Visiting Scholars
The Bonn Center for Reconciliation Studies (BCRS) welcomes researchers from abroad who would like to conduct research at the BCRS as international visiting scholars for a limited period of time.
The visiting scholar program is aimed at professors, postdocs, and doctoral students who work at an academic institution abroad and would like to conduct research at the University of Bonn for a period of one to six months. As part of the visiting scholar program, researchers receive access to the libraries and online databases of the University of Bonn as well as a workspace at the Center for Reconciliation Studies.
The visiting scholar program is not intended for international students (bachelor/master). Interested students can find further information here.
Acceptance as an international visiting scholar requires a scientific host, a member of the BCRS who agrees to accompany the research stay. A list of all professors at the BCRS can be found here.
The Welcome Center at the University of Bonn is the central advisory and service center for international visiting scholars. It is the first point of contact and provides support in obtaining letters of invitation (for visas and scholarships), information about housing options, and local organization (workplace, access to libraries and the internet).
The contact person for visiting scholars interested in conducting research at the Center for Reconciliation Studies is:
Inquiries regarding research stays at the BCRS are accepted at any time. Interested parties should send the following information by email to reconciliation@uni-bonn.de:
- Name and contact details
- Details of the timing, duration, and content of the planned research stay (max. 1 page)
- Curriculum vitae with list of publications
- Name of the academic host at the BVRS.
The Bonn Center for Reconciliation Studies is unfortunately unable to provide financial support for research stays.
Financial support for research stays can be applied for at the following institutions (among others):
Before beginning their research stay in Bonn, visiting scholars need to resolve the following issues:
- Visa (country-specific information can be found on the website of the Federal Foreign Office)
- Health insurance
- Accommodation
Former visiting scholars
Dr. Martin Chung
C. K. Martin Chung ist Associate Professor of Government and International Studies und Koordinator des gemeinsamen Studiengangs GIS-Sciences Po Bordeaux an der Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). Seine erste Monografie, Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past (Cornell University Press 2017), untersucht die Rolle religiöser Ideen in der deutschen Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Seine vergleichende Studie „Twenty Years after: Statute of Limitations and the Asymmetric Burdens of Justice in Northern Ireland and Post-war Germany” (2021) wurde von der Hansard Society für die Sonderausgabe „Marking 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement” zum Thema parlamentarische Angelegenheiten ausgewählt. Weitere Artikel von ihm sind im International Journal of Transitional Justice, History & Memory, British Politics, Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts und Jahrbuch für Politik und Geschichte erschienen.
Chung ist principal investigator zweier vom Forschungsförderungsrat Hongkongs finanzierter Projekte: "Reconciliation and Its Resentments: The Suppression of Justice and Truth Recovery in Germany, Northern Ireland, and Western Balkans" (GRF12614422, 2023-2026) und "The Politics of Antagonism Revisited: Assessing Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement (1998-2018)" (ECS22612318, 2018-2022). Chung ist Absolvent des Yad Vashem und des Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute, hat einen Doktortitel der Universität Hongkong und ist assoziiertes Mitglied des Bonner Zentrums für
Contact
Ann-Sophie Vornholz