»Weltweit vor Ort« 01|2025

AI in the Humanities

A new issue of the MWS Research Magazine has been published

The Max Weber Foundation's Podcast

»Knowledge Unbound«

An acoustic research trip around the world in ten episodes

Project

The Global Papacy of Pius XII

Transnational Research Group of the Max Weber Foundation

Conversation series »Historians on Democracy«

Current vacancies and scholarships

Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants open for applications

 

The MWS network

Jürgen Finger

 

MWN Osteuropa

DHI London

DHI Paris

DFK Paris

DHI Warschau

OI Istanbul

OI Beirut

MWF Delhi

DIJ Tokyo

DHI Washington

Geschäftsstelle

Worldwide eleven 
Humanities 
Institutes Abroad

 

 

 

 

 

 

About us

Max Weber Foundation is a legal entity closely linked to the German Federal Government located in Bonn. It comprises eleven humanities research institutes. The Foundation’s goal is to promote research with a focus on history, culture, economic and social sciences in selected countries and to promote a mutual understanding between Germany and those countries. The Max Weber Foundation is the only German research institute which is academically active abroad exclusively due to its programme of work.

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Events

Event

Okcan Yıldırımtürk: A Ruined City between Communities and Empires: Competing Visions to Revive Famagusta from the 1840s to the 1870s

15.07.2025 | Kolloquium | DHI London | online + vor Ort
Event

Fermenting for the future: tsukemono as a practice of awai

17.07.2025 | Vortrag | DIJ Tokyo | online + vor Ort
Event

Julia Drost – Max Ernst und Caspar David Friedrich. Von der Romantisierung der Welt zum modernen Mythos

17.07.2025 | Vortrag | DFK Paris | vor Ort (Hamburg)
Event

Queer Histories of East Central Europe in the 20th Century

26.+27.08.2025 | Tagung | Kooperation | DHI Warschau | vor Ort (Marburg)

Calls & Vacancies

Online since: 01.07.2025, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.08.2025

Call for Papers: Politik, Feminismen, Musik. Europäische und globale Ausprägungen von 1945 bis heute

Online since: 10.06.2025, Bewerbungsschluss: 25.07.2025

Call for Papers: Aspects of the Holocaust in Visual History (DHI Warschau)

Online since: 21.05.2025, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.09.2025

Call for Papers: The Moralization of Science (DHI Washington)

Online since: 23.04.2025, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.07.2025

Call for Applications: Prize of the German Historical Institute London (DHI London)

Online since: 10.07.2025, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.07.2025

Prague Branch Junior Scholar in Residence Program (DHI Warschau)

Online since: 08.07.2025, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

Stipendienprogramm (DHI Warschau)

Online since: 08.07.2025, Bewerbungsschluss: 10.09.2025

Studentische oder wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (DHI Paris)

Online since: 08.07.2025, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

Postgraduate Students and Postdoc Scholarships (DHI London)

Scientific publishing with our platforms

New publications

DFK Paris

The Académie Royale Art Collection: Vol. I Reception Pieces

Sofya Dmitrieva (Hrsg.), Markus A. Castor (Hrsg.),...

DHI London

Bulletin 47 (2025), No. 1

Christina von Hodenberg (Hg.), Pascale Siegrist...

DHI Washington

Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany: Microhistories of Mobility,...

Christina Brauner (Hg.), Renate Dürr (Hg.), Philip...

DHI Rom

Il Regno di Sicilia e i suoi confini: Gli spazi frontalieri nel Mezzogiorno...

Antonio Antonetti (Hg.) und Andrea Casalboni (Hg.)...