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About the Alumni Club

You enjoyed your fellowship and your stay at FRIAS? - then stay in touch! The Alumni Club strengthens the contact amongst past and current fellows. It generally supports the networks that have developed from fellowship stays here at FRIAS. 

The Alumni Club ...

... connects you to a network of FRIAS alumni and friends worldwide

... keeps you involved in the FRIAS community and its activities

By being a member you can make a difference and support networking, career, mentoring activities and initiatives that matter to you and FRIAS.


News and Events

A general assembly is organised annually, as well as workshops on topics of interest for researchers to which the Alumni Club members are invited. 

In June 2021, the Workshop “Writing and Receiving Letters of Recommendation” organised by our members Kristen Ghodsee and Sabine Hake and the Alumni Club took place as an online event.

 

Best Publication Prize

Call for nominations for the Best Publication Prize 2022!

1) Best Publication Prize 2022 – Journal Publication
for journal publications published in 2019, 2020 or 2021
category A: natural & life sciences; category B: humanities & social sciences

2) Best Publication Prize 2022 – Book Prize
for a book published in 2019, 2020 or 2021

In each category, prizes (500€ each) are awarded to publications that resulted from fellowships at FRIAS. The awards will be presented at the FRIAS Symposium on June 24, 2022.

We will be pleased to receive your nominations, including self-nominations, no later than April 30, 2022. Together with your nomination, please indicate the respective prize category (1A, 1B or 2) and provide the web link to the nominated publication. Send to: alumniclub@frias.uni-freiburg.de
In the beginning of May 2022 we will share the list of nominated publications with you and request your votes!

The Proletarian Dream

The Best Publication Prize 2019 (500 €) for a book published in 2017/2018 was awarded to Sabine Hake for her book The Proletarian Dream. Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany, 1863–1933 published by De Gruyter.

Membership

Anyone who wishes to support the FRIAS Alumni Club can become a member. If you are interested in joining the Alumni Club, please fill in the membership declaration or contact us: alumniclub@frias.uni-freiburg.de 

Please find the contribution rules here. During the annual meeting, the members' assembly will determine the exact use made of the association’s funds. The members’ contributions will help fund scientific publications and presentations that reach out to the general academic community and the public. They will support cultural activities at FRIAS and provide extra funding to fellows and guest researchers in unforeseen circumstances (e.g. Scholars at Risk).

As a club member you have the possibility to apply for financial support for childcare during FRIAS events. For more information about this service, please contact us: alumniclub@frias.uni-freiburg.de 

 

Donations

Anyone who wishes to support the FRIAS Alumni Club is invited to donate: donations to the Alumni Club.

 

Board

The Alumni Club is chaired by Junior Fellow Eva von Contzen, principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant junior research group “Lists in Literature and Culture”, former Senior Fellow Kristen R. Ghodsee and current Senior Fellow and Member of Saltus! Group "Responsible Artificial Intelligence" Philipp Kellmeyer.

Founded in 2017, the FRIAS Alumni Club (Association of Alumni and Friends of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies / Verein der Alumni und Freunde des Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies e.V.) aims at supporting the contact of FRIAS fellows and friends with each other, the university, and FRIAS itself. In accordance with its Statutes, the non-profit association solely and directly exists to support scientific research, especially at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

 

Contact


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info@frias.uni-freiburg.de 

Verein der Alumni und Freunde des Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies e.V.
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Albertstraße 19
DE-79104 Freiburg
Germany