| January 11 - 14 | Phylo- and Ontogenesis of Understanding and Communication |
| Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld), Günther Knoblich (Newark) | |
| January 19 - 21 | The Intellectuals on their Way into Knowledge Society |
| Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), Bettina Heintz (Bielefeld), Johannes Roggenhofer (Bielefeld) | |
| January 25 - 28 | The Nature of Cultures |
| Gabriel Ruget (Paris), Karl Eibl (München) | |
| February 10 - 11 | Privacy and Surveillance Technology |
| Karsten Weber (Frankfurt/O.), Ricarda Drüeke (Frankfurt/O.), Axel Schulz (Frankfurt/O.) | |
| February 27 - 28 | Science in the Context of Application |
| Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), Wolfgang Krohn (Bielefeld), Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt), Gregor Schiemann (Wuppertal), Peter Weingart (Bielefeld) | |
| March 1 - 3 | The Rule of the Few |
| Hans Beck (Montreal), Peter Scholz (Frankfurt/M.), Uwe Walter (Bielefeld) | |
| April 5 - 8 | Modeling Communication with Robots and Virtual Humans |
| Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld), Günther Knoblich (Newark) | |
| May 5 - 6 | Computational Political Economics |
| Michael Neugart (Berlin), Christian Martin (Hamburg) | |
| May 11 - 13 | Rethinking Privacy in the Late Modernity |
| Mechthild Oechsle (Bielefeld), Karin Jurczyk (München) | |
| May 29 - 31 | Between Historical Memory and Political Intervention |
| Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben | |
| Kai Kauffmann (Bielefeld), Eva Geulen (Bonn), Georg Mein (Bielefeld) | |
| June 6 - 9 | Towards Molecular Systems Biology |
| Norbert Sewald (Bielefeld), Dario Anselmetti (Bielefeld), Wolf-Jürgen Beyn (Bielefeld), Karsten Niehaus (Bielefeld), Jens Stoye (Bielefeld) | |
| June 21 - 23 | Interdisciplinary Forum on the Nasca Culture in Peru |
| Christoph Rust (Hannover), Bernd Teichert (Dresden) | |
| June 29 - | Literature and Science |
| July 1 | ZiF: Author's Colloquium with Lars Gustafsson |
| Friedmar Apel (Bielefeld), Susanne Kaul (Bielefeld) | |
| July 5 - 8 | Embodied Communication, Joint Action, Social Understanding |
| RG-Workshop | |
| Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld), Günther Knoblich (Newark) | |
| September 6 - 9 | Embodied Communication II |
| An Integrated Perspective (Concluding RG-Conference) | |
| Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld), Günther Knoblich (Newark) | |
| September 13 - 15 | Statistical Consulting |
| Göran Kauermann (Bielefeld), Claus Weihs (Dortmund) | |
| October 26 - 28 | Science in the Context of Application |
| Transformations of Academic Research (Opening RG-Conference) | |
| Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), Wolfgang Krohn (Bielefeld), Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt), Gregor Schiemann (Wuppertal), Peter Weingart (Bielefeld) | |
| November 15 - 17 | Secularization before the Enlightenment? |
| On the Relationship Between School, Church and Religion in Early Modern Times | |
| Hans-Ulrich Musolff (Bielefeld), Juliane Jacobi (Potsdam), Jean-Luc Le Cam (Brest) | |
| November 20 - 22 | Interactive Techniques of Generating Knowledge in Institutional Contexts |
| Ulrich Dausendschön-Gay (Bielefeld), Jörg Bergmann (Bielefeld), Gisela Brünner (Dortmund), Ludger Hoffmann (Dortmund), Uta Quasthoff (Dortmund) | |
| November 29 - | Of Fatherlands and Motherlands |
| December 2 | Gender and Nation in the Americas |
| Sebastian Thies (Bielefeld), Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez (Leipzig), Luzelena Gutiérrez de Velasco (México D.F.) | |
| December 15 | Laureate's Colloquium with Ronald M. Dworkin |
| Gerhard Sprenger (Berlin), Veronique Zanetti (Bielefeld) |
