No. 111/2020

30 HUMBOLDT KOSMOS 111/2020 NEWS The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will soon be inviting young professionals from South Africa to become German Chancellor Fellows in Germany where they can conduct projects and develop new contacts. The addition of South Africa completes the group of BRICS nations in the German Chancellor Fellowship programme. Until now, candidates from the fast-growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China could apply for fellow- ships as well as talented individuals from the United States. Chancellor Merkel announced the forthcoming expansion when visiting Pretoria in February. As part of the worldwide Humboldt Network, German Chancellor Fellows – who come from a wide range of fields – act as intermediaries between their native coun- try and Germany after their stay in Germany and develop lasting contacts. This fellowship programme is under the patronage of Germany’s Federal Chancellor and is financed by the Fed- eral Foreign Office. Every year, it offers up to ten univer- sity graduates from each country who have already gained some leadership experience the opportunity to come to Germany to expand their international experience and, at the same time, strengthen their intercultural skills. GERMAN CHANCELLOR FELLOWSHIPS Now open to South Africa, too REIMAR LÜST AWARD Awards go to a philosopher and a legal scholar FURTHER INFORMATION www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/luest-award.html Angela Merkel with the President of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa The philosopher Hannah Ginsborg and the legal scholar Toshiyuki Kono are the recipients of the 2019 Reimar Lüst Awards. The award is granted to humanities scholars and social scientists from abroad who, through their research, have shaped academic and cultural relations between Ger- many and their own countries. Each award is endowed with €60,000. Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in collaboration with the FritzThyssen Foun- dation, grants up to two Reimar Lüst Awards. The philosophy professor Hannah Ginsborg con- ducts research at the University of California in Berke- ley, United States. She has made important contribu- tions not only to the history of philosophy but also to contemporary philosophy of mind, language and art. Her work revolves around the notion of a primitive form of normativity, which she has derived from Kant’s the- ory of aesthetics. She is an important mediator in the exchange between the German and the Anglo-Ameri- can philosophical tradition. In the past, she has come to Germany a number of times for research purposes. In her capacity as a Reimar Lüst Award Winner, she plans to collaborate with colleagues at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, particularly on the relationship between her concept of primitive normativity and the connection between ‘ought’ and ‘intention’. Toshiyuki Kono is a professor of law at Kyushu Uni- versity in Fukuoka, Japan. In addition to his academic research on private international law and the enforce- ment of intellectual property rights, Toshiyuki Kono has made valuable contributions in the field of national and international protection of cultural property. In 2018, he was the first Japanese citizen to be elected pres- ident of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS International), after having served sev- eral years as chairman of the Committee for Cultural Affairs in Japan’s National Commission for UNESCO. As a Reimar Lüst Award Winner, his collaboration with colleagues at the Institute of Information, Tele- communication and Media Law at the University of Münster will examine the connection between cultural heritage protection and trademark law. FURTHER INFORMATION www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/german-chancel- lor-fellowship.html