In the future, too, these themes will be relevant in the humanities, cultural and social sciences, above all with a view to processes of individual and collective identity construction.
With the project Scholars in Residence, taking the processes of transformation as point of departure, the Goethe-Institut seeks to promote intercultural dialogue in the area of academic research and to strengthen scientific relations between Germany and the Arabic world on a long-term basis.
The weblog Shaping the Humanities offers young researchers a platform to network and publish their work. Next-generation researchers from Egypt, Germany, Morocco and Tunisia take interdisciplinary approaches within the thematic complexes "Culture and Climate", "Culture and Conflict" and "Culture and Public Space".
"Scholars in Residence" is part of the German-Egyptian and German-Tunisian transformation partnership 2012-2013. The project is an initiative by the Goethe-Institut and being carried out in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI) and the Ruhr University Bochum’s Centre of Mediterranean Studies (ZMS). Funded with special grants provided by the German Federal Foreign Office.
