Completed research projects
ERC European Research Council
Funding Source: EU – ERC Consolidator Grant
Principal Investigator: Laura Kallmeyer (Department of Linguistics)
Duration: 7/2017 - 6/2023
TreeGraSP bridges the gap between rich linguistic theory and data-driven large scale approaches to grammar induction and semantic parsing. The novelty of the project consists in putting semantics and its interface to syntax at the center of grammar theory, putting an emphasis on multilinguality and typological diversity, and adopting a constructional approach to grammar.
Research Groups
Funding Source: DFG
Principal Investigator: Gerhard Vowe (Department of Social Sciences)
Duration: 2011 – 2019
The diffusion of online media - from online newspapers and search engines to blogs and video portals - has changed communication in every area of life to a degree and at a rate hitherto unknown. This is also believed to apply to politics, especially with respect to election campaigns and public participation. There is plenty of speculation around the keyword "Web 2.0", ranging from one extreme to the other: at the one end an expectation of salvation, at the other end an expectation of doom. It is against this backdrop that the Research Unit intends to answer the question in how far political communication can be proved to change due to online media and what impact this, in turn, has on politics.
The framework for answering this question is a model. The centre of the model is the change in political communication - structural changes in the communication relations between the actor groups (public, political organisations and media organisations) with respect to social, temporal and spatial aspects as well as with regards to content. One prerequisite is the media change - the extension of the media repertoire in society as a result of the use of the potentials of the Internet in public, semi-public and non-public communication. The alteration in political communication has a relevant impact on politics from individual, organisational and social perspectives and thus contributes to political change.
By the Research Unit, three objectives have been set:
(1) The investigation of the development of political communication should take the form of empirical, longitudinal studies, which result in a multi-faceted overall picture. This means that various analytical perspectives - those of individuals, of organisations and of society as a whole - and different methods - in particular surveys, content analysis and organisation analysis - need to be interlinked. In doing so, a number of theoretical approaches in the field of online communication will be tested and combined into one middle range theory made up of many modules.
(2) The Research Unit is one of the places where junior researchers are qualified for the international research field of political communication - in the form of doctorates and state doctorates.
(3) By means of a thematically focussed network of researchers, an innovative form of organisation will be tested for disciplines that are divided into smaller sections such as communication studies.
The Research Unit includes seven sub-projects. Each will turn the overall question into a more specific problem by analysing the relations between the change in political communication, media change and political change from a specialised analytic perspective.
Funding Source: DFG
Spokesperson: Ingo Plag (Department of English and American Studies)
Duration: 2015 -2022
Cooperating partners: University of Tübingen, Radboud University of Nijmegen/NL
Spoken morphology, i.e. the pronunciation of morphologically complex words, poses two big challenges to theories of the mental lexicon and grammar. The first is the recent insight that supposedly categorical morpho-phonological alternations are much more variable than previously conceived. What is responsible for this variation, and how can models of grammar and the lexicon accommodate it? The second, and more general, challenge is to determine the role of morphological structure in the phonetic realization of words. Recently, there are conflicting findings whether (and if so, how) morphological structure influences the articulation and acoustics of complex words, and how this in turn influences comprehension. Research in this area thus has important implications for current theories of the mental lexicon and of speech production, perception and comprehension.
Junior Researchers
Funding Source: Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine-Westphalia Junior Research Groups
Principal Investigator: Marc Ziegele (Department of Social Sciences)
Duration: 2018 - 2023
Online political discussions by citizens have a bad reputation. They are often considered rough, unsavoury and sometimes even hateful. The aim of the junior research group is to develop new measures of moderation and aggregation of online discussions (political follow-up communication) and to empirically investigate how these measures improve the quality and effects of the discussions. To this end, both basic scientific research and practice-oriented applied research is conducted.
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Founding Source: DFG
Principal Investigator: Alexander Ziem (Department of German Languages and Literatures)
Duration: bis 2020
SToRE offers its members a new, intensified model of doctoral supervision: For each student, an advisory team of two primary investigators of the SFB (professors) and one postdoc is being established. The team meets with the student on a regular basis to discuss their research projects and to help them advance in their careers. Goals, research plans, and timelines are being monitored and, where necessary, revised.
Funding Source: DFG
Principal Investigator: Andrea von Hülsen-Esch (Department of Art History)
Duration: 2012 – 2018
‚Production’ and ‚Materiality’ are crucial terms of aesthetic and cultural history which the graduate school attempts to explore in systematic and genealogical terms. Concepts of matter are produced by cultural dynamics, and these concepts vary historically. Even the production of ideal or immaterial values and concepts requires a material context and foundation. We thus aim to surpass the binary opposition of constructivist/relativistic versus materialistic approaches in order to employ historic and contemporary models of cultural and social practices in the wider field of aesthetic experience and aesthetic production (gesture, ornament, script, object art etc.).
The categories "Age" and "Ageing" are gaining a high relevance in society as well as a tremendous attention in the different fields of science because of the demographic development. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact but also a cultural one. It is the distinctive feature of the Research Initiative "Age(ing): Cultural Concepts and Practical Realisations" that it assumes an integrated concept which interconnects scientific discourses from the arts and humanities, social, legal and medical as well as economic fields of study. It is the aim to examine age(ing) as a result of knowledge and cultural practice and to develop strategies for productive forms of dealing with age(ing). By analysing and reflecting on historic and current discourses, sense and coherence of life, body and society can be consciously processed and prepared for the implementation into practical applications. A marked desideratum exists, however, with regard to transdisciplinary research – which joins natural, medical, legal and cultural scientific discourses – and its mediation.
Principal Investigator: Stefan Marschall (Department of Social Sciences)
In our work, we focus on the question of how political representation can be organised in democratic societies under the condition of increasing social heterogenisation. Special attention is paid to researching the mediation performance of individual and collective intermediary actors and (online) media. The Research Training Group brings together the expertise of academics from the fields of political science, sociology and communication and media studies.
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Funding Source: Ministry of Culture and Science North Rhine-Westphalia
Principal Investigator: Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy
Duration: 2014 - 2022
Cooperating partner: University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration of North Rhine-Westphalia
The PhD programme „Online Participation“ is funded by the North Rhine-Westphalian funding scheme “Fortschrittskollegs” and brings together scientists from the field of Computer Science, Business Studies, Law, Sociology, Communication Studies and Political Science as well as a large number of practitioners to investigate the opportunities the internet offers to involve citizens in the making of political and administrative decisions that affect them. The guiding question of the PhD programme is: “How and under what conditions can the potential of online participation in the political participation process at the local level be systematically developed, practically applied and scientifically evaluated?” To address this guiding question, more than a dozen PhD students together with the research staff of the programme work on a trans- and multidisciplinary basis.
Collaborative Research Projects
Funding Source: DFG
Principal Investigator: Eva Schlotheuber, Marie-Isabelle Schwarzburger (Department of Historical Studies)
Duration: 2019 - 2022
Cooperating partner: Kathrin Kessen (Düsseldorf University and State Library)
The aims of the project are a digital reconstruction of the Crosiers' library in Düsseldorf and an analysis of the preserved collection in the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf. Aside from the usual bibliographic information, the holdings specifics such as former call numbers, owners and characteristics of the historic book bindings will be documented and can be searched. The digital presentation will also offer a synopsis of the Düsseldorf collection with the Crosiers' libraries in Hohenbusch, Wickrath and Memmingen. A monograph, which forms one part of a qualification work, will present book property, textuality and intellectual profile of the monastic order in the residence town Düsseldorf. It will also set the Crosiers' collection in the time of media change in its historic context. In addition to the systematic approach an in-depth analysis is planned of the unique and so far completely unexplored tradition of the “Düsseldorf miracles” in the manuscript B 103. This analysis will illustrate the Crosiers' importance for the young city of Düsseldorf. In addition to that, other manuscripts will be examined as examples regarding their genesis and specifics. One scribe for instance used a secret code in the marginalia and in the main text, which allows conclusions on the usage of his written and commented books. Another aim of this project is to promote the paleographical and codicological knowledge of young scholars since these skills are essential for the analysis and classification of medieval library collections.
Funding Source: Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Principal Investigator: Efrat Gal-Ed (Department of Historical Studies)
Duration: 01/2020 – 12/2022
Cooperating partner: Simon Neuberg (Trier University)
The edition project is dedicated to one of the best grammatical works of Yiddish written in Yiddish, which until now has hardly been considered in Yiddish language research due to its difficult accessibility and is little used in language teaching. Elye Falkovitsh's Yidish: fonetik, grafik, leksik un gramatik, published in Moscow in 1940, remains one of the most important grammar reference works for research to this day, as it establishes and illustrates the theory and description of normative rules through numerous examples of standardised usage and supplements them with dialectal variation.
Elye Falkovitsh was one of the leading Yiddish linguists in the Soviet Union. In the 1920-30s, he participated in the elaboration of language reforms that affected spelling and punctuation. In 1930 and 1936 he published two textbooks, which can be regarded as preliminary work to the 1940 grammar. Unlike the earlier works, this most comprehensive grammar has not been digitised and is hardly accessible in libraries, although it has proven to be an indispensable reference work for an in-depth study of the Yiddish language.
The aim of the project is to present Yidish: fonetik, grafik, leksik un gramatik in a linguistically and culturally annotated edition.
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Funding Source: EU
Principal Investigator: Stefan Marschall (Department of Social Sciences)
Duration: 2016 - 2018
Against this backdrop, the aim of NOTRE was to increase the research and innovation potential in the field of social computing in the EU as a whole and, in particular, to help the Cyprus University of Technology to build sustainable capacities for excellent research in this sector. The network project also aimed to familiarise itself with the perspectives of other disciplines and research cultures and to establish lasting contacts between the participating institutions from Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus and Germany.
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Funding Source: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Principal Investigator: Marc Ziegele, Katharina Gerl (Department of Social Sciences/ Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy)
Duration: 07/2020 - 03/2023
Cooperating partners: Liquid Democracy e.V. Berlin, Institute for Participatory Design Oldenburg and the Research Group Deliberative Discussions in the Social Web (DEDIS) of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
The aim of the joint project KOSMO is to develop and test an assistance system that supports the quality of discussion and the summary of the content of online discussions, using modern machine learning and gamification technologies.
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Funding Source: DFG
Principal Investigator: Sybille Schönborn (Department of German Studies/ Max-Herrmann-Neiße-Institut)
Duration: 2019 - 2022
Cooperating partner: Vera Hildenbrandt, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
The digital edition of the critiques and essays, the publications in newspapers and journals 1909-1939 is pioneering in making all of Max Herrmann-Neiße’s extensive publicist work fully accessible. The digital edition inaugurates various possibilities: individual annotations offer detailed indexations of single texts whilst global tagging and the connection to registries and external resources (e.g. GNB, DB, DNB, DLA) enable the representation of the texts in different views. Detailed query options and filters allow for fundamentally new insights into and foci on the works. This edition contributes to the study of the history of critique and its subdivisions (in literature, theatre, cabaret, music, art) as a genre. It is an adaptable project to further the digital indexation of both processes of textual production and reception and their interconnections. As an archive of an integral part of the German cultural history in the first part of the 20th century, the digital edition is invaluable to answer diverse specialist questions and pursue research interests in various fields.
Founding Source: DACH-Project (DFG, FWF und SNF)
Principal Investigator: Olaf Jandura, Ralph Weiß (Department of Social Sciences)
Duration: 2017 – 2022
Cooperating partners: Mark Eisenegger (Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society fög, Zürich/CH); Uwe Hasenbrink (Leibniz Institute for Media Research/ Hans-Bredow-Institut HBI University of Hamburg); Birgit Stark (Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz); Otfried Jarren (Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, CH); Josef Seetahler (Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, AT); Josef Trappel, Department of Communication Studies, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg/AT)
The overall project will determine the quality of the information services of various media offerings across all topics. The informed citizen serves as a model for the quality dimensions to be examined: Relevance, plurality and deliberativity.
In the Duesseldorf sub-project 2, comparative yardsticks are recorded, on the basis of which the diversity of topics and actors and positions in media reporting can be evaluated. For this purpose, parliamentary activities of the government and the parliamentary groups of the parties and their press work are coded. The agendas and positions of more than 200 civil society actors (associations, societies and alliances) are also integrated into the analyses.
The Duesseldorf sub-project 4 goes into depth and examines the quality of reporting at the level of transmitted problem-related statements. For this purpose, the contributions on the conflict topic of migration, which significantly shapes the domestic political debate in all three countries, are analysed. With regard to the dimension of relevance, it is examined which interpretations are conveyed about the core of the problem, i.e. how broadly or selectively the media convey different constructions of relevance. With regard to the dimension of plurality, it is examined how completely or selectively the media present the spectrum of political positions on the conflict. The information content is measured on the basis of standard arguments that articulate normative basic positions (value frames). The distinction between basic political positions is based on the cleavages that describe the lines of conflict in the three societies. With regard to the dimension of deliberativeness, the extent to which the contributions to the conflict topic meet professional standards such as objectivity, reasonedness or responsiveness is classified.
Funding Source: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Principal Investigator: Julia Trinkert (Department of Art History)
Duration: 2018 - 2022
Cooperating partners: Hochschule Fresenius Berlin, Hetjens – German Ceramics Museum Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Deutsches Textilmuseum Krefeld, Museum Burg Linn Krefeld
The joint project "Bourgeois Rise in the Mirror of Object Culture in the 18th Century" is based at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences Berlin/AMD Department of Design, the German Textile Museum Krefeld, the Museum Burg Linn and the Hetjens - German Ceramics Museum. It is dedicated to the hitherto little-researched art and material culture of social climbers, so-called parvenus, as an instrument of identity formation and self-assurance. Objects and works of art that parvenus acquired or commissioned in the Lower Rhine, Hamburg and Copenhagen are researched from an art historical and social science perspective.
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Funding Source: DFG
Principal Investigator: Dagmar Börner-Klein (Department of Jewish Studies)
Duration: 2020 - 2023
Cooperating partner: Ursula Ragacs (Universiy of Vienna)
Both the author of the Yalkut Shimoni, a monumental biblical commentary on the entire Hebrew Bible, and Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak, died 1105), the most important Jewish commen¬tator on the Bible, use Talmud and Midrash as their source in their biblical interpretation. It is generally believed that the Yalkut Shimoni originated after Rashi. Since Rashi offers a selection of Talmud and Midrash in his commentary on the Hebrew Bible and presents these sources not literally but condensed, it is striking that there are similarities in the presentation of rabbinic sources in Rashi and in the Yalkut Shimoni. Since the author of the Yalkut names his sources from Talmud and Midrash, but he does not name Raschi as a source, there is a need to clarify whether there is a direct dependence of the Yalkut on Rashi. It therefore needs to be clarified how Rashi and the author of the Yalkut refer to the traditional Jewish literature. Where and why do they agree and in what do they differ relying on rabbinic literature. The proposed project will be of fundamental importance for the history of interpretation of the Hebrew Bible as well as for Jewish cultural history, since both Rashi and Yalkut are the most widely read Jewish interpretations of the Bible in Ashkenas, but little is known about their influence on each other.
Funding Source: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, University of Ghana
Principal Investigator: Stefanie Michels (Department of Historial Sciences), Aba Mansah Gertrude Eyifa-Dzidzienyo (University of Ghana in Legon, Accra, GH)
Duration: 09/2021 – 12/2021
Cooperating partners: Martin Doll (Department of Media and Cultural Studies, HHU), Jakob Zollmann (Berlin Social Science Center), Kokou Azamede (Department of German Studies, Université de Lomé, TG), Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana in Legon, Accra, GH)
Working together over a four-months period (September December 2021) at MIASA, the procject focused on one evolving restitution case study from Kpando, Ghana and the field within which it unfolds. The aim was to probe how the fundamental dichotomy produced by the restitution debate plays out in a broader framework.
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Individual Research Projects
Funding Source: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Principal Investigator: Oliver Hellwig (Department of Linguistics)
Duration: 01/2021 – 12/2023
While it is usually known from which period European text collections originate, the dating of pre-modern Indian texts proposed in research - and still valid - often varies by several centuries. The aim of the project is to develop quantitative methods that enable a more precise dating of these texts, which are important in terms of cultural and religious history, on the basis of linguistic features.
Funding Source: Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Principal Investigator: Stefan Marschall (Department of Social Sciences)
Duration: 05/2021 – 01/2022
The aim of the research project is to examine the individual communication and information behaviour of citizens for the 2021 Bundestag elections. Of particular interest is the role of the Wahl-O-Mat, probably the best-known online tool for political education. With the help of a four-wave panel survey, which is representative of the German online population, developments in the run-up to and after the 2021 federal election can be traced.
All in all, the project not only makes it possible to examine election campaigns and voting behaviour in special times, since against the background of the Corona pandemic, some conventional means of election campaigning and the associated search for information appear to be more difficult and harder to use. The project can also fill a scientific gap in the field of individual political communication research.
Funding Source: DFG
Principal Investigator: Yaman Kouli (Department of Historical Studies)
Duration: 2020 – 2023
For a long time, the rise of the European nation state was interpreted as a process which led to national alienation with countries that showed little interest in European or international cooperation. Recent publications, however, have proved that assumption to be wrong. First, influential networks of intellectuals and scientists had already developed during this period and world exhibitions for the most part took place in European capitals. Moreover, labour markets, capital markets, communication networks, infrastructure etc. were highly entangled – not only, but primarily in Europe. Second, it was an era of numerous intergovernmental congresses which often resulted in new international treaties. Third, the first wave of globalisation significantly increased the economic interdependence of all countries participating in world trade. Thus, some authors even go as far as to argue that the First World War harshly interrupted a development that could otherwise have continued for a long period of time. Given the dominant position of European states in this internationalised world, some historians are convinced that European integration has its roots in the pre-1914 era. According to this position, institutional European integration after 1951 and the high level of international cooperation before 1914 should be interpreted as one long-term phenomenon.The research project follows in the tradition of that historiography, yet also goes beyond it. It argues that European states used internationalism as a tool to protect and shield themselves from the effects of globalisation. By examining social policy and patent policy in Germany, France and Great Britain, the project seeks to demonstrate that European coordination was to a certain degree born out of necessity to secure and stabilize the functionality of national systems.The study has three goals: First, is to emphasize that the European nation state was not conceived as a politically isolated phenomenon, on the contrary. Since the second half of the 19th century, politicians have been fully aware of the fact that national regulations and laws can only function if the respective countries are embedded in a network of international contracts and regulations. Second, the project aims to better distinguish between the three notions of globalisation, internationalism and European integration. With a focus on social and patent policy, it can be shown that although international coordination was imperative, the strategies chosen were surprisingly different. Third, it wants to add a historical perspective to the current debate on European integration.
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Principal Investigator: Bernd Witte (Department of German Languages and Literatures)
The annotated Martin Buber Werkausgabe (MBW) collects the evidence of his wide-ranging intellectual and literary activities, which spanned more than six decades, and documents his contribution to the cultural and political debates of the 20th century. The edition is generally based on the first German version of his writings.
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Funding Source: DFG
Principal Investigator: Christoph Spörlein (Department of Social Sciences)
Duration: 2019 - 2023
Cooperating partners: Cornelia Kristen, Otto-Friedrich-Universitäy of Bamberg
This project builds upon a core principle in the sociology of migration, namely that immigrants are not a random sample of the origin population, but differ in certain characteristics from individuals who stay behind. The first aim is to provide a description of educational selectivity for a range of different immigrant groups across a variety of Western European destinations. In addition to educational selectivity, which is the main focus of this research, selectivity in attitudes also enters the account. The second aim is to theoretically disentangle and empirically investigate the links between selectivity and immigrants’ incorporation into the receiving societies. The focus is on a selection of important outcomes including cultural integration (in terms of language acquisition), positional or structural integration (in terms of education and labor market performance) and aspects of social and identificative integration (in terms of inter-ethnic relations and attitudes). An additional methodological aim is to contribute to the literature by systematically implementing improved measures of selectivity. In this project, selectivity is framed as an individual-level characteristic as opposed to the common approach of group-based specifications. We measure selectivity by recording an individual’s age- and sex-specific position in the origin country’s distribution of the selectivity characteristic in question. The resulting selectivity measure acknowledges that origin groups are typically composed of varying proportions of positively and negatively selected individuals. Advances in data availability allow making use of a variety of data sources, both for a large set of countries of origin and for various immigrant destinations throughout Europe. All data harmonization efforts as well as the scripts necessary for replicating the analyses carried out in the course of the project will be made available to the scientific community.
Funding Source: Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen)
Principal Investigator: Ines Soldwisch (Department of Historical Studies)
Duration: 06/2022 – 05/2024
Cooperating partners: Lisa Kallström (Lund University, Sweden)
The project examines the reception of Pippi Longstocking in Astrid Lindgren's books, which were allowed to appear in the GDR in 1975 and 1988. Two approaches are chosen: a historical and a cultural-scientific one. The first step is to analyze the political and social conditions under which the books were allowed to appear. This concerned political decision-making processes in the "GDR Children's Book Publishing House", but also political decision-making processes that were made up of a commission made up of GDR functionaries, GDR educators and GDR writers who decided which international books were allowed to appear in the GDR. This affected not only the printed text, but also the printed images in the book. What was allowed and what wasn't? What reasons were given for text modifications and image modifications? What associations should the pictures and text arouse in the children? These questions have not yet been answered in Swedish and German research. The joint project aims to close this gap. The project thus makes a valuable contribution to historical and cultural childhood research, dictatorship research and international picturebook research.
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Funding Source: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Principal Investigator: Lea Schäfer (Department of Jewish Studies)
Duration: 11/2018 – 04/2022
Cooperating partners: Columbia University Libraries (USA)
"Syntax of Eastern Yiddish Dialects" examines syntactic structures that can be found in the questionnaires of the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry. As a main goal the project wants to map the variation that can be found in this source of Yiddish dialects which did not attract notice for long time. Analyses of selected phenomena (e.g. negative concord, partice verbs, word order, relative clauses) will follow. The project also holds a focus on the influence oft he coterritorial languages and the relationship to Western Yiddish and older stages of Yiddish.
Funding Source: VolkswagenStiftung - Opus Magnum
Principal Investigator: Valeska von Rosen (Department of Art History)
Duration: 04/2021 – 05/2023
European artists' self-portraits in all artistic media and materials - from the emergence of the "independent" portrait in the 15th century to the establishment of the first genre-specific collection in the late 17th century - are subject of the planned monograph. The aim is to reconstruct the figures of thought relevant to the production and reception of the works of self-formation, reflection and experience with the questions of when and in what form they attain medial and material concretion in the early modern period. The aim of the planned publication is thus a counter-proposal to Jacob Burckhardt's claimed "birth of the individual" in the 15th century, which was still recently cited as a justification figure for the emergence of self-portraits. According to the thesis, it is not a matter of unmediated "self-expression" and "originality". Instead, a poietic 'self-forming' or 'self-modelling' is assumed here. These terms, like the "(Renaissance) self-fashioning" apostrophised by Stephen Greenblatt, are neologisms derived from the verbs formare (to form) and fingere (to form, model), which are dominantly used in the historical portrait context. Self-fashioning' in the early modern sense has not only its means but also its end in the literal, even manual and processual activity of shaping. In a metaphorical sense, 'self-shaping' means the habitualised adoption of emotions, roles and patterns of behaviour.
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Projektleitung: Hartwig Hummel und Ulrich von Alemann (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften)
Principal Investigators: until 12/2017
The Forschungs-Initiative NRW in Europa (FINE) is based in Düsseldorf, in close proximity to state politics and other relevant players. FINE wants to utilise this ‘locational advantage’ over other research institutes in order to set a special accent in the confusing landscape of European integration science and regional research. We assume that there is a lack of political science regional research with European references. The starting point of this initiative is therefore to place political decision-making processes in their regional dimension more strongly at the centre of European political science research. Among other things, this involves analysing negotiation systems and interest mediation processes that play a decisive role in shaping European development.
Our aim is to offer a broad spectrum of scientific services and transfer activities. To this end, FINE's activities are focussed on research, communication and cooperation. In addition to carrying out our own research projects, we are particularly keen to establish a North Rhine-Westphalian network in which researchers and practitioners can exchange ideas.
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