Guests of CRC 1671
The Collaborative Research Center has developed a scientific guest program that, in addition to the joint work in the pillars, cross-sectional areas, and the Model Theory Working Group, further improves networking of the individual subprojects and facilitates dialogue between them and with external scientists.
Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken - Mercator Fellow in the winter term 2025/56
In the winter term of 2025/26, Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken (Zurich) will present his musicological research project, 'Claudio Monteverdi and his historical place', contributing to the discussion on home(s). The question of Monteverdi's 'spiritual home' is complex because his supposed modernity is intertwined with older ways of thinking. The project aims to outline these tensions more precisely and examine their impact on the concept of music and its compositional implementation. The focus is less on linear classifications and more on precise historical localization, in the sense of an expanded concept of home encompassing places and times.
On December 16, Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken will give a lecture on the topic of “Elective Homeland: Cosmopolitanism. Beethoven and Antiquity” in the auditorium of the Old University.
Visiting Scholars 2025/26
The CRC 1671 research network is pleased to welcome six visiting scholars for a one-year period starting in October 2025. During their visit, the postdoctoral researchers will work on their own research projects on the topic of 'home(s)' and its financing, and engage in professional exchange with the CRC's subprojects.
We warmly welcome: Dr Leah Biebert (Düsseldorf and Freiburg), Dr Pascal Ongossi Assamba (Ellwangen), Dr Jieun Kim (Seoul, Korea), Dr Tim Alexander Brockmann (Marburg), Dr Alexandre Nogueira Martins (Berlin) and Dr Anna-Lena Eick (Mainz).
Former Guests of the CRC
Visiting scholars in the summer term of 2025 as part of the program for early-career researchers
Dr Mark Porter, a researcher working at the intersection of theology and musicology, and Dr Audrey Wozniak, a music ethnologist and violinist, were guests at the CRC for two months each in the summer term of 2025.
Mercator Fellow in the winter term of 2024/25:
Laura Bieger, an American studies scholar from Bochum, was the first Mercator Fellow to visit the CRC in the winter term of 2024/25, where she discussed her research with the CRC.
Information about the CRC guest program
Mercator Fellows
Four renowned international scholars, who specialize in the life-worlds of composers, urban practices of belonging in the age of migration, food cultures and belonging in Anglo-American literature, have agreed to join the Collaborative Research Center for the first funding period. They will enrich the Center's research, strengthen the academic discussion and collaborate with doctoral and postdoctoral students in their lectures and workshops. Each fellow will spend one winter term in Heidelberg.
Guest program for early-career researchers
The Collaborative Research Center invites early-career researchers working on the theme of 'home(s)' to Heidelberg for two-month guest stays during the summer term (April/May and June/July), to engage in dialogue with them. All of the fellows have also expressed a particular interest in the program of events and are involved in teaching courses. Six young scientists have been jointly proposed and selected by the subprojects.