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Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies 2017
Braun, Christina, von Prof. i.R. Dr. habil. Dr. (Director / Office)
Duration of project: 06/2017 - 10/2017
Financer: Heinrich-Böll-StiftungDie LBSU ist ein internatioales sechswöchiges akademisches Sommerprogramm in Jüdischen Studien, das in englischer Sprache am Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg mit Sitz an der HU Berlin angeboten wird. Seit 2007 bringt die Sommeruniversität ...
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Niewöhner, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (European Ethnology of Urban Areas and Cultures)
Duration of project: 03/2017 - 02/2020
Financer: BMBFDas Teilprojekt führt eine nutzerzentrierte Analyse von Pflegesituationen und Alltagsroutinen durch, um mögliche Alltagshindernisse für die Nutzung des zu entwickelnden Systems sowie die Erwartungen der Pflegenden zu erfassen und eine bedürfnisangepa ...
Jüdischer Film - Ein neues Forschungsfeld im deutschsprachigen Raum?
Schärtl, Monika, Dr. (Director / Office)
Duration of project: 01/2020 - 01/2020
Financer: Sonstige privatorganisierte öffentliche MittelgeberBlankensee-Colloquium für DoktorandInnen zum Thema: Jüdischer Film - Ein neues Forschungsfeld im deutschsprachigen Raum?
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Degkwitz, Andreas, Prof. Dr. (Director)
Duration of project: 11/2020 - 10/2022
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe Sommeruniversität Universität Toronto
Niewöhner, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (Head of Department)
Duration of project: 07/2018 - 10/2025
Financer: Sonstige internationale öffentliche MittelgeberSommeruni in Berlin mit Teilnehmern aus Toronto
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Eckert, Andreas, Prof. Dr. phil. (African History)
Duration of project: 04/2019 - 12/2022
Financer: Sonstige Stiftungen Religion, Medien und Materialität - Spirituelle Ökonomien in Südostasien
Hüwelmeier, Gertrud, PD Dr. (European Ethnology I)
Duration of project: 09/2015 - 01/2021
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)-
Waligorska-Huhle, Magdalena, Dr. (Social Anthropology)
Duration of project: 04/2020 - 01/2024
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)Die Wende in der Holocaustforschung hin zur Untersuchung des „dispersed Holocaust“, der außerhalb der Vernichtungslager stattfand, vor den Augen der lokalen Bevölkerung, benötigt weiterhin neue Quellen. Oral History hat hier wichtige Einsichten gebra ...
Stiftungsprofessur Geschichte und Gegenwart des christlich-jüdischen Verhältnisses
Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Deputy Dean for studies and teachings)
Duration of project: 07/2020 - 06/2025
Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt des neuen Lehrstuhls liegt auf der europäischen Neuzeit, wobei insbesondere die Wirkungen von aus der Reformation hervorgegangenen Kirchen und Theologien auf das christlich-jüdische Verhältnis erforscht werden sollen. Nebe ...
Vom Trauma zur Marke? Das Jüdische Berlin zwischen Erinnerungspolitik und urbanem Marketing
Kaschuba, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (European Ethnology I)
Duration of project: 06/2014 - 10/2019
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe-
Bojadžijev, Manuela, Prof. Dr. (Culture and Lifstyles in Migration Societies)
Duration of project: 02/2021 - 08/2022
Nominale Klassifikation in Afrika zwischen Genus und Deklination
Güldemann, Tom, Prof. Dr. phil. (African Languages)
Duration of project: 03/2017 - 07/2020
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe-
Kurnaz, Serdar, Prof. Dr. (Islamic Law in the Past and Present)
Duration of project: 02/2021 - 08/2022
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Die Forschungsgruppe setzt sich zum Ziel, eine online abrufbare Datenbank frühislamischer exegetischer Überlieferungen zu erstellen. Basis ist der Korankommentar (Tafsīr) des muslimischen Gelehrten aṭ-Ṭabarī (gestorben 310 AH/92 ... Urbane Ökologien in Südostasien - Menschen, Umwelt und Geister in der Stadt
Hüwelmeier, Gertrud, PD Dr. (Research Groups)
Duration of project: 09/2018 - 08/2023
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)Gegenstand des Forschungsprojektes sind Stadtsanierungen und Umweltprobleme (Luftverschmutzung, Abwasser, Müll) sowie eine damit einhergehende Politik der Bemühungen um „saubere und grüne“ Städte in Vietnam. Stadtplaner, örtliche Behörden, Architekte ...
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Kühn, Cornelia, (European Ethnology I)
Duration of project: 05/2019 - 04/2022
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)Bottom-up approach to sustainable development? The Economy for the Common Good between utopian visions, civic initiatives and grass-roots democratic decisions
In today's society, despite increasing technological development and economic prosperity ... Plurale Ökologien Im Widerstreit: Ethnologische Perspektiven Auf Südostasien DFG Forscher Netzwerk
Hüwelmeier, Gertrud, PD Dr. (Research Groups)
Duration of project: 05/2017 - 11/2018
Financer: DFG: Sachbeihilfe-
Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)
Duration of project: 09/2021 - 08/2024
Augustus' religious legitimisation in the mirror of Ovid's Fasti
Sterbenc Erker, Darja, PD Dr. (Latin Studies)
Duration of project: 06/2014 - 05/2019
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)The project analyses the literary representation of Augustan religion in Ovid's Fasti. The religious-historical background is shaped by the Augustan renewal of religion. New rituals served Augustus to display and legitimate his power and exceptional ...
Care − Migration − Gender. Ambivalent Interdependencies from a Transdisciplinary Perspective
Goel, Urmila, Prof. Dr. (Department of European Ethnology)
Duration of project: 01/2019 - 02/2019
Financer: DFG: SonstigesInternational Conference organized by the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) and the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The conference “Care – Migration – Gender. Ambivalent Interdependencies” o ...Connections between Migration Policy and Health System
Römhild, Regina, Prof. Dr. (European Ethnology IV)
Duration of project: 11/2019 - 10/2020
Financer: Fritz Thyssen StiftungDas Forschungsprojekt von Dr. Jérémy Geeraert ist an der Schnittstelle zwischen einer Soziologie und Anthropologie des Gesundheitswesens und der Migrationsforschung positioniert. Es zeichnet sich durch einen ausgeprägt interdisziplinären und innovati ...
CrimScapes: Navigating Citizenship Through European Landscapes of Criminalisation
Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)
Duration of project: 11/2020 - 10/2023
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe CrimScapes project explores the expanding application of criminal law, crime control measures and imaginaries of (il)legality as both responses to, and producers of, the politics of threat and uncertainty that are currently expanding across the E ...
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Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. (Ecclesiastical History Specializing in Early History / Patristics)
Duration of project: 01/2017 - 03/2020
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe work of the rhetorican and theologian Procopius of Gaza (approx. 465/475-528/530 AD) belongs to the late antiquity period in which the doctrine of the Christian church seemed to have solidified both in terms of dogma and exegesis. Catenas, or gui ...
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Bareither, Christoph, Prof. Dr. (European Ethnology Specializing in Anthropology of Media)
Duration of project: 12/2019 - 11/2022
Financer: DFG - SchwerpunktprogrammeThe 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 ...
Digitalisation of Labour and Migration
Bojadžijev, Manuela, Prof. Dr. (Culture and Lifstyles in Migration Societies)
Duration of project: 11/2020 - 07/2022
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeDigital technologies are transforming the world of work and have far-reaching consequences for mobility and migration. This project studies the reorganisation of labour through digital platforms, and it looks at how digital conditions are also simult ...
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Bareither, Christoph, Prof. Dr. (European Ethnology Specializing in Anthropology of Media)
Duration of project: 10/2020 - 10/2020
Financer: DFG: SonstigesThe conference “Digital Truth Making: Ethnographic Perspectives on Practices, Infrastructures and Affordances of Truth-Making in Digital Societies”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is the 7th conference of the Section “Digitization in ...
Discoursive Inclusion and Exclusion of Muslims and Jews in South-Eastern Europe
Wasserscheidt, Philipp, (South Slavic Languages and Cultures)
Duration of project: 01/2018 - 12/2018
Financer: DAADDas beantragte Projekt möchte zwei Workshops (in Montenegro und in Bosnien-Herzegowina) zum Thema „Diskursive Inklusion und Exklusion von Muslimen und Juden“ mit Studierenden und Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlichen akademischen Alters aus drei Westbal ...
Disentangling European HIV/AIDS Policies: Activism, Citizenship and Health (EUROPACH)
Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)
Duration of project: 09/2016 - 11/2019
Financer: BMBFThrough the lens of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, EUROPACH will explore how the past is mobilised in the unfolding of activism, health policy and citizenship in Europe. As transnational health-governing bodies seek to integrate a fortified biomedical approa ...
Edible City Network (EdiCitNet)
Säumel, Ina, Dr. (Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences)
Duration of project: 06/2018 - 08/2023
Financer: Europäische Union (EU) - HU als BeteiligteThe systemic use of urban landscapes for food production is a major step towards more sustainable, liveable and healthier cities. A multitude of initiatives around the World, however fragmented, are prospering, forming a global movement of Edible Cit ...
Einstein Visiting Fellowship: Pinar Yildiz
Karakayali, Serhat, Dr. (Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research)
Duration of project: 07/2018 - 12/2019
Financer: Einstein Stiftung BerlinResearch Group “Migration, Flight and Diaspora”
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Being an immigrant comprises both the experience of losing the sense of belonging to a homeland as well as carrying on the memory of what is left behind. Refugee narratives link the ...Einstein Visiting Professor – Senior Fellowship: Begün Basdas
Foroutan Mahin, Naika, Prof. Dr. (Integration Research and Social Policy)
Duration of project: 01/2019 - 08/2021
Financer: Einstein Stiftung BerlinResearch Group "Migration, Flight and Diaspora"
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While there is an emergent body of literature dealing with the new movement of volunteers for refugees, little attention is paid to the spatial practices of care and solidarity ...Einstein Visiting Professor – Senior Fellowship: Özlem Savas
Foroutan Mahin, Naika, Prof. Dr. (Integration Research and Social Policy)
Duration of project: 07/2018 - 03/2021
Financer: Einstein Stiftung BerlinResearch Group: “Migration, Flight and Diaspora”
Research Interest:
This research explores diasporic solidarity and affective politics that emerge and operate from intimate digital places of new migrants from Turkey. Due to recent increase in polit ...Einstein Visiting Senior Fellowship: Özge Yaka
Karakayali, Serhat, Dr. (Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research)
Duration of project: 07/2018 - 12/2019
Financer: Einstein Stiftung BerlinEinstein Research Group "Migration, Flight and Diaspora"
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Einstein-Forscherinnengruppe "Migration, Flucht und Diaspora" am BIM
Forschungsvorhaben:
The proposed project investigates how recently arrived migrants to Berlin wit ...-
Schmiedchen, Annette, PD Dr. (Cultures and Societies of South Asia)
Duration of project: 05/2019 - 04/2025
Financer: Europäische Union (EU) - HU als BeteiligteThree Principal Investigators Emmanuel Francis (UMR CEIAS, CNRS-EHESS), Arlo Griffiths (EFEO) and Annette Schmiedchen (Berlin, Germany) have, with participation of Florinda de Simini (university “L’Orientale”, Naples), won a major grant from the Euro ...
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Baldauf, Ingeborg, Prof. Dr. phil. (Central Asian Languages and Cultures)
Duration of project: 02/2018 - 04/2022
Financer: Volkswagen-Stiftung (VW) Event: Conference "Polyphonic Theology II"
Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. (Ecclesiastical History Specializing in Early History / Patristics)
Duration of project: 10/2016 - 03/2017
Financer: Fritz Thyssen StiftungDiese Tagung schließt als zweiter Teil an die vom 09. bis 12. Oktober 2014 in Heidelberg veranstaltete Tagung Polyphonic Theology (I) an. Geplant ist eine dreitägige Konferenz, auf der nunmehr abschließend für weitere antike christliche Theologen das ...
Event: Conference "Religious Polemics in Juidaism, Christianity and Islam"
Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. (Ecclesiastical History Specializing in Early History / Patristics)
Duration of project: 11/2017 - 03/2018
Financer: Fritz Thyssen StiftungEXC 2025/1: Matters of Activity. Image Space Material
Schäffner, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Knowledge and Cultural History)
Duration of project: 01/2019 - 12/2025
Financer: DFG Exzellenzstrategie: ClusterA ground-breaking event of the 21st century is and will be the re-invention of the analogue in the digital age. Its core is a new active materiality which is beginning to transform research and everyday life. In the future, techniques will no longer ...
EXC 2055/1: Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)
Fasang, Anette Éva, Prof. Dr. (Microsociology)
Duration of project: 01/2019 - 12/2025
Financer: DFG Exzellenzstrategie: ClusterThe liberal script is under pressure. Some of the most severe challenges liberal democracies are facing today emanate from authoritarian and non-liberal states as well as from violent non-state actors. These actors reject the liberal script defined a ...
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Kaschuba, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (European Ethnology I)
Duration of project: 12/2011 - 10/2015
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe project examines the emergence of a new type of urban festival that began to develop in the 1980s. The festivalisation of urban culture meant that elements of pop-culture entered the scene, fostering a new relationship between festival and urban ...
Gender and Religion: Reception of the antiquity
Sterbenc Erker, Darja, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)
Duration of project: 01/2013 - 06/2015
Financer: Sonstige StiftungenDas Geschlecht ist keine anthropologische Konstante, welche immer gleich bleibt, sondern wird in jeder Gesellschaft und Kultur neu definiert und mit unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen besetzt. Nicht nur in verschiedenen Kulturen und historischen Epochen w ...
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Binder, Beate, Prof. Dr. (Gender Studies and European Ethnology)
Duration of project: 11/2019 - 05/2020
Financer: Sonstige internationale öffentliche MittelgeberEntitled “HiVstories: Living Politics” the exhibition will consist of a curated selection of artworks, artefacts and oral histories. This cultural forum to engage with publics from both inside and outside academia will also provide a space in which t ...
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Eaton, Sarah, Prof. Dr. (Transregional Studies of China)
Duration of project: 02/2020 - 01/2023
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe field of Chinese politics lacks a theory to explain why localities in China sometimes choose the path of competition—frequently with undesirable consequences for local residents—and other times opt for cooperation. While the dominant frame for an ...
Jewish Homosexual Modernism in the German Speaking World and in Mandatory Palestine/Israel
Kraß, Andreas, Prof. Dr. (Early German Literature / Literature of the High Middle Ages)
Duration of project: 01/2020 - 12/2022
Financer: Einstein Stiftung BerlinThe project is a cooperation between Humboldt-University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It is funded by Einstein Foundation Berlin from January 2020 to December 2022.
The project puts forward the thesis that between 1890 and 1945 a corpus of li ...-
Kraß, Andreas, Prof. Dr. (Early German Literature / Literature of the High Middle Ages)
Duration of project: 01/2017 - 03/2020
Financer: German Israel FoundationThe Berlin sub-project focusses on the presence of Jewish protagonists in gay and lesbian Berlin before 1933. The specific Jewish contribution to Berlin as a center of homosexual culture as well as the homosexual equality movement in the Weimar Repub ...
Joint Visiting Research Fellowship on Religion and Development in Northern Iraq
Öhlmann, Philipp Hagen, Dr. (Section of Applied Theology / Chairs)
Duration of project: 03/2020 - 04/2021
Financer: Sonstige WirtschaftsunternehmenIn cooperation with Malteser International, RCSD/HU will be offering two post-doctoral / doctoral visiting research fellowships on religion and development in Northern Iraq, for a period of six months starting in April or May 2020. The fellows will c ...
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Macdonald, Sharon, Prof. Dr. (Social Anthropology)
Duration of project: 03/2017 - 07/2021
Financer: Stiftung Preußischer KulturbesitzMaking Differences in Berlin focuses especially upon the changing role and potentials of museums and heritage in the production of difference and diversity. Informed by global developments and theorizing, it takes Berlin as its research lab for exami ...
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Voß, Christian, Prof. Dr. (South Slavic Languages and Cultures)
Duration of project: 06/2013 - 04/2021
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe Melting Borders project investigated the porous nature of political and economic boundaries between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia. Although the two countries have been engaged in a political dispute over Macedonia’s name, there have been m ...
Migration Background: Making and Social Reality of a Scientific Category
Will, Anne-Kathrin, Dr. (European Ethnology IV)
Duration of project: 03/2019 - 02/2022
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)In 2005 seventeen new questions on migration entered the microcensus, the German representative population statistics. With the new questions on migration the so called migration background is generated. Hence the descendants of immigrants became vis ...
Mindscapes: Wellcome Mental Health Curatorial Fellow
Macdonald, Sharon, Prof. Dr. (Social Anthropology)
Duration of project: 07/2021 - 06/2023
Night Spaces: Migration, Culture and IntegraTion in Europe (NITE)
Bojadžijev, Manuela, Prof. Dr. (Culture and Lifstyles in Migration Societies)
Duration of project: 05/2019 - 05/2022
How are night spaces imagined, produced, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in Europe?
This research project considers this question in eight European cities: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cork, Galway, Lisbon, London, Rotterdam.
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