Research Forum

The Research Forum facilitates interdisciplinary scientific cooperation among faculty members as well as with other institutions. It sees itself as a 'marketplace of ideas' with a laboratory character, a low degree of institutionalisation and great voluntary commitment. The forum aims to develop fields of innovation and enable research from 'below' in the form of research platforms.

The activities of a platform result from the researchers' common research question. So far, they have included workshops, lecture series, lectures, excursions, panel discussions, the production of anthologies, applications to the SNF for SINERGIA or project funding, networking and a film programme to discuss socio-political issues. Other activities are of course possible. The funding amount per platform and year is a maximum of CHF 3,000.

How can a project become a research platform? If there are free places, a call is sent out within the Faculty of Huumanities and published on this website. The Kolleg's Board of Directors decides on the applications. The head of the office, Dr. Ariane Lorke, will be happy to answer your questions. 

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Currently, a call is open until March 13, 2024.

Currently, there are six research platforms

• Auto-Bio-Graphy – Historiographic Perspectives on Ego Documents/Personal Testimonies in Literature and the Visual and Performative Arts since 2017
• Conflict and Peace in Eastern Europe and Central Asia since 2023
• The long-term effects of industrial palm oil production on population and environment in tropical regions of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia since 2020
• Media and Aesthetics since 2023
• Swiss Commons since 2020
• Sprache, Gewalt und Gewalterfahrung im Südosteuropa des 20. Jahrhunderts since 2021 (information in German only)

Former platforms

• Bodies in Interaction (2021-2022)
• EthnoKino (2020-2023)
• The Latin Flavius Josephus in his Christian an Jewish Perception: (2016-2019) the platform was rewarded a Sinergia grant from the SNSF in 2018. Information about the new project “Lege Iosephum!” Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages can be found at www.legejosephum.ch or www.legejosephum.unibe.ch.Mediating the Ecological Imperative: Formats and Modes of Engagement (2020-2021)
• Mediating the Ecological Imperative. Formats and Modes of Engagement (2020-2021)
• Migration: Kompetenzen bündeln – Impulse setzen – Grundlagen schaffen (2016-2020)  
• Netways – a knowledge pool and circulation space on network research approaches (2020-2021)
• Original – Kopie: Techniken und Ästhetiken der Reproduzierbarkeit (2016-2019)
• Silicon Mountains (2019-2022) 
• Urbane und rurale Räume: ein transphilologischer Dialog (2020-2021)
• Visualizing 'Diversity' in Higher Education: Looking Beyond the Image (2017-2019)