International Research Projects of the Faculty of Arts

Anneliese Maier Research Award for Prof. James Conant

project type and duration: cooperation award for the promotion of internationalisation in the humanities and social sciences in Germany (01.01.2012–01.01.2017)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Johannes Haag (Department of Philosophy)

cooperation partner: Prof. Dr. James Conant, University of Chicago

funded by: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

funding amount: 250.000 EUR

Berlin’s Australian Archive | Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Natural History

project type and duration: international research project (2023–2025)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Anja Schwarz (Department of English and American Studies)

cooperation partners: Museums Victoria Melbourne, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, The Australian Museum Sydney

funded by: German Lost Art Foundation.

You can find further information on the project here.

Collaborations: Assemblages, Articulations, Alliances

project type and duration: DFG research group, 2025-2029

project manager: Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann

collaboration partners in Oceania, North America, Australia, India, and Brazil

funded by: DFG

You can find further information on the project here

"Das Dorf als Imaginationsraum und Experimentierfeld im östlichen Europa"

project type and duration: research project with an international focus (12/2014-12/2017), subproject in the joint project "Experimentierfeld Dorf. Die Wiederkehr des Dörflichen als Imaginations-, Projektions- und Handlungsraum"

project manager: Prof. Dr. Magdalena Marszałek (Department of Slavic Studies)

funded by: Volkswagen foundation

funding amount: total: 707.000 EUR // UP: 128.500 EUR

You can find further information on the project here.

"Edition, Kommentar und Erschließung: >Huge Scheppel< und >Königin Sibille<, entstanden im Umkreis der Elisabeth von Lothringen und Nassau-Saarbrücken"

project type and duration: research project with an international focus (since 2014)

Projektverantwortlich: Prof. Dr. Ute von Bloh-Völker (Department of German Studies)

funded by: DFG (Sachbeihilfe/Research Grant)

funding amount: 245.211 EUR

Edition "Zibaldone di pensieri" (Giacomo Leopardi)

project type and duration: research project with an international focus (since 2021)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Klettke (Department of Romance Studies)

funded by: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

You can find more detailed information on the project here.

Experimental Histories and Alternative Archives

project type and duration: ATN-DAAD Australia Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme (2015–2016)

project manager: Dr. Anke Bartels (Department of English and American Studies)

cooperation partner: University of Technology, Sydney

funded by: DAAD/Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)/ATN Universities

funding amount: 15.676 EUR

Genre Transactions in World-Literary Space

project type and duration: German-Indian partnerships in the field of academic cooperation DAAD/UGC (2016-2020)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann (Department of English and American Studies)

cooperation partner: University of Delhi (India)

funded by: DAAD/University Grants Commission

funding amount: total: 340.000 EUR //UP: 170.000 EUR

You can find further information on the project here.

"Haskala im Dialog. Juda Jeitteles und Juda Leib ben Ze'eb als Exegeten der Aufklärung"

project type and duration: research project with an international focus (since 2015)

project manager: Apl. Prof. Dr. Christoph Schulte (Department of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies)

funded by: DFG (Sachbeihilfe/Research Grant)

funding amount: 210.650 EUR

Mapping Provenance in London’s Commercial Supply of Oceanic Cultural Belongings and Ancestors to German Museums, 1880–1955

project type and duration: international research project (starting January 2026)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Anja Schwarz (Department of English and American Studies)

cooperation partners: The Australian National University, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Gur a Baradharaw Kod Torres Strait Sea and Land Council (GBK), Te Papa Tongarewa, Takarangi Research Ltd, Hui Iwi Kuomo’o, African Museums and Heritage Restitution (AFRIMUHERE)

funded by: German Lost Art Foundation.

You can find further information on the project here.

Media Practices of the Enlightenment

project type and duration: strategic institutional partnership

project manager: Prof. Dr. Iwan Michelangelo D'Aprile (Department of German Studies)

cooperation partners: Latvijas Universitāte, Riga (Latvia), Tartu Ülikool (Lithuania), Université Bordeaux-Montaigne (France)

funded by: ERASMUS+

More information on the project can be found here.

Meitner-Humboldt Research Prize for Prof. Eli Friedlander

project type and duration: Kooperationspreis zur Förderung der Internationalisierung (01.01.2024–31.12.2026)

project manager: Prof. Dr.Thomas Khurana (Department of Philosophie)

cooperation partner: Prof. Dr. Eli Friedlander, University of Chicago

funded by: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

funding amount: 60.000 EUR

Minor Cosmopolitanisms

project type and duration: DFG PhD research group 2130 (since 2016)

project managers: Prof. Dr. Lars Eckstein/Prof. Dr. Anja Schwarz (Department of English and American Studies)

cooperation partners: Macquarie University (Sydney), University of New South Wales (Sydney), EFLU Hyderabad (India), Delhi University, University of Cape Town, Pretoria University, Duke University, York University Toronto, The University of Melbourne

funded by: DFG

You can find further information on the project here.

Multiliteracy and linguistic diversity in the digital age

project type and duration: international research project ("UP Network for Sustainable Teacher Education 2.0" sub-project) (since 2024)

Projektverantwortlich: Prof. Dr. Kathleen Plötner (Department of Romance Studies)

cooperation partners: Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic), Université Paris Nanterre (France), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Medellín, Colombia)

funded by: DAAD

You can find further information on the project here.

Performances of Memory: Testimonial, Reconstructive and Counterfactual Strategies in Literature and Performative Arts of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Kopie 1)

project type and duration: research project with an international focus (2016–2019)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Magdalena Marszałek (Department of Slavic Studies)

cooperation partners: Jagiellonian University Cracow, University of Warsaw

funded by: DFG/NCN

funding amount: binational project total amount: 283.300 EUR // UP subproject: 189.050 EUR

Potsdam Slavic Typology Lab | Potsdam Slavic Variantion Lab

cooperation partners: Israel, Poland, Austria, Ukraine, North Macedonia inter alia

funded by: DFG inter alia

Further information on PoSla Typology Lab and PoSla Variation Lab.

"Preußenbild der polnischen Aufklärung - zur Geschichte eines vergessenen Kulturtransfers (1764-1795)"

project type and duration: research project with an international focus (since 2010)

project manager: PD Dr. Agnieszka Pufelska (Department of History)

funded by: DFG (Sachbeihilfe/Research Grant)

funding amount: 209.050 EUR

Religious Diversity Erbil

project type and duration: DAAD Project Religious Diversity in Northern Iraq; 01.01.2018 - 31.12.2019

project manager: Prof. Dr. Johann Hafner (Department of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies)

project coordinator: Dr. Ulrike Kollodzeiski (Department of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, contact person for questions relating to the project)

cooperation partners: Ishik University, Erbil; Catholic University, Erbil; Salahaddin University, Erbil

funded by: DAAD

The Crisis of Autonomy and Aesthetic Liberation

projcet type and duration: DAAD project funding (PPP Argentinia)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Thomas Khurana (Department of Philosophy)

cooperation partners: Prof. Veronica Galfione, CONICET

funded by: DAAD

funding amount: 21.894 EUR

Twisted Transfers: Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Greece and Rome

duration: 2020-2024

project manager: Prof. Dr. Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Chair of Ancient History)

cooperation partner: University of Roehampton, Department of Humanities

funded by: DFG

funding amount: 428.116,00 €

You can find more information on the project here.

Waste Matters: Cultural Studies of Waste and the City

project type and duration: DAAD / Go8 (2014–2016)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Anja Schwarz (Department of English and American Studies)

funded by: DAAD/Go8

funding amount: 15.676 EUR

WORLDBRIDGES: Philosophy of History and Globalisation of Knowledge. Cultural Bridges Between Europe and Latin America (Kopie 1)

project type and duration: Marie Curie IRSES Network (2013–2018)

project manager: Prof. Dr. Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile (Department of German studies)

cooperation partner: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones

funded by: EU

funding amount: 118.400 EUR

You can find further information on the project here.