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We congratulate Klaus Boldt on receiving a DFG Grant worth 215,000 EUR.

We congratulate Leila Whitley on securing a grant from the British Academy worth 10,000 Pounds.

The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) invites scholars from Israel and abroad to submit Research Group proposals for the 2019-2020 academic year.

In the summer term 2017, some of our Fellows will be away for visitig research stays.

We congratulate Annette Hautli-Janisz for securing a VW Foundation grant worth 760.000 EUR

We are currently looking for two "Studentische Hilfskraft" or "Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft" to work with the central office of the Zukunftskolleg. Deadline for the application is February 10, 2017.

We congratulate Doris Penka on receiving a Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange grant.

We started off the new year with a series about our Zukunftskolleg Alumni. Take a moment and get inspired by these outstanding researchers.

In January/February 2017, the Zukunftskolleg will issue new calls for applications for 2-year and 5-year fellowships.

The University of Konstanz seeks to appoint for a Gips-Schüle Junior Research Group Leader in Animal Social Networks.

We congratulate Gianluca Rastelli on receiving a DFG Grant worth approximately 190.000 EUR.

We congratulate Daniel Summerer, Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from 2011 until 2015, on receiveing an ERC Consolidator Grant worth approximately 2 million EUR.

The Zukunftskolleg offers up to five Zukunftskolleg Bridge Fellowships (any discipline represented at the University of Konstanz). The positions are available between March 1, 2017 to October 31, 2017 for a maximum of eight months.

We congratulate Alexander Titz, Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from 2010 until 2013, on receiveing an ERC Starting Grant worth approximately 1.5 million EUR.

The Zukunftskolleg offers new calls for applications for several programmes. Some of the programmes are open to all postdoctoral researchers of the University of Konstanz. Deadline for all calls for applications is January 31, 2017.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation jointly offer Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at Universities and Research Institutes in Germany. The Fellowships aim at enabling postdoctoral researchers based in the U.S. to spend some time conducting studies at universities or research institutes in Germany. The grants will be awarded for a period of 9 - 12 months for the academic year 2017/2018. Application deadline is September 15, 2016. The Zukunftskolleg is one of…

Monika Class has accepted a junior professorship in "English Literature and Culture" at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). Monika Class joined the Zukunftskolleg as a Postdoctoral Fellow in March 2014. Her professorship will start in September 2016. We wish her all the very best!

We are happy to announce that starting today, Sebastian Schutte will be a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg. Sebastian has already been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from 06/2014 until 07/2016.  As a Research Fellow, he will be working at his project “Measuring violence and emergent hostility in ongoing civil wars: a mobile phone-based approach”. For this project he received a grant of 88,000 EUR by Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung. Sebastian is affiliated with the…

The role and the scientific relevance of German Institutes for Advanced Studies were discussed in a public conference hosted by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.

We congratulate Tuhin Shuvra Basu! He will receive a Humboldt Stiftung grant starting August 1st. Tuhin Basu, Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, is affiliated with the Department of Physics of the University of Konstanz.

 A new short film about the Zukunftskolleg produced by Albert Kümmel-Schnur. Please see the Film on the Zukunftskolleg website https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/about-zukunftskolleg/ or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hnp-OizgA

We congratulate Marilena Manea, who accepted a position at Chromsystems Instruments & Chemicals GmbH in Gräfelfing/München.

Together with the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the Zukunftskolleg will hold a joint symposium on "Mobility. A concept and a way of life".

The meeting is organized by Giovanni Galizia, Anda Lohan, Lukas Barwitzki, Daniela Kromrey, Daniela Poli, Bianca Gaudenzi, Nadir Weber, Andrea Lailach-Hennrich and Oleksandra Kukharenko

This fellowship program addresses postdocs in the humanities who wish to spend time researching in Germany or the USA.

We congratulate Margarita Stolarova who accepted a position as  Head of the Devision for Early Childhood Educational Concepts at the German Youth Institute in Munich. Margarita Stolarova joined the Zukunftskolleg as a Research Fellow in December, 2009. After holding temporary professorships at the University of Konstanz and the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Margarita will start her new position in June 2016. We wish her all the very best!

Sven Lauer was successful in applying for a DFG funded Emmy-Noether project. For the upcoming five years, Sven and his research team will work on the project "What Is It to Ask a Question? - A Formal Pragmatic Investigation of Interrogative Force". The project will start in autumn 2016. In the meantime, Sven is a visiting researcher at Georg-August-University Göttingen (Germany). We congratulate Sven!

We congratulate Elliott Lash, who has accepted a position as a Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, starting on May 1, 2016. The 4-year position is part of the ERC funded project Chronologicon Hibernicum. The project aims to create a methodology to linguistically date early Irish texts in order to facilitate research into the history of the Irish language. We wish Elliott Lash all the best for his…

Nina Schneider, Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg from 2013 to 2015 and then Associated Fellow, gave a very interesting interview about the govermental crisis in Brasilia on Deutschlandradio Kultur. You can find it here.

We congratulate Daniel Plaumann who has accepted an associate professorship in Algebra and its Applications at the Faculty of Mathematics at the TU Dortmund (Germany). Daniel Plaumann joined the Zukunftskolleg as a Research Fellow in 2013. His professorship will start in April 2016 and we wish him all the very best!