We are the Cluster of Excellence Cross Cultural Philology (3061). Our aim is to conduct transcultural and interdisciplinary research into cultural and philological practices from a global perspective and from a wide variety of viewpoints. We analyse material from the last 5000 years.
The Cluster of Excellence "Cross-Cultural Philology (3061)", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is based at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (speaker university) and has numerous collaborations with national and international institutions, universities, and research facilities. The collaboration with Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg is particularly noteworthy. The spokesperson for the Cluster of Excellence is Prof. Dr. Beate Kellner. Prof. Dr. Holger Gzella and Prof. Dr. Susanne Reichlin are the deputy spokespersons.
The program will start on January 1, 2026, and has been approved for an initial funding period of seven years. The project brings together 25 philology-oriented disciplines from seven faculties at LMU, a chair at JMU, and the IT group for the humanities and cultural studies. Research at the Cluster of Excellence is divided into five Research Areas, which are linked by three Transversal Perspectives.
Research at the Cluster of Excellence is dedicated to investigating philological practices and cultural processes from a global and transcultural perspective.