Ongoing Research Projects

Project AGE(ING)
The Fabrication of Centenarians:
New Forms of Age-Differentiation in American Autobiographies

Mita Banerjee, Prof. Dr. (coordination) / Julia Velten

Project ALBINISM
Un/doing Albinism: Recodings of a bodily difference
through historically shifting frames

Matthias Krings, Prof. Dr. (coordination) / Kathrin Hoff / Christopher Hohl

Project NAME CHANGE
Transgressive Practices of Self-naming:
Marking Differences through Free Name Change
in Sweden

Damaris NĂ¼bling, Prof. Dr. (coordination) / Friederike Kreil / Anne Rosar

Project NATIONAL-DAY CELEBRATIONS
Performing the nation and the role of subnational
differences in African national days

Carola Lentz, Prof. Dr. (coordination) / Marie-Christin Gabriel / Konstanze N'Guessan

Project PARENTS
Making Mothers and Fathers.
Gender and the Differentiation and De-Differentiation
of Prenatal Parenthood

Stefan Hirschauer, Prof. Dr. (coordination) / Peter Hofmann / Annekathrin Stange

Project RELIGION
Enterprising Evangelicalism: Distinction and Inclusion
in Contemporary American Christian Religious Periodicals

Oliver Scheiding, Prof. Dr. (coordination) / Anja-Maria Bassimir

Project SCHOOL
Universities and Free Schools Between Differentiation Requirements and Institutionalized Contrasts
Herbert Kalthoff, Prof. Dr. (coordination) / Tristan Dittrich / Kornelia Engert
English project abstract will follow shortly

Project THEATER
Reproduction and Transgression of Body-Related Human Differentiation in Theater
Friedemann Kreuder, Prof. Dr. (coordination) / Ellen Koban / Hanna Voss