Field of Focus IIIResearch Activities

Funding in Field of Focus 3 serves to identify and strengthen major thematic priorities.

In 2020, three Thematic Research Networks were established. The received funds were used to link and strengthen existing research activities on the priority topics and to build research and teaching structures. The topics of Digital Humanities and Transfer as well as the general Area Studies focus are promoted across all topics.

Funded Projects

Thematic Priorities: Knowledge Research, Philantrophy Research, Environmental Humanities

Knowledge Research

Explorer Project "Artistic Alternatives to the Antigypsy Gaze"

Philanthropy Research

Thematic Research Network „Philanthropy, Giving and Collecting in the Longue Durée“

Knowledge Research

Thematic Research Network "Validity of Knowledge"

The research network is concerned with the validity of knowledge and its genesis as well as the design of knowledge spaces and knowledge artefacts as media for the enforcement of knowledge claims. The aim is to understand the discourses and practices by which actors, groups of people and social networks give validity to knowledge.

Environmental Humanities

Thematic Research Network „Rethinking Environmental Change“

Under the impression of an omnipresent global environmental crisis as a major social and ecological change, the TRN is concerned with the transdisciplinary understanding of temporally and regionally different descriptions of this catastrophic situation as well as the identification and use of possible action resulting from rethinking.

Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities

Forum Digital Humanities

Kopie eines mittelassyrischen Getreidedarlehens aus Assur (KAJ 74).

Digital Humanities

Database for the personal names of the Middle Assyrian texts

Digital Humanities

InFoDiTex – Interdisciplinary Forum of Digital Textual Sciences

The Interdisciplinary Forum of Digital Textual Science is a forum for both, young scholars and students who want to deepen their knowledge on theory and practice of digital textual science.

Digital Humanities

TheoLab - Research Network Digital Theology

The Explorer Project TheoLab marks the establishment and development of a research network for digital theology at the Faculty for Theology coordinated by Dr. Stefan Karcher.