Visiting Professors in the Humanities – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Philosophy - German Idealism, Practical Philosophy, Hegel's Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Scepticism

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Klaus Vieweg has an extensive and broadly recognised body of work dedicated to fields such as German Idealism, Practical Philosophy, Scepticism, and Aesthetics. His works include studies concerning Hegel's philosophy, an area in which he is one of the world's leading experts. His research has primarily focused on topics such as freedom, law, scepticism, aesthetics, and logic. Having developed a rational and universalist thought, Vieweg has innovatively shed light on the concepts of freedom and spirit. He has published over 40 volumes, available in German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Korean, and Japanese; he has been a Fellow or Visiting Professor on 23 separate occasions at more than a dozen institutions across three continents, including the Universities of Washington, Sapienza (Rome), Turin, Pisa, Santiago de Chile, Fudan, and East China Normal University (Shanghai). In 2022, Vieweg discovered over four thousand pages of unpublished registries of Hegel's Lessons in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. His monumental biography on Hegel, Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom, published in 2019, bestseller in Germany, and already translated into 6 languages (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Italian), was given the IPPY Award Gold Medal for the biography genre in 2024. His most recent books are: Beginnings: Another History of Philosophy (Anfänge: Eine Andere Geschichte der Philosophie, 2023) and Hegel's Painting Aesthetics: Dutch Landscape Paintings and Gender in the 17th Century (Hegels Ästhetik der Malerei: Die niederländische Landschafts- und Genremalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, 2025).

Classical Studies, Theology, and History of Christianity

Lautaro Riog Lanzillotta is Full Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). He is one of the most prestigious and recognised names in the international scene of studies on the first centuries of Christianity. He is the director of the international consortium ‘Red Global,’ under which nine international universities offer the Erasmus Mundus master's degree entitled ‘Religious Diversity in a Globalised World.’ Professor Lanzillotta graduated in Classical Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He went on to study Greek and Byzantine Literature at the University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He holds a PhD in Classical Studies from the Universidad Complutense (1997) and a PhD in Theology from the University of Groningen (2004). His research focuses on the formation of Christianity in the first centuries of its existence, with special emphasis on the points of contact between Christianity and the Graeco-Roman world. His publications are in the field of apocryphal scripture (especially in the genre of ‘apocryphal acts of the apostles’ and apocalyptic literature). Lanzillotta is a renowned expert on the Christian texts found in the mid-20^th century in Nag Hammadi (Egypt) and their Gnostic and philosophical aspects. Apart from being the author of numerous publications, Professor Lanzillotta founded the high-profile academic journal ‘Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies’ at the Dutch publisher Brill in 2016. He is the main author of the Nag Hammadi Bibliography Online and co-author of the Plutarch Studies series at Brill.

Philosophy – Aesthetics

Dominic McIver Lopes is University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Professor McIver Lopes's research focuses mainly on the field of Aesthetics, having touched on topics such as: pictorial representation; the aesthetic and epistemic value of pictures; theories of art; the ontology of art; new art forms; aesthetic value; and the history of aesthetics in Europe and Asia.

He is the author of a prolific body of work, from which his most recent publications stand out: Aesthetic Injustice (Oxford University Press, 2024), the edition of Bernard Bolzano's Essays on Beauty and the Arts (Hackett, 2023), and the coedition, alongside Samantha Matherne, Mohan Matthen, and Bence Nanay, of The Geography of Taste (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Lopes is past chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association, as well as past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Canada Council Killam Research Fellow, and a Leverhulme Visiting Research Professor. He was also a Visiting Professor at EHESS in Paris, at the University of Miami, at the University of Beijing, at Ritsumeikan University, at the University of Warwick, at the University of Modena, and at the University of Reggio Emilia, having spoken at over 200 conferences all over the world.

Ancient Greece

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Irad Malkin, winner of the Israeli Prize Laureate for History for 2014, is a Professor emeritus of Greek history at Tel Aviv University, a Visiting Professor at Oxford University (2017-2022), a co-founder and co-editor of the Mediterranean Historical Review (1986-2019), and a Foreign Member of the Athens National Academy.

His research covers colonisation, religion, myth, ethnicity, network theory, and the institution of drawing lots. Aside from edited books, he is the author of Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (1987); Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean (1994; French: 1999); The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity (1998; Italian, Hebrew: 2004); Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Greece (Hebrew: 2003); A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (2011; French: 2018; Greek forthcoming). From Egalitarianism to Democracy: Greeks Drawing Lots: (with a section by Josine Blok), accompanied by https://kleros.org.il/.