Working and research groups

The Centre for Transcultural Studies participates in the following research groups at the University of Erfurt:

Research group "Policies of Truth. Erfurt Research Center for Political Epistemologies"

The starting point for research on policies of truth is the observation that the debates surrounding the so-called "post-truth era" call for a return to truth as a point of reference for a new scientific and political seriousness. This usually occurs in a critical distancing from postmodern epistemologies, which would have dissolved the code of 'true' and 'false' into relativistic questions of interpretative sovereignty... more

Research group "Cultural Techniques of Collecting"

The "Cultural Techniques of Collecting" research group provides a forum for the diverse activities and research relating to collecting and the various collections at the University of Erfurt. The aim of the joint work in the research group is to develop a theoretical perspective on collecting as a cultural technique. The research group is thus continuing the cultural techniques research that has already been tried and tested in previous years with a new focus at the University of Erfurt... more

Research group "Erfurt SpatioTemporality Research"

With the boom of research regarding the “spatial turn” especially in cultural studies many projects are concerned with spatial perspectives. The reflections are predominantly one-dimensional – or more precisely: three-dimensional as the temporal perspective is often neglected. The Erfurt SpaceTime Research group dedicated itself to the scientific examination of both categories in connection to each other. On the one hand our goal is to combine projects at the University of Erfurt. On the other hand we intend to give new impulses to the theoretical debate as well as to a regionalization and historicization of the dealing with space and time... more