-Kolleg

Panel discussion on the colonial heritage of Frankfurt

"Hide it? Put on display? Give back? The restitution debate and Erfurt's colonial heritage." – This is the title of a public panel discussion to which the "Voluntariness" research group at the University of Erfurt invites all interested parties to…

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"Weltbeziehungen" research building

Two book presentations on the history of credit and debt

Two new volumes on the history of credit and debt have been published in the research field of the new history of capitalism: Erfurt historian Felix Krämer examines indebtedness and precarious credit conditions for US history in the book "Leben auf…

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May we introduce: the new Vice President for Academic Affairs

Professor Julia Knop is the new Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Erfurt. On 1 October, she succeeded Professor Gerd Mannhaupt, who retired at the end of the summer semester.

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Forschungsbau Weltbeziehungen außen

Max-Weber-Kolleg welcomes new fellows and fellows for the winter semester 2024/25

In the winter semester 2024/2025, the Max-Weber-Kolleg for Cultural and Social Science Studies at the University of Erfurt will once again welcome a number of new academics from Germany and abroad.

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For more sustainability in Thuringia: Climate Network presents itself at the "TraNHSform" summit hub

The University of Erfurt has now presented its subproject "Education for Sustainable Development" (BNE) as part of the Climate-N project, a joint initiative of the University and University of Applied Sciences of Erfurt, Ilmenau University of…

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After state elections: University locations must remain attractive

The people of Thuringia and Saxony elected new parliaments on 1 September. In the coming weeks, the elected representatives will now come to an agreement on the formation of a government. The Presidents‘ Conferences of the universities in Saxony and…

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New publication by Martin Repohl published: "Die Beziehungsqualität der materiellen Welt"

The dissertation ‘Die Beziehungsqualität der materiellen Welt. Perspektiven einer weltbeziehungssoziologischen Analyse von Materialität' by Martin Repohl which was successfully completed at the Max-Weber-Kolleg has now been published by Nomos-Verlag.

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New publication from the "Structural Change in Property" series published: "Relating to Landed Property"

With the co-edited volume “Relating to Landed Property”, part of the series Strukturwandel des Eigentums, Sofia Bianchi Mancini (Junior Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg), Helen A. Gibson (Post-doc researcher in the SFB sub-project A02 “Property in…

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