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    Comic Literacies Cultural Techniques of Comedy/the Comic

    If you laugh, you possess knowledge – even if it is implicit and difficult to articulate. People will not grin, feel embarrassed, or react with laughter if they are unaware…

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    CryoCultures Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling

    Artificial cooling fundamentally shapes the world we live in. Since the onset of the Cold War, cooling and freezing technologies have become increasingly vital for a wide array of everyday…

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    Cultures. Crises. Classics. The Lars Clausen Edition Project

    “With the onset of catastrophes, […] social routines that were previously strenuously decelerated start to change.” In this quote from the book Krasser sozialer Wandel (1994), sociologist Lars Clausen (1935–2010)…

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    DFG-Projekt: Osteuropäische Live-in Hilfen in häuslichen Versorgungstriaden bei Demenz

    Klicken Sie auf den Link, um mehr über das Forschungsinteresse der Mitarbeiter*innen zu erfahren: Prof. em. Dr. Jo Reichertz   Nadine Giesbrecht M.A.   Roshna Hadi   Alexander Quast  …

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    Ferdinand Tönnies’s Letters A Digital Edition

    Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936) was one of the first German scholars to identify explicitly as a sociologist. His landmark work, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887), became the standard reference for social theory in the…

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    Forschergruppe Visuelle Soziologie

    Die Forschergruppe Visuelle Soziologie besteht seit 2015 als freier Zusammenschluss einschlägig arbeitender Soziologinnen und Soziologen. Die Aktivitäten der Gruppe zielen auf die Entwicklung, die Anwendung und die Vermittlung von theoretischen…

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    Heisenberg-Project: Crisis of Critique? Capitalism, Neoliberalism and Democracy "after the Boom“

    The period "since the Boom" is characterized by a reordering of the relationship between market and state and between capitalism and democracy. Regardless of whether one describes this change as…

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    History of the Burda Family Business in the 20th Century

    The research project examines the corporate and family history of the Burda publishing house under three political systems (the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the Federal Republic of Germany)…

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    Network Researching Artistic-Scientific Practice

    When we study artistic-scientific practice, our goal is not to define or confine it. Rather, we explore what teaching formats, writing styles, forms of expression, and event designs can look…

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    PhD Project: Awards for Democracy? The Adolf Grimme Prize, Education and the Market in West-German Television, 1964-2000

    The television age began with high hopes. The new leading medium was supposed to serve democratisation, and nowhere was this claim reflected more than in the Adolf Grimme Prize. Endowed…

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    PhD Project: Awards for Democracy? The Adolf Grimme Prize, Education and the Market in West-German Television, 1964-2000

    The television age began with high hopes. The new leading medium was supposed to serve democratisation, and nowhere was this claim reflected more than in the Adolf Grimme Prize. Endowed…

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    PhD Project: History in Motion 'Vordenker der Vernichtung' and the History of Nazism and Holocaust Research, 1977–1998

    With the epochal shift in 1989/91, the historiography of Nazism and the Holocaust changed fundamentally. The 1991 study Vordenker der Vernichtung (Architects of Annihilation, 2002) was published at precisely this…

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    Phd project: Persistent Apparatuses On the Relationship between Skin Colour and Digital Photographic Technology

    Skin colour and its social implications are particularly relevant to political questions in the “Melanin Millennium” (Hall, Russel, Wilson). Photographic images have played and continue to play a significant role…

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    PhD: Opposition Experiences Housing Policy and Social Democratic Renewal in Germany and Great Britain, 1979-1998

    During their time in opposition from 1979/82 to 1997/98, British and German social democracy underwent fundamental changes. Initially, the Labour Party and the SPD could still be regarded as the…

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    Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research Practicing Judgement in Times of a Crisis of Truth

    "Alternative facts", conspiracy theories or science denial – they are all symptoms of a crisis of truth marked by more complex forms of relativism, a loss of trust and science…

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    That Was It Practices and Aesthetics of Coming to an End

    Context for the project “That Was It:  Practices and Aesthetics of Stopping” comes from the societal and aesthetic problematics of closing, stopping, and ending that have been part of the…