former board

 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.

 

She was the head of the interdisciplinary honors program in the humanities, “AMIRIM”. Currently, she serves as the head of a research group at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (2017-18). Her research focuses on encounters between Jews, pagans and Christians in the Greco-Roman period. Her recent publications include monographs on Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (Cambridge University Press 2011, awarded the Polonsky Prize) and Philo of Alexandria ,being translated into both German and Hebrew, ((Ha-Kibbutz ha-Meuhad), an Intellectual biography (Yale University Press 2017, German translation forthcoming at Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen) as well as edited volumes on Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Leiden 2012) and Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real (Tübingen 2017).

In 1997, he received his PhD in Political Science from Humboldt-University in Berlin. After that, he held teaching positions at the universities of Mannheim, Jena, Augsburg and Essen and served as Vice-President and General Secretary for Research Committee 35 (COCTA) of ISA and as one of the directors of the Annual International Conference on Philosophy and the Social Sciences in Prague. In 2016, he was a visiting professor at the FMSH/EHESS in Paris. He is editor of the international journal Time and Society. His publications focus on Social Acceleration, Resonance and the Temporal Structures of Modernity as well as the Political Theory of Communitarianism.

 

(Studies in Ancient Medicine 48; Brill: Leiden, 2017)

Publications:
1) Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity. Trans. By Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, New York: Columbia University Press. 2013
2) Alienation and Acceleration. Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality, Malmö/Arhus: NSU Press 2010.
3) High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power and Modernity: Penn State University Press, 2008 (Ed. with William Scheuerman).
4) Four Levels of Self-Interpretation. A Paradigm for Social Philosophy and Political Criticism, in: Philosophy and Social Criticism, Jg. 30 (2004), Heft 5/6, S. 691-720.
5) Leading a Life. Five key elements in the hidden curriculum of our schools, in: Nordic Studies in Education, Vol. 40 (2/2013), S. 97-111.

In 2011 he was appointed as member of the executive board of the Deutsches Stiftungszentrum (German Foundation Center). He is active in consulting and managing foundations and trusts.
Also, he regularly publishes on foundations and foundation law and holds a variety of lectureships at public and private universities in Germany.

From 1996 to 2000, he held the position as permanent guest professor at the Karl-University of Prague, Czech Republic. From 2000 to 2009, he was rector of the University of Konstanz. From 2006 to 2009, he was chairman of the cooperation council of the International Bodenseeschule. From 2006 to 2009, he served as chairman of the regional conference of rectors of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. From 2003 to 2009, he was a member of the commission “Studies and Teaching” at the conference of rectors of the institutions of higher education. Since 2007, he has been a member of the board of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Since 2008, he has served as a member of the council of the second German TV-channel. Since 2009, he has been a member of the advisory committee of the Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2009, he is chairman of the endowment fund Martin-Buber-Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Currently, he is co-editor of the German “Vierteljahresschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte”.
His research focuses on History of literature from the 17th to the 19th century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodor Fontane, History of the media and the culture in the 20th century, literature and anthropology, and studies in literature and cultural science.