| January 15 - 17 | Weltrecht |
| Martin Schulte (Dresden) | |
| January 22 - 25 | Natural Resources and Land-use in the Pamir Mountains |
| How can the preservation of biodiversity, natur protection and sustainable land-use in the Pamirs be combined? | |
| Siegmar-W. Breckle (Bielefeld) | |
| January 30 - February 1 | Weimars lange Schatten |
| Weimar als Argument nach 1945 | |
| Hans Boldt (Müllheim / Baden), Christoph Gusy (Bielefeld), Andreas Wirsching (Augsburg) | |
| February 13 - 15 | Reform und Innovation in einer unstabilen Gesellschaft |
| Giancarlo Corsi (Modena), Elena Esposito (Modena) | |
| April 4 - 5 | Rechtswissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft |
| Ulrich Haltern (Berlin), Christoph Möllers (Heidelberg) | |
| May 15 - 17 | Nietzsche as a Writer |
| Rüdiger Bittner (Bielefeld) | |
| May 22 - 24 | National Literatures since 1945 |
| Autonomisation, Professionalisation, Internationalisation | |
| Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (Bielefeld), Gisèle Sapiro (Paris) | |
| June 4 - 7 | Models, Simulation, and the Application of Mathematics |
| Ralf Herbold (Bielefeld), Johannes Lenhardt (Bielefeld), Michael Stöltzner (Bielefeld) | |
| June 25 - 26 | Pursuit - Mediation - Prosecution |
| Appropriate Procedural Rules for the Settlement of Domestic Violence | |
| Stephan Barton (Bielefeld), Uwe Jürgens (Bielefeld) | |
| July 3 - 4 | Walking Machines |
| Biological and Artificial Systems | |
| Holk Cruse (Bielefeld), Friedrich Pfeiffer (München) | |
| July 5 | Open Day at the ZiF |
| July 9 - 12 | Science and Values |
| Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), Don Howard (Notre Dame/Indiana), Peter Weingart (Bielefeld) | |
| July 17 - 19 | Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Cinema |
| Mischa Meier (Bielefeld), Simona Slanicka (Bielefeld), Wolfgang Struck (Kiel) | |
| July 31 - August 2 | Trust and Community on the Internet |
| Possibilities and Restrictions for Cooperation on the Internet | |
| Michael Baurmann (Düsseldorf), Bernd Lahno (Duisburg), Uwe Matzat (Düsseldorf) | |
| August 11 - 15 | Information Theory and some friendly neighbors - ein Wunschkonzert |
| Rudolf Ahlswede (Bielefeld) | |
| September 22 - 24 | Critical Theory and Religion |
| Raymond Geuss (Cambridge/UK), Margarete Kohlenbach (Sussex) | |
| November 27 - 29 | The Darwinism Dispute |
| (Natural) Science, Philosophy and World View in the Nineteenth Century (II) | |
| Kurt Bayertz (Münster), Walter Jaeschke (Bochum) | |
| December 9 | ZiF:Lecture by Frans de Waal (Atlanta/USA) |
| Is Civilization just a Mask for Egoistic Monsters? Answers from a primate researcher |
