The Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht“ (EViR, ‘Legal Unity and Pluralism‘) at the University of Münster invites applications for fellowships for a period of between 6 and 12 months for the academic year 2025/26, provided to the approval of a second funding phase by the BMBF. Applications are open to researchers from the humanities and social sciences from the postdoctoral phase onwards who are working on the research topics of the Centre. The application deadline has been extended until 5 January 2025.

To mark 500 years of the Peasants' War, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg is hosting a public discussion with Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff on 16 January 2025. The early modern historian from the Technical University of Dresden has just published a highly acclaimed comprehensive account of the Peasants' War 1525. The event begins at 19.00 in the Stadtbücherei Münster. Admission is free, registration is not required. The event language is German.

On Friday, 17 January 2025, the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities will host a masterclass with Lyndal Roper and Gerd Schwerhoff in cooperation with the Bielefeld CRC 1288 ‘Practices of Comparison. Ordering and Changing the World‘ and the profile area “History of Pre-Modernity” at Bielefeld University, a masterclass with Lyndal Roper and Gerd Schwerhoff on the Peasants’ War will take place.

This spring school will focus on the material dimension of cross-oceanic and global exchanges in the Modern and Late Modern eras. These processes brought ever more distant regions into direct contact, creating dense material entanglements, but often not on equal terms.