Projects (2070)
The Scholar Warriors: Intellectual History, New Left, and American Intelligence
Hardtwig, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early Modern History Specializing in the 19th Century)
Duration of project: 07/2007 - 03/2011
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeDas Vorhaben rekonstruiert eine intellektuelle Kommunikationsgemeinschaft von amerikanischen und aus Deutschland emigrierten Gelehrten und Intellektuellen, die sich im Zweiten Weltkrieg im US-Geheimdienst OSS begegnet waren. Diese Gruppe, zu der e ...
The Roman triumph in the imperial times and Late Antiquity
Winterling, Aloys, Prof. Dr. (Ancient History II)
Duration of project: 01/2011 - 12/2013
While several groundbreaking studies on the triumph in the Roman Republic have been published in the last decade, the triumphs of the imperial and late Roman period received little attention. This is surprising, because a large part of our evidence o ...
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Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. (Ancient History of Christianity)
Duration of project: 04/2005 - 01/2008
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe project at hand investigates the history of Christianity within the province Arabia as part of the history of late antique religion. Beginning with the examination of the religious geography we look into continuities, transformations and t ... The Roles of Grid and Place Cells and Phase Precession in Human Episodic Memory
Kempter, Richard, Prof. Dr. (Computational Neuroscience)
Duration of project: 03/2018 - 06/2021
Financer: BMBFThis research project uses direct human brain recordings to characterize the neuronal signals that represent aspects of individual episodic memories. A key question is understanding how the brain supports tasks such as “Where did I leave my keys this ...
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Schirrmacher, Arne, PD Dr. (History of Science Specializing in History of Education and Organisation of Knowledge in the 19th and 20th Century)
Duration of project: 12/2010 - 11/2014
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)While students and socialization in student institutions have been considered by social, political, gender and cultural history since long, in the history of science the questions about scientific socialization and learning of epistemic forms of acti ...
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Schirrmacher, Arne, PD Dr. (History of Science Specializing in History of Education and Organisation of Knowledge in the 19th and 20th Century)
Duration of project: 12/2012 - 11/2015
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)While students and socialization within student institutions is part of the discourse of social, political, gender and cultural history since long, history of science has neglected the question of scientific socialization and learning of epistemic pr ...
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Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)
Duration of project: 01/2003 - 12/2004
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThis research project aims at investigating households livelihood strategies in marginal areas of Ethiopia. The basic hypothesis of this research is based on the assumption that the problems of natural resource degradation and poverty in rural Ethio ...
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Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)
Duration of project: 01/2003 - 12/2004
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThis research project aims at investigating households livelihood strategies in marginal areas of Ethiopia. The basic hypothesis of this research is based on the assumption that the problems of natural resource degradation and poverty in rural Ethio ...
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Stanat, Petra, Prof. Dr. (Educational Psychology (Learning, Instruction and Evaluation))
Duration of project: 04/2012 - 02/2016
Financer: DFG - SchwerpunktprogrammeThe interdisciplinary project investigates the role of immigrants’ language proficiency for their social integration in the receiving country. Emanating from a general resource perspective, language proficiency is seen as a crucial resource for socia ...
The Role of Hiding Places on the Behaviour of Lobsters
Hetz, Stefan, Dr. rer. nat. (Animal Physiology/Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation)
Duration of project: 06/2012 - 09/2013
Financer: Privat/ Mittelgeber alte BundesländerHummer werden im Handel in unstrukturieten Aquarien gehalten. In diesem Projekt werden, aufbauend auf den Ergebnissen eines vorhergehenden Projekts, die Auswirkungen von Beschattung und Verstecken auf Bewegungsmuster und Aufenthaltspräferenz von Humm ...
The role of consumer cooperatives in food processing and energy delivery sectors in Hyderabad
Hanisch, Markus, Prof. Dr. (Cooperative Sciences (S))
Duration of project: 07/2008 - 06/2013
Financer: BMBFKonsumentenvereinigungen dienen der Organisation der Nachfrageseite auf anderenfalls durch Marktmacht geprägten Anbietermärkten für Verbrauchs- und Konsumgüter. Konsumgenossenschaften bergen deshalb, über ihr Potential Preise zu senken, Chancen für d ...
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Völkle, Manuel, Prof. Dr. (Psychological Methods)
Duration of project: 01/2017 - 11/2019
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeIn the proposed project, we plan to investigate the interplay between short-term variability and long-term change in affective functioning from adolescence to old age. We propose that affective flexibility, the capacity of the affective system to adj ...
The role of ABC proteins for the transverse dynamics of cholesterol in membranes I
Müller, Peter, Dr. rer. nat. (Molecular Biophysics)
Duration of project: 10/2004 - 01/2008
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeCholesterol is an essential component of biological membranes. Besides its role to stabilize membrane structure, cholesterol plays also a functional role in various membrane processes. The transbilayer movement of cholesterol between both halves of t ...
The role of ABC proteins for the transbilayer dynamics of cholesterol in membranes II
Müller, Peter, Dr. rer. nat. (Molecular Biophysics)
Duration of project: 04/2007 - 04/2010
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeCholesterol is an essential component of biological membranes. Besides its role in supporting membrane structure, this lipid is also functionally involved in various membrane-based physiological processes. An important step of the cellular cholestero ...
The Ritual Reproduction of Khmerness in Thailand
Houben, Vincentius, Prof. Dr. phil. (History of Southeast Asia)
Duration of project: 10/2010 - 09/2013
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeGegenstand des Forschungsvorhabens ist die Frage nach der Bedeutung ritueller Praxis für die Reproduktion ethnischer Kategorien in der thailändischen Provinz Buriram. Im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Ansatzes, der ethnologische und historische Frag ...
The Right to Be Heard in Criminal Proceedings
Pohlreich, Erol, Dr. (Criminal Law / Criminal Procedural Law / European Criminal Law and Modern Law History)
Duration of project: 11/2014 - 05/2017
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)The project head plans to examine the constitutional requirements that result from the right to be heard in criminal proceedings on the basis of three problems that each cover one aspect of this fundamental right. Starting from these problems, he aim ...
The relatives of cancer patients in inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation
Kardorff, Ernst, von Prof. Dr. phil. (Sociology of Rehabilitation / Professional Rehabilitation / Rehabilitation Law)
Duration of project: 07/1998 - 10/2000
Financer: BMBFScientific aim: to analyse stress-, coping and capacity profiles, to document the social integration, behaviour of help-search and demand of help of the relatives of cancer patients.
Methods: With the help of qualitative methods (interviews, case st ...The relation between joke appreciation and homonym comprehension
Spalek, Katharina, Prof. Dr. (Cluster Languages of Emotion)
Duration of project: 12/2009 - 05/2011
Financer: DFG-Exzellenzinitiative: ClusterPublic opinion is divided on the value of puns, some love them while others just think they're silly. In the context of this pilot project I test a specific hypothesis about the origin of these individual differences.
Puns work through homonymy: T ...The Reich Research Council - History, Structure, Impact
Bruch, Rüdiger, vom Prof. Dr. phil. (History of Science Specializing in History of Education and Organisation of Knowledge in the 19th and 20th Century)
Duration of project: 09/2004 - 11/2004
Financer: DFG: SonstigesAs part of a sturctural history of the Reich Research Council it is planed to analyse: 1. its role as monitoring system in regard to the politics of science, 2. its function as part of the military research and 3. its importance within the national s ...
The Reich Research Council - History, Structure, Impact
Bruch, Rüdiger, vom Prof. Dr. phil. (History of Science Specializing in History of Education and Organisation of Knowledge in the 19th and 20th Century)
Duration of project: 09/2003 - 08/2004
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeAs part of a sturctural history of the Reich Research Council it is planed to analyse: 1. its role as monitoring system in regard to the politics of science, 2. its function as part of the military research and 3. its importance within the national s ...
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Wenzel, Horst, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early German Literature / Literature of the High Middle Ages)
Duration of project: 10/2004 - 03/2005
Financer: DFG: SonstigesMedieval historiography requires the eyewitness (cf. Isidore of Seville: audire et videre), and for the early vernacular the eye witness is also guarantee and assurance of an authentic or fabricated historical narrative (Troy novels, Nibelungenlied). ...
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Hagedorn, Conrad, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Resource Economics)
Duration of project: 12/2001 - 07/2005
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe housing market is - primarily in Eastern Germany currently in radical change connected to environmental factors e.g. the loss of economical and social function in many towns and deficits of regional labour markets. The problems of housing co-op ...
The production of chronicity in mental health care and research in Berlin
Niewöhner, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (European Ethnology of Urban Areas and Cultures)
Duration of project: 06/2010 - 04/2016
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe focus of the project is on detailed ethnographic observation of medical classificatory practices in order to track their impact on the understanding of illness in medical institutions as well as on patients’ experiences of illness. The aim is to ...
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Linscheid, Michael, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry)
Duration of project: 11/2001 - 12/2004
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeDer enzymatische Abbau bakterieller Lipoploysaccharide von verschiedenen E. coli Spezies durch Vertreter des Genus Bdellovibrio soll untersucht werden. Um die speziellen Abbauwege der LPS zu beschreiben, setzen wir zur Strukturaufklärung der Metaboli ...
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Kiderlen, Moritz, Dr. (Classical Archaeology)
Duration of project: 01/2011 - 12/2013
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)Bronze tripods were particularly suitable as a means of formulating social status since they were one of the most prestigious types of movable items. Offerings of bronze tripods occur by no means in all (Proto-)Geometric sanctuaries but only in a few ...
The popularisation of history. Historians, publishers and the German reading public (1850-1900)
Hardtwig, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early Modern History Specializing in the 19th Century)
Duration of project: 06/2005 - 06/2008
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe project investigates the interaction between professional historians, amateurs and a broader reading public in the second half of the 19th century in Germany. It asks to what extent the development of the German historical science was influenced ...
The Popular German-Language Non-Fiction Book in the 20th Century
Schütz, Erhard, Prof. Dr. phil. (Modern German Literature / Literature of the 18th to 20th Century)
Duration of project: 11/2004 - 01/2008
Financer: Fritz Thyssen StiftungThe project aims at investigating of the literary history and poetics of the popular German-language non-fiction book in the 20th century, as well as the development of a university curriculum for non-fiction writing strategies.
I. The projec ...The Politics of Restitution in Germany, 1945-2000
Goschler, Constantin, Dr. (Contemporary History)
Duration of project: 04/2002 - 11/2003
Financer: Fritz Thyssen StiftungDie Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts rückte in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt in die Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit wie der Zeitgeschichte. Dafür waren vor allem die in den neunziger Jahren vorgebrachten Entschädigungsforderunge ...
The Polish Dative as a test case for linguistic theory
Meyer, Roland, Prof. Dr. (West Slavic Languages)
Duration of project: 01/2016 - 02/2022
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe project investigates the synchronic and short-term diachronic syntax of Datives (DAT) in Pol[ish] as compared to Ice[landic] and Ru[ssian], and its implications for general linguistic theory. DAT Case is a particularly revealing phenomenon at the ...
The phasing out process of development projects : Concepts and methods of a participatory approach
Nagel, Uwe Jens, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Agricultural Consulting and Communication Studies)
Duration of project: 01/2001 - 12/2003
Entwicklung eines theoretischen Konzeptes für den Phase out (früher: Übergabe) Prozess, Identifikation und Test von partizipativen Instrumenten (Fallstudien in Afrika), Klärung ob und unter welchen Umständen eine partizipative Methodik für den Phase ...
The Perception of Social Groups through the Prism of Sexual Violence in St. Petersburg 1864-1914
Baberowski, Jörg, Prof. Dr. (History of Eastern Europe)
Duration of project: 10/2003 - 09/2006
Financer: Fritz Thyssen StiftungDer Stellenwert und die Bedeutungen sexueller Gewalt wandelten sich seit Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Zum einen trugen die seit den 1860er Jahren entstehenden, ausgesprochen populären Boulevardzeitungen durch ihre ausführliche Berichterstattun ...
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Nagel, Uwe Jens, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Agricultural Consulting and Communication Studies)
Duration of project: 01/1995 - 10/2002
Die Zusammenarbeit von Bauern, Beratern, Forschern und ihren Organisationen zur Entwicklung des ländlichen Raumes befindet sich in Brasilien in einer Krise. Es fehlen Entscheidungen und überzeugende Vorschläge seitens der Regierung für die Zukunft de ...
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Schmid, Stephan G., Prof. Dr. phil. (Classical Archaeology)
Duration of project: 08/2015 - 06/2022
Financer: Sonstige StiftungenOstia is the first colony and the main harbour of Rome, approximately 30 km west of the capital of the Roman Empire. Ostia was an antique ‘metropolis’ with four- and five-storey high multiple dwellings. Thanks to large-scale excavations until 1941, O ...
The Origins of Episodic Memory Formation
Friedrich, Manuela, Dr. rer. nat. (Cognitive Psychology)
Duration of project: 01/2019 - 12/2022
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeIn diesem Projekt werden die frühesten Formen episodischer Gedächtnisbildung bei Säuglingen und Kleinkindern untersucht. Insbesondere geht es um den initialen Erwerb (das Enkodieren) der Komponenten episodischen Wissens (das Was, Wann und Wo eines Er ...
The Organization of Diversity in the Ecclesiastical Space of Antiquity
Markschies, Christoph, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. (Cluster Topoi - The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Anvient Civilization)
Duration of project: 11/2007 - 10/2012
Financer: DFG-Exzellenzinitiative: ClusterPublic space, such as temples, forums, and village squares, played a vital role in ancient civilizations, and mirrored the structures of social and political organization. Within this context, the early history of the expansion of Christianity can be ...
Theoretical Analysis of Hippocampal Memory Formation
Kempter, Richard, Prof. Dr. (Computational Neuroscience)
Duration of project: 06/2010 - 06/2017
Financer: BMBFThe hippocampus is engaged in remembering information that can be described in a declarative manner, and work on the function of the hippocampus has led to the development of current concepts about the organization of memory systems in the brain. Bec ...
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Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon, Dr. (Modern and Contemporary History)
Duration of project: 08/2014 - 07/2015
Financer: Volkswagen-Stiftung (VW)As well as establishing government nature conservation organizations in support of civic nature conservation efforts, the GDR took its first legislative, political and scientific measures in the nature conservation area much earlier than the Federal ...
The Nag Hammadi Writings within the History of Literature and Theology of Early Christianity
Schröter, Jens, Prof. Dr. (New Testament Exegesis and Theology and Ancient Christian Apocrypha)
Duration of project: 02/2015 - 05/2016
Financer: Fritz Thyssen StiftungNag Hammadi Writings
The myth of German Culture within the German and Austrian Jewry 1918-1938
Hardtwig, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Early Modern History Specializing in the 19th Century)
Duration of project: 10/2001 - 09/2004
This dissertation examines the identification of German and Austrian Jews with German Culture in the inter-war time. The study explores the shaping influence of a classical enlightened cultural ideal on the identity-debates of German and Austrian Jew ...
Thematic expansion of harvested resources in EIGE's RDC
Jähnert, Gabriele, Dr. (Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies)
Duration of project: 06/2013 - 10/2013
Financer: Sonstige internationale öffentliche MittelgeberThe life cycles of parasitic worms - from macro-evolutionary patterns to the genetics of adaptation
Benesh, Daniel, Dr. (Molecular Parasitology)
Duration of project: 05/2019 - 12/2022
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)Many parasites have complex life cycles in which they infect multiple hosts in succession before reproducing. These life cycles are perplexing, because they seem risky. As the number of consecutive hosts in a life cycle increases, so does the risk of ...
The Kaokoveld in Namibia - unique region or part of the Western Escarpment Mts. (WEM)?
Mey, Wolfram, Dr. (Entomology)
Duration of project: 04/2008 - 03/2009
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeDas Kaokoveld im Nordwesten Namibias ist geographisch der nördlichste Ausläufer der Western Escarpment Mountains, die sich von Kapstadt über Namibia bis nach Süd-Angola erstrecken. Die Gegend ist abgelegen und nur mit 4 x 4 Geländewagen zu erkunden. ...
Duration of project: 08/2014 - 07/2017
Financer: Volkswagen-Stiftung (VW)Narrative intervention in conflict resolution is rarely an object of social psychological studies. Only recently have scholars of conflict resolution turned to analyse the role of narratives for conflict resolution thus giving birth to narrative appr ...
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Nickel, Hildegard-Maria, Prof. Dr. sc. phil. (Sociology of Labour and Gender Studies)
Duration of project: 02/2009 - 02/2012
Financer: BMBFBasic research on professional careers of highly skilled migrant women in science and technology, focussing on migrant women who immigrated without prior work permit.
The Influence of Mechanical Forces in Neuro-degenerative Diseases
Klotzsch, Enrico, Prof. Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)
Duration of project: 01/2019 - 02/2023
Financer: Volkswagen-Stiftung (VW)We will use live-cell and super-resolution microscopy combined with automated image processing to determine the impact of large numbers of FUS variants on the sub-cellular distribution, nuclear re-localisation and aggregate formation at a single cell ...
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Steinsdorff, Silvia, von Prof. Dr. (Ernst Fraenkel Professorship in Comparative Studies of Democracy)
Duration of project: 06/2011 - 08/2014
Financer: BMBFEven though one can speak of a recent boom of scientific work on Constitutional Courts in established democracies as well as in democratizing countries, comparative research on the institutional setting, the political impact and especially on the int ...
The Index of Linguistic Justice
Frensch, Peter Alex, Prof. Ph.D. (General Psychology)
Duration of project: 01/2017 - 12/2018
Financer: Sonstige internationale öffentliche MittelgeberThis research project involves the design of an index of linguistic justice that can be applied to comparing and evaluationg language policy regimes among states.
The Importance of Reformed Education in Early Modern Europe
Schilling, Heinz, Prof. i. R. Dr. Dr. hc. (European History of the Early Modern History)
Duration of project: 01/2001 - 12/2006
Financer: Sonstige StiftungenInvestigation of Reformed educational thought and schools in Early Modern Europe; comparative analysis of Reformed education and schools with their Catholic and Lutheran equivalents
The impact of movement on the maintenance of items in visual memory
Ohl, Sven, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)
Duration of project: 05/2016 - 09/2019
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)The versatility of human behaviour depends on coordinated, goal-directed movements. They are the basis for our interaction with dynamic environments, and the mechanisms that control them are entwined with perceptual and cognitive functions. While the ...
The Impact of Insurer's Insolvency Risk on the Demand for Insurance Policies
Gründl, Helmut, Prof. Dr. (Business Administration)
Duration of project: 05/2005 - 01/2008
Financer: Privat/ Mittelgeber BerlinAccording to theoretical models and a few empirical analyses, the insurer's insolvency risk has a great impact on the willingness to pay for insurance contracts and consequently on the premium income and the return of insurance companies. Hence, it s ...