How can new technologies safeguard historic treasures against climate change and mass tourism? At the University of Bamberg’s Graduate School of Smart City Science, Rana Tootoonchi is exploring how digital twins can transform the conservation of cultural heritage.
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.
From June 17 to 19, researchers from around the world will gather in Regensburg to examine freedom, sovereignty, and dependence in a global context at the 2026 annual conference of the Leibniz Science Campus (LWC). Taking the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence as its starting point, the conference—titled “In/ter/dependence: Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom,” will examine how moments of political self-determination—from the American Revolution through decolonization processes to the emergence of new states following the collapse of empires and the end of communism in Europe—have transformed political, social, and economic orders.
The new AI tool “Palaeographicum” is revolutionizing research into the cultures of the Ancient Near East: It identifies individual variations of cuneiform signs—a huge step forward for academia.
An international study based on Bavarian findings shows that southern Germany‘s population after the collapse of the Roman Empire developed through the gradual intermingling of different groups and regional mobility—not through single large-scale migrations. The study has now been published in the prestigious journal Nature.
The TyMin research project, a collaborative venture between the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) and Otto Friedrich University Bamberg, will kick off in early April 2026. Led by Prof. Dr. Jana Costa (LIfBi) and Dr. Caroline Rau (University of Bamberg), the project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will spend the next three years investigating how profound pedagogical convictions can be systematically measured. In this way, the project will contribute to the long-term development of teacher training.
Gandhi, Putin, Trump: when people become messianic figures, similar mechanisms are always at work. The new Käte Hamburger International Centre at the University of Würzburg aims to uncover them.
The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) has granted funding to extend the interdisciplinary research network "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" until 2028. The initiative unites the University of Bayreuth with the Universities of Marburg and Erfurt along with the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI, Freiburg) to examine contemporary conflicts and peace-building efforts through a postcolonial lens and strengthen peace and conflict research in Germany.
