DFG-Research Unit on "Voluntariness"

Subproject Philosophy (U Oldenburg)

Subproject funding phase one (2020-2024): Antinomies of Voluntariness. Investigating the Foundations of Political Participation from a Socio-Philosophical Perspective
 To project outline
 

Subproject funding phase two (2024-2027): Voluntariness, Democracy, and Climate Policy. A Socio-philosophical Reconstruction To project outline

Principal Investigators:
Prof. Dr. Tilo Wesche
Dr. Philipp Schink

Subproject Medieval History (U Erfurt)

Subproject funding phase one (2020-2024): Martyrdom and Voluntariness in the European High and Late Middle Ages
To project outline

Principal Investigator:    
Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmolinsky

Co-Investigator:    
Markus Dolinsky, M.A.

Subproject North American History (U Erfurt)

Subproject funding phase one (2020-2024): Voluntariness as Political Practice. The Emerging United States and American Citizenship To project outline

Subproject funding phase one (2024-2027): Voluntariness, Self-Care, and Health in the United States around 1865 To project outline

Principal Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat(spokesperson of the research unit)

Co-Investigator funding phase one:
Pia Herzan, M.A.

Co-Investigator funding phase two:
Pauline Fischer, M.A.

Subproject Global History/History of Africa (U Erfurt)

Subproject funding phase one (2020-2024): Voluntariness and Decolonization. The Regulation of Labor in (Post-)Colonial Ghana To project outline

Subproject funding phase two (2024-2027): Voluntariness, Decolonization, and Gender. The Women’s Movement and Citizenship in (Post)Colonial Ghana To project outline

Principal Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Iris Schröder

Co-Investigator funding phase one:
Dr. Carolyn Taratko

Co-Investigator funding phase two:
Gifty Nyame Tabiri, M.P.P.

Subproject Global History/North American History (U Erfurt)

Subproject funding phase two (2024-2027): Voluntariness and the Repatriation of Human Remains from Colonial Contexts (1970-2021) To project ouline

Principal Investigator:
PD Dr. Silvan Niedermeier

Subproject Recent German History/History of the GDR (U Erfurt)

Subproject funding phase one (2020-2024): Voluntariness and Dictatorship. Voluntary participation in the ‘Neuererwesen’ of the German Democratic Republic To project outline

Principal Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Christiane Kuller

Co-Investigator:
Elena M. E. Kiesel, M.A.

Subproject Recent German History/Transnational History (U Erfurt)

Subproject funding phase one (2020-2024): Voluntariness and Repatriation. Transnational Processes of Remigration and Repatriation (1960–2000) To project outline

Subproject funding phase two (2024-2027): oluntariness and Repatriation. Transnational Processes of Remigration and Repatriation (1960–2000)

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Florian Wagner

Subproject Recent German History/History of the GDR/History of Transformation (U Erfurt)

Subproject funding phase two (2024-2027): Voluntariness and Solidarity in the GDR and the Post-socialist Transition (1970-2000) To project outline
 

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Carsta Langner

Subproject Sociology (U Jena)

Subproject funding phase one (2020-2024): Voluntariness and Capitalism. Work, Consumption and Civic Engagement in Times of Digitiziation To project outline

Subproject funding phase two (2024-2027): Voluntariness Behind the Scences. Work and Social Reproduction at the Fraught Interstices of Necessity and Privilege To project outline

Principal Investigators:
Prof. Dr. Silke van Dyk

PD Dr. Stefanie Graefe

Co-Investigator funding phase one:

Dr. Philipp Lorig

Co-Investigator funding phase two:

Lina Sofie Schöne, M.A.

Affliliated Members

Dr. Mara Albrecht

Prof. Dr. Anne Greule

Dr. Maria Framke

Dr. des. Alexander Obermüller

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Oeser (Université Paris-Nanterre) - Mercator-Fellow 2022

Prof. Dr. Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School) - Mercator-Fellow 2023

PD Dr. Felix Krämer

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