Gastdoktorand*innen erhalten kein Stipendium der Graduiertenschule, sondern sind Promovierende der Partnerinstitute der Graduiertenschule. Sie können sich an der Freien Universität Berlin immatrikulieren und alle Angebote der Universität und der Graduiertenschule nutzen. In angemessenem Umfang wird ihnen ein Arbeitsplatz zur Verfügung gestellt.

Die Gastdoktorand*innen nehmen an den Veranstaltungen der Graduiertenschule teil und können gemeinsam mit den Mitgliedern Veranstaltungen organisieren und Gäste einladen. In den Colloquien der Schule stellen sie ihre Promotionsprojekte vor.

Visiting doctoral candidates of the Graduate School

Visiting doctoral candidates do not receive a scholarship from the Graduate School as they remain doctoral students at the Graduate School’s partner universities. They can enroll at Freie Universität Berlin and take advantage of the university’s and the Graduate School’s offers. They are provided with an appropriate work space.

Visiting doctoral candidates participate in Graduate School events and can organize events and invite guests together with members of the Graduate School. They present their dissertation projects in the Graduate School’s colloquia.

SoSe 2024

Koehler, Phyllis (University of Cambridge): Defacements. Somatic Semantics and Unica Zürn

Lamha, Leonardo Petersen (Universidad Federeal Fluminense): The Wish to become a Sign: meta-epistolarity, postal literature and translation in Kafka’s Letters to Milena

Lin, Alexander (University of California): The Rhetoric of Firsthand Viewing in Modern German and Japanese Travel Texts
and Media

Mentzel, Alexander (University of Cambridge): Walter Benjamin, Media Archaeology, and Digital Scenography

Richardson, Ellie (University of Cambridge): Images of emancipation: feminine performance and the construction of women in Weimar film

Unwin, Katie (University of Cambridge): Why Write Animals? Extraction, Empathy and Evolution in German and Comparative Literature

WiSe 2023/24

Egid, Jonathan (King’s College): In Search of Zera Yacob: On a 17th Century Ethiopian Philosopher, and Whether or Not He Existed

Kalus, Frey (University of Cambridge): Geologie und Zeitlichkeit in Dante und Rilke

Scheithauer, Hannah (University of Oxford): Agents of Memory: Recalling Conflict and Encounter in Contemporary Literatures in French and German

Schmid, Andreas (University of Oxford): Avant-Garde and Anthropology

Von Minden, Rahel (New York University): An den Rändern der Avantgarde: Theatralität als Reflexionsfigur des Aufbruchs (Einstein, Lasker-Schüler, Hennings)

Yamanaka, Shintaro (University of Tokyo): Die Poetik der Pflanzen – Flora in der Neueren Deutschen Literatur

SoSe 2023

Katznelson, Hannah (University of California): Renaissance Epics: Hybridizing the Epic Past in Early Modernity

Stewart, Haley (University of California): Human Matters: Material Memory Projects of and in the Atacama Desert

Sperner, Philipp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Never A-Part: Narratives of Friendship and the Imaginary of Postcolonial Democracy

Strouss, Evan (University of California, Berkeley): Distant Voices: Vocal Philology in Early Modernity

Taher, Saniya (University of California): ‘Pansement’, or Tending to the End of the World: On Fanonian Poetico-Political Structures of Redress

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