Updates, News, and Registration Extension:

•      2016 Humboldt Kolleg – Programme (updated 2016 01 25)

•       Registration Form, to Anshuman (anshuman.khare@fb.athabascau.ca),
        now extended to Feb.29, 2016

•       Holiday Inn Booking Form, to Holiday Inn

•       Air Canada Discount, ask Chung-Wai for Promotion Code
        (cw.chow@utoronto.ca)

•       WestJet Discount, ask Chung-Wai for Promo Code and Coupon
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Please note that Holiday Inn, Air Canada, and WestJet are supporting our Kolleg with discounts.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Royal Society of Canada are pleased to announce a call for nominations for the Konrad Adenauer Research Award 2016. The Award is conferred annually and recognises the entire academic record to date of an internationally renowned Canadian researcher in the Humanities or Social Sciences. Nominations for the award must identify academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and beyond, and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge academic achievements in future.

The deadline is March 1, 2016. For more information please visit http://rsc-src.ca/en/fellows/medals-awards/rsc-medals-awards.

If you have questions regarding the award or nomination process, please contact Marie-Lyne Renaud, Manager for Fellowship and Awards at the Royal Society of Canada (nominations@rsc-src.ca).

and a few rare snowflakes from British Columbia.

Here are the newest additions announced by Anshuman Khare:

Phantom ex machina – Digital disruption’s role in business model transformation
•       Editors: Anshuman Khare, Rod Scahtz and Brian Stewart
•       Date of Publication: October 2016 (anticipated)
•       Book’s companion website: http://phantomexmachina.com/
•       Publisher:  Springer US, 233 Spring Street, New York NY 10013, USA.

Managing in a VUCA World (in-press)
•       Editors: Anshuman Khare, Oliver Mack, Andreas Krämer and Thomas Burgartz
•       July 2015 / 222 pages, ISBN 978-3-319-16888-3 / eBook ISBN 978-3-319-16889-0
•       Publisher: Springer US, 233 Spring Street, New York NY 10013, USA.
•       Book website: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319168883

German Bundespresident Joachim Gauck conferred physicist Prof. Dr. Henry Mantsch, A.v. Humboldt fellow from 1966/67, the Bundesverdienstkreuz for building scientific bridges between Canada and Germany during his state visit to Canada last year. Prof. Mantsch, who had worked with the Nobel Laureat Prof. Herzberg at the National Research Centre in Ottawa in the field of molecular spectroscopy, was a bridge builder of outstanding quality who had paved the way for many young German and Canadian scientists to work and do research in an international framework.

Prof. Mantsch will be attending our upcoming Kolleg presenting his talk “Time in Physics”.

The photo is from the ceremony with Bundespresident Joachim Gauck and his partner Daniela Schadt, Ottawa 25 Sept 2014.

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has announced this year’s Konrad Adenauer Award Winner: Harald Bauder from Ryerson University who is also a Humboldt Fellow. The Konrad Adenauer Research Award, established in 1989, is conferred annually by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in cooperation with the Royal Society of Canada. It recognizes the entire academic record to date of an internationally renowned Canadian researcher in the Humanities or Social Sciences.

We are also pleased to see many Humboldtians on the list of newly elected RSC fellows, including Kathryn Brush, Angela Esterhammer, Margret Morrison, and Joerg Bohlmann. Keren Rice and Julio Navarro, two recipients of RSC medals, are also Humboldtians.

Harald Bauder is Professor of Geography and Academic Director at the Centre for Immigration and Settlement at Ryerson University.

Frank W. Stahnisch

has recently assumed role of an Editor-in-Chief with the international “Journal of the History of the Neurosciences”:

Some members of our AvH Association of Canada are rather active. You might not have given it the proper attention – please look up books and articles in our Archive section. Here are the newest additions announced by Anshuman Khare:

Phantom ex machina – Digital disruption’s role in business model transformation
        •       Editors: Anshuman Khare, Rod Scahtz and Brian Stewart
        •       Date of Publication: October 2016 (anticipated)
        •       Status: Planning Stage
        •       Call for abstracts for papers (download) – DEADLINE August 31, 2015.
        •       Proposed book’s companion website: http://phantomexmachina.com/ 
        •       Publisher: TBA.

Managing in a VUCA World (in-press)
        •       Editors: Anshuman Khare, Oliver Mack, Andreas Krämer and Thomas Burgartz
        •       June 2015 (expected) / 222 pages, ISBN 978-3-319-16888-3 / eBook ISBN 978-3-319-16889-0
        •       Publisher: Springer US, 233 Spring Street, New York NY 10013, USA.
        •       Purchase at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319168883

And this one is doing good – over 8000 chapter downloads in 2 years!

Mitigating Climate Change: The Emerging Face of Modern Cities
        •       Editors:  Anshuman Khare and Terry Beckman
        •       May 2013 / 303 pages
        •       Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany
        •       Hard Cover ISBN: 978-3-642-37029-8
        •       Book ISBN: 978-3-642-37030-4
        •       Soft Cover ISBN: 978-3-642-42757-2
        •       Purchase at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642370298#

Appropriate links will be made available in the Archive section later.

Please reserve the time in order to join us for the next Humboldt Kolleg on ‘Time’ in 2016.  Details of the Kolleg and Call for Abstracts to follow, preliminary agenda click here:

2016 HUMBOLDT KOLLEG: TIME

LOCATION: Toronto, ON

DATES: May 5 – 8, 2016

Hoffmann, Thomas and Stahnisch, Frank W. (eds). Kurt Goldstein – Der Aufbau des Organismus. Einfuehrung in die Biologie unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung der Erfahrungen am kranken Menschen. Munich – Paderborn: Fink Verlag, 2014. 462 pp..

Der Aufbau des Organismus ist das Hauptwerk des deutsch-amerikanischen Neurologen und Psychiaters Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965). Erstmals seit 1934 erscheint es nun in einer neuen deutschsprachigen Ausgabe.

Im Spannungsfeld von Neurologie, Psychologie und Philosophie entwarf Kurt Goldstein im niederländischen Exil eine ganzheitliche Theorie des Aufbaus und der Funktion des menschlichen Organismus, die eine völlig neue Sicht auf die menschliche Psyche und die Funktionsweise des Gehirns ermöglichte.
Sein Werk zählt nicht nur zu den Klassikern der modernen Neuropsychologie, sondern prägte auch so unterschiedliche Strömungen wie die Phänomenologie in Frankreich (Merleau- Ponty), die humanistische Psychologie in den USA (Maslow, Rogers) und die Kulturhistorische Schule der russischen Psychologie (Wygotski, Luria, Leontjew).
In der Nachkriegszeit in Deutschland weitgehend verdrängt und vergessen, wartete dieses Buch lange auf seine Wiederentdeckung. Angesichts der aktuellen Diskussion des Leib-Seele-Problems in den Neurowissenschaften und der Philosophie ist Goldsteins Werk heute wieder hochaktuell.