Guest lectures 2013

• Prof. Dr. Selçuk Esenbel (Bogazici University, Istanbul)
• Prof. Doh Chull Shin (Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine, and Social Science Research Center Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Margarita Estévez Abe (Syracuse University / Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino)
• Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs (Free University Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard (Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1/International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Erlangen)
• Dr. Carola Hommerich (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)

Guest lectures 2012

• Prof. Dr. Georges Tamer (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• PD Dr. Takemitsu Morikawa (University of Lucerne)
• Prof. Dr. Annie Montaut (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris)
• Prof. Dr. Thongchai Winichakul (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Sourav Kargupta (University of Kolkatta)
• Dr. Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle University / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Heidelberg University)
• Prof. Dr. Tilman Nagel (University of Göttingen)
• Prof. Dr. Frank Griffel (Yale University)
• Prof. Dr. Saskia Sassen (Columbia University, New York)
• Dr. phil. Dr. theol. habil. Felix Körner SJ (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome)
• Prof. Dr. Maya Burger (University of Lausanne)
• Prof. em. Dr. Jan Assmann (University of Konstanz)
• Dr. Christian Schwermann (University of Bonn)

Guest lectures 2011

• Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg University)
• Prof. Dr. Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University)
• Dr. Jakob De Roover (Ghent University)
• Prof. Dr. Upendra Baxi (Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Law as Culture”, University of Bonn)
• Prof. Dr. Lisa Raphals (University of California/Riverside)
• Prof. Dr. Jyoti Atwal (Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
• Prof. Dr. Helene Basu (Universität Münster)

Guest lectures 2010

• Prof. Dr. Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen (Universität Freiburg im Breisgau)
• Prof. Dr. Christian Uhl (University of Gent)
• Prof. Dr. David Gordon White (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Hasan Abu Nimah (Regional Human Security Centre)
• Prof. Dr. James C. Scott (Yale University)
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Hinrich Biesterfeldt (Universität Bochum)

Guest lectures 2009

• Prof. Dr. Rey Chow (Duke University, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Gayacharan Tripathi (Indira Gandhi National Centre, New Delhi)
• Dr. Katajun Amirpur (Universität Bonn)

Guest lectures 2008

• Prof. Dr. Dietmar Rothermund (Universität Heidelberg)
• Ilija Trojanow (Schriftsteller)

Guest lectures 2007

• Prof. Dr. Kenichi Mishima (Tokyo Keizai Universität)
• Prof. Dr. Zoya Hasan (Jawaharial Nehru Universität, New Delhi)

Guest lectures 2006

• Prof. Dr. Jaleh Shadi Talab (Universität Teheran)
• Prof. Dr. Shmuel N. Eisenstadt (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)