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Lectures and Lecture Series

Focus Group Events

An overview of all Focus Groups can be found here. 

Workshop “Joint Action and the Common Ground”

with New Horizons Fellow Günther Knoblich

26-27 March 2026 (Thursday, 26 March, 14:30-18:00h; Friday, 27 March, 09:00-12:30h)

Hörsaal 4329, Psychologisches Institut, Schleichstr. 4, Tübingen

Workshop with New Horizons Fellow Günther Knoblich and Mercator Fellows Bart Geurts, Manfred Krifka, and Gabriella Vigliocco, in cooperation with the SFB Common Ground. Cognition – Grammar – Communication

(Preliminary) Program:

Thursday, 26 March 2026
14:30-16:00 Günther Knoblich (New Horizon Fellow, CoF)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Gabriella Vigliocco (Mercator Fellow, SFB 1718)

Friday, 27 March 2026
9:00-10:30 Manfred Krifka (Mercator Fellow, SFB 1718)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Bart Geurts (Mercator Fellow, SFB 1718)
 

Please register via the following link: xlsx-Symbol Mercator Workshop_26&27 March 2026_registration.xlsx or via email to koordination-sfb1718spam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de.

Please find the SFB Common Ground homepage here: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/282342 

 

 

College of Fellows Lecture Series

The College of Fellows Lecture Series invites international fellows and Tübingen academics to present their research and network. Every month, fellows and international guest researchers from the University of Tübingen present their research findings. If you are interested, please contact infospam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de 

Fellow Life Events

Workshop with a Keynote by Prof. Yuk Hui

“Philosophy of Technology from Intercultural Perspectives” 

March 28-29, 2026 College of Fellows (Villa Köstlin) Program 

This workshop explores the concept of “technology”—often understood as a distinctly Western construct—from an intercultural perspective. Heidegger argued that modern technology arises from the consequence of Western metaphysics, and that it has expanded far beyond its European origins. At the same time, its global dominance exposes the limits of Western modern thought. Against this backdrop, the workshop aims to reconsider technology interculturally and to examine possibilities for a “post-European” philosophy.
To deepen this inquiry, we welcome Prof. Yuk Hui (Erasmus University Rotterdam) as our keynote speaker. Through his concept of “cosmotechnics”—which investigates the correlation between technology and the cosmologies that ground it—Prof. Hui has developed a distinctive intercultural approach to the philosophy of technology. Building on his framework, this workshop invites participants to reexamine the concept of technology from diverse cultural and philosophical perspectives. 

Fellow Workshop by Dr. Veronica Cibotaru

"Universal Grammar and Linguistic Diversity" 

March 30-31   College of Fellows (Rümelinstr. 27) Program

The idea of Universal Grammar has dominated the field of linguistics in the last decades, while at the same time having undergone various reformulations, particularly in the writings of Chomsky. Chomsky’s idea of Universal Grammar has been developed in the framework of generative linguistics and entails the concept of an innate and universal faculty of language which allows infants to grasp the universal principles and patterns that structure phrases of any possible human language. Despite the prominence of this idea in the field of contemporary linguistics, it has been abundantly criticised and is still a bone of contention in linguistics, cognitive science and philosophy. Read more here. 

CoF Lunch Talks

The CoF Lunch Talk Series invites international fellows and Tübingen researchers to exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere during the lunch break. Each month, a fellow presents his or her research. The CoF Lunch Talks take place in the Villa Köstlin. 

The CoF Lunch Talks in the winter term 2025/26 can be found here.

 

Projects with our cooperation partners

An overview of our cooperations can be found here. 

Global Encounters Workshop Series

on "Bridging Knowledges. Thinking with/ Learning from the Global South"

February 12-13, 2026 Villa Köstlin

The Dark Sides of Rights of Nature

 

This international workshop explores the often-overlooked “dark sides” of Rights of Nature (RoN), bringing critical perspectives from the Global South and North into dialogue. While RoN are frequently celebrated for their transformative potential, the workshop foregrounds growing skepticism about their political, legal, and ideological implications. Key sessions address Nature, Rights, and the Far-Right in Germany and Rights of Nature, Human Rights, and Far-Right Ecologism, examining how legal innovations around nature intersect with nationalist, exclusionary, and authoritarian discourses. Contributions further explore the coloniality of (inter)national law, the racialization of nature, Indigenous critiques, and the appropriation of RoN by states, corporations, and political movements. Under the guiding question Back to nature?, the program also investigates far-right lifestyles, environmental activism, land-use conflicts, and everyday practices in Germany and Europe. Case studies from Latin America and Europe address ecofascism, Indigenous (land) rights , tensions between human and non-human rights, and the academic hype surrounding RoN. The workshop brings together scholars, practitioners, activists, and journalists to critically reassess Rights of Nature within contemporary power relations.

In cooperation with Riccarda Flemmer (Institute of Political Science, UT), Matthias Kramm (Ethics, Philosophy and History of the Life Sciences, UT), Léonie de Jonge (Institute for Research on Far Right Extremism (IRex), UT)