The Annual Conference of the Max Weber Foundation provides a forum for the foundation’s institutes and their research topics, as well as for other partner institutions. The event is organized and hosted by a different institute each year and offers the opportunity for an exchange of different international, comparative and transregional perspectives on current academic issues. Since 2015 it takes place on an annual basis.

Each conference is accompanied and documented by a blog, which contains information about program and speakers in advance as well as the conference papers subsequently.

Overview of the previous Annual Conferences:

• 21 – 23 October 2015, DHI Paris:
  „Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism in International Perspective“<
  Conference proceedings: https://perspectivia.net/publikationen/schriften-mws/antisemitismus
• 28 – 30 November 2016, DHI Warsaw:
  „Austria-Hungary and Its Imperial Challenges in the 19th and Early 20th Century: Nationalisms and Rivalries in the Habsburg Empire, in Europe and Worldwide”
  Conference proceedings: https://perspectivia.net/publikationen/schriften-mws/imperiale_herausforderungen
• 21 – 23 September 2017, DHI Moscow:
  „Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial”
• 22 – 24 March 2018, DHI Washington:
  „Settlement and Unsettlement – The Ends of World War I and their Legacies” 
• 12 – 14 December 2019, OI Beirut/Branch Office Cairo:
  „Neighborliness in Global Perspective”
  Conference Blog:https://neighborglob.hypotheses.org/
• 16 – 18 May 2022, DHI Rom:
  „The Return of Looted Artefacts since 1945: Post-Fascist and Post-Colonial Restitution in Comparative Perspective“