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Guest Researchers of the Humanism Project

Ranjan Ghosh

Ranjan Ghosh was a visiting Fellow at KWI as part of the Humanism Project (October – December 2006) and received a research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which will allow him to stay at the KWI again as of March 2007. Included in his numerous publications are articles in such prominent journals as The Oxford Literary Review; History and Theory or Rethinking History and monographs including “Lover’s Quarrel with Clio” (Oxford, Berghahn Books) and “(In)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits” (Maryland, University Press of America, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2006).

Oliver Kozlarek

Oliver Kozlarek was a visiting Fellow at KWI (February – September 2007). He studied communication science, sociology and philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Mexico City, New York and Sao Paulo. In 1997 he obtained his doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2001 the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa in Mexico City awarded him a doctorate in “Humanidades”. He worked as a Fellow of the New School for Social Research and Stanford University. He held visiting professorships at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Technischen Universität Chemnitz, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is currently working at the Facultad de Filosofia of the Universidad Michoacana (Mexico), as well as being a founding member of the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas at the same university. Among other publications his articles have appeared in "International Sociology", "Widerspruch: Münchner Zeitschrift für Philosophie" and "Culture, Theory and Critique". Kozlarek is the author of the monograph “Universalien, Eurozentrismus, Logozentrismus. Kritik am disjunktiven Denken der Moderne“ (mit einem Vorwort von Enrique Dussel) Frankfurt/M.: IKO Verlag (2000).

Armando Salvatore

Armando Salvatore obtained his PhD (1994) in social and political sciences from the European University Institute, Florence. Currently he is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität, Berlin. He has published widely on Islam, modernity and the public sphere including a study on “Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity” (1997, paperback 1999).

Ernst Wolff

Ernst Wolff studied philosophy and French at the University of Pretoria, the University of Johannesburg and the Université Sorbonne, Paris. He is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Pretoria and was a visiting Fellow at KWI (September – December 2007).

Zhu Weizheng

Zhu Weizheng (Fudan University, Shanghai) was visiting Fellow at KWI (September – December 2007). Another visit was in spring 2008. The Humanism Project succeeded in cooperating with the Department of Chinese and Korean Studies at the Tübingen University to invite Zhu Weizheng to the KWI. He is one of the most renowned historians of the People's Republic of China and is writing a monograph on humanism in China currently.