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Research Area D: Historicities & Heritage
The Research Area "Historicities and Heritage" analyses different concepts of histories as competing interpretations of time and space. Instead of focusing on models of unified universal or world history, it will put the emphasis on the entanglement of multiple historicities with different cultural background through cultural flows in the way in which history, memory, and their trajectory are handled. This requires a critical dialogue with the disputes on historiography as a westernised/Eurocentric academic discipline, the idea of a multilingual global history, and the considerations of intangible cultural heritage.
The main focus of Research Area D is on the way in which memories and heritage together with history as academic discipline emerge and spread within and between cultures, ordering and reordering knowledge and memory. The power and the authority to provide the past with significance and structure through a master narrative that also provides impetus and direction for the future is an excessively contested area not just between government and historical scholarship, but also through the potential of individuals, cohorts, subaltern groups or groups sharing particular experiences (e.g. women, men, collaborators, refugees) to configure their own memories in a challenge to a dominant master narrative. Among the most contested fields is the configuration of asymmetrical flows in such narratives and the resulting strategy to deal with them.
- D1 Historicizing Violence
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Coordination: Susanne Enderwitz, Melanie Trede, Stefan Weinfurter
Historicizing the Experience of Violence without Frontiers. Influence and Importance of Shifting Asymmetries. The Example of the Mongolian Invasion in the Thirteenth Century
- D2 Materiality and Practice
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Coordination: Markus Hilgert, Joseph Maran, Peter A. Miglus, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Materiality and Practice: Cultural Entanglements of 2nd millennium BC East Mediterranean Societies
- D3 Images of Alterity
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Coordination: Lieselotte E. Saurma, Anja Eisenbeiss
Images of Alterity in East and West
- D4 Aspects of Authenticity
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Coordination: Niels Gutschow, Lothar Ledderose
Aspects of Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation
- D5 Encyclopaedias
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Coordination: Barbara Mittler, Madeleine Herren-Oesch
Hidden Grammars of Transculturality – Migrations of Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Power (Pilot Project)
- D6 Antithesis EAST - WEST
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Coordination: Kai Trampedach, Jonas Grethlein, Tonio Hölscher, Reinhard Stupperich
The Origins of the Antithesis EAST - WEST Before and After Alexander the Great
- D7 Oriental Cults
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Coordination: Joachim Friedrich Quack, Christian Witschel
From the Orient to Rome and back again. Religious flows and the expansion of oriental cults in the Roman Empire
- D8 Cultural Transfer (restructured as A9)
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Coordination: Antje Flüchter
Cultural Transfer as a Factor of State Building
- D9 Translations
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Coordination: Judit Árokay, Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Language and Cultural Translation: Asymmetries in the Emergence of Modern Written Languages
- D10 Environmental Activism (restructured as C13)
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Coordination: Madeleine Herren-Oesch
Environmental Activism: An Ontology of its Actors and their Politics
- D11 Hidden Grammars
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Coordination: Barbara Mittler, Madeleine Herren-Oesch
Hidden Grammars of Transculturality – Migrations of Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Power
- D12 Heritage as a Transcultural Concept
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Coordination: Monica Juneja, Michael Falser
Heritage as a Transcultural Concept - Angkor Vat from an Object of Colonial Archaeology to a Contemporary Global Icon
- D13 Multi-Centred Modernisms
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Coordination: Monica Juneja, Franziska Koch
Multi-Centred Modernisms – Reconfiguring Asian Art of the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries
- D14 Language Flows
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Coordination: Rudolf G. Wagner, Nicolae Cristian Statu
Language Flows in Pre-Modern East-Asia: Literary Chinese
- D15 Making Powerful Arguments
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Coordination: Martin Hofmann, Joachim Kurtz
Making Powerful Arguments in Late Imperial China: Shifting Standards of Validity in Transcultural Perspective
- D16 Reasoning in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhism
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Coordination: Markus Viehbeck, Birgit Kellner
Reasoning in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhism - intellectual practices across the Indo-Tibetan transcultural sphere
- D17 Images of Disasters
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Coordination: Gerrit Jasper Schenk, Monica Juneja
Images of Disasters
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