Submarine images. Study of materials and environments of knowledge (1870–1930) (Project management Dr. Franziska Brons, Lüneburg) Photo: Image of the painter Zarh Pritchard at the bottom of the sea, 1921 (image rights: Marcel Lecoultre, Le peintre Zarh Pritchard est arrivé à peindre au fond de la mer, dont la richesse de décor est incomparable, in: Le Pèlerin. Revue illustrée de la semaine, Band 45, 1921, No. 2317, 21. August 1921, cover)

Lasting Wounds? The Immaterial Legacy of Conflict for Children (Project Management Dr. Roos van der Haer, Leiden) Photo: One of many rooms used to interview war-affected children (image rights: Dr. Roos van der Haer)

Breeding humans. Early Ideas and Strategies 1500–1870 (Project Management: Prof.  Maren Lorenz, Bochum) Photo: Ideal form of the white male body following the geometries of ancient Greek sculptures (image rights: „Dessein. Proportions généralles de l’Homme“, image XIV, in: Denis Diderot / Jean Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert (edt.), Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, Band 3 (copper engravings), Paris 1763)

Ancient Egyptian architecture and its reception in Modern Times. Architecture in Germany 1900–1933 (Project Management Dr. Maxi Schreiber, Darmstadt) Photo: False door in the tomb of Raemkai, Saqqara, fifth dynasty, ca. 2.400 BCE (image rights: Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: False Door on West Wall, via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, licensed under CC0 1.0)

From Empire to Nation State. A Comparative Analysis of the Emergence of Airspace in the 1920s-1950s Middle East (Project Management Özgür Ögütcü, Berlin) Photo: Workers building the runway of the Dov Hoz Airfield near Tel Aviv. (image rights: Zoltan Kluger creator QS:P170,Q7035699, https://commons.wikimedia.org)

The Spanish Foreign Legion, 1920–1939. Military volunteers in the colonial and civil war (Project Management Jannis Girgsdies, Berlin) Photo: “A la Legión“ – Recruitment poster of the Spanish Foreign Legion (image rights: The Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office, PA AA, Madrid 340)

The Roman Military Camp and Civil Settlement of Tel Shalem (Israel). Study of the presence of Roman military in Judea before and after the Bar-Kochba-Revolt (Project Management Prof. Michael Heinzelmann, Prof. Eckhard Deschler-Erb, Cologne) Photo: Statue of Hadrian in bronze from Tel Shalem (image rights: Photo: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/ by John Williams and Saul Peckham)

Cultural Heritage in Pakistan. Conservation and safeguarding of two buildings in the old city of Peshawar (Project management Dr. Abdul Samad, Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan, Peshawar) Photo: Sethi house, carpenters’ work (image rights: Dr. Abdul Samad)

The Dream of Sleep in the 20^th Century: Knowledge, Optimization, Fantasies and Resistance (Project management Prof. Hannah Ahlheim, Gießen) Photo: Apparatuses for registration of body movements during sleep and during waking hours (kymograph) (image rights: J. S. Szymanski, Aktivität und Ruhe bei Tieren und Menschen, in: Zeitschrift für allgemeine Physiologie 18 (1919), S. 105–162, here p. 130. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz)

Non-German members of the Waffen-SS. A European cultural history of the Nazi collaborators (Project Management Prof. Robert Gerwarth, University College Dublin, Centre for War Studies; Dr. Jochen Böhler, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Imre Kertész Kolleg) Photo: “Für die Ehre. Für das Leben”, Italian SS recruitment poster (image rights: © Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea (Macerata, Italy))

Trans-Imperial Objects: The Albums of the “German House” in Constantinople between Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman World (Project Management Prof. Robyn Dora Radway, Budapest) Photo: Habsburg Ambassador’s procession to the Topkapı Palace (image rights: Habsburg Ambassador’s procession to the Topkapı Palace, 1573, Album Amicorum and Travel Log of Lambert Wyts, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 3325 Han, fol. 163r.)