Hans Vorländer

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Prof. Dr. Hans Vorländer

Director, Center for the Study of Constitutionalism and Democracy

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Chair of Political Theory and History of Political Thought

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01069 Dresden

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Core research areas

Political Theory
History of ideas
Constitutionalism and constitution
democracy
Liberalism
Political cultures
Populism
Migration and integration

Scientific career

2017	Director of the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy (MIDEM) at TU Dresden
2013	Elected President of the University of Erfurt (not accepted)
2010	Visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and at the Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City
2007	Founding and Director of the Center for Constitutional and Democratic Research (ZVD) at TU Dresden
2006	Offered the Chair of Political Theory at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland (declined)
2006	Visiting professor at the Universities of Turin and Bologna
2001, 2006	Visiting professor (Professeur invité) and Directeur d'études at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Since 1997	Annual visiting professor at the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik (Croatia)
04/1993	Appointed to the Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas at TU Dresden; accepted 09/1993
1991	Habilitation at the University of Essen ("Hegemonial Liberalism. Political Thought and Political Culture in the USA 1776 - 1920"); awarded the venia legendi for political science
1990 - 1993	Deputy Chair at the University of Essen (C3: International Relations and C4: Political Science)
1987 - 1990	Deputy Chair of Political Science (Theory of Democracy and Comparison of Liberal-Democratic Systems) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (C4)
1986 - 1987	Research Associate (DFG Research Fellowship) at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
1984 - 1985	John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (Harvard Fellowship)
1984, 1985/1986	Research Associate in Political Science at the University of Essen
1981 - 1984	Lecturer in domestic, legal, German and European politics at the Theodor Heuss Academy, Gummersbach
1980	Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Political Science ("Constitution and Consensus") at the University of Bonn - Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Dietrich Bracher
1975 - 1980	Double degree in political science and law in Bonn and Geneva Further subjects: philosophy, sociology, German studies

Functions in self-administration and committees of TU Dresden

since 2017	Director of the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy (MIDEM)
since 2014	Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Hannah Arendt Institute (affiliated institute of TU Dresden)
since 2012	Founder and Director of the Henry Arnhold Dresden Summer School - in cooperation with: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections), Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden, Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr, Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek - financed by acquired (private) third-party funds
since 1997	Program manager at TU Dresden for the cooperation: with the New School University (formerly: New School for Social Research), New York - annual acquisition of ISAP funds from the DAAD as well as with the University of Zagreb (Croatia) and the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik (Croatia); Erasmus representative for the exchange programs with Lyon (France), Turin (Italy), Bologna (Italy) and Wrocław (Poland)
2010 - 2020	Member of the board of DRESDEN-concept e.V. (network of TU Dresden and non-university research institutions: Max Planck Institutes; Fraunhofer, Leibniz and Helmholtz Institutes and State Art Collections, German Hygiene Museum, Military History Museum, Saxon State and University Library)
2010 - 2020	Spokesperson and Coordinator of the Scientific Area Committee "Culture and Knowledge"; in this function, collaboration on the "Future Design" of TU Dresden "The Synergetic University" as part of the Federal Excellence Initiative
2010 - 2020	Spokesperson and coordinator of the cluster application of the humanities, social sciences and cultural sciences (5 faculties and non-university research institutions) for the Excellence Initiative "Cultural Transformations. The Dresden Center for Cultural Research"
2009 - 2014	Founder and spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center 804 "Transcendence and Common Sense", head of the sub-project "Democratic Order between Transcendence and Common Sense"
2005 - 2006	Spokesperson and coordinator of the Excellence Initiative "Dresden International Graduate School of Culture, History, and Society"
2005	Spokesperson and coordinator of the Excellence Initiative "Social Change and Institutional Order" (Graduate School) at TU Dresden
2000 - 2009	Founding member and project leader of the European Graduate School 625 "Institutionelle Ordnungen, Schrift und Symbole/ Ordres institutionnels, écrit et symboles" at the TU Dresden and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
2000 - 2008	Deputy speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 537 "Institutionality and Historicity" at TU Dresden
1997 - 2008	Founding member and project leader of the Collaborative Research Center 537 "Institutionality and Historicity" at TU Dresden
1997 - 2000	Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science and Senator of TU Dresden
1994 - 2008	Member of the University Assembly of TU Dresden
1994 - 2000	Member of the Council of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at TU Dresden
1994 - 1997 2000 - 2005	International Representative and Socrates/Erasmus Representative of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at TU Dresden
1994 - 1995 2002 - 2003	Managing Director of the Institute of Political Science at TU Dresden

Memberships of advisory boards and commissions

since 2020	Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for Social Cohesion of the State Government of the Free State of Saxony/Ministry of Social Affairs
since 2019	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board "Economy for a cosmopolitan Saxony. e.V."
2019 - 2021	Member of the Federal Government's expert commission on the framework conditions for integration capability
since 2018	Member of the State Advisory Council on Integration of the Free State of Saxony
since 2018	Member of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (since 2021 Expert Council of the Federal Government on Integration and Migration)
since 2018	Member of the Advisory Board of the Hannah Arendt Institute, Dresden
2018 - 2021	Member of the Scientific Advisory Group "Expert Dialogue on Security Research" Federal Ministry of Education and Research
2017 - 2020	Member of the Board of Trustees "Capital of Culture Dresden 2025"
since 2016	Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Populism
since 2014	Member of the editorial board of the magazine Il Pensiero
2014 - 2021	Member of the DFG pre-selection committee - Villa Vigioni
2014 - 2020	Member of the International Expert Commission, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
since 2012	Member of the Advisory Board of the Hannah Arendt Institute, Dresden
2010 - 2020	Member of the pre-selection committee for the DFG program Villa Vigoni Talks, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy
2010 - 2014	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Lucerne Conference, Lucerne, Switzerland
2010 - 2012	Member of the working group on law of the German Council of Science and Humanities
since 2009	Co-editor of the Journal of Political Science
2009 - 2013	Member of the Program Commission of the Free State of Thuringia
2008 - 2010	Member of the expert committee of the Federal Ministry of the Interior "Social Cohesion"
2006 - 2010	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Instituto Electoral del Distrito Federal, Mexico
since 2005	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the journal Kritische Justiz
2003 - 2005	Chairman of the German Society for Political Science
since 2002	Editor of the series Constitution and Politics at VS-Verlag
since 2002	Corresponding member of the Bavarian American Academy
2002 - 2006	Member of the scientific editorial board of Filosofia Politica
2002 - 2006	Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), Gütersloh
2002 - 2006	Expert in accreditation agencies (ZEvA and ACQUIN)
Since 2001	Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for European Constitutional Studies, Hagen
2001 - 2005	Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
1997 - 2005	Member of the Board of the German Political Science Association
1997 - 2005	Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
1996 - 2006	Member of the review panel for American Studies
1996 - 2006	Member of the Advisory Board of the Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus, Stuttgart; Deputy Chairman (2000 - 2006)
1993 - 1996	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Foundation Archive of the Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR (SAPMO-DDR) in the Federal Archives

Research projects and participation in research networks

2020 - 2021	Project Manager Curriculum Study Migration and Integration (Funding: Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration)
2018 - 2021	Project Manager Security Analysis and Networking for Urban Neighborhoods in Transition (SIQUA) (Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
since 2017	Director of the Forum Migration and Democracy (MIDEM) (Funding: Mercator Foundation)
2017 - 2019	Project manager of the EU research project kultura.digital (Funding: Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts and European Union)
2014 - 2018	Head of the project "The good citizen. Horizons of expectation and attribution practices" - How is the ideal of the "good citizen" interpreted in the social debates of the democratic constitutional systems of the 21st century? (Funding: Thyssen Foundation)
2011 - 2016	Member of the research network "La démocratie face aux enjeux environnementaux", Paris (funding: ANR)
2010 - 2013	Head of the project "The constitutionalization of transnational spaces: Emergent constitutional processes and constitutional interpretative semantics in political science analysis" (Funding: DFG)
2009 - 2014	Head of the subproject H "Democratic Order between Transcendence and Common Sense" at the SFB 804 (Funding: DFG)
2008 - 2009	Head (in cooperation with Gary Schaal and Claudia Ritzi, , Hamburg) of the project "60 Jahre Grundgesetz. German identity in the field of tension between Europeanization and regionalization" (Funding: Thyssen Foundation)
2007 - 2009	Member of the research network "Territoires, populations et citoyenneté en Europe", Paris (funding: CNRS)
2006 - 2009	Member of the research network "Concurrences de légitimité, types de contestation et transformations du statut de l'Etat dans les sociétés européennes", Paris (Funding: ANR)
2000 - 2009	Head (together with J.-P. Machelon, F. Monnier and W. J. Patzelt) of the project "Die Entwicklung politischer Institutionen und die Vielfalt der Verfassungskulturen in Europa/ L' évolution des institutions publiques et la diversité des cultures constitutionnelles en Europe" at the European Graduate School 625 "Institutionelle Ordnungen, Schrift und Symbole/ Ordres institutionnels, écrit et symboles", TU Dresden and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (Funding: DFG and French Ministry of Research)
1997 - 2008	Head of Project I "Constitution as Institutional Order of the Political" at the Collaborative Research Center 537, TU Dresden (funding: DFG)
1996 - 1998	Head of the research project "National Identity and Citizenship in the Multicultural Society of the United States of America" (Funding: DFG)
1988 - 1992	Head of the research project "Political Thought and Political Culture in the USA" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Funding: State of Hesse)
1986 - 1987	Head of the research project "The American Ideology: A Study of the American Liberal Tradition", Harvard University, USA (Funding: DFG)
1984 - 1985	Research project "Constitutional Order of the USA in Comparison" (Funding: Harvard University; DAAD)

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