Inaugural meeting of the Scientific Council

Eleven members: Renowned researchers from home and abroad

A Scientific Council comprising renowned researchers from home and abroad accompanies the work of the LichtenbergKolleg. On the 7th of March of this year the inaugural meeting of this committee took place at the University of Göttingen. The council has eleven members who elect the director of the Kolleg, provide support with the selection of external fellows as well as of co-opted associates of Göttingen, and evaluate the Kolleg. A decision on the leadership of the LichtenbergKolleg is expected to be made at the beginning of May 2008.

With the LichtenbergKolleg as central project in the University’s “Future Concept” the Georgia Augusta aims to identify and extend important research ideas and activities in the humanities and social sciences in discussion with internationally-oriented researchers. Following the “traditional” Kolleg-concept, the LichtenbergKolleg provides outstanding scholars with the freedom for concentrated research and intensive academic discussion as well as interdisciplinary cooperation, all in one place.

The selection of the fellows is based solely on their academic excellence in the subject fields already anchored in humanities and social sciences research initiatives and research potentials at the science location Göttingen. This opens up in particular two focal points which encompass “Religion in Modern Cultures” as well as “Theoretical and Methodical Concurrences and Convergences in the Differentiation of Nature and Culture”. Initial interdisciplinary workshops on these topics have already taken place.

Members of the Scientific Council

Professor Dr. Jan Assmann
University of Heidelberg, Institute for Egyptology

Professor Dr. David Blackbourn
Harvard University (USA), The Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies

Professor Dr. Walter Erhart
University of Bielefeld, Faculty for Linguistics and Literary Sciences

Professor Dr. Stefan Hradil
University of Mainz, Institute for Sociology

Professorin Dr. Mary S. Morgan
London School of Economics and Political Science (Great Britain), Department of Economic History

Dr. Joachim Nettelbeck
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin [College of Science in Berlin]

Professor Dr. Arie Rip
University of Twente, Enschede (Netherlands), Department of Science, Technology, Health and Policy Studies

Professor Dr. Amartya K. Sen
Harvard University (USA), Department of Economics

Professor Dr. Wolf Singer
Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt

Professorin Dr. Mina Teicher
Bar-Ilan University (Israel), Department of Mathematics

Professorin Dr. Sigrid Weigel
Technical University Berlin, Institute for Literary Sciences
Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin