Academic Year
2022–2023
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ANNUAL REPORTS/
ANNUAL REPORT
ANNUAL REPORTS/
ANNUAL REPORT
Academic Year
2022–2023
The Annual Report for the Academic Year 2022–2023 represents the first year of operation of our new Academic Directors, Markus Gabriel and Anna Katsman, during which a new program logic was implemented. The report covers the Academic Year from September 2022 to the end of June 2023. Learn more about our three research areas and two new programs, “Depolarizing Public Debates” and “Governing the Planetary Commons”. The foreword was written by our Academic Directors.
DIRECTORS' FOREWORD
The crises of the present moment form a complex web of compounding problems. We call this “nested crises” to emphasize that these crises cannot be addressed separately but require a framework that tackles them simultaneously.
Bringing this interconnected web into conceptual focus requires new formats of knowledge and insight generation. In light of this assumption, THE NEW INSTITUTE aims to create the conditions for integrated interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences combined with insights from other sectors, such as business, politics, media, and the arts. This enables academic insight to be probed in conversation with other social sectors. Given the range of contemporary crises – from ecological degradation, climate change, and AI-driven technological innovation to geopolitical shifts, wars, and liberal democracies in crises – it takes interdisciplinary and trans-sectoral research to identify more concrete and specific dimensions of this situation that can actually be dealt with in an institutional setting such as ours.