HIAS
The Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) hosts outstanding scholars and researchers, as well as representatives of the visual and performing arts, who find an interdisciplinary space for exchange in Hamburg, Germany. https://hias-hamburg.de
- @uni-hamburg.de Alumnus Natan Sznaider talks about his project at today's #Thursday #Colloquium. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s conviction that even in the darkest of times we are entitled to expect illumination, he asks: What form does that light take in the face of extreme violence? bit.ly/3ZSDv4m
- "The Meaning of the Face in the Digital Age” - During his stay at HIAS @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2024-25 Massimo Leone researched at the intersection of the semiotic and philosophical dimensions of the human face and AI. Read the full interview for #Abendblatt in HIAS #Magazine: bit.ly/4qYAGLe
- At today’s Thursday Colloquium philosopher Barbara Muraca, @uni-hamburg.de Fellow at HIAS 2025-2026, shares insights into her research about the Totem Pole Journey by Lummis and a decolonial approach in environmental philosophy. More info via: bit.ly/4qI7gRj
- We invite #early #career and #senior #researchers to contribute to this #interdisciplinary #workshop organised by @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2025-26 Sanchari Deb, @newcastleucu.bsky.social, together with Achim Oberg & Detlef Schulz. 💡For more information and application please follow: bit.ly/4a2eAQD
- How can we understand classical music as a truly global phenomenon rather than a Western tradition exported elsewhere? At today’s #Thursday #Colloquium musicologist Natasha Loges, Hapag-Lloyd-Foundation & @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2025-26, presents her current project. Details bit.ly/4jWs05h
- Das HIAS #sucht Verstärkung für die #Sachbearbeitung #Finanzen mit einem Umfang von 20 Stunden/Woche (50%, Entgeltgruppe 9a TV-AVH). 🖍 Wir freuen uns auf Ihre #Bewerbung bis zum 1. Februar 2026 an application [at] hias - hamburg. de ! 🔎Alle Details zur Stelle auf unserer Webseite via bit.ly/4sCgyj8
- How can our understanding of the "Anthropocene" be processed and reflected upon aesthetically? At today’s #Thursday #Colloquium @uni-hamburg.de Fellow Eva Horn @univie.ac.at ivie.ac.at discusses the aesthetics of the Anthropocene via the genre of the epic in contemporary literature: bit.ly/4b1hrLS
- “It’s not what people believe it’s what they do."- For issue #Transforming #Environments of HIAS #magazine Nathan J. Brown re-thinks the role of politics in times of accelerated illiberalism and authoritarianism, and engages critically with the idea of the "new world order": bit.ly/3N9TdFm
- Happy holidays and a healthy, peaceful 2026!
- At today’s #ThursdayColloquium Sanchari Deb, researcher in engineering from @newcastleucu.bsky.social and @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 25-26, talks about “Rethinking E-mobility at the crossroads of technology, society, and economy”🔎 bit.ly/3KQupBn
- Reposted by HIASTogether with @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social and Tübingen College of Fellows, FRIAS is offering #EarlyCareerRescueFellowships. Open to researchers from all nationalities & represented disciplines | 1-7 years postdoc experience | 2 years btw 7/2026 and 11/2028 👉 uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
- Was ist moralischer Universalismus, worauf bezieht er sich und von wem wird er geteilt - oder auch nicht? Anlässlich seiner aktuellen Publikation diskutierte Hans Joas mit Elisabeth Bronfen und Jan Weyand, moderiert von Frank Adloff. @fos-uhh.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @dfg.de @suhrkamp.de #MARKK
- A deepening democratic crisis has become a global challenge over the past decade. Indonesia, as the world’s third-largest democracy, is no exception. In today’s #ThursdayColloquium @giga-hamburg.de and @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2025-26 Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir speaks about his analysis: bit.ly/49T0EKp
- At #NetiasDebate Computational Practices for Pluriversal AI by @jherzstiftung.bsky.social Fellow 25-26 Rachel C. Smith practical & theoretical frameworks for advancing decolonization, equitability, responsibility and sustainability were discussed: bit.ly/48kLXNJ @uni-hamburg.de @aiasdk.bsky.social
- How sustainable are today's societies in times of multiple crises and increasing polarization? - The project group “Futures, Utopias, and Dystopias” @adwhamburg.bsky.social visited HIAS and discussed their interdisciplinary perspectives, w @fos-uhh.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de. -> bit.ly/48IoffD
- Crowding-out effects of opt-out defaults: Evidence from organ donation policies" - HIAS Alumna Eva-Maria Merz @vuamsterdam.bsky.social has published the outcomes of her research project on organ donation together with, a.o., Michel Clement @uni-hamburg.de. Read the article via bit.ly/4abKPOT.
- „Oh Seufzen, Heulen, Herzensknall” Today, with heavy hearts and completely unexpectedly, we have to say goodbye to the conductor Lutz Rademacher forever. We will miss his energy, his zest for life, and his attentive manner. Our thoughts are with his family. We will miss you very much, dear Lutz.
- Hat die #Elbe ein Recht zu fließen und nicht vertieft zu werden? Wie steht es um die Rechte von Flüssen? wurdEse mit Leidenschaft diskutiert über die Elbe und auf der Elbe, bewegt durch den Fluss – im LIEGER Övelgönne. #HamburgerHorizonte Zum Nachlesen, hier noch einmal alle Details: bit.ly/4oQHFVb
- Wir gratulieren Viktoria Tkaczyk zur Verleihung der Caroline von Humboldt-Professur 2026! Mit dieser Auszeichnung wird die HIAS Alumna und Professorin für Medien und Wissen @humboldtuni.bsky.social für ihre herausragende und transdiziplinäre Forschung am 2.12. in der Humboldt-Universität geehrt.
- Das Wohl aller Menschen als Richtschnur für politisches und moralisches Handeln - Woher stammt dieses Menschheitsethos eigentlich? #HIASreads im #MARKK diskutiert mit Hans Joas anhand seines wegweisenden Buches „Universalismus. Weltherrschaft und Menschheitsethos“. Anmeldung via➡️ bit.ly/4r9Ao4C !
- In her #ThursdayColloquium Nicoletta Bruno - scholar of classics @unibas.ch @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 25-26 - presents her current book project: Providence & Ruin - Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, Ancient Historiography and the Fall of Tenochtitlan 🔎 bit.ly/3JX1knk
- "Denken müssen wir. Wir müssen denken!" – The symposium at HFBK Hamburg brings together contributions from sociology to philosophy to explore the role of critical thinking in the era of anthropocene, a.o. Eva Horn from @univie.ac.at and currently @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 25-26 at HIAS: bit.ly/3LzFI0O
- Will ecosystems like the Elbe River be better protected if they are recognized as legal entities? Who should be the “advocate” for a river? - Few tickets left! #hamburgerhorizonte #aboutwater #elberiver - Join us today for the panel at the Museumhafen Oevelgoenne and register via bit.ly/47FSh1O
- “A Horse Soldier in the Great War” – At today’s #ThursdayColloquium Warren Breckmann - @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2025-26 from @upenn.edu – shares insights into his current book project which explores the wartime diaries of George Hambley, a Canadian cavalryman. bit.ly/4hQNDTG
- In cooperation with @hfmt.art #HIASreads presents “Handbuch Musikanalyse” (Bärenreiter, 2025). Together w Natasha Loges, Hapag Lloyd Stiftung and @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 25-26, the four editors, incl. HIAS Alumnus Christian Thorau, explore the conception and creation of the volume. bit.ly/3WD2as9
- "From the Big Bang to Turbulence in Galactic Halos" – Astro physician Yuval Birnboim, @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2025/26, explores how simulations and philosophy together can help us understand the surprising order that emerges from cosmic turbulence. #ThursdayColloquium 🔎 bit.ly/4hzBItd
- Are you a researcher, artist or public intellectual seeking time and space to work on a project of your own choice? - Apply now for a HIAS fellowship 2027-28. Applications can be submitted now until 2 March, 2026. Follow the link: hias-hamburg.de/en/fellowshi...
- How can we advance towards a more human, equitable and sustainable AI future? - At today`s #ThursdayColloquium @jherzstiftung.bsky.social Fellow 2025/26 Rachel C. Smith presents her current project, which deals with questions of decolonizing research on artificial intelligence (AI). bit.ly/4oRDs3x
- Ab heute öffnet die Anmeldung für das Panel "Das ‚Wesen‘ der Elbe – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf den Fluss unserer Stadt", #HamburgerHorizonte #AboutWater. Weitere Informationen via -> bit.ly/3KRtT5X Die Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperation mit @koerber-ip.bsky.social und @uni-hamburg.de.
- “Science und Diplomacy are drivers for change. And we live in a time where change for the good is needed more than ever.” Senator Maryam Blumenthal @bwfg.bsky.social opens today’s panel discussion at @buceriuslaw.bsky.social. Details: bit.ly/4mYw8Sj
- Wir heißen die ersten Fellows des Jahrgangs 2025-2026 herzlich willkommen. Maryam Blumenthal, Senatorin für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Gleichstellung, wird die Fellows offiziell begrüßen. @uni-hamburg.de @ifshhamburg.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de @jherzstiftung.bsky.social @bwfg.bsky.social
- Can science diplomacy be used to maintain int. coops? A panel with: @uschroeder.bsky.social, @mrentetzi.bsky.social, Anke Reiffenstuel @diplo.de, Jan Marco Müller @ec.europa.eu and Marcelo Knobel Details: bit.ly/4mYw8Sj In Coop with @uni-hamburg.de, @buceriuslaw.bsky.social & ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS
- Water, our essential resource- Ecology, climate change, geopolitical distribution struggles and economic aspects examined in 39 events. Start: 13 Oct, 2025. Details and registration: bit.ly/46wG7co This annual series of events is organised in coop with @koerber-ip.bsky.social and @uni-hamburg.de
- Every situation has an atmosphere. While researchers have made significant progress theorizing what atmospheres are, what remains to be shown is, what they do. Michael Schnegg @uni-hamburg.de & Thiemo Breyer @unicologne.bsky.social @dfg.de invite to follow up these questions: bit.ly/4kAsoVQ
- This year’s HIAS Summer School has just started and welcomes all speakers. HIAS alumnus Frédéric Vandenberghe & Frank Adloff @uni-hamburg.de have put together an inter-disciplinary menu to explore the ethics, ecologies and politics of food, conviviality and commensality. Details: bit.ly/40HPvXd
- Final spurt of her stay! Martina Lassalle, sociologist from Buenos Aires spent six months in Germany (four in Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de and two in Bielefeld) as a HIAS-CALAS fellow. HIAS greatly appreciates the cooperation with CALAS and looks forward to expanding it.
- In today’s workshop “Asylum Law & Literature” Karolin Machtans @uconn.bsky.social, Markus Kotzur and Doerte Bischoff @uni-hamburg.de, invite scholars from different disciplines to discuss the interrelations between law and literature for a possible re-thinking of asylum laws. bit.ly/3Ibn1yJ
- With our summer finissage, we did not only bid farewell to the 2024-2025 fellows but also celebrated a small anniversary: five years of HIAS! Over the past five years, HIAS has been supporting academic freedom as one of its non-negotiable values and will do so in the future. To the next five years!
- “We want to take different knowledge cultures seriously” – Christian Suhm in an interview today with Oskar Piegsa from @zeitonline.bsky.social online academic freedom and the role of HIAS and other Institutes for Advanced Study as places where this freedom is preserved. ➡https://bit.ly/3TbcqX2
- When you hear "One last time..." all over the house, with boxes being packed and one last glass of wine being enjoyed in the HIAS garden, it's a sign that another fellow year is coming to an end. We say goodbye to our Fellows 2024-2025 and look forward to welcoming them back as HIAS Alumni!
- The workshop, organized by Kirsten Schmalenbach @jherzstiftung.bsky.social Fellow 2024-25, explores the creation and application of law outside the framework of State recognition. In particular, the participants engage with the impact of non State-entities, such as indigenous peoples. bit.ly/4liwR02
- In today´s #TuesdaySpotlight Christian Suhm discusses the idea of inference to the best explanation (IBE) and its role in interdisciplinary work. While IBE is conceived as a general pattern of non-deductive reasoning in research, it proves also flexible enough to comprise diverging disciplines.
- Tonight @uni-hamburg.de 6-8pm, Wulan Dirgantoro presents a lecture about her research on "Art after Conflict: Perspective from Timor-Leste". Her project is part of the exhibition “Art of Peace: Art After War” at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. bit.ly/4mZyTUB
- At their #ThursdayColloquium Eva Maria Merz from @vuamsterdam.bsky.social and Elaine Leong from @ucl.ac.uk opened the conversation about knowledge exchange and reflected via a series of informal interactions on communication forms and processes in science and research. @uni-hamburg.de
- Today #HamburgSustainabilityWeek and #JoachimHerzStiftung invite to a roundtrip with the solar boat Alstersonne during “Science & Sundowner” at #HSC2025. Kirsten Schmalenbach, Professor of Law @unisalzburg.bsky.social will provide insights into how the law can help us on the path to sustainability.
- What do we mean by Artistic Research if we really mean it? – HIAS cordially invites to explore the dimensions between Arts & Sciences together with six fellows from five different Institutes for Advanced Study all over Europe. If you want to participate online, follow the details here bit.ly/4jAv8lz
- Reposted by HIASMitglieder der Jungen Akademie veröffentlichen Maßnahmen zum Schutz der #Wissenschaftsfreiheit. 🕊️🔬 Autor*innen: @andreabinder.bsky.social, Radin Dardashti, Racha Kirakosian, Kornelia Kończal, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Doris Segets Hier lesen: rb.gy/4hy0kc #AcademicFreedom #StandUpForScience
