Marie Anne IslerBéguin – French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member of the French Greens, part of the European Greens. She was re-elected in 2004. She sits on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and is a substitute for the Committee […]
Theo Kobusch
Prof. Dr. Theo Kobusch is a distinguished scholar of ancient philosophy and Roman-Catholic theology. He has held the Chair of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn since 2003 and was the Managing Director of the Institute. He is widely reputed for his numerous publications on Plato. Dr. […]
Winfried Boeder
Winfried Boeder is a researcher of the highest scientific impact among foreign linguist Kartvelologists. For about 50 years, Prof. Boeder has been exploring general and specific issues of the structure and history of the Georgian language and individual sub-systems of Kartvelian languages, as well as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, text linguistics and social history issues […]
Alena V. Ledeneva
Alena V. Ledeneva (Russian: Алёна Валерьевна Леденёва; 1964) is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL). She is an internationally renowned expert on informal governance in Russia. Ledeneva studied Economics at the Novosibirsk State University (1986) and Social and Political Theory at the […]
Günther Teubner
Günther Teubner (born 30 April 1944 in Herrnhut) is a German legal scholar and sociologist, best known for his works within the field of Social Theory of Law. He was Professor of Private Law at the University of Bremen from 1977 to 1981. From 1982 to 1991, he was associated with the European University Institute […]
Michael Quante
Michael Quante was born in 1962 in Senden, Germany. He made his PhD in Philosophy (on Hegel’s Concept of Action) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster in 1992, where he wrote his Habilitation in 2001 (on Personal Identity as Principle of Biomedical Ethics), as well. He held professorships in Duisburg-Essen (2003-2005) and Cologne (2005-2009), and […]
Tomas Venclova
Tomas Venclova (born 11 September 1937, Klaipėda) is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Since 1980 he has taught […]
Matthias Theodor Vogt
Matthias Theodor Vogt (born 5 May 1959) is a German academic with a focus on cultural policy and an author of studies on cultural conditions that might serve to strengthen the democratic potential in diverse European countries. Between 1992 and 1995, Vogt developed the overall blueprint for the Free State of Saxony’s law on cultural […]
Mzekala Shanidze
Mzekala Shanidze is a linguist who serves as a professor emeritus at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and is a correspondent member at the Academy of Science. She was born on 16 January 1926 in the city of Tbilisi. In 1943, she entered Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the faculty of philology; however, shortly after the […]
Wilhelm Krul
Since 1996, Dr. Wilhelm Krull has been running the Volkswagen Foundation – following his studies in German, philosophy, education and politics, an appointment as a DAAD lecturer at the University of Oxford, and leading positions at the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) and at the headquarters of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society). Besides his professional activities […]