in den Kulturwissenschaften

TRR 318 - Subproject IRG PB - Developing a symmetric mental models approach

Duration: 11/2023 - 10/2026

World War Two and its (un-)profitability

The project focuses on historical narratives as they are depicted on YouTube. YouTube is a so-called attention-economy as its core asset is the attention of its audience, which they in turn sell to advertisers. This project aims to shed light on the production conditions and setting, how the necessity for selling a (historical) product shapes these ...

Duration: 11/2023 - 10/2026

Constructing facticity: How underdetermination drives communication for special purposes

The research project aims at investigating dynamic processes of exchange and oscillation between psychiatric and legal communication from the 19th to the 20th century in order to get a hold of the resulting constructions of factuality. In doing so, the focus will be on the behavioral problems referred to as dissocial personality disorders in ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 09/2026

Funded by: DFG

Contact: PD Dr. Friedrich Markewitz

Jugend im Blick. Die Prozessierung von Entwicklungsbeobachtung und -begleitung im Kontext schulischer Berufsorientierung (JuiB)

Das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft finanzierte Projekt „Jugend im Blick. Die Prozessierung von Entwicklungsbeobachtung und -begleitung im Kontext schulischer Berufsorientierung (JuiB)“ unter der gemeinsamen Leitung von Prof. Dr. Marc Thielen (Leibniz Universität Hannover) und Dr. Stephan Dahmen (Universität Paderborn) untersucht, wie ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 09/2026

Funded by: DFG

Systematic Development of an Open Access Culture at the University - a Development-Oriented Empirical Case Study

The University of Paderborn already has good conditions for Open Access publishing, organized by the University Library. The research project 'OASE' aims to assess the current status of the university's Open Access Culture (OAC) and to increase its visibility. The aim of the project is to develop measures for the dissemination of OAC through a ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 03/2026

Funded by: BMBF

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister

British Forces in Germany. The occupation and the stationing of troops in a transnational perspective

The research project examines the social and cultural impact of the stationing of British troops in north-western Germany over the period of three generations on both the approximately two million members of the Armed Forces and the local population. Whereas historical research has mostly concentrated on American impacts on social and cultural ...

Duration: 03/2020 - 01/2025

Funded by: DFG

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

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

Musical Communities in the (Post-)Digital Age - Teilprojekt Paderborn (MusCoDA-TPP)

MusCoDA untersucht Songwriting-Prozesse als Beispiel kollektiver Kreativität in (post-)digitalen Gemeinschaften. Im Fokus des Teilprojekts an der Universität Paderborn stehen informelle Bands und Solomusiker:innen, während das Erfurter Teilprojekt Songwriting an Schulen in den Blick nimmt. Dabei werden kollaboratives und kooperatives Lernen in ...

Duration: 12/2020 - 11/2024

Funded by: BMBF

Contact: Timo Neuhausen, M.Ed.

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

INDIGO

The project “ Indigo – interkulturelle digitale Germanistik ohne Grenzen ” was initiated with a focus on research-based learning and the promotion of young talent at the interface between graduation and doctorate in 2021. An essential part of the project is the Indigo homepage. A platform is being created here that links all projects in ...

Duration: 09/2020 - 12/2024

Funded by: DAAD

Historical-critical digital edition of the manuscript version of Émilie Du Châtelet's Institutions de physique (Ms 12.265)

The Genesis of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique:From the Paris Manuscript (1738–40) to the Printed Editions (1740, 1742)The online edition can be read here.It is widely agreed that in the Institutions de Physique, Du Châtelet innovatively combines metaphysics and physics, creating a work that is not merely a textbook on natural ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2024

Funded by: DFG

INDIGO

The project “ Indigo – interkulturelle digitale Germanistik ohne Grenzen ” was initiated with a focus on research-based learning and the promotion of young talent at the interface between graduation and doctorate in 2021. An essential part of the project is the Indigo homepage. A platform is being created here that links all projects in ...

Duration: 09/2020 - 12/2024

Funded by: DAAD

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

Federal State Office for Intangible Cultural Heritage, North Rhine-Westphalia

Intangible cultural heritage includes customs, rituals, festivities, performing arts, oral expressions, knowledge and skills that are passed down from generation to generation and evoke feelings of identity, continuity and community. In 2013, the Federal Republic of Germany ratified the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible ...

Duration: 12/2015 - 12/2024

Funded by: MKW NRW

Contact: Jonas Leineweber