Welcome
The Collegium Helveticum is the joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts. We aim to provide a meeting place and forum for dialogue between the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, engineering, medical science and the arts. |
Fellows
Starting in September 2023, nine early-career fellows will pursue their projects at the Collegium Helveticum along with a varying number of senior and associate fellows.Yael BorofskyEarly-Career Fellow Noé BrasierEarly-Career Fellow Georgia DrewEarly-Career Fellow Emma MavodzaEarly-Career Fellow Bruno MoreschiEarly-Career Fellow Celestin MutuyimanaEarly-Career Fellow Ari RayEarly-Career Fellow Madeline WokerEarly-Career Fellow Paulo WirzEarly-Career Fellow Veronica AkleSenior Fellow Tuncay AlanSenior Fellow N. AsokanSenior Fellow Maneesha DeckhaSenior Fellow Somayeh DodgeSenior Fellow Niels van DoornSenior Fellow Katherine ElviraSenior Fellow Huib ErnsteSenior Fellow Kenneth GillinghamSenior Fellow Christopher HassonSenior Fellow Makiko HashinagaSenior Fellow Inge HinterwaldnerSenior Fellow Ulrike KlingerSenior Fellow Urte KrassSenior Fellow Marielle MacéSenior Fellow Kettly MarsSenior Fellow Galen McKinleySenior Fellow Francesca MelandriSenior Fellow Bernhard MikeskaSenior Fellow Maryna NehreySenior Fellow Vadym RakochiSenior Fellow Kriss RavettoGuest of the director Lyudmyla RomanyukSenior Fellow Lorenzo RomitoSenior Fellow Walid SadokSenior Fellow Thomas SchroepferSenior Fellow Margaret-Anne StoreySenior Fellow Tim ShawSenior Fellow Anke te HeesenSenior Fellow Nikolaos ZagklasSenior Fellow |
Fellowship program
Located in the historic Semper Observatory, the Collegium Helveticum offers academics and artists a highly international, interdisciplinary environment where they can work on their research projects. |
Event calendar
June 13, 2022 – June 14, 2022 Situating Knowledge: Natural History Collections in the Digital AgeA conference organized by Sujeet George, Junior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum. If you want to participate in the event, please subscribe to the doodle. The last two decades have witnessed a revival of interest in plant, fungal and animal specimens stored in herbaria and natural history museums around the world. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, natural scientists, historians, museum and conservation professionals as well as artists and visual studies scholars have productively engaged with a range of natural history material. These studies have rearticulated how Nature and Science was historically conceptualized as well as have reimagined it for the contemporary digital context. As debates around biodiversity loss gain prominence, the value and scientific potential of natural history collections (NHCs) has been brought into focus. The digitization of millions of specimens across herbaria, zoological collections and museums have realigned forms of intellectual collaboration, and redefined the terms of knowledge production, its possession and of its dissemination. The availability and collation of large data sets have also necessitated new skillsets to parse this data deluge including the ability to manage databank platforms and software. Using the digitization of millions of NHCs as an entry point, the conference aims to initiate a dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and foreground the multi-sited nature of the connections that have sketched the complex geographies of NHCs. While current research around NHCs have invariably circulated within specific disciplines, the conference emphasizes the immense potential of cross-disciplinary pollination.
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About us
The Collegium Helveticum is the joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts. We aim to provide a meeting place and forum for dialogue between the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, engineering, medical science and the arts. |
Collegium Helveticum
Semper-Sternwarte (ETH/STW)
Schmelzbergstrasse 25
CH-8006 Zurich
Switzerland
Collegium Helveticum
ETH Zurich/STW
Schmelzbergstrasse 25
CH-8092 Zurich
Schweiz
info(a)collegium.ethz.ch
+41 (0)44 632 69 06
Tram 10 from Zürich Bahnhofplatz (direction Zürich Flughafen) or Tram 6 from Bahnhofstrasse/HB (direction Zoo), three stops to ETH/Universitätsspital. Go left from University Hospital Zurich and follow Schmelzbergstrasse to Schmelzbergstrasse 25. Climb the stairs by the green fountain and you have arrived at the Collegium Helveticum. Welcome!