Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past"
In interdisciplinary perspectives, we examine how values associated with the past are created and conveyed. Research is being conducted – in German, European and global dimensions – how historical evidence is shaped by language, mediality and digitality, how conceptions of space and time contour images of history and how the past is used as a resource for communalization processes and identity conflicts as well as in a growing history market.Contributions of the IEG to the Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past"
Research Hub I: Regimes of Evidence
Lab 1.1 Language, Performance and Lifeworlds
- Benedikt Brunner with the project "Frühe Zeit-Zeugen: Erinnerung und Evidenz in religiösen (Auto-)Biografien der Frühen Neuzeit"
Lab 2.1. Dynamic Spaces (coordinated by Joachim Berger, with Christoph Bernhardt/IRS)
- Denise Klein and Thomas Weller with the project "Multiple Vergangenheiten und verflochtene Geschichten. Europäische Fremdbeschreibungen in Geschichtswerken der Frühen Neuzeit"
- Bernhard Gißibl with the project "Ethnographische Beziehungsdinge: Völkerkundliche Sammlungen als Kristallisationspunkte kommunalen und (post)-kolonialen Weltbezugs"
- Joachim Berger on "European Historiography as spatiotemporal knowlege orders"
- Bernhard Gißibl with the project "Die Wildnisse des Anthropozäns: Zum Wandel raum-zeitlicher Referenzen im internationalen Naturschutz" (with DM München)
Lab 3.1 Litigious Value of the Past:
- Stanislau Paulau with the project "Valuing Pasts for Futures: Mobilizing Historical and Religious Narratives" (with ZMO Berlin)
- Stanislau Paulau with the project »Interreligious Appropriations: Media, Modes and Practices of Coping with Religious Diversity in the Global History of Eastern Christianity«