The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), together with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), has achieved an important success: the German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended the funding of the Mainz Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1482 “Human Differentiation” for a further three and a half years, until June 2029. The IEG is involved in the research network with three subprojects and contributes its historical expertise to this social and cultural sciences consortium.
Since 1 July 2021, the DFG has been funding the Collaborative Research Centre 1482 “Human Differentiation” (CRC 1482) at JGU and the IEG in Mainz. The CRC investigates the fundamental theoretical question of how human beings differentiate from one another. Its focus lies not on the differences themselves, but on the diverse practices of making distinctions. In addition to History, numerous disciplines from the social and cultural sciences at JGU are involved, including Sociology, Ethnology, American Studies, African Studies, Linguistics, Social Psychology and Theatre, Translation and Media Cultural Studies.
From the IEG, PD Dr Anne Friedrichs, IEG Director Prof Dr Johannes Paulmann, PD Dr Thomas Weller and Dr Malin Wilckens are involved in the CRC. With the renewed funding, four doctoral positions can be filled in their projects from January 2026 onwards.
Read more in the German press release.
