Directors
The director of the ZfL is the literary scholar Eva Geulen, Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the associate directors are the philosopher Georg Toepfer and the comparatist Daniel Weidner.
Director of the ZfL
Executive board member of the Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin, Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin
Associate director of the ZfL
Head of the research projects Life Lessons and the Art of Life. Translating Life into Philosophy and the Arts and The Shifting Borders of Biology
Associate director of the ZfL
Professor for the Study of Culture and Religion at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin
Heads of the Research Areas
The projects are based in three research areas which are strategically developed and managed by experienced academics in collaboration with the directors.
Philosopher, head of the research area History of Theory and of the projects The Theory and Concept of an Interdisciplinary Conceptual History and Lazar Gulkovich: Writings on the History of Concepts (Edition)
in collaboration with Eva Geulen
Literary scholar, head of the research area World Literature, and research associate for the project The Formation of Theory and the Critique of ›Wissenschaft‹ in the Early Twentieth Century
in collaboration with Daniel Weidner
in collaboration with Georg Toepfer