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Field of expertise
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Research portfolio
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Katharina Bracht
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Ecclesiastical history
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History of ancient Christianity and patristic studies; social imagining of Christian identity; figures/role models of the bible. For further information please see the CVpdf, 116 kb · en
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Christina Brandt
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History and philosophy of science
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Metaphors and narration in experimental sciences; imaginaries of the future in life sciences and society; scientific racism (Haeckel). For further information please see the CVpdf, 98 kb · en
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Andrea Marlen Esser
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Philosophy (focus on practical philosophy)
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Practical, political and public philosophy; practices of colonial imagining in philosophical contexts. For further information please see the CVpdf, 92 kb · en
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Bernd FroehlichExterner Link
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Virtual reality and visualisation
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Social virtual reality and collaborative visualisation; 3D user interfaces; virtual group locomotion techniques; visual analytics. For further information please see the CVpdf, 84 kb · en
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Daniel FuldaExterner Link
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Modern German literature
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Theories of narration; histories of concepts and metaphors; imaginations of temporality in historiography, literature and visual media; imagining enlightenment. For further information please see the CVpdf, 101 kb · en
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Johannes Grave
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Art history
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Image theory and temporality of picture reception; early modern art; social imagining and Romanticism; intersections of practice theories and studies on image perception. For further information please see the CVpdf, 93 kb · en
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Bernhard Groß
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Film studies / visual aesthetics of cinematic media
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Film theory and its history; filmic representations of the Holocaust; history, poetics and mediality of filmic representations of the everyday life. For further information please see the CVpdf, 93 kb · en
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Claudia Hammerschmidt
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Romance literature (focus on Latin American literatures)
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Foundational fictions, border poetics and strategic essentialism in postcolonial cultures; (de)colonial imaginaries in Latin American and indigenous cultures and literatures. For further information please see the CVpdf, 102 kb · en
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Bernhard KleebergExterner Link
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History of science
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Political/historical epistemology; historical praxeology of truth; relationship between knowledge and belief, science and religion; practices of structured imagination. For further information please see the CVpdf, 102 kb · en
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Anja Laukötter
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Cultural history
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History of museums, collections and exhibitions; transnational media history; history of emotions; practices of social imagining in colonial pasts and their contemporary legacies. For further information please see the CVpdf, 99 kb · en
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Sophie Marshall
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Mediaeval German literature
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Human-thing relations in mediaeval and early modern literature; imaginary dimensions of materialities; myths, allegories and commentaries; magic thinking and practices. For further information please see the CVpdf, 77 kb · en
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Stefan Matuschek
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Modern German literature,
general and comparative literature
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European Romanticism as a practice and theory of imagining; myths, ‘new mythologies’ and their political impact; literary historiography and the imagining of national identity. For further information please see the CVpdf, 90 kb · en
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Stefanie Middendorf
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Modern and contemporary history
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History of capitalist imaginaries and crises; social representations of the political; state thinking, institutional imagining and micro-practices of power. For further information please see the CVpdf, 101 kb · en
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Matthias Perkams
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Philosophy (focus on ancient and mediaeval philosophy)
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Philosophy in Antiquity, in the Christian Orient and in the Middle Ages; Arabic philosophy of the classical period; theories of consciousness, imagination and ethical/political action. For further information please see the CVpdf, 86 kb · en
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Joachim von PuttkamerExterner Link
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Eastern European history
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Statehood and nationalism; museum studies and the politics of memory; democracy, dictatorship and reimagining society in Central and Eastern Europe. For further information please see the CVpdf, 93 kb · en
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Marion Reiser
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German politics
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Empirical research on representative democracy, political elites and political parties; democratic and antidemocratic attitudes; imaginaries and practices of representation. For further information please see the CVpdf, 101 kb · en
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Jürgen RennExterner Link
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History of science
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Long-term evolution of knowledge and structural changes in the technosphere; historical dynamics and origins of the Anthropocene. For further information please see the CVpdf, 98 kb · en
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Patrick RobertsExterner Link
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Archaeology and anthropology
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Human history in tropical forests; human-environment-Earth system interactions; social imaginaries in the modelling of human-ecosystems dynamics; indigenous and traditional knowledge practices of imagining. For further information please see the CVpdf, 80 kb · en
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Hartmut Rosa
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Sociology and social theory
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Sociology of time and acceleration; sociology of relationships to or with the world; social criticism; political imaginaries, social imagining in times of crises; temporal imaginaries. For further information please see the CVpdf, 99 kb · en
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Tobias Rothmund
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Psychology of communication and media use
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Political communication; motivated cognition; political ideology; digital publics; conspiratorial narratives; post-truth media reception. For further information please see the CVpdf, 90 kb · en
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Henning SchmidgenExterner Link
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Media studies
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History and theory of media practices; media ecologies; philosophies of technology; history of scientific instruments; machine aesthetics, digital humanities; virtual laboratories. For further information please see the CVpdf, 95 kb · en
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Kim Siebenhüner
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Early modern history
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History of material cultures and global encounters; history of religion; colonial heritage in Thuringia; material, emotional and sensual dimensions of social imagining. For further information please see the CVpdf, 92 kb · en
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Christoph Vatter
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Intercultural studies and
business communications
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Cultural diversity; intercultural media studies; transcultural dimensions of social imagining; Afro-European practices of (re)imagining Europe. For further information please see the CVpdf, 102 kb · en
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Lambert Wiesing
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Philosophy (focus on image theory and phenomenology)
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Phenomenology, image theory and aesthetics; philosophy of perception, imagination and consciousness; individual and social imaginative performances. For further information please see the CVpdf, 90 kb · en
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Sabine WirthExterner Link
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Media studies (digital cultures)
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User-interfaces; AI and everyday media practices; digital image cultures in the social web; media technologies and practices of social imagining; collective practices of counter-imagining. For further information please see the CVpdf, 91 kb · en
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