Funded projects internationalization
BCGE Call: Flexible Travel Funds
To support collaborative projects and research cooperation with the so-called "Global South", the BCGE funds international guest stays of up to four weeks at the Berlin University Alliance. In case of funding, the BCGE can reimburse the costs for a flight (economy class only) as well as subsidise accommodation and meals according to DAAD flat rates.
Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse (Freie Universität Berlin and Leibniz Centre for Modern Oriental Studies) and Prof. Dr. phil. Claudia Derichs (Humboldt University Berlin)
The project aims to make knowledge, theories and research practices from the 'Global South' visible in Berlin's research landscape. This is because researchers and intellectuals from marginalised regions or from ethnic or religious minorities often remain invisible in academic discourses. The project participants - a global network of researchers, artists and activists - want to engage with knowledge and theoretical contributions from the 'Global South'. Their goal is to make the way knowledge is created and what is recognised as knowledge more equal globally.
Spokespersons: Prof. Dr Robin Celikates (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
In order for critical theory to live up to its double claim of explaining the present and its crises as well as contributing to social change, it is essential that it expands its frame of reference beyond the Global North and expands its conceptual resources in the face of global challenges.
CritUP (Critical Theory Under Pressure) aims to build a sustainable transnational network and corresponding platform for the exchange of forms of critical theory articulated in different world regions.
Oxford Berlin Early Career Mobility
The Oxford Berlin Research Partnership aims to promote mobility and strengthen networks between partner institutions. In particular, we want to promote the involvement of researchers at the beginning of their careers.
To this end, the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership provides annual funding to support early career researchers and PhD students from Oxford and Berlin who are planning a short stay at a partner institution in the other city to conduct research in the context of existing or recently initiated collaborations between the partners.
The award is made on the recommendation of the Academic Directors of the partnership and the members of the Academic Liaison Committee. The funds are intended to cover the costs of travel, accommodation and per diem for research visits.
Currently no current call for proposals.
Current Einstein Visiting Fellows
“The Global Literary History of the Seven Sages of Rome”
Gastgeber*in: Prof. Dr. Jutta Eming, Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
Visiting Fellow: Dr. Ida Toth, Wolfson College, Oxford
"Electoral trade-offs in progressive politics"
Gastgeber*in: Heike Klüver, HU / DYNAMICS Graduiertenkolleg (research training group)
Visiting Fellow: Tarik Abou-Chadi, Nuffield College, Oxford
“The Boundaries of Cosmopolis: Berlin and London”
Gastgeber*in: Gesa Stedman, Centre for British Studies, HU Berlin
Visiting Fellow: Stefano Evangelista, Trinity College, Oxford
“AfterWords”
Gastgeber*in: Jutta Müller-Tamm, FU / EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" / Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies”
Visiting Fellow: Karen Leeder, New College, Oxford
“Glucose metabolism: a new target for stroke and vascular dementia prevention”
Gastgeber*in: Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Meisel, Director, CSB, Charité, PD Dr. med. Philipp Mergenthaler, Einstein Junior Fellow, CSB, Charité
Visiting Fellow: Prof. Peter M. Rothwell
“A transitional platform for understanding and utilising neuronal dynamics to improve treatment for movement disorders"
Gastgeber*in: Prof. Dr. Andrea Kühn, Charité
Visiting Fellow: Prof. Dr. Andrew Sharott
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University Berlin)
In this project, researchers from all over the world are examining the serious changes in the world of work from a historical perspective. Growing inequality as well as insecure and informal working conditions have been further exacerbated by the pandemic and have become a global problem more than ever. The network aims to bring local perspectives from countries such as Argentina, India and South Africa even more strongly into international research.
Psycholinguists study the acquisition of morphological knowledge and the way complex words are stored, perceived and produced. The mental lexicon is a central concept in modelling the storage of complex words in the lexical memory of the speaker. The correct modelling of complex word processing is an important battleground for competing theories of speech perception and production. The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology addresses this issue, among others.
More information coming soon..
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Malek Bajbouj (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Prof. Daniel Strech (Berlin Institute of Health), Prof. Michael Zürn (Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Isabel Dziobek (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
The project aims to implement an international knowledge exchange platform on maternal mental health. Specific therapeutic approaches to treatment will be developed and recorded, teaching materials will be developed and experts will be mentored to develop and ensure quality criteria in research. It is embedded in BUA's existing South-South-North collaborations with researchers, institutions and governments in Jordan and Vietnam, as well as with partners at Oxford University and McMaster University in Canada.
The symposium explored the ways in which lyric poetry enabled or imagined the formation of communities from the 11th to the 17th centuries in Europe and the Middle East.
The symposium is part of the Rethinking Lyric Communities project and aims to extend the research begun with the two workshops funded by the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, held at Christ Church (Oxford) on 23 June 2022 and at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry on 5 July 2022, focusing on modern and contemporary poetry.
This event is organised by Laura Banella, Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti and Nicolas Longinotti with the support of the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, Christ Church Research Centre and the Centre for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In collaboration with the EXC Temporal Communities at the Freie Universität Berlin.