Projects supported by the Foundation

"Wissenschaftsgeschichte" auf den Tagungen der Nobelpreisträger

Forced and free labor, Capital, and the Global South: The financing of the slave trade and the impacts of slavery in the Age of Abolition (1780–1850)

Human Security in Prison: Perspectives, Subjectivities and Experiences. A Contribution to the Anthropology of Security

Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions – SAHC

Justice and litigation in the Portuguese community of Hamburg in the Seventeenth century: The Interplay between Communal, Royal and Imperial jurisdiction

South-South Solidarity and the National Liberation Movements from Portuguese Colonies, 1963–1975

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The Last Hunter-Gatherers of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic habitation and palaeoenvironments in the northwest Zagros

Hearth & Home: Emerging Landscapes of „Nomadic“ Settlement in the Southern Siberian Iron Age

“We Scythians have no cities or fields (…) We have the tombs of our fathers,” are the words Herodotus puts in the mouth of Scythian King Idanthyrsos. It’s an image that has persisted to this day. Not only the father of historiography and his Greek successors, but also the chroniclers of the Chinese Zhou and Han dynasties characterized their neighbours as highly mobile nomads who were independent of any settlement and differed from the sedentary peoples who possessed writing and with whom they were often at war. Their large burial mounds and stone monuments rise up from the steppes and have fascinated archaeologists for centuries. When substantive “nomadic” settlements were discovered, they were interpreted as extraordinary responses to specific environmental conditions and socio-political events.

Dokumentation zu diesem Projekt

The impact of mercenaries and PMSCs on civil war dynamics

The Geopolitics of Organised Forced Migration: A Global Analysis

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Preserving the History of Puppet Theatre in the Arab World: Restoration, Conservation and Digitization of the collection of the National Center for Puppetry Arts in Tunis

Preserving the History of the Arts of Puppetry in the Arab World

Dokumentation zu diesem Projekt

Berlin Bodies: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Twentieth Century Berlin

Atatürk and His Cult: A Visual History

Uncovering Security: Emerging Threats

Connecting Colony and Republic: German American Migration Across the Revolutionary Divide

Art, Architecture, the City and Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach: The Story of Hans Hollein's Masterpiece

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Treasure Hunting and Grave Robbery in Islamic Egypt - An Analysis of Arabic Manuals for Treasure Hunters (kutub al-mutalibin)

Die Siegel und Siegelabrollungen aus Hierakonpolis

Channelling Identities. Borders, Belonging and the Idea of the Channel Tunnel in France and Britain, 1802–1994