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.
Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.
Increasing influence of anti-pluralist parties is often associated with lower academic freedom in the respective country. This is one of the findings of the latest Academic Freedom Index (AFI) which is being released March 13, 2025. Scholars at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) publish the index every year in collaboration with colleagues at the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg. It covers 179 countries across the world.
Researchers from the Africa Focus in Bayreuth will investigate the specific characteristics of vocational training in selected African countries. Together with colleagues from the UK and Canada, as well as partners from Ghana, Benin, and Côte d'Ivoire, Erdmute Alber, former Vice Dean of research in the Cluster Africa Multiple, will from 2025-2028 explore the pathways young people in Benin, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire take to acquire vocational training and the role traditional "apprenticeships" or schooling play in this process.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding an interdisciplinary research project at the University of Regensburg (UR) for another three years: It will focus on "corruption thinking" in Orthodox Christianity.
At this year's ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Hawaii, a research contribution by Alexander Kalus, a doctoral student at the Regensburg Faculty of Informatics and Data Science (FIDS), received an Honorable Mention Award for the second time in succession.
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.
