In 2015, the following researchers are invited for guest lectures:

• Prof. Dr. Nicolai Sinai (University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oriental Institute/Pembroke College): Der lange Schatten Nöldekes: Bemerkungen zur Gründerzeit der modernen westlichen Koranforschung im 19. Jahrhundert

• Prof. Dr. Ana Echevarría Arsuaga (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid/Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Constance): Islamic Art for a Christian Society: The Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages

• Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Honda (Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo): Continuity and Change in the Japanese Political System after Fukushima

• Prof. Dr. Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge): Greeks and Jews on the Origin of Law

• Dr. Henning Trüper (Technische Universität Berlin): Schattentheater: Sachphilologie, Polemik und Ästhetik bei Georg Jacob

• PD Dr. Catherine König-Pralong (University of Freiburg): Alterität und Irrationalismus: Die Araber in der europäischen Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung (1780–1850)

• Dr. Pablo Blitstein (Cluster of Excellence „Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality“, Heidelberg University): The Court and the Nation: Patterns of Conceptual Change between Beijing and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century

• Prof. Dr. Youngtae Shin (University of Central Oklahoma): What Makes Middle Aged Women Become Politicized: The Case of Family Members of Political Dissidents between the 1970s and 2000s of South Korea

• Prof. Dr. Hindy Najman (Yale University): The Law of Nature, the “Intelligible World” and the “Mystery that is to Come” in Ancient Judaism

• Prof. Dr. Haiyan Lee (Stanford University): From Here to Eternity: A Sino-Jewish Encounter