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Writings from the Berlin Mission as means of communication for the distribution of transcultural knowledge concerning South Africa. Analysis and edition of texts by Albert Kropf and Johannes Winter

Feldtkeller, Andreas, Prof. Dr. (Theology, Missionary Science and Ecumenics Specializing in Religious Studies)

Duration of project: 01/2018 - 05/2019

The wider academic context of the project is the importance of missionaries as "cultural brokers", which is progressively accepted by scholars of history and ethnology. Missionaries have made major contributions to the research on languages, history, ...

West African Wild Silks Techniques: Preserving Marka-Dafing’s Heritage of Knowledge

Bauer, Kathrin, (Faculty Management)

Duration of project: 02/2020 - 07/2022

For centuries, indigenous wild silks have been traded across West Africa and used in Marka-Dafing’s textile production in the Mouhoun regions of Western Burkina Faso. Over the past twenty years, the precious materials that are used by women for weavi ...

Volume "Religion and Democracy. Studies in Public Theology". Series "Ethics and Society", vol.3, ed. by Torsten Meireis and Rolf Schieder, Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag

Meireis, Torsten, Prof. Dr. (Systematic Theology Specializing in Ethics and Hermeneutics)

Duration of project: 11/2016 - 07/2017

Urban Everyday Life of People with Experience of Psychosis: A Collaborative-Ethnographic Project with Anthropology and Psychiatry

Niewöhner, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (Urban Anthropolgy and Human-Environment Relations)

Duration of project: 10/2020 - 09/2023

The project investigates the everyday life of people with psychosis experience in rapidly changing urban spaces. Using a qualitative and quantitative mix of methods with a focus on ethnographic approaches, everyday experiences, socio-spatial changes ...

Trauma Translations. Stagings and Imaginations in Film and Theory

Köhne, Julia Barbara, PD PD Dr. (Historic Anthropology and Gender Studies)

Duration of project: 04/2014 - 06/2021

Imprinted by cultural and media studies, the research project explores the medial transfer between, first, cultural representations of the past, i.e. filmic trauma and violence histories, second, the changing trauma theory landscape, and third, memor ...

Thinking of language and the difference (Jakobson, Luhmann, Humboldt, Gadamer, Heidegger)

Halász, Hajnalka, (Hungarian Literature and Culture)

Duration of project: 11/2016 - 10/2017

It is certainly no accident that, at the start of the twentieth century, as the effect of language on (philosophical) thinking was no longer reported in terms of symptoms and signs, but rather as having “witnesses” – that is, as the first scientific ...

Thematic Network “Literature – Knowledge – Media” (2nd Funding Phase)

Vogl, Joseph, Prof. Dr. phil. (Modern German Literature / Literature and Cultural Studies / Media)

Duration of project: 01/2019 - 12/2021

The thematic network “Literature – Knowledge – Media” (project leader: Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl) aims at strengthening the research profile of the departments of literary, cultural, and media studies an Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It furthermore wan ...

Thematic Network “Literature – Knowledge – Media” (1st Funding Phase)

Vogl, Joseph, Prof. Dr. phil. (Modern German Literature / Literature and Cultural Studies / Media)

Duration of project: 01/2015 - 12/2018

The thematic network “Literature – Knowledge – Media” (project leader: Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl) aims at strengthening the research profile of the departments of literary, cultural, and media studies an Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It furthermore wan ...

The emergence of the environmental state under authoritarianism (China, Vietnam and beyond)

Eaton, Sarah, Prof. Dr. (Transregional Studies of China)

Duration of project: 04/2020 - 07/2023

This research project will enquire into new forms of the environmental state in China, Vietnam and beyond, and test the resulting governance models on their ability to solve the dual crisis of social and environmental protections in ecologically sens ...

Syntactic and pragmatic prominence of experiencers in cross-linguistic perspective

Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Prof. Dr. (General and Germanistic Linguistics: Syntax)

Duration of project: 08/2011 - 07/2014

In this project we examine to what extent features of semantic and pragmatic prominence influence the structure of experiencer constructions. A central aim of the project is to disentangle two conflicting hypotheses for the explanation of the peculia ...