LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities: Call for Applications for the 2026 Funding Period

February 26, 2025

Photograph of the LMU- Munich campus. Buildings in the background with students sitting on a grassing lawn.

The LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities exchange program with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich facilitates academic exchange of faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs through visiting appointments, conferences, and workshops. The program, which is coordinated at UC Berkeley by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, supports innovative international collaborations between UC Berkeley and LMU in the Arts and Humanities. 

Applications are due on March 31, 2025. 

Click here for the Call for Applications.


Visiting Professorships at LMU

LMU offers visiting professorships to tenured and tenure-track UC Berkeley faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.


Research Mobility for Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs at LMU

Doctoral candidates and postdoctoral fellows at UC Berkeley can apply for a research stay of up to three months at LMU.


Conferences and Workshops

LMU and UC Berkeley researchers are invited to submit joint proposals for conferences and workshops to be held at either institution.


In addition to faculties in the humanities (listed below), LMU offers interdisciplinary and collaborative centers which include global dis:connect, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Cultures of Vigilance, and Center for Advanced Studies

  • Faculty of Catholic Theology

  • Faculty of Protestant Theology

  • Faculty of History and the Arts

  • Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion

  • Faculty for the Study of Culture

  • Faculty of Languages and Literatures

For more information, please contact UCB-LMU-Exchange@berkeley.edu