Guest lectures

Guest lectures 2017

• Prof. Dr. Heike Oberlin (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)
• Prof. Dr. Jordan Sand (Georgetown University)  
• Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini (SOAS, University of London)
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichmuth (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Guest lectures 2016

• A. Revathi (former director of SANGAMA, Bangalore)
• Prof. Dr. Hidehiro Kato (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
• Prof. Dr. R. Ramakumar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
• Prof. Dr. Elliot Sperling (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Prof. Dr. Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh)
• Prof. Dr. Hans Harder (University of Heidelberg)
• Dr. Giovanni Sorge (C.G. Jung Institute Zurich-Küsnacht)
• Prof. Dr. Ali Merthan Dündar (Ankara University)
• Gisela Jahn
• Prof. Dr. Michael Sommer (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
• Prof. Dr. Jörg Quenzer (University of Hamburg)
• Prof. Dr. Robert Simpson (Durham University)
• Prof. Dr. Barend Ter Haar (Shaw Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford)
• Dr. Vijayanka Nair (New York University)

Guest lectures 2015

• Prof. Dr. Ana Echevarría Arsuaga (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid/Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Constance)
• Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Honda (Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo)
• Prof. Dr. Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
• Dr. Henning Trüper (Technische Universität Berlin)
• PD Dr. Catherine König-Pralong (University of Freiburg)
• Dr. Pablo Blitstein (Cluster of Excellence „Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality“, Heidelberg University)
• Prof. Dr. Youngtae Shin (University of Central Oklahoma)
• Prof. Dr. Hindy Najman (Yale University)
• Prof. Dr. Haiyan Lee (Stanford University)

Guest lectures 2014

• Prof. Dr. Nadia al-Bagdadi (Central European University, Budapest)
• Prof. Dr. Jens Schlieter (University of Bern)
• Amal Suleiman El-Obeidi (University of Benghazi)
• Dr. Dominik Wujastyk (University of Vienna)
• Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Michel Hockx (SOAS, University of London)
• Prof. Dr. Kathryn Babayan (University of Michigan)
• Prof. Masako Hiraga (Rikkyo University)
• Prof. Dr. David Mervart (University of Heidelberg, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
• Professor Sasaki Chikara (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
• Prof. Dr. Kenneth Dean (McGill University)
• Prof. Dr. Dhruv Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Centre for Social Sciences)

Guest lectures 2013

• Prof. Dr. David Howell (Harvard University)
• Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore)
• Prof. Dr. Mark Swislocki (Brown University, Providence)
• Prof. Dr. Paul Unschuld (Horst-Görtz-Stiftungsinstitut, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Selçuk Esenbel (Bogazici University, Istanbul)
• Prof. Doh Chull Shin (Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine, and Social Science Research Center Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Margarita Estévez Abe (Syracuse University / Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino)
• Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs (Free University Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard (Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1/International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Erlangen)
• Dr. Carola Hommerich (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)

Guest lectures 2012

• Prof. Dr. Georges Tamer (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• PD Dr. Takemitsu Morikawa (University of Lucerne)
• Prof. Dr. Annie Montaut (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris)
• Prof. Dr. Thongchai Winichakul (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Sourav Kargupta (University of Kolkatta)
• Dr. Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle University / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Heidelberg University)
• Prof. Dr. Tilman Nagel (University of Göttingen)
• Prof. Dr. Frank Griffel (Yale University)
• Prof. Dr. Saskia Sassen (Columbia University, New York)
• Dr. phil. Dr. theol. habil. Felix Körner SJ (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome)
• Prof. Dr. Maya Burger (University of Lausanne)
• Prof. em. Dr. Jan Assmann (University of Konstanz)
• Dr. Christian Schwermann (University of Bonn)

Guest lectures 2011

• Prof. Dr. Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University)
• Dr. Jakob De Roover (Ghent University)
• Prof. Dr. Upendra Baxi (Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Law as Culture”, University of Bonn)
• Prof. Dr. Lisa Raphals (University of California/Riverside)
• Prof. Dr. Jyoti Atwal (Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
• Prof. Dr. Helene Basu (Universität Münster)

Guest lectures 2010

• Prof. Dr. Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen (Universität Freiburg im Breisgau)
• Prof. Dr. Christian Uhl (University of Gent)
• Prof. Dr. David Gordon White (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Hasan Abu Nimah (Regional Human Security Centre)
• Prof. Dr. James C. Scott (Yale University)
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Universität Bochum)

Guest lectures 2009

• Prof. Dr. Rey Chow (Duke University, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Gayacharan Tripathi (Indira Gandhi National Centre, New Delhi)
• Dr. Katajun Amirpur (Universität Bonn)

Guest lectures 2008

• Prof. Dr. Dietmar Rothermund (Universität Heidelberg)
• Ilija Trojanow (Schriftsteller)

Guest lectures 2007

• Prof. Dr. Kenichi Mishima (Tokyo Keizai Universität)
• Prof. Dr. Zoya Hasan (Jawaharial Nehru Universität, New Delhi)

Guest lectures 2006

• Prof. Dr. Jaleh Shadi Talab (Universität Teheran)
• Prof. Dr. Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)