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5/22/12
Mainz linguists publish the first modern introduction to onomastics for both experts and the broader public 21.05.2012 Cows and hurricanes, inns and distant celestial bodies – as different as they seem to be, they do have something in common: They all bear names, whether it be Berta the cow, ...
5/21/12
International Conference by the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" The term stress' emerged about 70 years ago as a medico-social concept that was developed in the West and then rapidly spread. Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global ...
5/14/12
International cooperation project republishes auction catalogues from the time between 1930 and 1945 For the first time, all auction catalogues published in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland between 1930 and 1945 are being recorded bibliographically, digitised and published online. The project ...
5/10/12
Topics from Ultrafast Data Transfer to Climate Engineering to Novel Materials / All Programmes Interdisciplinary What is the role of phosphorus resources for trees and forests – and what do they mean for the nutrition and balance of a forest ecosystem? How can ultrafast wireless transmission ...
5/8/12
DFG to Establish Seven New Research Units / Over 16 Million Euros in Total for the First Funding Period The establishment of six new Research Units and one Clinical Research Unit has been decided by the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). ...
4/25/12
Germany’s highest valued international research award goes to five researchers from abroad. Two philosophers, a physicist, a medical scientist and a classicist are the new Alexander von Humboldt professors. The international award for research in Germany, worth up to five million EUR, is granted ...
4/23/12
LMU Munich has notched up another success in the latest round of applications for Alexander von Humboldt Professorships. Stephan Hartmann, currently Professor of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, who was nominated by LMU, is among those recently ...
4/23/12
In today’s uncertain economic climate, both students and educators are pondering the importance of the humanities for higher education and society as a whole. Higher education and research institutions in both Europe and North America are facing tighter budgets and shifting sources of funding as ...
4/23/12
International Conference at the Graduate School of North American Studies On May 11th and 12th, 2012, Freie Universität Berlin’s Graduate School of North American Studies will host an international conference about North America’s understanding of Home as both a national and domestic space of ...
4/23/12
Users worldwide have now full digital access to thousands of Shakespearean illustrations 19.04.2012 On April 23, the day William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616, the new digital Shakespeare Illustration Archive Oppel-Hammerschmidt at the University Library of Johannes Gutenberg ...
4/17/12
Interreg-Project "Bones4Culture": the first analyses of 700 skeletons from the city of Schleswig The Interreg-project "Bones4Cultures" has just been started. Its aim is to analyze population, life, health and culture of the people that lived in the German-Danish border land during the Middle ...
3/30/12
A panel discussion on the challenges, contributions, and progress in humanities education and research featuring German, U.S., and Canadian experts at the German Center for Research and Innovation on April 3, 2012. NEW YORK (March 29, 2012) – In today’s uncertain economic climate, both graduates ...
- Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Competence Center for a Sustainable University (Universität Hamburg)
3/30/12
The Postdoctoral Research Forum (PRF) “Sustainable Future” at the newly established Competence Center for a Sustainable University at the Universität Hamburg will be launched in April 2012 and aims at attracting excellent junior researchers with a clear potential to develop and realize their ...
3/28/12
Meeting in San Francisco, the President of LMU Munich Professor Bernd Huber and Professor Robert J. Birgeneau, the Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, have agreed to extend the existing cooperation arrangement between the two institutions, which has been in operation for the ...
3/27/12
Under the brand “Research in Germany - Land of Ideas”, the BMBF, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is hosting issue- and country-specific campaigns abroad to promote innovation and research in Germany. Now also in Russia, under the slogan “Russia and Germany - Partnerships ...
3/27/12
Ministers from Hesse and Baden-Württemberg present the unique project The unique holdings of the medieval monastic library of Lorsch, currently scattered over 68 libraries worldwide, are being re-compiled into a virtual library. In cooperation with the Administration of State Houses and Gardens ...
3/5/12
Mainz University and the University of Edinburgh to work jointly on researching "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" by Sir Walter Scott 23.02.2012The German Consulate General in Edinburgh has welcomed the inception of a joint German-Scottish research project concerning the ballads published ...
2/13/12
The long-term cultural studies project will examine the interaction between the bourgeois civil society and courtiers in urban environments 10.02.2012 - The Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities has given the green light for a new long-term cultural studies research project for which ...
2/10/12
Journalists and media organisations from around the world can from today submit their stories for the annual Energy of Word award. The competition was established by the organisers of the Global Energy Prize, one of the world’s most respected awards in energy science. The Energy of Word aims to ...
1/18/12
4000-year-old cuneiform writings from Mesopotamia tell us little about the brewing techniques used at the time Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilisation, fermented cereal juice was highly ...
1/18/12
Foundation of the Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology in Rehovot/Israel A new element is being brought in to the already well-developed and multifaceted cooperation between the Max Planck Society and Israel's Weizmann Institute: on 11 January 2012, Max Planck ...
1/12/12
Anniversary programme begins with a talk by mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner The celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Heidelberg University's South Asia Institute (SAI) begin on 17 January 2012 with a talk by mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner about her climbing experiences in the ...
1/11/12
Giessen University's International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), funded by the German federal government’s Excellence Initiative, offers a three-year structured PhD-programme in the study of culture. Based on a 10-year experience in supporting excellent young researchers at ...
1/11/12
Giessen University's International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), funded by the German federal government’s Excellence Initiative, offers a three-year structured PhD-programme in the study of culture. With its excellent research environment, a doctoral programme which is ...
1/6/12
For the first time, German and American researchers use genome analysis to demonstrate population bottlenecks (pug) Coincident with the arrival of Europeans in North and South America, there was a significant decline in the indigenous populations on both continents. This is what scientists ...
12/27/11
Topics Range from European Socialization Processes to the Optimisation of Hearing Aids The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has approved the establishment of seven new Research Units. This follows a decision by the Joint Committee of Germany's central research ...
12/16/11
IMPRS – a 10-year success story December 12, 2011 For ten years International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS) have been successfully tempting young talented students from all over the world to come to Germany. The IMPRS cooperate with their German partner universities to provide a structured ...
12/15/11
Most Important Research Award Goes to Two Women and Nine Men / Fundamental Insights from Arabic Studies to Oceanography to Cellular Neuroscience Next year’s winners of the most important research award in Germany have been announced: The Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ...
12/6/11
LMU phonetician and speech scientist Professor Jonathan Harrington (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing) has been selected to receive one of the coveted Advanced Investigators Grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC). Harrington is the only representative of the humanities ...
12/2/11
The physical space in which humans live and work has far-reaching implications for the nature and quality of everyday life and experiences. As Winston Churchill once said, “we shape our buildings; thereafter our buildings shape us.” Understanding the space surrounding us has been a challenge for ...
12/1/11
The app enables scientists to collect large volumes of data on language processing in the brain Dok or dog - which of these is a real word, and which is not? Researchers use lexical decision tasks like this to find out what happens in the brain when people read words. Up to now, such experiments ...
12/1/11
A new German-Polish doctoral program on “Poland and Germany in Modern Europe” will be officially inaugurated in Wrocław on 4 December. This is the first such international graduate program devoted to themes drawn from the areas of the humanities, cultural and social studies to be established ...
11/25/11
DFG Establishes 16 New Research Training Groups / Strong Competition between Groups from All Scientific Disciplines / Four International Research Training Groups Represent Increasing Cross-Border Cooperation To further enhance the promotion of early-career researchers in Germany, the Deutsche ...
11/24/11
Anneliese Maier Research Award goes to seven researchers. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is awarding the very first Anneliese Maier Research Award to seven humanities scholars and social scientists. The new collaboration award is designed to promote the internationalisation of the ...
11/16/11
The Greeks were not always in such dire financial straits as today. But whether it is necessary to look as far back as these Bonn archeologists did in order to see a huge, flourishing Greek commercial area? They have just discovered a very large commercial area from the ancient Greek era during ...
11/15/11
What connects apocalyptic poetry from the 19th century to the works of Quentin Tarantino? What does it have to do with films about the end of time, such as “I am Legend”? Professor of English Studies, Ralph Pordzik, from the University of Würzburg explains all in a new study. Man’s fears in ...
10/5/11
Cooperation Enables Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to Access the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive, One of the Largest of its Kind in the World Freie Universität Berlin has signed a cooperation with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The partnership ...
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