At the end of last year, the German Research Foundation (DFG) approved the extension of the Collaborative Research Centre 1482 “Human Differentiation” at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) — a significant achievement. All three subprojects at the IEG were funded, enabling us to appoint and now welcome four new colleagues. Together, we will systematically and interdisciplinarily advance our research on the historical processes of human differentiation.
- Julia Bezold and Melanie Falzetta are working on the subproject “European Refugees between South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe: Self- and External Categorisations in Contested Spaces of the Twentieth Century”, which examines the role of European refugees in the transfer of categories of personhood in contested spaces. The project is led by Anne Friedrichs.
- Doménica Noboa Ramos is part of the subproject “Religion und Ethnicity. Transatlantic Mobility and Human Differentiation in Colonial Spanish America” led by Thomas Weller, which investigates the relationship between notions of religious purity and ethnic ascriptions in colonial Spanish America.
- Stefanie Treydte is working in the subproject “Becoming Human, Being Human. Human Differentiation and Conviviality – From the Present into Prehistory” led by Johannes Paulmann, Director of the IEG, and Malin Wilckens. This project focuses on the history of science of research on prehistoric and early humans from the Enlightenment to the present.
We look forward to an inspiring collaboration and to the innovative impulses and promising perspectives that our new colleagues’ expertise will bring to our research.
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