Ceremonial presentation of the Barbara and Alfred Röver Foundation Prize for Dissertations

The Barbara and Alfred Röver Foundation Prize for dissertations was awarded on May 7 as part of this year's graduation ceremony of Faculty 02 Humanities and Cultural Studies. The photo shows this year's award winners Mr. Mark Linden, Ms. Eva Charlotte Hesse and Ms. Annika Rink, who received their certificates in person from the founder Mr. Röver (center). Prof. Dr. Petra Freudenberger-Lötz (2nd from right), Chairwoman of the Foundation Board and Dean of FB 02, delivered the laudatory speech.

In her speech, Prof. Freudenberger-Lötz thanked the donor of the foundation, Mr. Alfred Röver, for his many years of personal commitment. At the same time, she acknowledged the outstanding quality of the dissertations submitted, which, in their diversity characteristic of the department as a whole, had not made the decision easy for the Board of Trustees. In the end, the Board unanimously decided to split the prize for 2024 and award it to Mr. Linden's work: "Sehnsucht nach Glück im theologischen Horizont. Jonathan Edwards' and John Piper's contribution to an experiential-theological deepening of a basic anthropological need", Ms. Hesse: "Stereotypically Autistic. On the Stereotypicality of Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction" and Ms. Rink: "Strategic Authenticities: On Liberation and Essentialisms of the Nueva Canciön Latinoamericana of the Cono Sur" to be awarded.

Thanks to the foundation by Mr. Alfred Röver (Kassel), the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Kassel has the opportunity to award an annual prize of up to € 1,000 for outstanding dissertations successfully defended in the course of a calendar year at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies (further information can be found here).