Research projects

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A Physio Centric Foundation of Law - With Latin American Buen Vivir on the Way to a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nature?

Project management
Dr. Stefan Knauß Duration
07/2017 - 04/2021 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
267 228 €

The project explores the provocative claim that we do not only have the obligation to protect nature but to consider nature as a subject of rights on its own.

Annexations and Secessions in the Age of the Global Cold War

Project management
Dr. Christian Methfessel Duration
10/2018 - 09/2021 Funding
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung:
236 000 €

Christian Methfessel: International borders were surprisingly stable during the Cold War. The project seeks to analyze the reasons for that stability by examining selected territorial conflicts in Africa and South Asia.

Bio-economic Power in Global Supply Chains: Approaches, Impacts and Perspectives on Certification and Due Diligence for Biogenic Mass Raw Materials (Bio-Power)

Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch Duration
01/2017 - 12/2020 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
890 000 €

Lena Partzsch: The overall objective of the project is to formulate recommendations for action regarding the possibilities and limits of corporate due diligence and certification systems in the global value chains of biogenic mass raw materials.

Black and Deaf Western Missionaries and Deaf Education in Ghana and Nigeria: The Story of Berta and Andrew Foster - A Case Study in Global History

Project management
PD Dr. Anja Werner Duration
07/2022 - 06/2025 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
356 650 €

Anja Werner: I examine deaf missionaries Andrew and Berta Foster, who starting in 1957 founded more than 30 schools and churches for the deaf in thirteen African countries.

COSMO – COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring

Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
03/2020 - 04/2022 Funding
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA):
431 002 €

The aim of the project is to repeatedly gain insight into how the population perceives the Corona pandemic, how the "psychological situation" is emerging. This should make it easier to orient communication measures and reporting in such a way as to offer the population correct, helpful knowledge and prevent misinformation and actionism. For example, an attempt should also be made to classify behaviour that is strongly discussed in the media.

Cartographic sources and territorial transformations of Ethiopia since the late 18th century - ETHIOMAP

Project management
Prof. Dr. Iris Schröder Duration
01/2016 - 01/2019 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
106 000 €

The research project consists of two partner projects which are being carried out in parallel in France (funded by the ANR) and in Germany (funded by the DFG). The aim of the research project is the systematic collection, classification and analysis of historical maps from and about Ethiopia, which are often unknown in Ethiopian research.

Charts - Oceans

Project management
Several Duration
07/2018 - 04/2022 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
1 100 000 €

Iris Schröder & Felix Schürmann: Maps have hitherto led a marginal existence in the history of globalization. Sea and ocean charts receive even less attention, despite their unique visualization of maritime spaces and their inherent global connections. The aim of the joint project is to use sea and ocean charts to tell a little-known story in the period of transformation dating from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.

Cooperation Project "Local Politicization of Global Norms"

Project management
Several Duration
01/2014 - 12/2017 Funding
Several donors
490 000 €

André Brodocz: The project examines the conditions under which egalitarian norms with a global claim to validity (such as human rights, sustainability, rule of law) actually find acceptance.

Disinformation Context and the Emergence of Fact-Checking Organisations in Europe and Latin America

Project management
Several Duration
08/2022 - 07/2025

In her research project, Dr Regina Cazzamatta examines different environments in which disinformation arises and how so-called fact-checking organisations in Europe and Latin America deal with it.

Ecological Conflicts

Project management
Prof. Dr. André Brodocz Duration
05/2023 - 04/2026

The Gerda Henkel Foundation is funding a new research group at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Erfurt with around 240,000 euros until 2026, which will focus on the topic of "Ecological Conflicts".

Establishment of a cross-university "Scientific Coordination Unit for Dealing with the Colonial Heritage in Thuringia".

Project management
Prof. Dr. Christiane Kuller Duration
09/2021 - 08/2024 Funding
Several donors
300 000 €

The coordination unit builds on the existing expertise on the topic of "colonial heritage" at the Universities of Erfurt and Jena and aims to network and strengthen activities in the future with regard to research, teaching and social dialogue.

Influenza Vaccine Hesitancy

Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
12/2015 - 08/2016 Funding
World Health Organization (WHO):
23 000 €

The aim of the research project is to identify reasons for influenza vaccine hesitancy in all WHO member states and to identify research gaps to increase vaccination rates in specific risk groups.

JITSUVAX. Jiu-jitsu with misinformation in the age of COVID: Using refutation-based learning to enhance vaccine uptake and knowledge among healthcare professionals and the public.

Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
04/2021 - 03/2025 Funding
Horizon 2020 (EU):
747 584 €

Vaccine hesitancy—the delay or refusal of vaccination without medical indication—has been cited as a serious threat to global health by the World Health Organization (WHO), attributing it to misinformation on the internet. The WHO has also identified Health Care Professionals (HCPs) as the most trusted influencers of vaccination decisions. JITSUVAX leverages those insights to turn toxic misinformation into a potential asset.

Kolleg-Research Group "Religion and Urbanity"

Project management
Several Duration
10/2018 - 09/2026 Funding
Several donors
10 500 000 €

Susanne Rau & Jörg Rüpke: Cities and religion(s) have had a deep impact on each other. Up to now, research has focused on religion in cities - on the reciprocal changes in religious practices and urban space, at best in "global cities" and in the present. We want to fill the research gap that has arisen in this way by investigating the historical depth of the reciprocal formation within the framework of a collegiate research group.

M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies "Metamorphoses of the Political" (ICAS-MP)

Project management
Several Duration
08/2015 - 06/2027 Funding
Several donors
380 519 €

Martin Fuchs: ICAS-MP combines the benefits of an open, interdisciplinary forum for intellectual exchange with the advantages of a cutting-edge research centre. The centre focuses on key political processes that have emerged in parallel in many parts of the world during the twentieth century through to the present day, processes that are entangled yet heterogeneous.

Media Systems and Communication Cultures in Indonesia

Project management
Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez Duration
06/2015 - 12/2017 Funding
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD):
100 000 €

Kai Hafez: In the context of globalization, it makes sense to do research on structural similarities and differences of media systems extending it beyond the usual nationally oriented comparative media systems research. In different regions of the world, transformations often take place with a time lag and a shift in context, but they are similar in structure. The aim of the project is to increase the theoretical and prognostic quality with regard to the participating media systems by means of…

NFDI4memory

Project management
Several Duration
03/2023 - 02/2028

The research institutions located on the Gotha Research Campus of the University of Erfurt - Gotha Research Library and Gotha Research Centre as well as the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection - are participating together with other partners in the so-called NFDI-4Memory consortium led by the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG) in Mainz. 4Memory is one of several consortia in Germany that are working together to build a long-term and sustainable National Research Data…

Nutrition, Health and Modern Society: Germany and the United States

Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
10/2015 - 10/2018 Funding
VolkswagenStiftung:
1 000 000 €

The research project aims to work out the significance of nutrition and health for the order of modern societies from the 19th century to the present. The empirical focus is on the USA and Germany, so that regional differences as well as the dynamics of interdependence in globalizing constellations become apparent.

On the Narrative Trail of Refugees: Refugee Stories in German Literature and Culture in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Project management
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Struck Duration
10/2015 - 03/2017 Funding
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD):
140 000 €

Charlton Payne: The study closely inspects the speciﬁc narratives that have formed around the ﬁgure of the refugee over the course of the twentieth century.

People Pictures Universal

Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Patrick Rössler Duration
04/2016 - 10/2017 Funding
Kulturstiftung des Bundes:
150 000 €

Patrick Rössler: At the turn of the 20th century, a globalized world view is establishing itself, creating the new images and new information paths that are the focus of this project. Whether the world language Esperanto or the pictogram as a building block of a global language: the complexity of social processes is countered by a search for simple orders and orientation, which also creates a new world of pictures in design and composition.

Politics of Plunder

Duration
09/2016 - 08/2017 :
1 415 998 €

Kornelia Kończal: Around the end of the Second World War two processes dramatically changed the socio-economic landscape of East Central Europe: the expulsion of up to twelve million Germans and the establishment of a new social order inspired by the Soviet model. This project is an inquiry into the interconnectedness between these apparently distinct histories.

Science and Orthodox Christianity around the World (SOW)

Project management
Prof. Dr. Vasilios N. Makrides Duration
01/2016 - 12/2019

Vasilios N. Makrides: The Project SOW - Science & Orthodoxy around the World focuses on the dialogue between science and religion in the Orthodox Christian world. More than 50 specialists from 15 countries participate from various academic fields such as Science, Philosophy, History, Theology and Education.

Social Justice under the Condition of Scarcity- social-ethical research on the future of social security in Germany on the condition of controlled and uncontrolled migration

Project management
Prof. Dr. Elke Mack Duration
01/2016 - 12/2019 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
344 000 €

Elke Mack: With reference to the newer philosophical and Christian-ethical debate on immigration, a set of ethical criteria will be developed, which spell out when, to what extent and in which form the admission of immigrants in western welfare states like Germany is a universal obligation, normatively just and ethical, while at the same time considering the limited capacities of national social institutions.

Structure and Conditions of Origin of Reporting on Latin America in the German Press

Project management
Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez Duration
10/2014 - 09/2018

Kai Hafez: The aim of this work is to examine the structural characteristics of Latin American foreign reporting and its news factors, as well as different levels and aspects of the conditions under which it is produced. For this purpose, a multi-method design was developed that combines quantitative and qualitative content analysis.

Voluntariness and Decolonization. The Regulation of Labor in (Post-)Colonial Ghana

Project management
Prof. Dr. Iris Schröder Duration
10/2020 - 09/2023

Subproject in the research group "Voluntariness". This subproject focuses on voluntariness during an era of decolonization and thus on a political principle of (post-)colonial governance. Drawing on the case of the British Gold Coast/Ghana, we explore how voluntary action shaped the political and social order during the transition from late colonial “indirect rule” to independence, while examining how voluntariness became a political and social norm and resource. Our key focus is on the…

Voluntariness and Repatriation. Transnational Processes of Remigration and Repatriation (1960–2000)

Project management
Dr. Florian Wagner Duration
10/2020 - 09/2023

Subproject of the research group "Voluntariness". This subproject investigates the interactions between principles and practices of voluntariness in transnational migration processes between the 1960s and 2000. These interactions are analyzed in light of the remigration and repatriation of labor migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees, chiefly from the Global North to the Global South. I argue that from the 1960s on, a repatriation regime emerged that sought to legitimize its practices by…

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