The Berendel Foundation, London

The Berendel Foundation

The Berendel Foundation was incorporated in London under the Companies Act as a private limited company on 23 February 2010 (Company No. 7165877, Companies House, the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales), and was registered as a charity by the Charity Commission on 9 August (Registration No. 1137329).

The Berendel Foundation is constantly expanding its global network, including like-minded prominent individuals, as well as institutions and organisations that share its strategic goals and its philosophy rooted in intercultural humanism. The Berendel Foundation aims primarily to foster research, education, training, and publishing--mainly in the humanities and the social sciences.

Two of our latest achievements:

The Cantemir Institute at the University of Oxford, based on a strategic partnership between the University of Oxford’s Faculty of History and the Berendel Foundation.

For more information, please visit:

www.cantemir.ox.ac.uk

A book series, Reflections on (In)Humanity, co-published by Göttingen-based V&R unipress and Taipei-based National Taiwan University Press, edited by Sorin Antohi, Chun-Chieh Huang and Jörn Rüsen. Its first two books focus on the concept of humanity in an age of globalisation and on humanism in Islam, respectively. The series is jointly sponsored by the Berendel Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.v-r.de/de/reihen/3097/

So far, our collaborators, partners, grantees, and awardees have come from many countries on five continents, including Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States.

News:

Encyclopaedia of Humanism
This project, based on the strategic collaboration between a growing number of global partners, was initiated in 2010 by Hubert Cancik, with the main aim of producing a multi-volume reference work in German. English (since 2011), and (since 2012) Chinese versions of the encyclopaedia are also being planned. All versions will be both printed and Internet-based. Various other reference works and collective volumes are being produced in conjunction with the encyclopaedia. The three co-editors are
20 April 2012

Publications:

BOOK SERIES