Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
106-01	Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
106-02	Asian Studies
106-03	African, American and Oceania Studies
106-04	Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
106-05	Religious Studies and Jewish Studies

Deputy Contact
105-01	Medieval German Literature
105-02	Modern German Literature
105-03	European and American Literature
105-04	General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Exzellenzcluster
2052	Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies
2176	Understanding Written Artefacts

Graduiertenkolleg
2445	Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation
2661	Connecting – Excluding. Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks
2686	Contradiction Studies: Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
2706	Transformative Religion: Religion as Situated Knowledge in Processes of Social Transformation
2833	East Asian Futures: Visions and Realizations on National, Transregional and Global Scales
2836	Fixing Futures: Investigating Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies

Sonderforschungsbereich
1171	Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
1199	Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition
1475	Metaphors of Religion. Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
2101	Urban Ethics: Conflicts about the good and proper conduct of life in 20th and 21st century cities
2311	Jewish Scepticism (HCAS-JS)