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Early-Career Fellowship 2026–2027 | Collegium Helveticum The Collegium is calling for submissions from all disciplines for 10-month residential early-career fellowships in Zurich. Apply until February 12, 2026.

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Early-Career Fellowship | Collegium Helveticum The Collegium Helveticum is the joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts. It aims to provide a meeting place and forum ...

Call for Early-career fellowships at the Collegium is open: collegium.ethz.ch/fellowships/... Please spread the word!

SIGNATURES For Cornell University: Michael I. Kotlikoff President of Cornell University Office of the President 300 Day Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education): /N istant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula Matana S Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Effective Date: 14/7/2025.

BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Partnership Between the NOMIS Foundation and the Collegium | Collegium Helveticum The NOMIS Foundation and the Collegium Helveticum have initiated a partnership to support international research collaborations. As one of the key initiatives of this partnership, the NOMIS Senior Fel...

A new partnership and a new fellowship program: collegium.ethz.ch/news-publica...

📅 New Perspectives on Ludwik Fleck | Collegium Helveticum The focus of this workshop is on exploring the potential of Ludwik Fleck’s work to inspire reflection on scientific practice across disciplines.

Looking forward to rereading Fleck together with fellows and colleagues in and out of the (wet) lab on November 11, 2025. With @roepstorff.bsky.social and others.
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📅 The Values of Diversity | Collegium Helveticum Lorraine Daston will examine how the concept of diversity, once largely confined to aesthetic and economic contexts, has rapidly acquired profound moral and political significance.

Tonight, Lorraine Daston on the history of the values of diversity: collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
Glad to have her visiting the Collegium Helveticum.

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

Remarkable numbers to support your individual choice for a healthier diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Welcome to the new fellows at the Collegium Helveticum!
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Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso.

SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

"Consider a non-technological example of decentralized, interoperable standards (where two or more differently designed systems can work tgthr): the Allen wrench.... AT Protocol could be that kind of standard for social media... One of the best examples of the power of this technology is Blacksky"

The Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ invites applications for one:
Senior Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Social Anthropology as Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2 level, tenure track)
Deadline: 15 October 2025

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The Collegium is thrilled to welcome the most recent addition to the community.

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... TJ Clark on Trump

Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they couldn’t predict this week Fire is an inextricable part of the region’s identity, as the writers knew. But the way this divided city burns has been transformed

I wrote for @theguardian.com about the LA fires, climate change and what lessons that dazzling city‘s dazzling writers hold for our unprecedented moment www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today, interesting student conference on "Challenging dichotomies in the cultural and social aspects of development cooperation," outcome of former fellow Medinat Malefakis' teaching at ETH NADEL.

Kathleen Ryan: Sculpting Time | Gagosian Quarterly Art historian, curator, and writer Daria de Beauvais tracks Kathleen Ryan’s sustained and evolving engagement with the temporal, the memento mori, Americana, and ecology. The artist was the recent ...

"As beautiful as they are disturbing, these sculptures intertwine desire + unease. They question our relationship with allure + disgust while challenging the notion of value."

(I also wrote about Ryan's work: wordsinspace.net/2022/08/12/f...)

Panel discussion on emerging artists in the Zurich art scene at Collegium Helveticum, organized by fellow Anna Luhovska.

📅 Terrestrial Ecosystems at Risk | Collegium Helveticum The rapid growth of the global population, coupled with the limited availability of arable land, has led to widespread deforestation and severe land degradat...

collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello... Join us for the symposium: "Terrestrial Ecosystems at Risk
Exploring the Critical Nexus of Land Use and Climate Change" organized by Nikou Hamzehpour, December 4, 2024, 13:00–18:00
Meridian Hall, Collegium Helveticum

We are looking for outstanding scholars and artists from around the globe who want to pursue courageous projects across disciplines. There is no limit to which disciplines can apply. The application window is open until February 15, 2025.
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Join us for a workshop at the Collegium Helveticum on November 22, 2023, starting with a conversation with molecular biologist and historian of science Hans-Jörg Rheinberger the evening before collegium.ethz.ch/veranstaltun....