News Announcements
Instructional Development Award (IDA) of the University of Freiburg for FRIAS-Director Bernd Kortmann and his team
Online learning platform for Law and English Studies as well as 'research stops' as web applications: the University of Freiburg has granted these three projects its teaching development award, the "Instructional Development Award" (IDA), worth 70.000 Euros.
FRIAS Alumna Heike Drotbohm receives Heisenberg professorship at the University of Mainz
Heike Drotbohm, former FRIAS Fellow 2015/16, has received a Heisenberg Professorship at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. The expert on migration ethnology has worked on migration, diaspora and transnational ways of living for over ten years. She will remain connected to FRIAS within the framework of a new project group on "Tracing Narratives of Flight and Migration Trajectory Analysis as a new Approach in Research and Practice" until the end of 2017.
Paradigm Shifts in Science – Conclusion of the FRIAS „Lunch Lecture“ Series
When and where do we witness scientific revolutions? How can we tell that scientific views are fundamentally changing? Are there differences between the natural and life sciences on the one hand and the humanities and social sciences on the other with regard to such profound transformation processes?