Transcultural Studies / Estudios Transculturales

Chair:  Dr. Cornelia Logemann

• PD Dr. Claudia Brosseder:"Cultures in Dialogue in the Andean World"
  
  
  For more than 5,000 years, various cultures have lived in the Andes. From a multitude of angles, the research project investigates the dialogue between various cultures in this region. As archaeologists, historians, and ethnographers, we analyze continuities and discontinuities in how cultures influenced each other in the Andean world. We investigate the Nazca, Franciscan and Mercedarian missionaries, as well as the scientists of the later colonial period. With regard to the colonial period, it will be asked how Europeans in a transatlantic setting engaged with indigenous and Afro American cultures. [...]
   
  
   
• Dr. Anne Brüske: "From the Caribbean to North America and Back"
  
  
  The Caribbean has been a zone of extreme cultural encounters between indigenous, European, African, Asian and Arabic peoples. This phenomenon emerged in the course of colonization, slave trade and general migration. Today, the Caribbean has changed towards a zone of emigration. Very often, the land of preferred choice appears to be the United States of America, which continues to gain political and economic influence in the Caribbean region. Moreover, the US is a relatively heterogeneous cultural space. The working group endeavors to analyze the processes of cultural exchange in literature, popular culture and the new media in the transnational space comprised of the Caribbean, the Caribbean "Diasporas" and North America. [...]
   
  
   
• Dr. Cornelia Logemann (Chair): 'Principle of Personification'. Visual intelligence and epistemic tradition 1300-1800
  
  Personifications were among the most popular image-producing techniques in the Early Modern Period. Concepts of images that addressed elitist circles and reached beyond national boundaries existed alongside simpler visual means of expression that evoked national identity or belonged to a Christian religious context. The project aims to examine the forms and functions of this method in a fundamental phase for the reconstruction of the modern understanding of images. [...]
  
  

Associated projects

• Dr. phil. Georg Christ: "Trading Diasporas. Transcultural Agency, Religious Bans and Illicit Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean (1270-1430)"
  
  
  The group analyzes how Venetian, Jewish, Greek and Persian trading diasporas shaped and crossed the cultural boundaries between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Mamluk Levant in the Late Middle Ages.[...]
  
  

Completed projects

• Dr. Simon Wendt: "Radical Nationalism and Gender in the United States, Germany, and Japan, 1890-1945"

  The research group “Radical Nationalism and Gender in the United States, Germany, and Japan, 1890-1945” explores the influence of certain notions of femininity and masculinity on collective identities and societal visions of radical nationalist ideologies in the United States, Germany and Japan between 1890 and 1945. [...]