Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
1.16-01	Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
1.16-02	Asian Studies
1.16-03	African, American and Oceania Studies
1.16-04	Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
1.16-05	Religious Studies and Jewish Studies

Deputy Contact
1.15-01	German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature)
1.15-02	German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
1.15-03	European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
1.15-04	General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Exzellenzcluster
2052	Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies
2176	Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission

Graduiertenkolleg
2445	Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation
2661	Connecting – Excluding. Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks
2686	Contradiction Studies: Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
2706	Transformative Religion: Religion as Situated Knowledge in Processes of Social Transformation
2833	East Asian Futures: Visions and Realizations on National, Transregional and Global Scales
2836	Fixing Futures: Investigating Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies
3009	Post-Eurocentric Europe: Narratives of a World Province in Transformation

Sonderforschungsbereich
1171	Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
1199	Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition
1475	Metaphors of Religion. Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
2101	Urban Ethics: Conflicts about the good and proper conduct of life in 20th and 21st century cities
2311	Jewish Scepticism (HCAS-JS)

Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe
17	Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective.