The Preslav Treasure, Bulgaria. Restauration and Research of a tenth century jewellery find (Project Management Prof. Falko Daim, Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz) Photo: Great golden necklace with seven almond-shaped pendants, each ornamented on both sides with 14 enamel plates (image rights: proprietor: Museum Veliki Preslav, city of Preslav, Bulgaria. © RGZM and Museum Veliki Preslav, photo: Sabine Steidl (RGZM))

The Saltmen of Iran. The cultural heritage of the Salt Men Museum in Zanjān (Project Management Prof. Thomas Stöllner, German Mining Museum Bochum, Ruhr University Bochum) Photo: Landscape near the excavation site of Douzlākh/Chehrābād, Zanjān (image rights: DBM/RUB)

Extremism in Early Islam. The Kharijites in comparative perspective (Project Management Dr. Teresa Bernheimer, Munich) Photo: Two Drachms (silver coins) of Kharijite leaders from the 7th century AD. (image rights: The American Numismatic Society)

The mass grave of Uxul, Mexico. The function of ritual violence in the classical Mayian society (Project Management Dr. Nicolaus Seefeld, Bonn) Photo: The artificial cave’s entrance and the surrounding platforms during the excavations in 2013 (image rights: N. Seefeld)

Ludovico Foscarini (1409–1480). A Venetian patrician, public official and humanist (Project Management Leonard Horsch, Munich) Photo: Pietro, Tullio and Antonio Lombardo designed Foscarini’s tomb in the Basilica S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice between 1480 and 1485; it has only partly survived. (image rights: ill. in: Johannes Grevembroich, Monumenta veneta ex antiquis ruderibus, Museo Civico Correr, MS Gradenigo-Dolfin 228 II f. 96r)

The power of silence. Political communication regimes in Europe in the long 19th century
(Project Management Dr. Theo Jung, Freiburg) Photo: George Cruikshank, „A Free Born Englishman! The Admiration of the World!!! And the Envy of Surrounding Nations!!!!!”: The freedom of speech is under pressure in Britain in 1819. (image rights: Trustees of the British Museum, Satires Collection Registration Nr. 1868,0808.12910, CC BY­NC­SA 4.0)

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))

’A tiny picture of a great life’. On the cultural history of Munich’s first cabaret ‘The Eleven Executioners’ (1901-1904) (Project Management Dr. Judith Kemp, Munich) Photo: The portrait masks of the eleven founding fathers, by Wilhelm Hüsgen. (image rights: private property Judith Kemp, Munich)

The real music is in art. Interfaces and transgressions between art and music since the 1960s (Project Management Dr. Fiona McGovern, Berlin) Photo: Karlheinz Stockhausen, „Originals”, Festival of the Avant Garde 1964, New York City (image rights: Photo: © Dan McCoy/Rainbow, in: Joan Rothfuss, Topless Cellist. The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman, Cambridge, Mass: MIT 2014, p. 97)

Oil and Struggle for a New Global Economic Order. The significance of the 1970s oil crises for North-South relations (Project Management Dr. Jonas Kreienbaum, Rostock) Photo: This 1974 cartoon visualizes the view that global power relations shifted with the 1973 Oil Crisis. (image rights: Washington Star, 1974)