Knowledge, Spaces, and Media

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The research focus "Wissen. Räume. Medien." ("Knowledge, Spaces, and Media") has been reconstituted in 2017 in order to create a common basis for the research of history of knowledge and science (especially in connection with the Gotha Research Centre), historical-cultural space research and media-related research. The diversity of the projects as well as the overall collaborations have long shown that this research focus is an attractive field, which is capable of developing even further. Together with the Gotha Collection and Research Network, the mutual constitution processes of knowledge, spaces and media are being investigated at the University of Erfurt. Each of these three perspectives bringing up common questions. For example: How is knowledge constituted, ordered and historicised in practices, media and objects? How is knowledge spatialized (in archives, collections, exhibitions), and how are spaces produced through practices, knowledge and media? How do media contribute to the production, storage, mediation and transformation of knowledge? To what extent do media constitute spaces? Thus the result of this specific research focus is a distinct form of cultural studies at the University of Erfurt, which also integrates approaches of social science and – as practiced for example in the research group "Religion and Urbanity: Mutual Formations" – religious studies.

Projects of the research focus (German only)

News

Under the title "Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence", Erfurt's universities, in cooperation with the City of Erfurt, are inviting all interested parties to a joint lecture series for the first time in the summer semester of 2024.…

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will continue to support the research group "Voluntariness", in which researchers from the University of Erfurt, FSU Jena and Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg work together, in a second funding phase. The…

In November 2023, a new research project entitled "UncertainTEAM" will start at the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the University of Erfurt.

The Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt, the Francke Foundations in Halle and the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel are awarding the first three-month scholarship for 2024 to an excellent doctoral researcher from Eastern Central…

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