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A Change of Mind. West-Eastern Church Experiences
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
05/2015 - 12/2016 Funding
Bonifatiuswerk:
6 000 €
Jörg Seiler: Ever since they moved to the East as a result of unification, people have been talking about a completely new experience of church and community and the relationship of these East German communities to the public. These experiences are to be examined exemplarily and empirically in the form of targeted interviews. The interviews will be presented in excerpts on listening stations (Katholikentag in Leipzig) and then scientifically evaluated.
A03 Property and habit. On the political anthropology of ownership in Western modernity
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject A03 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project is dedicated to the political anthropology of ownership between the eighteenth and early twentieth century. It investigates an assumption that is widespread in the humanities: that ownership structures bring about the formation of specific habits. (Funding phase 1)
A03: Property as a Medium of Habit Formation: On the Political Anthropology of Property in the 19th Century
Project management
Several Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject A03 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
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Between Experience and Memory: Educational Paths of Christian Citizens of the GDR from Socialist Society to the Present Day
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
01/2019 - 09/2025
Subproject in the research network "Dictatorship Experience and Transformation". The research project is based on the observation that the disadvantages of young Christians in the GDR are mostly remembered in close connection with socialist educational institutions. Therefore, the historical study focuses on narratives, practices and structures of inequalities in the education system and explores the educational paths of Christian citizens of the GDR.
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Catholic Women Writers as Products and Producers of "Catholic Femininity"?
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
09/2016 - 09/2023 Funding
Several donors
300 000 €
Jörg Seiler: The anti-modernist phase of Catholicism was characterized by normative Catholic ascriptions of femininity, which mostly obscured the pluralization dynamics of these decades. Persistence, change and (un)simultaneous emancipative ideas about a Catholic gender order should therefore be reconstructed in church history on the basis of biographical sources and literary works of Catholic women writers. As representatives of a liberal profession, they represented an unbound heterogeneous…
CoMOR: "Configurations of European Fairs. Merchants, Objects, Routes (1350-1600)"
Project management
Prof. Dr. Susanne Rau Duration
04/2020 - 10/2023 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
600 000 €
Susanne Rau: "CoMOR" (Configurations of European Fairs. Merchants, Objects, Routes) will examine the history of European fairs from the perspective of increasing market integration in the period from around 1320 (end of the Champagne fairs) to 1630 (decline of the Besançon fairs).
Courtly Cultural Areas in Central Germany
Project management
Dr. Kathrin Paasch Duration
02/2014 - 09/2017 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
147 000 €
Kathrin Paasch: Occasional writings belong to a literary genre that is considered to be one of the most productive sources of information on personalities in the early modern period. The aim of the project is to research a source inventory of 7,455 personal occasional writings of the court from the first appearance of humanism until the end of the 18th century.
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Denomination - Education - Politics
Project management
Prof. Dr. Michael Gabel Duration
09/2012 - 09/2017 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
500 000 €
Michael Gabel: The BMBF-funded project is a fundamental investigation in the field of cultural education for about 40 locations of student communities (KSG and ESG) in Eastern Germany. On the basis of the research results to be published, this will open up a wide range of scientific projects for universities, colleges, social science institutions and institutions of political education: in the fields of politics, (contemporary) history, education, sociology, philosophy, theology, law, ethics and…
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Geografie und Politik zwischen Nordostafrika und Europa. Selbstzeugnisse als Zugang zu einer relationalen Wissensgeschichte
Project management
Prof. Dr. Iris Schröder Duration
10/2023 - 09/2026 Funding
Gerda Henkel Stiftung:
120 600 €
In diesem Projekt wird naturkundlich-geografisches und politisches Raumwissen anhand ausgewählter, auf Reisen angefertigter Texte untersucht. Das Vorhaben fragt nach den unterschiedlichen Akteuren, den Formen und Inhalten kollaborativer Wissensproduktion und damit nach den Genealogien sozialer und politischer Räume vor Ort. Es stützt sich auf in der Sammlung Perthes überlieferte Notizen, Tagebücher, Berichte, Briefe und kartografischen Arbeiten, die aus der Region nach Gotha gelangten, und…
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History of the State Ministries in Baden and Württemberg During the NS Era
Project management
Prof. Dr. Christiane Kuller Duration
01/2014 - 12/2018 Funding
Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg:
207 800 €
The project deals with one of the last major gaps in research on the NS regime: the supreme state authorities and their involvement in NS crimes. After decades of research oriented towards political history had marginalized the importance of the "assimilated" state authorities, attention has recently been drawn to this research desideratum in connection with studies of administrative history.
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Illuminati Essays in the Context of the Late Enlightenment
Project management
Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow Duration
05/2013 - 11/2016 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
503 000 €
Previous research on the Illuminati has concentrated mainly on their organisational structure and on the so-called 'higher knowledge'. Consequently, the documents of the order have so far been mainly printed documents, degree drafts and the correspondence of the leading members among each other. In contrast to this, the project pursued at the Gotha Research Centre focuses on a completely new corpus of sources, which has so far hardly been considered by research.
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Research Centre for Contemporary Church History
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
01/1970
Jörg Seiler: The Research Centre for Contemporary Church History investigates the specific form of Catholicism in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ)/ German Democratic Republic (DDR). It deals with the "double diaspora situation" of Central and East German Catholics.
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Stategies of Collecting an Displaying China in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Gotha's Chinese Cabinet
Project management
Dr. Emily Teo Duration
05/2021 - 04/2024 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
300 000 €
My research project brings renewed attention to a significant Chinese collection in early-nineteenth-century Germany, the Chinese Cabinet in Gotha, established by Duke Emil August (1772–1822) of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg from 1804 to 1810. Consisting of over 2000 objects, the Cabinet was a great sensation during the first decades of the nineteenth-century and was described as the most important Chinese collection in continental Europe. However, following the establishment of national museums across…
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The King as Part of the Network
Project management
Dr. Christian Oertel Duration
05/2018 - 04/2021 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
275 000 €
The ruling practice of the German and Bohemian king Wenceslaus IV, who was nicknamed "der Faule" (the Idle) by older research, will be reconsidered in this project on the basis of documentary tradition. On the one hand, the 'classical' aspects of the practice of rule will be examined (political action in the empire, alliance systems, economic aspects). On the other hand, the investigation will be opened up in the direction of cultural history. Fields such as courtly representation or patronage…

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