Research projects

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A01 Divine Property. Solutions from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject A01 in SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project explores various historical and conceptual foundations underlying the structural change of and through property with a view to religious practices and theories. (Funding phase 1)
A01: Ambiguous Property: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Project management
Several Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject A01 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)
A02 Property in one’s own body and in the bodies of others in the United States between the eighteenth and twentieth century
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject A02 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The subproject explores the ownership of others’ bodies based on the history of slavery in the USA. (Funding phase 1)
A02: Racial Capitalism: Property Relationships of Black Families in the Age of Segregation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject A02 in SFB TRR294 ‘Structural Change in Property’. The project is based on the recognition that property plays a key role in the constitution and reproduction of material, social and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
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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B01 Urban property regimes and citizenship in transition. Changing ownership patterns and systems of relatedness in India
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject B01 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The study seeks to harness the explicatory power of property for understanding the shifting societal systems and their underlying normative frameworks in post-liberalised India.(Funding phase 1)
B01: Contestation over Property Regimes and Housing: (Un)doing Commodified Urban Land Ownership in India and Germany
Project management
Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject B01 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property plays a key role in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 1)
Bewegte Kinder = Gesündere Kinder (BeKiGeKi)
Project management
Dr. Florian Bähr Duration
07/2022 - 12/2025 Funding
Several donors
324 100 €
‘Bewegte Kinder = Gesündere Kinder (BeKiGeKi) is a Thuringia-wide programme to support the movement-related skills of children of primary school age.
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C01 Hybrid ownership structures in state capitalism. Ownership-based society, socio-economic differentiation and Governmentality analysed through the example of Shenzhen, China
Project management
Prof. Dr. Carsten Caspary Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject C01 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project explores the interdependencies at play between the hybrid land ownership rights and the emergence of structures that are characteristic of property-based societies following China’s transformation into a market economy. It further investigates how this process yields new relationships between state and society (Governmentality). (Funding phase 1)
C06 Making things available. Ownership as an incarnation of our relationship with the world
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject C06 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project is based on the insight that ownership plays an important role in the establishment and reproduction of our understanding of things, society and ourselves. (funding phase 1)
C06: Property as a World Relationship: Disposal, Care, Use: A Comparative Analysis in Ger-many and China
Project management
Several Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject C06 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)
Clash or Convergence of Capitalisms. Property Conflicts over Chinese Direct Investments in Germany and the European Union
Project management
PD Dr. Stefan Schmalz Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". This project aims to analyse ownership conflicts arising from Chinese direct investments in Germany and the EU.
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Doctoral programme "De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling" (DeGlobE)
Project management
Several Duration
01/2025 - 12/2029 Funding
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung:
567 000 €
The doctoral programme "De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling" (DeGlobE) is researching how the recalibration of market and state, economic paradigms and regulatory levels and approaches that is emerging under conditions of de-globalisation manifests itself. On the one hand, DeGlobE is interested in the developing, specific "post-globalisation logics" that characterise these sectors. On the other hand, the question will be asked as to what consequences de-globalisation, unbundling and global…
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Erfurter Forschungsstelle für Geoökonomie (EFGEo)
Project management
Several Duration
11/2024 - 10/2027 Funding
Several donors
400 000 €
The research centre aims to conduct interdisciplinary basic research at the interface of international political economy, law, international relations and conflict research as well as public policy and to tie this back to the special situation of the European, German and Thuringian economies. It has its origins in the ‘Security Capitalism Research Group’.
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FUM – Fachfremd unterrichtende Mathematiklehrkräfte langfristig kompetenzorientiert unterstützen (supporting non-specialist maths teachers in the long term in a skills-orientated way)
Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Heike Hahn Duration
01/2024 - 06/2026 Funding
Several donors
377 000 €
Based on extensive analyses of needs, target groups and tasks, this project aims to develop specific support materials for teachers of non-specialist subjects to help them design lessons and diagnose the learning status of pupils in the subject of mathematics in grades 5/6 and 7/8 for mainstream schools. The project is aimed at teachers who have acquired a teaching qualification for two subjects (first and second state examinations) without the subject of mathematics, but who teach mathematics…
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Hellenic Polytheism in Contemporary Greece: Beliefs, Practices, and the Symbolic Struggle over Hellenicity/Greekness
Project management
Several Duration
09/2024 - 08/2027 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
342 000 €
The research project examines Hellenic polytheism in contemporary Greece, focussing on beliefs, ritual practices and the symbolic struggle for the Greek heritage. It analyses the many facets of this movement and its critical engagement with the Greek Orthodox Church and state and academic institutions.
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JRT05: Private debt and property formation in the context of historical upheavals in Germany and the USA
Project management
PD Dr. Felix Krämer Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject JRT05 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 of things, social relations and self-relations.
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KLIMA-Netzwerk für mehr Nachhaltigkeit in Thüringen. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE)
Project management
Bettina Hollstein Duration
10/2022 - 09/2025 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
300 000 €
The sub-project of the University of Erfurt deals with exemplary transformative teaching-learning arrangements (LLA), which are to be evaluated with regard to their sustainability and transformational relevance. On this basis, conditions for success for transformative CLIMA-LLA and quality development measures are to be developed.
Kolleg-Research Group "Religion and Urbanity"
Project management
Several Duration
10/2018 - 09/2026 Funding
Several donors
10 500 000 €
Susanne Rau & Jörg Rüpke: Cities and religion(s) have had a deep impact on each other. Up to now, research has focused on religion in cities - on the reciprocal changes in religious practices and urban space, at best in "global cities" and in the present. We want to fill the research gap that has arisen in this way by investigating the historical depth of the reciprocal formation within the framework of a collegiate research group.
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M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies "Metamorphoses of the Political" (ICAS-MP)
Project management
Several Duration
08/2015 - 06/2027 Funding
Several donors
380 519 €
Martin Fuchs: ICAS-MP combines the benefits of an open, interdisciplinary forum for intellectual exchange with the advantages of a cutting-edge research centre. The centre focuses on key political processes that have emerged in parallel in many parts of the world during the twentieth century through to the present day, processes that are entangled yet heterogeneous.
MusCoDA – Musical Communities in the (Post)Digital Age
Project management
Several Duration
12/2020 - 11/2024 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
422 000 €
MusCoDA examines songwriting processes as an example of collective creativity in (post-)digital communities. The Paderborn (University) sub-project focuses on informal bands, while the Erfurt sub-project looks at songwriting in schools. Collaborative and cooperative learning in divergent educational contexts will be researched, the intertwining of informal and formal self-learning processes in digitally networked communities will be reconstructed, the respective constitutive role of digital and…
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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict
Project management
Several Duration
04/2022 - 03/2026 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
4 000 000 €
The Network investigates how historically formed postcolonial hierarchies manifest themselves in contemporary conflict dynamics and what implications this has for sustainable conflict transformation in the future. To do so, the Network brings together historical perspectives on the contexts of conflict formation (in particular those shaped by colonialism) with postcolonial research perspectives as well as with methodologies and theories of peace and conflict research.These perspectives are…
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SFB TRR294 "Strukturwandel des Eigentums"
Project management
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa Duration
01/2021 - 12/2028 Funding
Several donors
23 400 000 €
The Sonderforschungsbereich aims to (re)gain a comprehensive socio-theoretical perspective on property and to investigate an assumed structural change of property in the present. The aim is to a) re-explore historical and conceptual foundations of the Western property system, b) empirically investigate current conflicts over private property, and c) analyse alternatives to (private) property.
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The birth of rights universalism from reformed international law. The natural law of Heinrich and Samuel Cocceji and its controversial reception in the European Enlightenment
Project management
Dr. Stefanie Ertz Duration
02/2024 - 01/2027 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
317 000 €
The aim of the project, which at the same time further strengthens the focus on natural law at the Gotha Research Centre, is to explore the natural law teachings of Heinrich Cocceji (1644–1719) and his son and editor Samuel Cocceji (1679–1755). In a monograph, Cocceji's natural law, which centres on a theocratic-voluntarist concept of inalienable liberties, will be presented in its political and ideological-historical contexts and in its controversial reception in the European…
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What is Western about the West?
Project management
Prof. Dr. Holt Meyer Duration
02/2018 - 01/2021 Funding
Several donors
420 000 €
The project focuses on spatio-temporal practices regarding the production and representation of westernness. With the question of what is Western about the West, it takes up a highly political and socially relevant question.

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