The Lichtenberg-Kolleg is the newly established Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Göttingen. It is a central element of the university’s institutional strategy: "Göttingen: Tradition – Innovation – Autonomy,” financed by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Designed to foster innovative research in the humanities and social sciences, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg offers an intimate setting in an inspiring atmosphere and serves as a place where internationally renowned and emerging scholars meet. Here international scholars are able to focus on cutting-edge individual and collaborative research projects across the disciplines while cooperating with associated scholars and young researchers from the Göttingen Research Campus.

At the beginning of August 2011, the first two fellows of the academic year 2011/12 have arrrived in Göttingen. Altogether 25 fellows will be working in Göttingen in 2011/12. more...

The Lichtenberg-Kolleg cooperates with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation in the programme: "Post-doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at Universities and Research Institutes in Germany"
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