| January 10 - 12 | ZiF Workshop |
| Latina/o Images for the 21st Century: Interethnic Relations and Politics of Representation in the United States | |
| Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez (Leipzig), Gary Keller (Tempe), Josef Raab (Duisburg-Essen) Sebastian Thies (Bielefeld) | |
| January 10 - | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| February 9 | Da-Sein. Zeitgenössische US-Latina/o Kunst |
| Ausstellung mexikanisch-amerikanischer Kunst im Rahmen der gleichnamigen Arbeitsgemeinschaft | |
| January 31 - | External Event |
| February 2 | Marginalized Youth - Everyday Life Culture and the Perspectives of a Communal Child and Youth Welfare Policy |
| Hans-Uwe Otto (Bielefeld) | |
| February 6 - 9 | ZiF Network of Young Scientists |
| Imagining Outer Space, 1900 - 2000 | |
| Alexander C.T. Geppert (Cambridge, MA) | |
| February 20 - 22 | ZiF Workshop |
| Political Corruption in Historical Perspective | |
| Matthias Braasch (Bielefeld), Niels Grüne (Bielefeld), Simona Slanicka (Bielefeld), Andreas Suter (Bielefeld) | |
| February 24 - | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| March 20 | Paysages mentaux |
| Gabriel Ruget (Paris) | |
| February 25 - 29 | ZiF Workshop |
| Evolution and Structure of Complex Systems and Networks | |
| Philippe Blanchard (Bielefeld), Max Hongler (Lausanne), Gabriel Ruget (Paris) | |
| March 4 | External Event |
| Netzwerktreffen "Open space" | |
| Marco Bazalik (Bielefeld) | |
| March 10 | External Event |
| Treffen der Kanzlerinnen und Kanzler NRWs | |
| Hans-Jürgen Simm (Kanzler) | |
| March 13 - 15 | ZiF Workshop |
| Processing Text-Technological Resources | |
| Kai-Uwe Kühnberger (Osnabrück), Henning Lobin (Gießen), Alexander Mehler, (Bielefeld), Dieter Metzing (Bielefeld), Angelika Storrer (Dortmund) | |
| March 27 - 29 | ZiF Workshop |
| Dangerous Images of Humankind-Life Sciences, Society and Crime | |
| Lorenz Böllinger (Bremen), Michael Jasch (Frankfurt/M.), Susanne Krasmann (Hamburg), Arno Pilgram (Wien), Cornelius Prittwitz (Frankfurt/M.), Herbert Reinke (Wuppertal/Berlin), Dorothea Rzepka (Frankfurt/M.) | |
| March 30 - April 25 | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| Zukunst | |
| Advanced Art Class 13 of Bethel Grammar School (Bielefeld) | |
| April 3 - 4 | ZiF Network of Young Scientists |
| Theory of Mind (ToM) - Analysis of the integrative potential of a cognitive capacity | |
| Nicole C. Krämer (Duisburg-Essen), Kai Vogeley (Köln) | |
| April 3 - 4 | External Event |
| International Journal of Conflict and Violence | |
| Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Bielefeld) | |
| April 3 - 4 | ZiF Cooperation Group (Preparation I) |
| Transnationalisation and Development(s): Concepts and Venues for Research | |
| Thomas Faist (Bielefeld) | |
| April 10 - 12 | ZiF Research Group Workshop |
| Control of Violence - Explanatory Patterns and Controllability of Terrorist Violence | |
| Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Bielefeld), Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Bielefeld/Florenz) | |
| April 16 - 18 | ZiF Workshop |
| Narratology of Film | |
| Susanne Kaul (Bielefeld), Timo Skrandies (Düsseldorf) | |
| April 17 - 18 | External Event |
| Begutachtung des SFB 584 | |
| Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld) | |
| April 18 | External Event |
| Emeritierungsfeier für Herrn Prof. Dr. Gert Rickheit | |
| Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer (Bielefeld) | |
| April 22 | External Event |
| Vorträge und Diskussionen im Rahmen des virtuellen Instituts für biologische Strukturforschung | |
| Joachim Heberle (Bielefeld) | |
| April 24 - 26 | ZiF Workshop |
| Collective Responsibility and International Relations | |
| Véronique Zanetti (Bielefeld), Doris Gerber (Tübingen) | |
| April 28 - 29 | External Event |
| Bioinformatic Research and Education Workshop (BREW) | |
| Robert Giegerich (Bielefeld) | |
| May 5 | External Event |
| IGK "Stochastics and Real World Models" | |
| Michael Röckner (Bielefeld) | |
| May 7 | External Event |
| Vortragsreihe: Soziologie und Philosophie Georg Simmels | |
| Otthein Rammstedt (Bielefeld), Markus Göbel (Bielefeld) | |
| May 8 - 10 | ZiF Workshop |
| Norms and Values. The role of social norms as instruments of value realisation | |
| Michael Baurmann (Düsseldorf), Geoffrey Brennan (Canberra), Robert Goodin (Canberra) | |
| May 14 | External Event |
| Vortragsreihe: Soziologie und Philosophie Georg Simmels | |
| Otthein Rammstedt (Bielefeld), Markus Göbel (Bielefeld) | |
| May 15 - 17 | ZiF Workshop |
| Political Cultures in the Andean Region | |
| Christian Büschges (Bielefeld), Peter Birle (Berlin), Thomas Fischer (Nürnberg), Olaf Kaltmeier (Bielefeld), Barbara Potthast (Köln), Tom Salman (Amsterdam), Juliana Ströbele-Gregor (Berlin), Sebastian Thies (Bielefeld) | |
| May 18 - June 13 | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| Parallel zur Natur | |
| Wolfgang Heuwinkel (Bergisch Gladbach) | |
| May 18 - June 2009 | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| Zeitskulptur XV | |
| Wolfgang Heuwinkel (Bergisch Gladbach) | |
| May 29 - 31 | ZiF Workshop |
| Mind and Motion: The Bidirectional Link between Thought and Action | |
| Markus Raab (Köln), Joseph Gerald Johnson (Miami), Read Montague (Houston) | |
| June 5 - 7 | ZiF Research Group Workshop |
| Violence Control in the Context of Fragile States - Insights from Africa | |
| Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Bielefeld), Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Bielefeld/Florenz) | |
| June 12 - 14 | ZiF Workshop |
| Franz Boas (1858 - 1942). Science, Politics, Mobility | |
| Hans-Walter Schmuhl (Bielefeld) | |
| June 18 - 20 | External Event |
| Georg Simmels "Soziologie" von 1908 | |
| Otthein Rammstedt (Bielefeld), Hartmann Tyrell (Bielefeld) | |
| June 26 - 27 | ZiF Cooperation Group (Preparation II) |
| Transnationalisation and Development(s): Concepts and Venues for Research | |
| Thomas Faist (Bielefeld) | |
| June 26 - 28 | ZiF Workshop |
| The Enculturated Body: Scales of Embodied Meaning in Communication | |
| Scott Jordan (Normal), Jürgen Streeck (Austin), Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld) | |
| July 3 - 5 | ZiF Workshop |
| Intermodal Action Structuring | |
| Katharina J. Rohlfing (Bielefeld) | |
| July 10 - 11 | External Event |
| Migration(en) und Entwicklung(en): Transformation von Paradigmen, Organisationen und Geschlechterordnungen | |
| Thomas Faist (Bielefeld), Gudrun Lachenmann (Bielefeld), Uwe Hunger (Münster) | |
| July 23 - 24 | External Event |
| Gedenkkolloquium für Jürgen Frese | |
| Knut Stünkel (Bielefeld) | |
| August 6 - | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| September 13 | ZiFPhotoAward 2008 |
| Pictures to the topic Control of Violence | |
| August 12 - 14 | External Event |
| Symposium Solar Bio-Fuels 2008 | |
| Olaf Kruse (Bielefeld), Jan Mussgnug (Bielefeld) | |
| August 25 - 27 | ZiF Workshop |
| Climate Change and its Implication for Ecosystem Dynamics and Functioning | |
| Maik Veste (Cottbus) | |
| September 3 - 5 | ZiF Workshop |
| The Use of Implants in Ethical Surveillance Infrastructures: Towards a Transdisciplinary Ontology | |
| Michael Nagenborg (Karlsruhe), Kirstie Ball (Milton Keynes), Torin Monahan (Tempe), David Murakami Wood (Newcastle upon Tyne), Karsten Weber (Opole/Frankfurt) | |
| September 10 - 13 | ZiF Research Group Workshop (Concluding Conference) |
| Control of Violence | |
| Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Bielefeld), Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Bielefeld/Florenz) | |
| September 13, | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| 7.30 pm | Control of Violence. Finissage and Award Ceremony |
| September 21 - | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| October 20 | Speicher |
| Altölarbeiten | |
| Jochen Stenschke (Berlin/Bielefeld) | |
| Sept. 29 - October 2 | ZiF Workshop |
| Animal emotionale - The Significance of Emotions in Human Experience, Judgment and Behaviour | |
| Achim Stephan (Osnabrück), Henrik Walter (Bonn) | |
| October 8 - 11 | ZiF Research Group Workshop (Opening Conference) |
| E Pluribus Unum? Ethnic identities in transnational integration processes in the Americas | |
| Josef Raab (Duisburg-Essen), Olaf Kaltmeier (Bielefeld), Sebastian Thies (Bielefeld) | |
| October 20 | ZiF Anniversary |
| 40 Years of ZiF: 1968-2008 | |
| October 20 | ZiF Public Lecture |
| What can we learn from robots about the origins of human language? | |
| Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels and Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris) | |
| November 9 - | Exhibition at the ZiF |
| December 19 | The Art of Graphics |
| Anna Sobol-Wejman, Stanisław Wejman (Krakau) |
