Buenos Aires, Mumbai, Shanghai: A project in art history shows that the modern art movement was a global phenomenon and features virtual rambles in the cities where exiled artists found new inspiration.
The career of American Studies scholar Georgiana Banita has not followed the traditional path; she thinks and works flexibly on a project-by-project basis. In “Security for All,” she explores the controversial practice of predictive policing.
LMU anthropologist Sahana Udupa studies the sociopolitical impact of digital media, with a focus on the dynamics of extreme rhetoric on online platforms. Global collaborations are vital to understanding this global phenomenon.
A team of linguists from the University of Passau and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig have conducted the first large-scale comparison of body part vocabularies across 1,028 languages. The study published in the Nature journal “Scientific Reports” provides insights into universal and cultural factors of human body vocabularies.
Mitogenetic diversity of sheep did not decline in the Anatolian distribution area of wild sheep when sheep husbandry developed in the early Neolithic c. 10,000 years ago, as previously assumed. SNSB and LMU zooarchaeologist Prof. Joris Peters and collaborators could show that matrilineal diversity remained high during the first 1,000 years of human interference with sheep keeping and breeding in captivity, whilst only declining significantly in the course of the later Neolithic period. The results of their study are reported in the journal Science Advances.
The establishment of a new Center - Think Space Ukraine (TSU) or Denkraum Ukraine (DU) – aims to consolidate and advance Regensburg’s diverse expertise on Ukraine's culture, economy, politics, and law. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has pledged substantial support, injecting about 2.5 million euros from April 2024 to March 2028. This underscores the commitment to fostering the expansion of the numerous connections and collaborations with Ukrainian scholars that are already in place at the University of Regensburg (UR) in the realms of research, teaching, and knowledge transfer.
Magical texts from Egypt in Coptic script and language are at the centre of a research project at the University of Würzburg. They have now been collected and scientifically annotated for the first time in a 600-page book.
New research findings reveal: some children in early medieval Bavaria were breastfed for much longer periods than today. Also, many early Bavarians buried around 500 AD originate from other geographical regions where feeding practices apparently differed. A team of researchers led by the SNSB anthropologists Michaela Harbeck and Maren Velte analyzed human teeth from various archaeological sites in Bavaria. Their research findings were recently published in the scientific journals PLOS ONE and Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
Enabling higher education for young people in poverty-stricken areas, social hotspots and crisis regions on site – this has been the aim of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) since 2019 in collaboration with the Jesuit educational organization "Jesuit Worldwide Learning – Higher Education at the Margins" (JWL). One of the partnership’s offers is the "Learning Facilitator Program", which now has around 500 graduates in ten different countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Kenya and Sri Lanka. A detailed survey of graduates for a scientific study by JWL now shows the value of such offers not only for the students themselves, but also within their communities.
Prof. Dr. Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nigeria, has been awarded a Georg Forster Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in appreciation of his academic work to date. Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schüßler, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth, had nominated him for this prestigious science award. Recently, Prof. Agbakoba accepted the prize at a ceremony in Berlin. Until 2024 he will be researching the philosophical, ethical and intercultural foundations of development in Africa at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth.