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Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies |
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Research Activities at the Faculty
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Reports of the Institutes and Departments
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Research Activities at the Faculty
Research Profile |
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Research Profile
Research activities in the departments of the faculty include the individual research
projects of professors, doctoral and postdoctoral projects
supervised by them and interdisciplinary cooperation. The faculty's profile is
characterised by its combination of disciplines relating to history, the
arts and area studies, together with manifold interconnections both within the faculty
and with other departments of the University, with affiliated
institutions, Max Planck Institutes and other research centres in Germany and abroad.
Its research has focused upon the historical dimensions of
social processes and phenomena. Particular emphasis is placed on the study of
Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South and East Asia.
Some of the departments concerned combine linguistic, literary, legal and economic
research.
In this report a wide variety of projects is presented. Major interdisciplinary projects
include the following:
Department of History
- The Department of History is participating in SFB 417 "Regionally-oriented
Identification Processes: The Case of Saxony" by the projects A2
(Prof. H. Zwahr), A3 (Prof. U. v. Hehl / Prof. G. Heydemann) and A5 (Prof. S.
Rieckhoff). Scientific cooperation takes place with projects on
Theology, History, Political Sciences, Educational Sciences, Cultural Studies,
Sociology and Geography.
- Another SFB "Differenz und Integration" ("Difference and Integration") is in
preparation. The following disciplines participate: - at the University
of Leipzig: Egyptology, Arabic Studies, Ancient Oriental Studies, Ancient History,
Ethnology, Theology; - at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg:
Archaeology, Arabic Studies, Ancient History, Semitic Studies and Islam Studies
et.a..
- The Department of Mediaeval History has taken the initiative for a cooperation of
scientists of different disciplines in the Faculty of History, Art
and Oriental Studies as well as of the Faculty of Theology to examine "Herrschaft und
Heiligkeit" ("Rule and Sacredness"). First results of this
interdisciplinary approach to a phenomenon of great importance to historical research
on politics and mentalities will be presented in a lecture
series during the summer term 2000 and at the "Historikertag" in Aachen in September
2000.
- Under the guidance of Profs Günther Heydemann and Ulrich von Hehl the
Historical Institute is cooperating with the Hannah-Arendt-Institute
Dresden in a project "Sachsen unter totalitärer Herrschaft 1933 - 1961" (Saxony
under Totalitarian Rule 1933 - 1961) sponsored by the
Volkswagen Foundation.
- In cooperation with the GWZO and the Eastern-Europe-Institute of the Free
University Berlin Prof. Wolfgang Höpken is investigating "Sozial-
und Kulturgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas und des Balkanraumes" ("Social and Cultural
History of Eastern/Central Europe and on the Balkans")
with a special focus on the history of violence and its experience as well as on
historical memory and national identity.
- The Institute of Indian and Central Asian Studies participates in the German
National Indian Sciences Research Project "New Orissa Research
Project".
- A Joint-project of the Institute of East Asian Studies and Centre for Advanced
Studies of Leipzig University "Time-field 2000 - Century Turns in
Comparison" under the head of Prof Steffi Richter has been concluded with a
colloquium.
- The Institute of East Asian Studies (Sinology) and Independent Department of
Otorhinolaryngology are working on a joint project "Children's
Singing Voice - a Cultural Comparison (China-Germany)".
- Joint faculty project in preparation "Places of Everyday - Cultural History of
Modern Japan" (Prof. Steffi Richter).
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Important Events
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Important Events
Prof. Claus Wilcke was elected correspondent member of the Bavarian Academy
of Sciences.
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International Research Cooperation
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International Research Cooperation
Department of History
- Promotion-program: Centre Archéologique Européen; SAEMN
Mont Beuvray
Partproject: spatial structures of late celtic time during the
2nd- 1st cent. BC. The excavations on the Pâture
du Couvent in the Oppidum Bibracte-Mont Beuvray (France). Department for
Prehistory, Prof. S. Rieckhoff.
- Promotion-program: Centre Archéologique Européen; SAEMN
Mont Beuvray
- Partproject: tradition and innovation. The development of the
instrumentum in Oppidum Bibracte-Mount Beuvray (France) with special reference
to metalworking.
- Partproject: The Italian fibulae in the National Museum of National
History, Smithonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA. Department for
Prehistory, Prof. S. Rieckhoff.
- Project: Revolution in world history: cooperation with the German Historical
Institute London (Direction: Prof. P. Wende) - Department for Social
and Economic History, Prof. H. Zwahr.
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
- Borderlines of humankind. Problems in defining the humane. Internationally
organized Project of the "Institut für historische Anthropologie
(e.V.)", Freiburg/Br. (Conferences held in Vienna) - Prof. Claus Wilcke.
- Sumerian Grammar Discussion Group (Oxford) - PD Dr Walther Sallaberger,
Prof. Claus Wilcke and Scholars from the Netherlands, great
Britain, the USA and Japan.
- Excavations at Tall Beydar (Syria) - PD Dr Walther Sallaberger together with
Scholars from Münster and from Belgium and Syria.
- The Birth of History, Project of an international Group of researchers led by Jan
Assman and Jörn Rüsen at the ZiF (Bielefeld).
Institute of African Studies
- The Institute of African Studies is involved in international cooperation in various
ways, not only in Europe (various SOCRATES programs and
AEGIS, Africa-Europe Group of Interdisciplinary Studies) but also with partner
institutions in Africa. Agreements exist with universities in
Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa, and in 1999 relations with Africanists at the
Charles University in Prague were put on an institutional
basis.
- Concrete international cooperation in research with regard to
computer-supported analysis of African tone languages (Prof. Wolff), initially upon
a bilateral basis with partners at the University of Helsinki, has now been extended to
include South African partners in Stellenbosch and
Pretoria.
- An additional field of international cooperation, under the auspices of
SOCRATES, deals with curricular development in the field of African
languages with regard both to basic M.A. courses (CDI project EEquALL: European
Equivalencies in African Languages and Linguistics) and to
a postgraduate course leading to the "European Master" (CDA project CAMEEL:
Computer Applications to Modern Extra-European
Languages).
- Two members of the department (Prof. E. Wolff and Prof. R. Kappel) are actively
involved in an initiative to create a European graduate college
"Social, Cultural and Linguistic Processes of Identification in the Global Field:
Francophony" (together with members of the Faculty of Philologyand the Faculty of
Social Sciences and Philosophy). The partners in this undertaking belong to the
University of the Provence (Aix-en-Provence
/ Marseilles) and the University of Frankfurt am Main.
Institute of Indian and Central Asia Studies
- Legal Documents from Nepal - a project with the Tribhuvan University,
Kathmandu.
- Indian Poetry - a project with the Prague University.
Institute of Oriental Studies
- Food Security of Urban and Peri-Urban Systems in Developing Countries
Nahrungssicherung in Kairo / Food Security in Cairo; Project with
Prof. H.-G. Bohle (Universität Heidelberg), Said Samir (Roxy Research Center,
Cairo) - Prof. J. Gertel.
- Case Studies on Urban Agriculture; Städtische Landwirtschaft in Kairo /
Urban Agriculture in Cairo; Project with Said Samir (Roxy Research
Center, Cairo) - Prof. J. Gertel.
- Morphological and syntactical studies af Arabic based on digitized original
sources; Project with Dr Avihai Shivtiel (University of Leeds) - Prof. E.
Schulz.
Institute of East Asian Studies
- Project "History of Confucianism" in collaboration with the Institute of Chinese
Literature and Philosophy at the Academia Sinica Taipei (Prof.
Lee Ming-huei / Prof. Liu Shu-hsien) - Prof. Ralf Moritz.
- Institute of East Asian Studies (Sinology) and Renmin University Peking (Faculty
of Philosophy) under agreement of co-operation are preparing
a joint project "Identity-consciousness and Self-image - China at the Turn to the 21.
Century".
- "Chinese Historiography"- an International Research Project under the head of
Prof. J. Rüsen et.al., and financial support of the Chiang Ching
Kuo Foundation, Taipeh, Taiwan has started in 1999.
Institute of Religious Studies
- "Folkreligion and Sects in Early Modern China" - Joint research project together
with Prof. Ma Xisha, Insitute for World Religions of the Chinese
Academy for Social Sciences in Peking, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation -
Prof. Hubert Seiwert.
- "Religious Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th
and 20th Centuries" - International research project in cooperation with
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Universities of Prague and Brno - Prof. Hubert Seiwert.
- "Special Collection of Pamphlets and Journals Published by Religious Minorities
and New Religions in Germany" - Project in cooperation with
the Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR) in Santana Barbara (G. Melton)
and the Institute for Religios Studies at Kokugakuin
University in Tokio (Prof. Abe) - Prof. Hubert Seiwert.
Institute of Art Education
- "Peace and dependency artistic languages": international project Dr Ines Seumel
together with Scholars from Kuopio/Finland, Kingston/GB,
Perugia/Italy, Aveiro/Portugal, Madrid and Vigo/Spain, Linköping/Sweden,
Koblenz/Germany.
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