Forum Transregionale Studien

PROFILE

The Forum Transregionale Studien is a new research platform of the Land of Berlin

designed to promote research that connects systematic and region-specific

questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements and interactions beyond

national, cultural or regional frames. The Forum works in tandem with

established institutions and networks engaged in transregional studies and is

supported by universities, research institutes and networks mainly based in

Berlin. It was founded in 2009 as a registered association and started its

activities in 2010 by identifying and supporting projects in the fields of law,

philology, and urban sociology.

Hermann Parzinger (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) is the head of the

members' assembly. The board of the Forum consists of the historian Andreas

Eckert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), the political scientist Marianne Braig

(Freie Universität Berlin), and the historian Sebastian Conrad (Freie

Universität Berlin).

The Forum Transregionale Studien is funded by the Senate of Berlin. For a

transitional period the Forum is hosted by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.