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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. (Comparative Religion and Intercultural Theology)

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 ...

The Structure of Normativity

Kiesewetter, Benjamin, Dr. (Philosophy in Practice / Ethics)

Duration of project: 10/2022 - 09/2027

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 ...

Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives

Haschemi Yekani, Elahe, Prof. Dr. (English and American Literature and Culture (Postcolonial Studies))

Duration of project: 10/2022 - 09/2027

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 ...

Strategic Behavior of Firms in Incomplete Markets

Zierhut, Michael, PhD (Business Administration)

Duration of project: 10/2017 - 09/2020

In general equilibrium models with incomplete markets, decisions of firms determine the possible transfers of consumption across time and states of the world. This gives the firm market power. However, strategic behavior of firms is still one of the ...

SPP 1727: Focus and Thematic Role Assignment: A Comparison of Hungarian and German in Child Language Comprehension

Knoeferle, Pia, Prof. Dr. (Linguistics of German: Psycholinguistics)

Duration of project: 11/2015 - 05/2019

The aim of this project is to investigate pragmatic inferences from information structure to thematic role assignment. The fact that information structure contributes to role disambiguation, in addition to syntactic and morphological cues (such as wo ...

Spectral Self-Recording: Occult Communication and Science in the Twentieth-Century

Kassung, Christian, Prof. Dr. phil. (Cultural Techniques and History of Knowledge)

Duration of project: 09/2015 - 12/2016

In the long nineteenth-century self-recording instruments emerged as the leading arbiters of truth and objectivity in scientific cultures. In the natural sciences, engineering, and even the occult, automatic instruments translated aberrant and errati ...

SFB 980/3: Transfer of Apocryphal Knowledge through Translation in Ancient Christianity (and Judaism) (SP C01)

Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. (Ancient History of Christianity)

Duration of project: 07/2020 - 06/2024

The Collaborative Research Centre Episteme in Motion is dedicated to studying knowledge change in selected premodern cultures from Europe and beyond. The Centre investigates longue-durée processes of knowledge change in particular historical configur ...

Seeing Like a City / Seeing the City Through

Blokland, Talja, Prof. Dr. (Urban and Regional Sociology)

Duration of project: 06/2022 - 07/2023

Scientific Dreams of Excellence. Rhetorics and Politics of Appreciation, 1900 | 2000

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

Duration of project: 04/2020 - 08/2023

In today’s academic contexts, multiple ideas of excellence, elitism, brilliance, and outstanding qualities circulate more than ever. The omnipresent speech of “Elite, Prestigious and Excellent Universities,” “Excellence Initiatives, Clusters and Str ...

PP 2207: What Matters? Key Passages in Literary Works (SP)

Martus, Steffen, Prof. Dr. phil. (Modern German Literature / Literature of the 18th to the Present)

Duration of project: 04/2020 - 03/2023

This explorative project deals with the identification and characterization of key passages in literary works. We understand key passages as passages that are particularly important to expert readers when interpreting texts. Why do interpreting schol ...

PP 2172: Curating Digital Images: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Affordances of Digital Images in Heritage and Museum Contexts

Macdonald, Sharon, Prof. Dr. (Social Anthropology)

Duration of project: 12/2019 - 11/2022

The DFG-funded project “Curating Digital Images” is located within the frame of the DFG priority programme “Das digitale Bild” / “The Digital Image” and focusses on ethnographic research on practices of digital curation related to the field of museum ...

PP 2134/1: Functional Aspects of the Minimal Self – The Case of Schizophrenia

Kaltwasser, Laura, Dr. (Employees)

Duration of project: 03/2019 - 02/2022

The overall goal of this project is to provide a thorough and fine-grained characterization of disturbances of the minimal or basic self in patients suffering from schizophrenia. Furthermore, the data from experiments in a cohort of patients will be ...

PP 1859: “Experiences and Expectations: Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour”

Nützenadel, Alexander, Prof. Dr. (Social and Economic History)

Duration of project: 02/2016 - 01/2022

Economic decision-making takes place in a complex environment under considerable uncertainty. To reduce this uncertainty economic actors rely on expectations about the future development of key economic variables. The central purpose of this Priority ...

PP 1764/2: The German Labor Market in a Globalised World: Challenges through Trade, Technology, and Demographics

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra, Prof. Dr. (Political Economics (Applied Microeconomics))

Duration of project: 10/2017 - 03/2021

The recent severe recession has led to a reassessment of labour market policies across many industrialised countries. Technological change and changes in the division of labour, trade liberalisation, increasing labour mobility, demographic changes, l ...

PP 1764/2: Female Employment Patterns, Fertility, Labor Market Reforms, and Firms: A Dynamic Treatment Approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd, Prof. Ph.D. (Econometrics (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration))

Duration of project: 10/2018 - 09/2023

At a time of an aging society, low fertility, technology induced changes in the labour market, globalisation, and changing gender roles, female employment patterns and the combination of labour market and family work are of major interest both in res ...

PP 1764/2: Accounting for Selection Effects in the Analysis of Wage Inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd, Prof. Ph.D. (Econometrics (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration))

Duration of project: 04/2015 - 12/2019

The objective of this project is to analyse the rise of wage inequality in Germany over the last decades. For an assessment of the drivers for the observed changes in the wage distribution and the wage differences between labour market groups, it is ...