Funding Source: European Research Council - Consolidator Grant

Principal Investigator: Eva-Maria Troelenberg (Department of Art History)

Duration: 04/2023 - 03/2028

This project will focus on the Mediterranean after 1800, looking at infrastructures and machineries of acceleration such as airports, train stations, motorway bridges, industrial ports, and engine-driven ships. These sites are often overlooked in overarching narratives of the region. The Mediterranean after 1800 typically appears either in decline or romanticized, therefore this ‘machinery room’ of modernity has never been at the center of attention. These sites of movement are associated with processes of migration, colonisation and decolonisation as well as environmental and economic crises, thus making the Mediterranean a politically relevant place today. MEDMACH will seize the potential of images and image archives to advance knowledge about the modern and contemporary Mediterranean. It will use images and image archives in order to understand travel, transit, migration, environment and cultural encounter in, around, and across the Mediterranean.

Founding Source: European Research Council – Consolidator Grant

Principal Investigator: Miriam Edlich-Muth (Department of English and American Studies)

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The interdisciplinary Porst-REALM project combines digital methods with hermeneutic approaches to analyse the 32 surviving versions of the pan-European medieval romance Floire et Blancheflor. The key goals of the project are, on the one hand, to create a new understanding of how this popular narrative was adapted and received across different regions of Europe and, one the other hand, to create a template for new mixed-method approaches to the study of multilingual historical text traditions.