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Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies

Special Call: MW Postdoctoral Fellowship for ESRs affected by the war in Ukraine. More info

Programme

The MWP is the largest international and most innovative postdoctoral programme in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe. It offers around 60 fully funded Fellowships.

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Activities at a glance

The MWP organizes book roundtables, conferences, lectures, multidisciplinary research workshops and academic practice activities.

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People

Meet the Max Weber Fellows (current, visiting and former cohorts) and the MWP Team.

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Publications

Take a look at the MWP Books, Articles, Working Papers, Annual Reports, Newsletters and much more.

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Events

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News

Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers affected by the war in Ukraine

In order to provide support for scholars affected by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the Max Weber Programme and the Robert Schuman Centre welcome applications for a one-year fellowship as well as up to three Jean Monnet fellowships for postdoctoral researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

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MWP Publications

Have a look at the recent publications (monographs, articles, etc.) of our current and former Max Weber Fellows.

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Book

Investment Governance between the Energy Charter Treaty and the European Union

Against the background of climate change, the Energy Charter Treaty and the law and policy of the European Union are no longer fully aligned with each other: in the case of a conflict in the area o...

Ottavio Quirico (MW Fellow 2008-2009) The Netherlands: Brill, Nijhoff, 2021

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Investment Governance between the Energy Charter Treaty and the European Union

Book

Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict

With its contextualized analysis of the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) engagement in Turkey's Kurdish conflict since the early 1990s, Limits of Supranational Justice makes a much-needed co...

Dilek Kurban (MW Fellow 2021-2022) Cambridge UP, 2020

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Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict

Article

Towards a Peremptory Duty to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Is international law developing towards the recognition of a peremptory obligation for States and international organizations to stabilize anthropogenic greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions...

Ottavio Quirico (MW Fellow 2008-2009) 44 Fordham International Law Journal, 923 (2021)

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Towards a Peremptory Duty to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Article

The Making of a Holocaust Denier: Ingrid Rimland, Mennonites, and Gender in White Supremacy, 1945–2000

The novelist Ingrid Rimland became a prominent Holocaust denier in North America during the 1990s. Before embracing neo-Nazism, Rimland won acclaim within the Mennonite church—the Christian d...

Benjamin Goossen (MW Fellow 2020-2021) Antisemitism Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 2021)

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The Making of a Holocaust Denier: Ingrid Rimland, Mennonites, and Gender in White Supremacy, 1945–2000

Spotlight

MWP Book Roundtable with Nicolas Lamp (Queen's University) and Anthea Roberts (ANU)

Max Weber Lecture with Professor Johanna Gehmacher (University of Vienna) - 12 January 2022

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Max Weber Alumni Network

The Max Weber Programme is a global programme in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

The interactive Max Weber Alumni Network Map shows former Max Weber Fellows according to their current job position, country, cohort year and departmental affiliation.

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