in den Kulturwissenschaften

TRR 318 - Constructing Explainability

In unserer digitalen Gesellschaft nehmen die algorithmischen Ansätze (wie das maschinelle Lernen) rasant an Komplexität zu. Diese erschwert es den Bürger:innen, die Assistenz nachzuvollziehen und die von Algorithmen vorgeschlagenen Entscheidungen zu akzeptieren. Als Antwort auf diese gesellschaftliche Herausforderung hat die Forschung begonnen, ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

TRR 318 - Adaptive Explanation Generation (Subproject A01)

While explaining something, people generally take their conversation partner’s reactions into account and adapt their explanation accordingly. In Project A01, researchers from linguistics, psychology, and computer science are studying two components of this adjustment: cognitive adaptivity and interactive adaptivity. In cognitive adaptivity, the ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

TRR 318 - Monitoring the understanding of explanations (Subproject A02)

When something is being explained to someone, the explainee signals their understanding – or lack thereof – to the explainer with verbal expressions and other non-verbal means of communication, such as gestures and facial expressions. By nodding, the explainee can signal that they have understood. Nodding, however, can also be meant as a request to ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

TRR 318 - Integrating the technical model into the partner model in explanations of digital artifacts (Subproject A04)

Project A04 investigates the different perspectives on the contents of explanations, i.e. what an explanation is about, and how they may change in the course of an explanatory interactive dialogue. An explanation about a technical artifact (which might be a hammer as well as a digital game) can encompass two different perspectives: On the one hand, ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

TRR 318 - Contextualized and online parametrization of attention in human–robot explanatory dialog (Subproject A05)

In Project A05, researchers from the areas of linguistics, psychology, and computer science are investigating attention in human-robot explanatory dialog. They are addressing questions including: where do humans focus their attention when a robot explains a task to them? How can robots direct their counterpart’s attention to achieve the goal of the ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

Administrative project (Z)

The general administrative Project Z will contribute to the success of the TRR in three ways: First, it will administer both the budgeting and organization of the TRR. Second, it will co-organize the TRR workshops and conferences. Third, it will monitor the TRR’s output and evaluate the efficiency of its internal structure, also with regard to the ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: DFG

NFDI4Culture – Consortium für Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage

We establish a needs-based infrastructure for research data ranging from architecture, art history and musicology to theatre, dance, film and media studies. NFDI4Culture is a part of the National Research Data Infrastructure NFDI.

Duration: 09/2020 - 08/2025

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Daniel Röwenstrunk, Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay

The right to conquer - Legitimising Conquests in the early and high Middle Ages

Conquests required legitimation. This project aims to show that this is also true for the earlier Middle Ages (c. 500 - c. 1150), thus refuting the prevailing scholarly views on this issue. By demonstrating that the military expansion of rule required justification this work is poised to make significant contributions to the study of the concept of ...

Duration: 01/2019 - 12/2025

Funded by: DFG

International Cultural History of Tax Morale

The project investigates discourses about (honest) tax payment behaviour in different societies (West Germany, Spain, and the USA) between the 1940s and the 1980s. The aim is to analyse the change of norms of tax payment behaviour.

Duration: 03/2018 - 12/2025

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Annette Zaloudek, Prof. Dr. Korinna Schönhärl

Resistance against foreign rulers in the high and late Middle Ages. On ethnic and nationall identity formation in medieval conflicts

The primary aim of the project is to systematically analyse resistance to foreign rulers and thus the effects of foreign rule in the high and late Middle Ages by means of a comprehensive comparison of individual conflicts and to identify the conditions under which foreign rule productively promoted the formation of new identities. On this basis, it ...

Duration: 08/2011 - 12/2026

Funded by: DFG

Sprachliche Teilhabe in der Pflegeausbildung stärken (STePs) – schulische und pflegerische Praxis als Lerngelegenheit

STePs verfolgt als interdisziplinäres Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt der Pflege- und Deutsch-als-Zweitsprache-Forschung/-Didaktik das Ziel, die sprachliche Teilhabe insbesondere migrationsbedingt mehrsprachiger Pflegeauszubildender an den Lernorten Schule und Praxis zu stärken, um erfolgreiche Ausbildungsverläufe zu ermöglichen. Hintergrund ...

Duration: 10/2022 - 09/2025

Funded by: BMBF

Knowledge transfer to and from quality management of teaching & learning at universities (WiaQM)

Knowledge production is considered a complex process that takes place under uncertainty and requires a high tolerance for ambiguity. This is especially true for quality management (QM) at universities, where research, teaching and administration, i.e. organizational areas with diverging functional logics, have to work closely together. The ...

Duration: 07/2022 - 06/2025

Funded by: BMBF

Meaningful Human Control - Autonomous Weapon Systems between Regulation and Reflexion

The development and application of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) is one of the most pressing problems of international security and peace. Stakeholders from politics, civil society, military, science and academia are debating controversially whether and to what extent the expansion of AI-based mechanized autonomy threatens a loss of human ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 03/2026

Funded by: BMBF

Papstherrschaft im Raumentwurf: Die Architekturbücher Domenico Fontanas (1543–1607) und das Rom Sixtus’ V.

Wer zur allgemeinen Geschichte des europäischen Städtebaus bzw. zur römischen Stadtgeschichte am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts im Speziellen forscht, kommt sowohl an Domenico Fontana (1543–1607) als auch an dessen Architekturbüchern (1590, 1604) nicht vorbei.Bereits in ihrer Konzeption und Ausführung stellen die zwei Bände der Trasportatione ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2025

Funded by: BMBF

International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2023

Mit der international vergleichenden Schulleistungsstudie ICILS 2023 (International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2023) realisiert die IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) nach ICILS 2013 und ICILS 2018 den dritten Zyklus der Studie ICILS. Mithilfe eines international entwickelten und elaborierten ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2026

Funded by: BMBF

SANDD Sub-Saharan Africa DaF digital network

With partners in Augsburg, Kara, Windhoek and Namibia, the project team in the field of German as a Second and Foreign Language at Paderborn University tackles various topics in research and teacher education relating to German as a Foreign Language and the professionalization of German teachers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Duration: 05/2024 - 12/2026

Funded by: DAAD

German Studies Partnership Pader-Akdeniz-Marmara

The partnership between Paderborn University, Akdeniz University Antalya and Marmara University Istanbul in the field of German studies focuses on joint research in the areas of education for sustainable development, global citizen education and tourism from the perspectives of literary studies, linguistics, cultural studies and didactics, with ...

Duration: 01/2024 - 12/2026

Funded by: DAAD

Vielfalt und kulturelles Erbe der Peripherie: Regionale u. orale Kulturen Tunesiens, Marokkos u. Deutschlands – Aufbau eines Netzwerks zwischen universitären u. zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren der betreffenden Regionen zur Etablierung eines Forschungsprojekts

Vielfalt und kulturelles Erbe der Peripherie: Regionale und orale Kulturen Tunesiens, Marokkos und Deutschlands – Aufbau eines Netzwerks zwischen universitären und zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren der betreffenden Regionen zur Etablierung eines gemeinsamen ForschungsprojektsDas Projekt Vielfalt und kulturelles Erbe der Peripherie: Regionale und ...

Duration: 04/2023 - 12/2025

Funded by: DAAD

Joint Project for the Transfer of Comparative Theology into Society

Das Zentrum für Komparative Theologie und Kulturwissenschaften (ZeKK) der Universität Paderborn und das International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues (CTSI) der Universität Bonn bauen ihre bisherigen Kooperationen im Bereich der Komparativen Theologie weiter aus. Der Verbund plant den Aufbau einer Kooperationsplattform für den ...

Duration: 05/2023 - 04/2027

Funded by: MKW NRW

Contact: Sarah Lebock, M.A.

KreativInstitut.OWL

The KreativInstitut.OWL is a network in the context of science, consisting of a university (University of Paderborn), a university of the arts (Detmold University of Music) and a university of applied sciences (Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences). This institution is the only one of its kind in Germany to combine creative skills from ...

Duration: 07/2022 - 12/2026

Funded by: MWIKE NRW, Bezirksregierung Detmold

Nikki Sudden - Kiss at Dawn - Perspectives on and by an Anti-Star

Posthumous multiperspectival book about the much underrated UK indie and underground musician Nikki Sudden (Swell Maps, Jacobites, coops with Dave Kusworth, Epic Soundtracks, Mike Scott, Stephen Duffy, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Mick Taylor, Jeff Tweedy, BJ Cole, Rowland S. Howard, Jeffrey Lee Pierce/Gun Club, Jeremy Gluck, amongst others). This kind of ...

Duration: 09/2021 - 06/2025

Funded by: starfruit publications

Paderpedia.de: Online-Enzyklopädie der Pader und Citizen-Science-Projekt

Das Online-Portal Paderpedia setzt sich zum Ziel, alles Wissenswerte über den kürzesten Fluss Deutschlands in einer Datenbank zusammenzuführen. Es soll als digitaler Ausgangspunkt für eine intensivere Beschäftigung mit der Geschichte und Ökologie der urbanen Flusslandschaft Pader dienen, wobei Sie selbst aktiv werden können. So präsentieren wir ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2027

Funded by: Freunde der Pader e. V.

Schreibcoaches (Kooperationsprojekt mit der Friedrich-Spee-Gesamtschule Paderborn)

Bei dem im Jahr 2020 initiierten Projekt „Schreibcoaches: Studierende in Spee“ handelt es sich um eine Kooperation zwischen der Germanistischen Sprachdidaktik der Universität Paderborn (AG Prof. Dr. Sara Rezat) und der Paderborner Friedrich-Spee-Gesamtschule. Mit dem Projekt ist die Idee verbunden, Schülerinnen und Schüler individuell beim Erwerb ...

Duration: 01/2020 - 12/2030