in den Kulturwissenschaften

Foundations for a New Afghan Social Contract

This project searches for answers to the question of what holds the Afghan people together, after more than four decades of conflict.The Taliban’s rise to power in August 2021 wiped away Afghanistan’s fragile social contract. Conflicts around ethnicity, tradition, religion, women’s rights, and many other issues create deep rifts in the society, and ...

Duration: 09/2022 - 12/2023

Fictional Historical Narratives during the Spanish Civil War

The dissertation project deals with fictional historical narratives from the Spanish Civil War. In this conflict, which is also referred to as the first media war in history, spanish and international intellectuals of all political hues took part in different manners. A considerable part of these actors published narrations during or immediately ...

Duration: 09/2022 - 09/2025

diMaG

The magazine “diMaG”, which is managed by five editors from international locations (Paderborn, Istanbul, Athens, Tunis, Kara), is particularly a forum for promoting young talent. Master-Students and doctoral candidates from all partner universities are explicitly encouraged to participate. diMaG appears once a year only digitally on the INDIGO ...

Duration: 08/2022 - 12/2024

SAIL: SustAInable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems

Current systems that incorporate AI technology mainly target the introduction phase, where a core component is training and adaptation of AI models based on given example data. SAIL’s focus on the full life-cycle moves the current emphasis towards sustainable long-term development in real life. The joint project SAIL addresses both basic research ...

Duration: 08/2022 - 07/2026

Datenraum Kultur

For those interested in culture who are looking for interesting events, the networking of cultural platforms provides easy access to comprehensive information in the context of the event including further offers (e.g., booking system, gastronomy, hotel industry, mobility) as well as data-based recommendations through data aggregation, ...

Duration: 07/2022 - 02/2025

Contact: Prof. Dr. Daniel Beverungen, Prof. Dr. Dennis Kundisch, Prof. Dr. Oliver Müller, Dr. Simon Oberthür, Dr. Philipp zur Heiden

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 - 12/2028

Contact: Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay, Daniel Röwenstrunk

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

International Cultural History of Tax Morale

The „Suisse Secrets“ show it just like the „Paradise“ and the „Panama Papers“: dishonest tax payment is increasingly perceived as a problem in the public consciousness and is scandalised. Because taxes could help to distribute the costs of the current Covid, Ukraine and climate crises fairly across society and prevent a further widening of the ...

Duration: 03/2018 - 12/2025

Contact: 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

PIK - Paderborn Perspectives on Inclusion - interdisciplinary, discursive, practice-oriented - Colloquia, Kolleg & Fireside Chats

Duration: 04/2023 - 03/2026

Contact: Dr. Stefanie Aschhoff-Hartmann, Annchristin Ellersiek

Evaluation DigitalPakt Schule

Duration: 01/2023 - 12/2026

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

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

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

German Studies Partnership „Tunis – Carthage – Jendouba – Paderborn: Innovative German Studies in Tunisia“

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is funding the German Language, Literature and Culture: Institutional Partnership (GIP) between the Institute of German and Comparative Literature at Paderborn University and the Tunisian universities of Carthage (Tunis), Jendouba and La Manouba as part of the ‘Institutional Partnerships Worldwide ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2027

Das Anthropozän in der Diskussion

Aber was genau meint dieser Begriff überhaupt? Wo kommt er her? Welchen Erkenntnisgewinn birgt er? Braucht man dieses Wort überhaupt? Und wenn ja, seit wann kann man vom Anthropozän sprechen? Wer hat das Anthropozän verursacht? Wer ist davon besonders betroffen? Welche Macht hat die „Natur“ im Anthropozän…und welche Verantwortung der Mensch?

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Duration: 10/2019 - 03/2020

Postcards Edition I-VI of Art Practice (Painting/Graphics)

Postkarten zu drucken, war schon immer kostengünstig. In hohen Auflagen produziert, erreichen sie ein großes Publikum. Ab den 1960er- Jahren nutzten Künstler:innen des Fluxus, der Mail Art oder der Konzeptkunst dieses Medium gerne, um über Länder- und Systemgrenzen hinaus subversiv und demokratisch zu kommunizieren. Sie teilten ihre Inhalte oder ...

Duration: 04/2019 - 04/2023

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 - 04/2025

Contact: Jonas Leineweber

Silogespräche

Die SILOGESPRÄCHE wurden 2007 ins Leben gerufen und bieten unter wechselnden Fragestellungen ein Forum für künstlerische, kunstwissenschaftliche und kunstpädagogische Auseinandersetzungen. Mit Vorträgen, Diskussionen und Künstlergesprächen öffnet sich das Fach Kunst dem universitären Diskurs und einer interessierten Öffentlichkeit.

Duration: 01/2007 - 12/2026