DHI Warschau
Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities 1500-1800
Das von der EU (HERA JRP CE) geförderte Projekt „Marrying
Cultures“ wird den durch dynastische Hochzeiten
europaweit stattfindenden Kulturtransfer anhand von
Fallbeispielen, vor allem im nordeuropäischen Raum,
untersuchen, wobei objekt- und sammlungsbezogen sehr
eng mit Museums- und…
DHI Washington
German Restaurants in San Francsico, 1890-1941
In my project, I examine the cultural and social role of food among immigrants from Germany to the San Francisco Bay area during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on the hypothesis that food represents a phenomenon in which immigrants construct their ethnicity – understood as…
OI Beirut
Knowledge Production in Postproduction Studies at Egyptian Universities. Conditions and Modalities
This project aims at exploring the ways in which knowledge, especially at the post-graduate level, is produced and transmitted in Egyptian universities, with a particular focus on the social sciences and humanities. Knowledge is intended here as a broad concept that refers both to the content of the…
DHI Warschau
„Du bist, was du trägst“: Deutsche, polnische und jüdische visuelle Nationalisierung durch Mode im geteilten Polen (1848–1914)
Im Rahmen des Projekts untersuchte die Wissenschaftlerin die Rolle von Mode, Kleidung und äußerem Erscheinungsbild bei der visuellen Ausgestaltung von nationaler Identität bzw. von nationalem Zugehörigkeitsgefühl. Im Zentrum stand die Frage nach den visuellen Ausdrucksformen nationaler Identität…
OI Beirut
Talking about Art: Aesthetic Reflection in Egypt and Lebanon from the 1920s
The project sets out to explore the way art is debated and discussed in various media such as newspapers, magazines and archival material. During the first third of the twentieth century newspapers and magazines began to debate art exhibitions with greater intensity and frequency. As hitherto…
OI Beirut
Mamâlik. Spatial Dynamics of Islamic Polities
The Mamâlik project explores the spatiality of state and society during the Islamic Middle Period as a dynamism. Sharing a productive movement in related humanities, geo-spaces are not understood as a given and steady factor that is basically separate from political and social change. Instead it is…
OI Beirut
Historische und moderne Sprachwissenschaft
Erstellung einer ersten kritischen Edition des arabischen Textes von Kashgaris Dīwān Luġāt at-Turk, einem Lexikon der Turksprachen aus dem 11. Jahrhundert.
OI Beirut
Cultural Policies in Lebanon: Cultural Institutions between State and Society
The research project deals with the question of how cultural policies and cultural actors contribute to the creation of a public sphere in Lebanon, by examining the role of different types of institutions involved in cultural and knowledge production. Can cultural institutions play a unifying role…
OI Beirut
Rural Societies in an Age of Urbanisation, 1750 to 1850
The aim of the project is to explore the dynamics of rural-urban relations in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman empire in the period between 1750 and 1850 from the perspective of the “rural”. The period usually counts as a time of profound transformation, in the form of both momentous change and…
DHI Moskau,
DHI Washington
Propaganda, Medienwissen und Kommunikationsforschung im Zeitalter der Extreme: USA, Deutschland, Sowjetunion 1918-1960
In dem Projekt sollen die Verwissenschaftlichung des Nachdenkens über Massenkommunikation und Politik und die Beziehungen zwischen staatlicher Kommunikationspolitik und wissenschaftlicher Kommunikationsforschung vom Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges bis in die Anfangszeit des Kalten Krieges untersucht…