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      • Djamila Ribeiro
      • Prof. Dr. Susan Berk-Seligson
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      • Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith
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      • Prof. Dr. M. Dores Cruz
      • Prof. Dr. Shadia Husseini de Araújo
      • Prof. Dr. Heike Egner
      • Prof. Dr. Markus Winkler
      • Prof. Dr. Thiemo Breyer
      • Prof. Dr. Heath Cabot
      • Dr. Christoph Günther
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      • Prof. Dr. Immacolata Amodeo
      • Prof. Dr. Lenka Bustikova
      • Prof. Dr. Chris Lukinbeal
      • Prof. Dr. Lindsay Robertson
      • Prof. Dr. Zhang, Longxi
      • Naoki Sakai / Brigitta Busch / Brian J. Baer
      • Prof. Dr. Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
      • Prof. Dr. Jenny Brumme
      • Prof. Dr. Lieven D’hulst
      • Prof. Dr. Scott A. Lukas
      • Prof. (em.) Dr. Oevermann / Prof. (em.) Dr. Schütze
      • Prof. Dr. David Siroky
      • Prof. Dr. Hyo-Seon Lee
      • Prof. Dr. Paul Tabar
      • Prof. Dr. Raúl Zurita
      • Prof. Dr. Carmine Chiellino
      • Prof. Dr. Erich Prunc
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        • Lecture: Genealogies of Translation Theory: Jerome
        • Lecture: Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation
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      • Interculturality in Germany and Europe
        • Africa Festivals
        • Survey of Migration in Mainz
        • The Acculturation Experiences of Children of Korean ‘Migrant Workers’ in Germany and ‘Foreign Migrant Workers’ in Korea: A Qualitative Investigation
        • Black European Studies / BEST
        • Remembrance of the World Wars — A German-French Comparison
        • ‘Les colonisés de l´intérieur’: Renegotiating Cultural Identities in French Society
        • “Ethnic Marketing” in Germany
        • Community in Exile: Eritrean Networks in Germany
        • Cultural Mediation and Cultural Creativity: The Translating Activities of Multilingual Jewish Authors from Bukovina
        • Globalized Magic. Intercultural Entcounter Through Spiritual Eclecticism
        • On the Construction of Religious and Cultural Identities: Muslims in Rhineland-Palatinate
        • The Consequences of Intercultural Contacts: German-Polish Youth Exchange Programs
        • Pariser Rechenschaft – Parisian Account (1926)
        • “Ethnic Business” in the Rhein-Main Area
        • Cultural Impact on Visual Perception: A Comparative Analysis
      • Europe and the Middle East
        • The Topography of Settlement in Petra’s City Center
        • Spheres of Global Arab Communities – With a Focus on Brazil and the U.S.
        • Cultural-Geographic Archaeological Research on the History of Cyrenaica
        • Temple Objects from Yavneh
        • 9/11 as Cultural Turning Point
        • The 2007 Excavation Campaign at Tell el-‘Oreme / Kinneret on the Sea of Galilee: Reappraising Current Excavation Finds
        • Spaces for Living and Spaces of Imagination: Studies for a Sacral Topography of Ancient Roman Cities
        • Murjid and Marabout in Morocco and Tunisia: Institutionalized Intercultural Counselling in Segmentally Differentiated Societies
        • Youtai – Presence and Perception of Jews and Judaism in China
        • Global Society and National Gender Politics in Islamic Countries
        • Hinduism in Migration
        • Hollywood and Orient
        • Cultural Encounters in Egypt and the Ancient Near East: The Cinematographic Reception of the Ethnic “Other”
        • Crucible of Cultures: Syria From Late Antiquity to the End of the Crusades
        • ISATEX: Online-Network for the Exegesis of the Old Testament
        • Research Group 295: Cultural and Linguistic Contacts: Processes of Transformation in North-Eastern African and West Asian History
        • Buddhist Legends: Transmission and Transformation of Indian-Chinese Narratives on Their Way to Europe
        • Between Cultures: Moroccan Circus Acrobats
      • Europe and the New World
        • First Peoples – Rights and Representation – to be translated
        • Re-Building the Past: The Reconstruction and Perception of Historic City Centers of Salvador (Brazil) and Nürnberg (Germany)
        • “Interkulturalität”, “hybridity,” and “métissage” as Paradigms for Interpreting the Texts of Québec’s “écriture migrante”
        • “Happy and Sweet on the Way There, Bitter and Sad on the Return:” The Transatlantic Experiences of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries under Portuguese and Spanish Patronage (1759/1767)
        • “High Life in Club Afrique”: London Encounters between Musicians from Africa, the Caribbean, and Great Britain Associated with the Melodisc Label and Club Afrique
        • Culture and Geopolitics in a Globalized World: The Francophonie as International Cultural Realm and International Political Actor
        • Dub Reggae in Great Britain
        • Ethnic Identity of Arab Settlements in the New World
        • Globalization and Ethnicity: Construction of Hybrid Indentit(ies) in North America and Great Britain
        • International Migration and Cultural Pluralism: Arab Migrants in Latin America
        • Jewish Migration: Intercultural Experiences in the Autobiographical Discourse of Emigrated German-Jewish Intellectuals
        • Derek Walcott’s Writings on Caribbean Culture, 1957-74
        • Periphery and Center: Hybridization and Postcolonial Migration Between the Caribbean and Colonial Metropolis
      • Intercultural Media
        • The Amazon Rainforest as Topic of Intercultural Communication
        • International Women´s Film Research Network
        • The Global Western: Intercultural Transformations of an American Genre par Excellence
        • Identity Constructions and the Mediation of Cultural Heritage in Tunisian TV Series
        • White Roles in Black African Film: Towards an Intercultural Negotiation of Identity Models
        • The City and the Other: (In)Security Discourses and Urban Development in Greater Europe
        • An Intercultural Comparison in Political Communication
        • In a Media Ghetto? Use of Media among Arabs in Mainz, Bad Kreuznach and Ludwigshafen
        • Covering Catastrophies: Media Effects on the Attitudes of Youths
        • The Mainstreaming of Minorities? A Comparative Analysis of Ethnicity and its Function in German and US-American Popular Culture
        • Campus-TV Mainz
        • Xenophobia and Mass Media in an International Comparison
      • Translation and Adaptation
        • Economic Lay Interpreting
        • Temporality in Theme Parks
        • Historical Translation Policy
        • Translation and the Law
        • The Interpreter’s Task in Expert Testimony in Criminal Cases
      • Transatlantic Worlds
        • Alterity and Performative Knowledge: Contemporary Re-Definitions of Modernity and Modernism in the Transatlantic Triangle
        • Towards a New Visual Politics between Global Icon and Iconoclash: Transatlantic Visual Worlds in Intercultural and Intermedial Comparison
      • Culture in Sport and Medicine
        • Medical Ethical Decisions about Death in Intercultural Context
        • Conditions for Internationalism as a Standard for the Olympics: A Social Constructivist View on Conception and Rationality in the World of the International Olympic Academy
        • Nursing and Medical Care of Muslims in the German Health Care System
      • The Invention of Norms
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Lectures - (Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette (Potsdam), Prof. Dr. Detlef Garz (Mainz), Dr. Joshua B. Nelson (Oklahoma))

Lectures - (Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette (Potsdam), Prof. Dr. Detlef Garz (Mainz), Dr. Joshua B. Nelson (Oklahoma))

Symposium 'Jerusalem in Medial Imaginations'

Symposium 'Jerusalem in Medial Imaginations'

Germersheimer Übersetzerlexikon (UeLEX) Conference UeLit V

Germersheimer Übersetzerlexikon (UeLEX) Conference UeLit V

INTER.VIEW – Perspektiven auf aktuelle Fotografie im Senegal und in Mali – Exhibition FIFF

INTER.VIEW – Perspektiven auf aktuelle Fotografie im Senegal und in Mali – Exhibition FIFF

Junior Scientist-Symposium „Nähe suchen, Distanz wahren: Konfigurationen des filmischen Raums“

Junior Scientist-Symposium „Nähe suchen, Distanz wahren: Konfigurationen des filmischen Raums“

International Conference 'Different Shades of White: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Albinotic Body'

International Conference 'Different Shades of White: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Albinotic Body'

Anthropology of Music Lecture Series and Master Class - Valuing Music

Anthropology of Music Lecture Series and Master Class - Valuing Music

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  • Lecture series: Situierte Geschichten: Das kleine Fernsehspiel in der Welt / Start on November 15, 2023
  • Film Screening Series: Urban Identities WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN - Research Group Indian Ocean / June 15, 2023: The Club
  • International Workshop: Reconfiguring Language Preservation and Protecting Language-Related Social Practices and Spaces/ Dezember 1, 2023 / Research group Anthropological Linguistics / Linguistic Anthropology
  • International Conference: Afrobeats: Digital Encounters and the Global Mainstreaming of African Popular Music / 12-14 September 2023
  • Press release: German Research Association funds new Collaborative Research Center ‘Human differentiation’ at the JGU with 10 Million Euros
  • PRESS RELEASE: Project CEDITRAA (Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia) funded by BMBF with 2.1 Mio Euros / Opening Conferrence: July 8-9, 2021 | Methods Workshop: October 4-5, 2021 | Fellow Dr. Patrick Oloko | JGU news
  • ZIS has been funded as a high-potential research area of the JGU by the Research Initiative Rhineland-Palatinate since 2019

 

 

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New publications in the Series Intercultural Studies

 

INTERCULTURAL STUDIES

MARTINA KOPF and SASCHA SEILER (Hg.): Die 1968er Jahre/Utopie und Desillusion in Literatur, Film und Musik. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2023, 187 S.

Volume 13 of the Series Intercultural Studies of the Center for Intercultural Studies (ZIS

 

Further Publications

WIESNER, HANNE / TOMSKAYA, MARIA / MENZEL, BIRGIT / GUSEYNOVA, INNARA (Hrsg.): Märchen aus Eurasien/Сказочный мир Евразии. Ludwigshafen: Llux Verlag, 2020.

 

 

 

Guests in ZIS

Winter Semester 2021/22

Prof. Dr. Shulamit Bruckstein 

Photo: Copyright Linda Rosa Saal

 

 

 

September - December 2021

Dr. Baruch Shomron

 

 

 

 

News / Conferences

New World Order of Cultural Production

CEDITRAA started in 2021 as a joint project of the Rhein-Main Universities (RMU) in cooperation with the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos. The project examines cultural productions in Africa and Asia and explores the role of digital media in the global distribution of these products.

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Former ZIS fellow Baruch Shomron is the new holder of the Israel professorship at JGU's Institute of Communication

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Visiting scholars

ZIS Fellow Prof. Dr. Dariuš Zifonun

October 2022 | During his stay, Zifonun will give a lecture on the general topic 'Sociology of Social Worlds' and develop interdisciplinary research perspectives in a workshop aimed at developing analytical perspectives and methodological approaches.

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ZIS Fellow Prof. Dr. Chris Lukinbeal

Winter Semester 2023/24 | Lecture on Dezember, 7: The Racial Sonoran Landscapes of Hombre and Westerns as Topographical Events

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Publication series: Intercultural studies

MARTINA KOPF / SASCHA SEILER (2023): Die 1968er Jahre/Utopie und Desillusion in Literatur, Film und Musik. Heidelberg, 187 S.

Volume 13 of the Series Intercultural Studies of the Center for Intercultural Studies (ZIS)

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OLAF MÜLLER / ELENA POLLEDRI (2021): Theateradaptionen. Interkulturelle Transformationen moderner Bühnentexte. Heidelberg, 258 S.

Volume 12 of the Series Intercultural Studies of the Center for Intercultural Studies (ZIS)

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German Research Association approves establishment of new Collaborative Research Center "Human Differentiation" at the JGU

Project CEDITRAA (Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia) funded by BMBF with 2.1 million Euros


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