in den Kulturwissenschaften

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

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

The alien tree? Forest experiments and co-construction of alterity in Spain and Germany in the long 19th Century

One of the Prussian state's largest research investments at the end of the 19th century concerned not coal and steel, but wood and trees. In 1880, at the behest of Otto von Bismarck, large-scale experiments with so-called "foreign trees" began. In a cultural history of technology and environmental history inspired by the digital humanities, the ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 10/2028

Das Verhältnis der Prinzipien des Wissens zur Hypothesentheorie in Émilie Du Châtelet

Das Ziel des Projektes ist es, den Zusammenhang von Du Châtelets Hypothesentheorie mit ihrem Verständnis der Prinzipien des Wissens darzulegen und die Grundzüge ihrer Wissenschaftstheorie, die sich in diesem Zusammenhang zeigen, historisch einzuordnen. Damit soll zum einen die Auffassung der geschichtlichen Entwicklung der Wissenschaftstheorie im ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 06/2024

Funded by: DFG

Dance/Music digital

Projektziel von Tanz/Musik digital ist es, eine Editionsmethode zu entwickeln, mit der die Informationen der vielgestaltigen Quellen zum Tanz – ikonographische Dokumente, Musikalien, Schauspiel- und Rhetorikschulen, Archivdokumente – in einem umfassenden multimodalen Strukturmodell digital verknüpft werden können. In Hinblick auf den Tanz werden ...

Duration: 09/2023 - 08/2026

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay, Vera Grund

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

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

NRW Research College Work 4.0: Design of flexible working environments - People-centered use of cyber-physical systems in Industry 4.0

For production companies, the transition to Industry 4.0 opens up great opportunities for modernization and the associated increase in the efficiency of production processes. In addition to the still largely existing technical challenges involved in developing such systems, the role of employees throughout the entire value chain is undergoing ...

Duration: 08/2014 - 12/2022

Funded by: MKW NRW

Contact: Prof. Dr. Gregor Engels, Prof. Dr. Martin Schneider, Prof. Dr. Eckhard Steffen, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu, Prof. Dr. Christian Harteis, Prof. Dr. Iris Gräßler, Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden, Anja-Kristin Abendroth, Martin Diewald, Stefan Kopp, Günter W. Maier, Frank Ulrich Rückert, Britta Wrede