Förderung der Forschungsvielfalt durch zentrale Initiativen und starke Unterstützung
Unsere Fakultät trägt maßgeblich den SFB/Transregio "Constructing Explainability". Zudem decken wir eine breite Palette von Forschungsthemen ab, die Unterstützung von verschiedenen Drittmittelgebern erhalten. Besonders unsere Zentren bündeln die Forschungsaktivitäten.
Projekte der Kulturwissenschaften
Popular Cultures in Latin America: Analog and Digital
Ein wichtiger Bereich des deutsch-lateinamerikanische Kulturaustauschs findet, wenn auch in erster Linie einseitig, im Bereich der Populärkulturen statt. In Deutschland bestimmt die Rezeption verschiedener popkultureller Kulturbereiche maßgeblich die Wahrnehmung des Kontinents Lateinamerika. Zugleich werden in schulischen Kontexten Themenfelder ...
Duration: 10/2024 - 12/2029
Funded by: Universidad de Caldas
The Return of Resentment? Stereotypes in the Media, Cultural Philosophy and Literature
The conference project at the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf aims to take a closer look at the connections and interrelationships between stereotyping and resentment, analysing both as figures of thought and in their visual and literary modelling. This raises questions about the media, political, historical and discursive conditions of the ...
Duration: 09/2024 - 09/2024
Funded by: MWFK
Skulptur – Materialität, Konzeption, Technik" - Kunstpädagogischer Workshoptag
Zeichnen, malen … und dann noch irgendwas aus dem Bereich SkulpturProzesse der Öffnung betreffen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst alle traditionellen Kunstgattungen und dennoch scheint im Bereich der Skulptur das Feld besonders unübersichtlich zu sein. Wo beginnen, welches Material eignet sich, was soll dargestellt werden und wie lassen sich neue ...
Duration: 09/2024 - 09/2024
Funded by: Landesverband NRW im BDK e.V. - Fachverband für Kunstpädagogik NRW
Guilt and Atonement? – Remembrance Policies and Societal Change in Polis Traditions of Late Archaic and Classical Greece
This project focuses on the Greek historiography of the late Archaic and Classical period and the specific methods the ancient authors developed to assign to or dismiss guilt from specific individuals or groups regarding certain societal changes as well as the underlying rembrance policies. Firstly, the works of Herodotus, Thukydides and Xenophon ...
Duration: 09/2024 - 08/2027
ERC SYNERGY GRANT PROJECT: Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling
Artificial cooling fundamentally shapes the world we live in. Since the onset of the Cold War, cooling and freezing technologies have become increasingly vital for a wide array of everyday practices, from nutrition, health and reproduction to dwelling, telecommunication, scientific research and economic productivity. A global system of cold ...
Duration: 09/2024 - 08/2030
Funded by: EU
Contact: Dr. Gunnar Schomaker, PD Dr. Lisa Knoll, Dr. Martin Schmitt
Aktuelle DFG-geförderte Projekte der Kulturwissenschaften
TRR 318 - Subproject B6 - Ethics and normativity of explainable AI
Research on explaining and explainability needs ethical reflection, because explanations can be used to manipulate users or to create acceptance for a technology that is ethically or legally unacceptable. Moreover, designing explainability to meet ethical demands (e.g., justifiability, accountability, autonomy) must not necessarily be in line with ...
Duration: 07/2023 - 12/2025
Funded by: DFG
Computational Support for Learning Argumentative Writing in Digital School Education
In dem interdisziplinären DFG-Projekt „Computational Support for Learning Argumentative Writing in Digital School Education“ werden algorithmische Methoden für die automatische Analyse argumentativer Lernertexte entwickelt. Ziel ist es, auf dieser Grundlage computerbasiertes entwicklungsorientiertes und lernersensitives Feedback zur Struktur der a
Duration: 01/2022 - 06/2025
Funded by: DFG
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
Aktuelle BMBF-geförderte Projekte der Kulturwissenschaften
schultransformNEXT
Das ProjektDas Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt zum Aufbau einer Plattform für eine nachhaltige, chancengerechte, partizipative Schultransformation „SchultransformNEXT“ wird gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) und gemeinsam von Helliwood media & education und dem Bündnis für Bildung umgesetzt.Die ...
Duration: 10/2023 - 09/2026
Funded by: BMBF
Digital Leadership & Communication and Cooperation Development
The project “LeadCom – Digital Leadership & Communication and Cooperation Development” is part of the BMBF/NextGenerationEU-funded competence center “School Development” in the competence network “lernen:digital”. In collaboration with eleven universities, numerous schools and transfer partners, the LeadCom project is developing and implementing ...
Duration: 08/2023 - 03/2026
Funded by: EU, BMBF
Contact: Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister
KuMuS-ProNeD - Professional Networks for Promoting Adaptive, Action-Oriented, Digital Innovations in Teacher Education in the Fields of Art, Music, and Sports
Post-performative music practices in post-digital learning and educational culture (sub-project Paderborn)Music Beyond Live PerformanceSince the invention of the gramophone, there has existed music that cannot or should not be performed live. Examples include music production in (digital) recording studios, film scores, music videos, techno, ...
Duration: 07/2023 - 02/2026
Funded by: BMBF
ClimFiSoc - Klimafinanzierung in der mittelständischen Industrie, Teilprojekt im Verbundprojekt Climate Finance Society (ClimFiSoc)
Das Verbundforschungsprojekt ClimFiSoc | Climate Finance Society - Die institutionellen Logiken der Klimafinanzierung untersucht die Perspektiven, Anreize und Restriktionen unterschiedlicher Akteure der Klimafinanzierung, um Möglichkeiten für eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Agenda zu ermitteln. Auf der Grundlage von qualitativen und quantitativen ...
Duration: 11/2022 - 10/2025
Funded by: BMBF
Transferprojekte der Kulturwissenschaften
Intermezzo #6: Woodcuts
The Kunstmuseum Marstall shows woodcuts from the city's art collection and works by students at the University of Paderborn. A temporary printing workshop will be set up next to the exhibition.
Duration: 03/2024 - 05/2024
L:IKE - Intangible cultural heritage learning workshop for school education in NRW
On behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Chair for Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage is researching how intangible cultural heritage can be taught, discussed and reflected on from different subject perspectives in school lessons.In dialogue with the Ministry of Schools and ...
Duration: 11/2023 - 12/2025
Funded by: MKW NRW
Contact: Jonas Leineweber
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
OPEN Edirom
OPEN Edirom is a pilot project carried out at the KreativInstitut.OWL in cooperation with the Center for Music - Edition - Media (ZenMEM) of the University of Paderborn, the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, and NFDI4Culture. A stable and reusable workflow for open data publication and presentation of complex music philological data is ...
Duration: 07/2023 - 08/2024
Funded by: MWIKE NRW, Bezirksregierung Detmold
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.
Prodekanin für Forschung, akademische Karrieren und Wissenstransfer
Prof. Dr. Britt-Marie Schuster
Faculty of Arts and Humanities » Dekanat Kulturwissenschaften
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
