Researchers at the new Center for Philology and Digitality aim to bridge the gap between the humanities, computer science, and the digital humanities.
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.
How did local people get organized in the ancient world? This is the subject of a new research project at the University of Würzburg involving Theology, Philology and History.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are providing a total of EUR 880,000 to fund research into scientific poetry in Britain and Germany from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. The joint project between the universities of Marburg, York, Bayreuth and Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, focusses on the poetic communication of natural philosophical knowledge from fields such as geology, astronomy, and botany.
Young people in Germany are less proficient in mathematics, reading and science as compared to 2018. This is revealed in the new PISA study. Around one third of the 15-year-olds tested achieved only a very low level of proficiency in at least one of the three subjects. The results confirmed a downward trend already in evidence in the preceding PISA studies. The mathematics and reading scores of German students are only at OECD average levels. They remain above that level only in natural sciences.
Under the direction of Dr Sofia Rüdiger, the role of language on the internet is being analysed at the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth. A new project focuses on videos that showcase excessive food consumption. The German Research Foundation is funding the project with around 500,000 euros over a period of three years.
Together with international teams, Peter Riedlberger develops groundbreaking tools for Latin and Ancient Greek
Venezuela was once considered a prosperous country, not only in South America. But for years, the state is stuck in a deep economic crisis, and 80 percent of the population is considered poor. Moreover, repressive methods of rule operate behind a democratic façade. Against this background, a quarter of the population has left the country in the past ten years, according to the German Foreign Office. Among them is literary scholar and historian Dr. Laura Febres de Ayala, who is now in her third year at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) to continue her research.
Magical texts of the ancient Near East, Egypt and neighbouring regions are the focus of a new research group at the University of Würzburg. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is providing approx. 3.5 million euros for the first phase.
The spread of false information is increasingly hindering the clarification of socially relevant, scientifically proven facts. A representative study led by Prof. Dr. Laura König at the University of Bayreuth has now examined the impact of texts aimed at refuting myths and fake news concerning Covid-19 vaccines and genetically modified foods. The study, published in the British Journal of Health Psychology, shows: Content-related factors are considerably more important for the intended enlightening effect than the text structures much discussed in communication research.
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