The UK-German Frontiers of Humanities (UKGFOH) Symposia are a series of interdisciplinary, binational conferences jointly conducted by the British Academy (BA) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Funding on the German side is provided by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.
The conference brings together about 30 outstanding young researchers based in the United Kingdom and Germany working in various disciplines. They share knowledge across disciplines and take the opportunity to work on future UK-German collaborations. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports such collaborative work with its special follow-up programme CONNECT which funds working visits in the partner countries for up to 30 days. The British Academy provides seed funding to facilitate collaborations that are formed during the symposium.
This year’s symposium on Truth, Justice, and Peace will aim to draw on the broad range of disciplines and expertise present to explore the way that scholars and communities conceptualise and implement truth, justice and peace, how transitional justice and peace processes inform and are informed by local knowledge, traditions, interests and values, and how senses and histories of identity may be implicated in the pursuit of truth, justice and peace.
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Participation is by invitation only.
This symposium is part of the Frontiers of Research Programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Foundation regularly convenes bi- and tri-national Frontiers of Research Symposia in cooperation with its partner organisations in Brazil, China, Japan, India, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.