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This section offers a miscellaneous of updates on the activities and achievements of FRIAS, its fellows, and alumni. If you have news to share, please contact us. The archive includes news dating back to summer 2024. Subscribe to our channels to stay up to date.
Elisabeth Piller (Internal Fellow 2024/25) has been honoured with the Synergy Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Piller is investigating how the scarcity of resources affected the period during both World Wars.
In mid-October, the second cohort of members within the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS) was ceremonially welcomed with a very positive interim evaluation.
The doctoral network QU-ATTO, coordinated by Giuseppe Sansone (Senior Fellow 2024/25), will receive funding through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network programme.
Karsten Schubert (Junior Fellow 2022/23) has published a new book titled Lob der Identitätspolitik addressing the recurring critique that identity politics, despite its anti-discrimination aims, risks leading democracy into the confines of tribalism.
FRIAS Co-Director Barbara Di Ventura has attracted some media attention by creatively blending two of her passions—music and science—into “musical abstracts.”
Massimo Leone (Senior Fellow 2024) has been selected as Senior Fellow at HIAS, the Hamburg Institute of Advanced Studies, where he will be doing research from September 1, 2024, until June 30, 2025.
Benjamin Nathans (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow of 2022) is the author of To the Success of Our Hopelessness, a book about the soviet dissident movement.
Henrike Lähnemann (Senior Fellows 202374) recently published a substantially expanded English version of the book ‘UN-erhörte Frauen’ that has been launched at FRIAS in July 2023. The Life of Nuns. Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents is now available open access.
Peter Arkadiev (Senior Fellow 2023/24) has recently received a position as principal investigator for a three-years DFG project titled ‘Typology and diachrony of ambifixation’ at the University of Potsdam, starting in December 2024.
Silja Vöneky (FRIAS Research Focus Group Artificial Intelligence) has been elected as a judge at the Constitutional Court by the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament.
Starting June 21, an interactive exhibition presents the findings of the Collaborative Research Center “Heroes, Heroization, Heroisms”, headed by FRIAS Director Ralf von den Hoff.
Sabine Dabringhaus (Senior Fellow 2020/21) was appointed for a second term of office as Secretary of the Philosophical-Historical Class and thus also Vice President of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.