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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Kosmogonien und Verlustgeschichten der Gegenwart. Experimentelle Darstellungsweisen begründender Anfangs - und Untergangserzählungen in Literatur und Comic
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im Angesicht von Klimawandel und Artensterben erscheinen gegenwärtig international zahlreiche literarische Texte und Comics, die Kosmogonien und Entwicklungsgeschichten mit Untergangsszenarien menschlicher Kulturen, Tierpopulationen bzw. des ganzen...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Aitiologien in den Wirklichkeitserzählungen der Naturwissenschaften: Zur epistemischen Funktion von Ursprungs(re)konstruktionen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In dem Projekt sollen die weit verbreiteten aitiologischen Verfahren der historischen Naturwissenschaften untersucht werden – einerseits in ihrer Bedeutung für die Naturwissenschaften selbst, andererseits in ihrer Rezeption im Rahmen kritischer...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Chronos und Chthoniê: Figuren des Anfangs und der Gründung in antiker Mythologie und moderner Mythentheorie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Teilprojekt untersucht Narrative des Anfangs und der Gründung, also Aitiologien im weiteren Sinne, sowohl in der griechischen Antike als auch in der modernen Kultur- und Mythentheorie. Dabei soll eine Systematisierung der Typen und Funktionen...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literary genre and 2 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  4. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin,  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and 1 more
    Aitiologien – Figuren und Funktionen begründenden Erzählens in Wissenschaft und Literatur
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe Aitiologien untersucht Schöpfungserzählungen, literarische und wissenschaftliche Urszenen sowie politische Gründungsmotive im Hinblick auf ihre zeitlichen Kontexte und Rhetoriken. In der Forschungsgruppe...

    Fields of research Literature and sociology,  Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and philosophy and 5 more
    Created on: 17.01.2024
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Technische Universität Dresden
    Fremde Verwandtschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume
    Submitted by: Solvejg Nitzke

    Im Zuge globaler ökologischer Krisen sowie aktueller Hinterfragungen von Diskurshegemonien und anthropozentrischen Perspektiven mehren sich Stimmen aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Politik, die fordern, Pflanzen nicht mehr nur als...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 4 more
    Created on: 19.07.2022
  6. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Universität Zürich (Uzh)
    FORM. Generic Ambiguity in Narrative Fiction (1800–1930)
    Submitted by: Marius Reisener

    Ambiguity is considered a sign of modernity. For decades, the field of aesthetics has treated it as the “openness” of art. The research project “FORM: Generic Ambiguity in Narrative Fiction (1800–1930)” aims to identify and elucidate for the first...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary historiography,  Literary genre
    Created on: 07.03.2022
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
    Pandemics and Coloniality: Biopolitical Entanglements in Early Modern Chronicles and COVID-19 Narratives
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project's key question asks how structures of coloniality are inherent to COVID-19 narratives, and how their biopolitical mechanisms relate to early colonial accounts of disease. As a key result, the project will provide a rich set of...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE),  Universität zu Köln
    Climate Change Literacy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vor dem Hintergrund einseitig naturwissenschaftlicher Debatten zu science literacy, die geisteswissenschaftliche Beiträge weitgehend ausblenden, will das Projekt einen Beitrag zum rasch wachsenden Feld interdisziplinärer Klimawandelforschung leisten....

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 4 more
    Created on: 21.06.2021
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Popular Astronomy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Popular Astronomy is a subproject of the larger research programme, Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe , funded by the KU Leuven Research Council. This project aims to arrive at a better understanding of the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and natural science and 2 more
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Poetic Cosmos
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Poetic Cosmos is a subproject in the research programme Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe . This project investigates how cosmological findings shaped the representation of the Universe in literature. The...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science,  Poetics
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  11. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe studies literature’s epistemic status during the modernist period. It homes in on writing from different registers (highbrow, avant-garde, middlebrow and more popular forms of...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 06.09.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) / University of Leuven
    Writing a Cosmos: Modernist Popular Astronomy in British and German Prose Fiction
    Submitted by: Christoph Richter-Rodiek

    Popular Astronomy is a subproject of the larger research programme, Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe , funded by the KU Leuven Research Council. This project aims to arrive at a better understanding of the...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 16.08.2019
  13. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC) / International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
    ICLA Research Committee on Literature and Neuroscience
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The AILC-ICLA Research Committee on Literature and Neuroscience was established at the instigation of Suzanne Nalbantian, who became its chair in 2012 to promote innovative, interdisciplinary work conjoining literature and brain science. The...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Residues of Presence: Between Physics and Metaphysics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project attempts to open a space of convergence between the insights arising from continental philosophy and modern physics. Both have challenged a naive faith in the horizon of constant presence that have long regulated both philosophical and ...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    The (Un-)Bounded Elementary Organism: Visions of the Continuity of Life in the 'Dark Age' of Physical Chemistry
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During the first three tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, many important biologists, physicists, and chemists began to think of the living cell not as a bounded object, but rather as a more or less differentiated region of a continuous...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 03.06.2019