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Main areas of research and projects
At present research at the KWI is focused on the overlapping main areas of research of Climate and Culture, Culture of Responsibility, Interculturality and Memory Culture, which in turn are divided into individual research projects. Besides these thematic fields research at the KWI takes place in other projects in the humanities, cultural and social sciences.- Climate and Culture
- Climate Initiative Essen – Action in a new Climate Culture
- Consumer Responsibility - New Consumer Power and Morals
- Memories of Disasters
- Research Training Group: Climate Change and Democracy
- Shifting Baselines
- SPREAD - Scenarios of Perception and Reaction to Adaptation
- Climate Initiative Essen – Action in a new Climate Culture
- DEMOENERGY – The Transformation of the Energy System as the Engine for Democratic Innovations
- A Comparative Study of Discourses of Productivity in European Modernity in Prussia, England, and the Habsburg Empire 1770-1914
- Das Vorrücken des Staats in die Fläche im langen 19. Jahrhundert
- Project: Listening to the Radio and Rational Consumption
- World War II: Everyday Life under German Occupation
- Active Ageing – Migration – Biography
- Culture of Mindfulness
- Migration and Humour. Social Functions and Conversational Potential of Humour and Satire in the Interethnic Relationships in Germany
- Europeanization of National Memory Spaces
- Frames of Reference in War
- Frames of Reference of Help
- Kinder des Weltkrieges
- Perception of War and Collective Biography. Frames of Reference of German Wehrmacht Soldiers 1942-1945
- The Comparative Family History Project
- The Dynamics of Killing
- Understanding Hotel Rwanda
- Autonomy - Latitude of the Self
- Consumer Responsibility - New Consumer Power and Morals
- Integrated CSR management in logistics networks (CoReLo)
- Laboratory Studies in the Context of Musical Arts: Emile Berliner’s Inventions and Music in the Making
- Research Network on EU History
- Spaces - Communities - Representations: Urban Transformations in the USA
- Autonomy - Latitude of the Self
- Change Agents for Climate Protection
- ClimateWorlds: Global (Media) Ethnography
- Collaborative Economics
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Age
- Europa: Emotionen, Identitäten, Politik. Vergleichende Forschungen zu Kultur und Gesellschaft
- Europäischer Kulturdialog
- European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010
- Europeanization of National Memory Spaces
- Frames of Reference in War
- Frames of Reference of Help
- Freedom and Responsibility. Transformation Processes of Liberalism
- Global Young Faculty
- Graduiertenkolleg Interkulturelle Kommunikation – Interkulturelle Kompetenz
- Growing by Shrinking? Rethinking the Paradigm of Growth
- Humanism in the Age of Globalization. An Intercultural Dialogue on Culture, Humanity, and Values
- Identities and Modernities in Europe (IME)
- India and Europe. A Sociological Comparison of Music Cultures
- Indien und Europa. Ein musiksoziologischer Kulturvergleich
- Intercultural Contact Zones. Patterns of social order in handling the consequences of migration. A comparison of Japan, China, Singapore and Germany
- Intercultural Understanding and Transcultural Identity Work in Global Workplaces: Indo-German Flight Attendant Teams
- Intercultural Understanding in Schools in the Ruhr Region
- International Summer Academy 2006
- Islamic Culture - Modern Society
- J.G. Droysens Historik - Fortsetzung der kritischen Edition
- Kinder des Weltkrieges
- New Thinking on Alienation
- NRW and Poland in Dialogue
- NRW Förderprogramm: Geisteswissenschaften gestalten Zukunftsperspektiven!
- Perception of War and Collective Biography. Frames of Reference of German Wehrmacht Soldiers 1942-1945
- Perspektiven der Verantwortungsgesellschaft
- Philhellenism, Philellenistic art and the European idea in the first half of the 19th century. Examining an early form of European integration
- Religion in International Politics
- Social Precarization and Right-Wing Extremism
- The Comparative Family History Project
- The Cultural Potential of Cities and Regions in Europe
- The Dynamics of Killing
- Understanding Hotel Rwanda
- Understanding Pupils. Improvisation about Interculturality
- Was ist der Mensch?
- Was macht eine Lebensform human?