Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at the University Bielefeld and the University of Bologna. She published many works on the theory of social systems, media theory, memory theory and sociology of financial markets. Her current research on algorithmic prediction is supported by a five-year Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.
Prof. Ilit Ferber teaches philosophy at Tel-Aviv University.
Her research focuses on the philosophy of emotions, especially melancholy, suffering and pain, from the perspective of language. Ilit has published articles on Leibniz, Herder, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Scholem and Améry. She has also co-edited a book on the role of moods in philosophy, and two books, in English and Hebrew, on lament in Gershom Scholem’s thought.
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Ferber's book Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language (Stanford University Press in 2013) explores the role of melancholy in Benjamin's early writings and discusses the relationship between Benjamin, Freud and Leibniz. Her second book Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language (Oxford University Press, 2019 and in German translation: Neofelis, 2023) explores the role of pain in Herder's theory of the origin of language, Heidegger's seminar about Herder, and Sophocles’ "Philoctetes”. She is now working on Jean Améry’s philosophy of temporality.
Chinese History Inner Asian History History of the Mongol Empire World History Mongolian Studies Ethnicity and Identity Cross-cultural exchanges between Inner and East Asia Yuan dynasty Non-Han dynasties
Jürgen Fohrmann, Prof. of German Literature and Theory, University of Bonn, born 1953, studied at the Universities of Münster and Bielefeld, PhD 1980, ‘Habilitation’ 1989, Heisenberg-Fellow, since 1991 Prof. at the University of Bonn, 1994-1997 President of the “Deutsche Germanistenverband”
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1999-2002: Co-Director of the SFB „Judentum und Christentum. Konstituierung und Differenzierung in Antike und Gegenwart”;1999 –2004 Co-Director of the „Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg ‚Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation’“ (Aachen, Cologne, Bonn); April 2009-April 2015 President of the University of Bonn, Member of numerous Research Councils and Boards (Chair of the Advisory Board of the Franz Rosenzweig-Research Center, 2000–2012).
Last Books (Selection): Schiffbruch mit Strandrecht. Der ästhetische Imperativ in der ‚Kunstperiode’, München 1998. Jürgen Fohrmann/Andrea Schütte/Wilhelm Voßkamp (Eds.), Medien der Präsenz. Museum, Bildung und Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, Köln 2001. Jürgen Fohrmann/Arno Orzessek (Eds.), Zerstreute Öffentlichkeiten. Zur Programmierung des Gemeinsinns, München 2002. Jürgen Brokoff/Jürgen Fohrmann (Eds.), Politische Theologie. Formen und Funktionen im 20. Jahrhundert, Paderborn 2003. Jürgen Fohrmann/Erhard Schüttpelz (Eds.), Die Kommunikation der Medien, Tübingen 2004. Jürgen Fohrmann (Ed.), Rhetorik. Figuration und Performanz, Stuttgart/Weimar 2004. Jürgen Fohrmann (Ed.), Gelehrte Kommunikation. Wissenschaft und Medium zwischen dem 16. und 20. Jahrhundert, Wien/Köln/Weimar 2005. Jürgen Brokoff/Jürgen Fohrmann/Hedwig Pompe/Brigitte Weingart (Eds.). Die Kommunikation der Gerüchte, Göttingen 2008.
After the Buber fellowship I began a position in Assyriology at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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