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The faculty frequently organizes events for the faculty and student body. Over the last few years, a number of guest lecturers have visited Jacobs University Bremen and presented their views on intercultural research issues. These graduate colloquia and guest lectures provide an additional setting for students to learn more about research in the field of history, art and literature in addition to the facets covered by the program curriculum.
Research Colloquia Fall 2002 Spring 2003 Fall 2003 Spring 2004 Fall 2004 Spring 2005 Spring 2006 Fall 2006 Spring 2007 Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Transdisciplinarity – Idea and Institutional Reality Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. mult. Jürgen Mittelstraß 11 November 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jürgen Mittelstraß is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Science and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Theory of Science at University of Constance, Germany. In the 1980s he introduced the concept of transdisciplinarity, and since then he has discussed and elaborated on its theory and practical application in many of his publications. A short excerpt from the list of his most recent numerous international awards, prices, functions, and activities: Jürgen Mittelstraß was Member of the Wissenschaftsrat; Member of the Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Member of the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; President of the General Society for Philosophy in Germany; Member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin; he received the Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1989 and Honorary Doctoral Degrees from several universities in Europe and USA. Now he is President of the Academia Europea (London), Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, Rome), Corresponding Member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (Paris) and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna). He is also editor of a multivolume encyclopedia of philosophy and theory of science: Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, I-IV (1980-1996). Among his selected publications are the following books: Die Rettung der Phänomene (1962); Neuzeit und Aufklärung (1970); Die Möglichkeit von Wissenschaft (1974); Wissenschaft als Lebensform (1982); Der Flug der Eule (1989); (with M. Carrier) Geist, Gehirn, Verhalten (1989, English Edition 1991); (with W. Frühwald and others) Geisteswissenschaften heute (1991); Leonardo-Welt (1992); Die unzeitgemäße Universität (1994); Die Häuser des Wissens (1998); Wissen und Grenzen (2001). "Small Crises. Forms of Aesthetic Experience in the Everyday" Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 2 March 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Stanford University Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature, of French & Italian, of Spanish & Portuguese (by courtesy), and he is affiliated with German Studies, and the Program in Modern Thought & Literature. He is also Professeur Associé au Département de Littérature comparée at the Université de Montréal, Directeur d'études associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Professeur attaché au Collège de France, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Among his publications are the following books: (ed. with K.L. Pfeiffer) Materialität der Kommunikation. Frankfurt 1988 (Materialities of Communication. Stanford 1994); Eine Geschichte der spanischen Literatur. Frankfurt 1990; Making Sense in Life and Literature. Minneapolis 1992; In 1926. Living at the Edge of Time. Cambridge 1997 (1926. Ein Jahr am Rand der Zeit. Frankfurt 2001); Vom Leben und Sterben der großen Romanisten. Carl Vossler, Ernst Robert Curtius, Leo Spitzer, Erich Auerbach, Werner Krauss. München 2002; The Powers of Philology. Dynamics of Textual Scholarship. Urbana and Chicago 2003 (Die Macht der Philologie. Über einen verborgenen Impuls im wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit Texten. Frankfurt 2003); Production of Presence. What Meaning Cannot Convey. Stanford 2004 (Diesseits der Hermeneutik. Frankfurt 2004). Field Trips Fall 2002
Fall 2004 Spring 2005 Fall 2006 Spring 2008 Additional Activities Weekend seminar on EU Development Policies: “The European Union, the East and the Gap Between - Accession, Neighbourhood and Beyond”. December 1-3, 2006 in Bredbeck, Osterholz-Scharmbeck.
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