Research projects

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Annexations and Secessions in the Age of the Global Cold War

Project management
Dr. Christian Methfessel Duration
10/2018 - 09/2021 Funding
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung:
236 000 €

Christian Methfessel: International borders were surprisingly stable during the Cold War. The project seeks to analyze the reasons for that stability by examining selected territorial conflicts in Africa and South Asia.

Bio-economic Power in Global Supply Chains: Approaches, Impacts and Perspectives on Certification and Due Diligence for Biogenic Mass Raw Materials (Bio-Power)

Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch Duration
01/2017 - 12/2020 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
890 000 €

Lena Partzsch: The overall objective of the project is to formulate recommendations for action regarding the possibilities and limits of corporate due diligence and certification systems in the global value chains of biogenic mass raw materials.

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).

Cooperation Project "Local Politicization of Global Norms"

Project management
Several Duration
01/2014 - 12/2017 Funding
Several donors
490 000 €

André Brodocz: The project examines the conditions under which egalitarian norms with a global claim to validity (such as human rights, sustainability, rule of law) actually find acceptance.

Cultural Techniques. Operationality and Spatialization

Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Dünne Duration
01/2015 - 12/2017 Funding
Several donors
299 000 €

Subject of the project "Cultural Techniques. Operationality and Spatialization" (Kulturtechniken. Operationalität und Verräumlichung) deals with the reciprocal constitutional processes of knowledge and action from the perspective of a theory and history of cultural techniques. The specific focus in relation to previous approaches in cultural technology research is on the question of spatialization.

Digitisation and In-depth Indexing of Manuscripts of the Bibliotheca Amploniana in the University Library of Erfurt

Project management
Gabor Kuhles Duration
10/2019 - 09/2025 Funding
Several donors
943 130 €

By making the world's largest scientific library of a late medieval scholar, the Bibliotheca Amploniana, should be made available for international research through digital provision and its scientific indexing.

Divine Property. Solutions from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024

Subproject 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.

Ecological Conflicts

Project management
Prof. Dr. André Brodocz Duration
05/2023 - 04/2026

The Gerda Henkel Foundation is funding a new research group at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Erfurt with around 240,000 euros until 2026, which will focus on the topic of "Ecological Conflicts".

Educational Landscape and Knowledge Culture

Project management
Several Duration
07/2014 - 05/2017 Funding
Several donors
290 000 €

Gotha was one of the most important centres of innovation in early modern European educational history. In the project, collections-based research will be carried out using the educational history sources collected in the 17th and early 18th centuries with the aim of making the hitherto almost unknown holdings accessible to science and the public and demonstrating their potential for international research in educational history.

European Interuniversity Graduate School on Theology in Processes of religious and societal Transformation

Project management
Several Duration
10/2021 - 09/2024 Funding
Stifterverband:
1 200 000 €

The European Interuniversity Graduate School on Theology in Processes of religious and societal Transformation thematically and structurally brings together theological research and the promotion of early-stage researchers from three European universities.

Globalisation and Local Knowledge

Project management
Prof. Dr. Susanne Rau Duration
09/2012 - 02/2016 Funding
Several donors
300 000 €

The research project is to be understood as a pilot project, which is intended to comprehensively demonstrate the research potential of the cartographic-geographical "The Gotha Perthes Collection" acquired by the Free State of Thuringia in 2003 for the first time. In addition, it is intended to contribute to the further development of the collection and to establish a virtual map laboratory, the "GlobMapLaboratory".

Gotha Numismatica digital

Project management
PD Dr. Monika E. Müller Duration
04/2024 - 12/2024 Funding
Staatskanzlei des Freistaats Thüringen:
80 342 €

The research library preserves an important numismatic collection of historical prints and manuscripts. It is an expression of the collecting interests of the dukes of Gotha and learned numismatists, who were responsible for expanding the numismatic collections at the Gotha court from the end of the 17th century. Among their 225 numismatic manuscripts are famous works such as the Magnum Ac Novum Opus, which Jacopo Strada produced in the mid-16th century, first for Johann Jakob Fugger of Augsburg…

Hidden Histories: Frauen in ländlichen Entwicklungsprogrammen in Indien, c. 1920–1966

Project management
Dr. Maria Framke Duration
08/2021 - 07/2024 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
335 000 €

The project is dedicated to contributions of Indian women to rural development programmes from about 1920 to 1966, following the call to include gender as a category of analysis in the history of development. The aim of the project is to examine the role of women in the design and implementation of governmental and non-governmental rural development projects in India in the key areas of health, education and livelihoods, and in this way to re-capture the processes of development and citizenship.…

Influenza Vaccine Hesitancy

Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
12/2015 - 08/2016 Funding
World Health Organization (WHO):
23 000 €

The aim of the research project is to identify reasons for influenza vaccine hesitancy in all WHO member states and to identify research gaps to increase vaccination rates in specific risk groups.

Institutionalising the law of nature and nations: The universities of Kiel, Greifswald and Rostock 1648–1806

Project management
Dr. Mikkel Munthe Jensen Duration
07/2022 - 06/2026 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
350 000 €

The project is about the history of the teaching of natural law at the three north German universities in Kiel, Greifswald and Rostock during the period 1648–1806. It is concerned with why, how and to what extent this academic discipline developed in three different political settings along the Baltic coast. The project is based on the general presumption that natural law was of great significance for the period’s intellectual development and state building endeavours. The general aim of the…

Intercultural German Studies: Impulses for Research and Teaching in Word and Text

Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes Duration
01/2014 - 12/2021 Funding
Several donors
225 000 €

The project aims to make innovative contemporary concepts from intercultural German studies productive for the partner universities by considering interculturality as an epistemological principle.

International Graduate School (IGS) "Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices"

Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke Duration
10/2017 - 09/2026 Funding
Several donors
2 200 000 €

The aim of the joint project is to provide an institutional base for studies comparing the self-world relations that are reflected in the polytheistic practices of ancient times, with those that crystalize in practices of the contemporary (late) modern period.

Journalists and their audience in the digital age

Project management
PD Dr. Nicole Podschuweit Duration
05/2021 - 04/2024 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
460 000 €

Nicole Podschuweit: The project uses qualitative and quantitative surveys to investigate how reciprocal expectations and their fulfilment or violation influence journalism-audience relations and social developments. Within this framework, the Erfurt sub-project illuminates the perspective of the audience.

KNOWPRO: Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy

Duration
04/2022 - 03/2026

Using Afghanistan and Somalia as case studies, the project examines the peace and security policy knowledge production in Germany and East Africa on participation in interventions in internal wars with military or financial means.

KarAfAs – Cartographies of Africa and Asia

Project management
Several Duration
02/2021 - 01/2023 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
370 000 €

The subject of this indexing are the maps of Africa and Asia published until 1945 - a total of 35,349 map sheets - as a central core holdings of the Perthes Collection preserved by the Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt. The online presentation and permanent storage of the digital copies will take place in the Digital Historical Library Erfurt/Gotha, which is maintained and hosted by the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB). In this way, the maps will be made…

M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies "Metamorphoses of the Political" (ICAS-MP)

Project management
Several Duration
08/2015 - 06/2024

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.

Media Systems and Communication Cultures in Indonesia

Project management
Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez Duration
06/2015 - 12/2017 Funding
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD):
100 000 €

Kai Hafez: In the context of globalization, it makes sense to do research on structural similarities and differences of media systems extending it beyond the usual nationally oriented comparative media systems research. In different regions of the world, transformations often take place with a time lag and a shift in context, but they are similar in structure. The aim of the project is to increase the theoretical and prognostic quality with regard to the participating media systems by means of…

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…

Optimization with In-process Evaluation of the MMR Decision Support in the Online Service "impfen-info.de" of the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA)

Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
09/2015 - 04/2016 Funding
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA):
41 000 €

In this project, the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella vaccination) decision aid is revised according to the scientific standards of the International Patient Decision Aid Collaboration and tested experimentally in laboratory studies. A special focus of the revision is on providing accurate risk information and reducing reactance, i.e. the feeling of being restricted in one's freedom of choice. The aim is to enable users to make a neutral decision process that reflects their individual…

People Pictures Universal

Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Patrick Rössler Duration
04/2016 - 10/2017 Funding
Kulturstiftung des Bundes:
150 000 €

Patrick Rössler: At the turn of the 20th century, a globalized world view is establishing itself, creating the new images and new information paths that are the focus of this project. Whether the world language Esperanto or the pictogram as a building block of a global language: the complexity of social processes is countered by a search for simple orders and orientation, which also creates a new world of pictures in design and composition.

Politics and the Future of Work in Middle-Income Countries (PolDigWork). How Hopes and Fears about Digitalization Shape Opinions on Social and Labour Policies

Project management
Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling Duration
10/2022 - 10/2025 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
716 027 €

The project looks at the social and political impact of digitalization and automation for labour markets in selected middle-income countries. For three years, a team will employ a mixed methods approach with an original survey component combined with social network analysis as well as case studies from Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia.

Politiken der Wahrheit. Erfurter Forschungsstelle für politische Epistemologien

Project management
Several Duration
01/2023 - 03/2025 Funding
Several donors
349 000 €

The research centre aims to address questions of the political configuration of knowledge and its basic parameters, in particular the social effects of the politics of truth. Institutionally, the research centre serves as a continuation of the university's internally funded research group "Praxeologies of Truth", the networking of corresponding basic research in the humanities and social sciences and a coordinated acquisition of third-party funding.

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…

Research Network External Democracy Promotion (EDP)

Project management
Prof. Dr. Solveig Richter Duration
07/2015 - 06/2018 Funding
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft:
24 000 €

Solveig Richter: The research network 'External Democracy Promotion' (EDP) brings together political scientists from Germany who work at the interface between international relations and comparative political science. Our common interest lies in the area of cross-border activities of states, non-state actors and international organisations working to establish, improve or defend democracy in third countries. The EDP Network is a collaborative project of six partner institutions: the two Leibniz…

Science and Orthodox Christianity around the World (SOW)

Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios N. Makrides Duration
01/2016 - 12/2019

Vasilios N. Makrides: The Project SOW - Science & Orthodoxy around the World focuses on the dialogue between science and religion in the Orthodox Christian world. More than 50 specialists from 15 countries participate from various academic fields such as Science, Philosophy, History, Theology and Education.

Structure and Conditions of Origin of Reporting on Latin America in the German Press

Project management
Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez Duration
10/2014 - 09/2018

Kai Hafez: The aim of this work is to examine the structural characteristics of Latin American foreign reporting and its news factors, as well as different levels and aspects of the conditions under which it is produced. For this purpose, a multi-method design was developed that combines quantitative and qualitative content analysis.

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 Enlightenment. …

Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

Project management
Dr. Ned Richardson-Little Duration
10/2021 - 09/2025 Funding
VolkswagenStiftung:
376 360 €

Sub-project of Dr. Ned Richardson-Little within the international project "Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives", based at the University of Jena and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within the framework of the funding programme "Challenges for Europe".

Trust and Mistrust in Early Eighteenth Century International Political Thought, 1713–1763

Duration
09/2016 - 08/2017 :
1 416 000 €

Peter Schröder: My project builds on my previous work Trust in Early Modern International Political Thought, 1598–1713 (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in spring 2017) to explore the role of trust and mistrust between European states in the emergence of international political thought through the first half of the 18th century, from the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 to the Peace of Paris in 1763.

Voluntariness and Repatriation. Transnational Processes of Remigration and Repatriation (1960–2000)

Project management
Dr. Florian Wagner Duration
10/2020 - 09/2023

Subproject of the research group "Voluntariness". This subproject investigates the interactions between principles and practices of voluntariness in transnational migration processes between the 1960s and 2000. These interactions are analyzed in light of the remigration and repatriation of labor migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees, chiefly from the Global North to the Global South. I argue that from the 1960s on, a repatriation regime emerged that sought to legitimize its practices by…

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