Hans Vorländer

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)

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

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

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"

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 - 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

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

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)