Events overview

08 Jul

08/07/2026 Staying Focused on the Word: Book Design Principles for Medieval Prayer

Lecture by CJ Jones (University of Notre Dame) as part of the masterclass of the research training group

07 Jul

07/07/2026 Kritische Aufmerksamkeit im paränetischen Dialog. Zur 'Dekalogerklärung' Marquards von Lindau

Lecture by Pia Fuschlberger (Project C01) at Prof. Dr. Racha Kirakosian's Research Colloquium

01 Jul

01/07/2026 Wachsamkeit als Zeichen elitärer Identität? Überlegungen zu den Wahrsagern im Assyrischen Reich

Lecture by Saki Kikuchi (Project B01) at the Kolloquium der Abteilung für Alte Geschichte, LMU Munich

30 Jun

30/06/2026 Katechismen als Medium der Wissensvermittlung und Selbstreflexion. Überlegungen zu einem kaum erforschten Bereich spätmittelalterlicher Literatur

Talk by Magdalena Butz (C01) at the 15th HWGL-Colloquium

30 Jun

30/06/2026 Unseen Artefacts: Estimating Diversity in Ancient Near Eastern Material Culture

Lecture by Mary Frazer (Project B01) at the Kolloquium zum Alten Orient, LMU Munich

29 Jun

29/06/2026 Starting and Forgetting about Fires in Late Antiquity

Lecture by Jamie Kreiner (UCLA)

25 Jun

25/06/2026 Jealousy and Vigilance: A French Trajectory, from the Middle Ages to Chabrol (via Proust and Robbe-Grillet)

Lecture by Gaia Gubbini as part of the CRC meeting

22 Jun

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23 Jun

22/06/2026 - 23/06/2026 Workshop: Encuentro de saberes y miradas decoloniales

Event by the Projects A10 and B06

19 Jun

19/06/2026 Knowledge Intertwined: Intercultural Perspectives on Biodiversity and Environmental Monitoring

Performative workshop as part of the exhibition „Diversität der Biodiversität“

18 Jun

18/06/2026 Indigenes Umweltmonitoring in Amazonien: Praktiken, Wissen und globale Verantwortung

Conference featuring four indigenous environmental activists from Ecuador and Peru, as well as experts from academia and international project work / EZ

17 Jun

17/06/2026 Menschen – Umwelt – Wissen: Umweltmonitoring in Amazonien

Moderated discussion with four indigenous environmental activists from Ecuador and Peru

15 Jun

15/06/2026 Verdächtige Subjekte: Vigilanz und Differenzierung im US-mexikanischen Grenzraum

Lecture by Eveline Dürr (B06) as part of the lecture series organised by the SFB 1482 „Humandifferenzierung“

14 Jun

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23 Jun

14/06/2026 - 23/06/2026 Indigenous guests from the Amazon visit Munich

Series of events organised by Project A10

30 May

30/05/2026 Watchfulness and Solidarity Among Upwardly Mobile Latinx in Southern California

Lecture by Ingo Rohrer and Eveline Dürr (Project B06) at the Latin American Studies Association Kongress, Paris

28 May

28/05/2026 Community-based environmental monitoring in the Amazon: interdependencies, knowledge, and responsibility

Lecture by Jonas Bauschert (Project A10) at the conference "Ecologies, Sustainability, Climate Change: Epistemic Entanglements between Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge"

21 May

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22 May

21/05/2026 - 22/05/2026 CRC Retreat

Internal Event

20 May

20/05/2026 Field Trip to Augsburg by Project C01

Field Trip to University Library Augsburg with Prof. Dr. Almut Suerbaum (Oxford) and Prof. Dr. Löser (Augsburg)

12 May

12/05/2026 Guarding the tongue: Wachsamkeit gegenüber Zungensünden

Workshop with Prof. Dr. Almut Suerbaum (Oxford), organized by Project C01

07 May

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08 May

07/05/2026 - 08/05/2026 Clothing and Vigilance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Workshop of Projects B02, B03, C02 and C08

30 Apr

30/04/2026 Estimating Text Diversity and Abundance in Antiquity: The Cuneiform Literary and Scholarly Corpora ca. 700–100 BCE

Lecture by Mary Frazer (Project B01) at the workshop "Materiality of Texts," Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University and LMU Munich

30 Apr

30/04/2026 The Cultures of Vigilance. Towards a History of 'private' Watchfulness

Lecture by Arndt Brendecke (speaker of the CRC) during the Global Information History Workshop

27 Apr

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29 Apr

27/04/2026 - 29/04/2026 Writing Retreat

Event of the Research Training Group

25 Apr

25/04/2026 “In Plain Style: Performing Truth and Epistemic Uncertainties in William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.”

Conference Contribution by Annegret Schäffler (Project C08)

24 Apr

24/04/2026 Diversity Training

Event of the Research Training Group

23 Apr

23/04/2026 Fellow Presentation: Leonid Malec

21 Apr

21/04/2026 Die überrollte Epoche: Mobilität, Verkehr und Vigilanz im europäischen Zeitalter der Kutsche (1500–1900)

Lecture by Daniel Jütte (NYU, SFB-Mercator Fellow)

16 Apr

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17 Apr

16/04/2026 - 17/04/2026 Inventing, Expressing, Experiencing Sexuality: Critical Approaches beyond the Dichotomy of Norm and Transgression

Workshop of Project C02

15 Apr

15/04/2026 Imagining another's thoughts: Suspicion within a radical poetics of the probable

Talk by Lorna Hutson (Oxford University)

07 Apr

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08 Apr

07/04/2026 - 08/04/2026 Die eigene Zukunft gestalten: Strategische Karriereentwicklung

Workshop of the Research Training Group with Dr. Neela Enke

26 Mar

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27 Mar

26/03/2026 - 27/03/2026 Wachen und Erinnern in religiösen Gemeinschaften der Vormoderne (1300–1700)

Workshop Project A07

14 Mar

14/03/2026 Royal Protection as Elite Identity? Reevaluating the Role of Divinatory Experts of the Assyrian Empire and the Semantics of “Protection”

Talk by Saki Kikuchi (Project B01) at the Conference „Continuity and Discontinuity of Elites in the Ancient World and Beyond”

09 Mar

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11 Mar

09/03/2026 - 11/03/2026 "Aber alle denken daran." Jüdische Autorschaft und Zensur in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts

Workshop Project A09

13 Feb

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14 Feb

13/02/2026 - 14/02/2026 Marquard von Lindau im Kontext seiner Überlieferung und der Frömmigkeit seiner Zeit

Workshop Project C01

06 Feb

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07 Feb

06/02/2026 - 07/02/2026 Vigilance in the Republic of Genoa (1400-1800)

Workshop B04

05 Feb

05/02/2026 CRC-Colloquium

Project Presentation B03

19 Jan

19/01/2026 Observation, Interpretation, or Citation? Rethinking the Documentation of Neo-Assyrian Celestial Reports

Talk by Saki Kikuchi (Teilprojekt B01) at the Workshop "Reading the Sky: Divination, Hermeneutics, and Documentation in Mesopotamia"

19 Jan

19/01/2026 Reading the Assyrian Sky: The King's Contribution

Talk by Dr. Mary Frazer (Project B01) at the Workshop "Reading the Sky: Divination, Hermeneutics, and Documentation in Mesopotamia"

19 Jan

19/01/2026 Reading the Sky: Divination, Hermeneutics, and Documentation in Mesopotamia

Workshop B01

15 Jan

15/01/2026 CRC Colloquium

Project Presentation B04

12 Dec

12/12/2025 Masterclass

Event of the Research Training Group with Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg)

11 Dec

11/12/2025 Decoloniality and Critical Social Sciences. Tensions and Promises

Talk by Vortrag Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă (University Freiburg) at the Masterclass of the Research Training Group

10 Dec

10/12/2025 Jaguar, Drohne, Mensch: Indigene Wachsamkeit in Amazonien

Lecture by Jonas Bauschert (Project A10) at the Oberseminar of Prof. Dr. Stepahnie Zehnle

10 Dec

10/12/2025 "Gefallene Schwestern? Hochadlige Geschwisterbeziehungen unter der Zerreißprobe von Ehebruchsvorwürfen (16. Jahrhundert)."

Lecture by Maria Hauber at the Heidelberg conference "Bis dass der Tod sie scheidet. Bedeutung, Theorie und Praxis von Geschwisterbeziehungen im Hochadel der Neuzeit im europäischen Kontext (1500-1900)"

04 Dec

04/12/2025 Presentation Fellows: Ursina Füglister, Regina Bichler

27 Nov

27/11/2025 CRC-Colloquium

Project Presentation B02

14 Nov

14/11/2025 Jaguar, Drohne, Mensch: Indigene Wachsamkeit in Amazonien

Lecture by Anna Meiser (Project A10)

13 Nov

13/11/2025 Workshop Working Group 'Appeals'

13 Nov

13/11/2025 CRC-Colloquium

Project Presentation B05

30 Oct

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31 Oct

30/10/2025 - 31/10/2025 Under the Radar – Dynamics of Latency in the Field of Vigilance

Annual Conference

29 Oct

29/10/2025 Jewish Authorship in the „Vormärz“ on a Transnational Scale: Applying Gisèle Sapiro’s Theory of Literary Engagement

Masterclass of the Center for Advanced Studies in cooperation with the CRC "Cultures of Vigilance"

24 Oct

24/10/2025 Taxation, Anti-Corruption and Local Politics in a Constitution from Late Antique Apulia

Lecture by Gulia Grossi (project A08) as part of the AHMA Colloquium 2025/26

24 Oct

24/10/2025 Virgines Vigilantes. Gefahren im Kloster

Workshop of the projects A02/A07

03 Oct

03/10/2025 “Fictions of Empathy: Uncertain Understanding and Dissimulation in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman”

Lecture by Annegret Schäffler (Project C08) at the LMU-UCB Emerging Scholars Conference

01 Oct

01/10/2025 'Raising Awareness of the Commons of Trauma and Care: Latinas' Networks for Social Mobility in Southern California'

Lecture by Ingo Rohrer (Project B06)

20 Sep

20/09/2025 Die Entwicklung und Bedeutung der Abtei Liesborn in der Bursfelder Reformbewegung (ca. 1465-1520)

Lecture by Tamara Klarić (Project A07)

11 Sep

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13 Sep

11/09/2025 - 13/09/2025 "Er hatt in vx wochen nich bey mir geleygen. Nu schelt er mich umer. Sexualität als Druckmittel im sächsischen Hochadel."

Lecture by Maria Hauber at the Conference "Körper und Herrschaft. Referentialität, Räume und Transformationen von Körperlichkeit in politschen Settings im Übergang von Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit"

09 Sep

09/09/2025 Whistleblowing in der Polizei - Forschungsstand und erste Eindrücke aus der Forschung

Lecture by Riccarda Gattinger and Maresa Dudek (Project A06)

01 Sep

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05 Sep

01/09/2025 - 05/09/2025 "A double-edged sword. Saxonian princesses and the potentials of their sexuality (16th century)"

Lecture by Maria Hauber at the Summerschool "Marriage in Premodern Imagination"

30 Jul

30/07/2025 ChatGPT & AI in Academia

Internal lecture of the Research Training Group. Workshop organized by the University Library, LMU Munich

21 Jul

21/07/2025 The Public's Role in Changing Smoking Behavior: the Collective Enforcement of Appeals and New Rules in Japan and South Korea

Lecture by Prof. Celeste Arrington, PhD (George Washington University)

21 Jul

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22 Jul

21/07/2025 - 22/07/2025 Changing Conditions, Changing Discourse: Bektashis and Other Sufis in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic Turkey, 1826 to 1950

Workshop of Project B05

17 Jul

17/07/2025 Forschungsdatenmanagement im SFB: Die Veröffentlichung und Archivierung von Forschungsdaten

Internal lecture by Laure Sigalla and Laura Meier (UB)

15 Jul

15/07/2025 Gente - Medio Ambiente - Conocimiento: Interdependencias en la Amazonia indígena

Workshop of Project A10

10 Jul

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11 Jul

10/07/2025 - 11/07/2025 CRC retreat

Internal event

09 Jul

09/07/2025 Synchronizing Empire: Hemerologies and Assyrian Influence on Local Administrative Practices

Lecture by Saki Kikuchi (Project B01) together with Poppy Tushingham (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

03 Jul

03/07/2025 CRC meeting

Project presentation John Hinderer and Tamara Klarić (A07)

01 Jul

01/07/2025 Jungfräulichkeit, Wachsamkeit und Selbstsorge im Thüringischen Zehnjungfrauenspiel

Workshop C01 with Aleksandra Prica (Chapel Hill, NC)

30 Jun

30/06/2025 Spekulation, Wachsamkeit, Wissen: Jacob Böhmes Epistemologie der Unschärfe

Lecture by Aleksandra Prica (Chapel Hill, NC)

26 Jun

26/06/2025 “Foreigners Are Committing Very Heinous Crimes”: Framing of Deviance and Order in Japan’s Immigration Policy

Lecture by Prof. Dr. David Chiavacci (University of Zurich)

26 Jun

26/06/2025 The Archive in Motion: Kinetic Memory and the Aesthetics of Care in La Isla

Lecture by Luna Najera (Yale), Guest of the CRC

25 Jun

25/06/2025 “Veiled in Shadows of the Masque: Illusory Obscurity and Dissimulation in The Revenger’s Tragedy.”

Lecture by Annegret Schäffler (Project C08) at The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad) 2025

19 Jun

19/06/2025 "Verdacht, Verhör, Verhandlung. Ehebrüchige Fürstinnen zwischen Willkür und Selbstbehauptung"

Lecture by Maria Hauber at the Kolloquium der Frühen Neuzeit, TU Dresden

19 Jun

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21 Jun

19/06/2025 - 21/06/2025 “Veiled in Shadows of the Masque: Illusory Obscurity and Dissimulation in The Revenger’s Tragedy.”

Lecture by Annegret Schäffler (Project C08) at The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad) 2025

18 Jun

18/06/2025 Obsecro te, angelice spiritus. Die Externalisierung von Wachsamkeit im Schutzengelgebet

Lecture by David Brißlinger (A02) at the LMU-Princeton Summer Seminar

18 Jun

18/06/2025 Wage earning and surveillance in Roman Egypt

Lecture by Kim Bowes (University of Pennsylvania)

17 Jun

17/06/2025 On the Role of Reading in the 'Cultures of Vigilance' Approach

Lecture by Arndt Brendecke (speaker of the CRC) at the LMU-Princeton Summer Seminar

16 Jun

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18 Jun

16/06/2025 - 18/06/2025 LMU-Princeton Summer Seminar 2025

Conference organised by Susanne Reichlin and Carlos Spoerhase (members of the CRC)

05 Jun

05/06/2025 CRC meeting

Project presentation Charlotte Krick and Kristina Mateescu (A09)

03 Jun

03/06/2025 Navigating Success: Vigilance, Stress, and Social Mobility Among Latinas in Southern California

Lecture by Ingo Rohrer (Project B06)

29 May

29/05/2025 'In a favourable month, on an auspicious day'. The Shifting Strategies of Divination within the Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

Lecture by Saki Kikuchi (Project B01) together with Alexander Edmonds (University of Münster)

25 May

25/05/2025 Embodied Practices of Upward Mobility - Corporeality, Self-Transformation and Resistance of Latinas in Southern California

Talk by PD Dr. Ingo Rohrer (Project B06)

22 May

22/05/2025 CRC meeting

Project presentation David Brißlinger and Katharina Brost (A02)

21 May

21/05/2025 Richard Price’s Prudence and the Unintended Origins of Modern Capitalism (1756-1790)

Lecture by Jacob Soll (University of Southern California)

15 May

15/05/2025 Workshop & Discussion: Latinx Experiences of Upward Social Mobility

Workshop by PD Dr. Ingo Rohrer (Project B06)

15 May

15/05/2025 Fellows Project Presentation

Presentations by Punny Kabir and Waseem Ahmed

15 May

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16 May

15/05/2025 - 16/05/2025 Food Intolerances. Confession, Consumption & Control in Early Modern Europe

Conference

15 May

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16 May

15/05/2025 - 16/05/2025 "Das Frauenzimmer als Ort weiblicher Selbstbestimmung?"

Talk by Maria Hauber at the Conference ""Frauenstimmen. Zur Resonanz weiblicher (Ohn-)Macht in vormodernern Metropolen"

13 May

13/05/2025 Climbing with Caution: Latinx Experiences of Upward Social Mobility in San Diego

Lecture by Dr. Ingo Rohrer (project B06)

08 May

08/05/2025 CRC meeting

CRC meeting Riccarda Gattinger and Maresa Dudek (A06)

05 May

05/05/2025 'Animal attention': Die Verteilung von Wachsamkeit und Achtsamkeit in mittelalterlichen Tierfabeln’

Workshop with Almut Suerbaum (Oxford)

29 Apr

29/04/2025 Being Watched: Migrants Returning from the USA to Mexico

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr (B06)

10 Apr

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12 Apr

10/04/2025 - 12/04/2025 Katechismen im Spätmittelalter. Inhalte – Formen – Funktionen

Interdisciplinary Conference

26 Mar

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27 Mar

26/03/2025 - 27/03/2025 AG-Workshop 'Organisation & Vigilanz'

with guest Marcel Schütz (Hamburg)

14 Mar

14/03/2025 Roundtable: "Revisiting Planetary Health: On multispecies cities, decolonial ecologies, and healing cosmovisions - Part I”

Presentation by Eveline Dürr (B06) at the symposium "Martius Revisited III: Global Health in a Planetary Age"

14 Mar

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15 Mar

14/03/2025 - 15/03/2025 Kriminologisches Forum Bayern

Project Presentation by Maresa Dudek and Riccarda Gattinger (projekt A06)

10 Mar

10/03/2025 Posthumanistische Perspektiven auf geistliche Literatur des Mittelalters

Workshop of Projekt C01

13 Feb

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14 Feb

13/02/2025 - 14/02/2025 Women, Clothes, Legal Regulations

Workshop of Project B02

12 Feb

12/02/2025 Small-scale Tokyo eateries as community spaces: from vigilance to mobilization

Lecture by James Farrer (Sophia University)

12 Feb

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14 Feb

12/02/2025 - 14/02/2025 Barockroman und Normativität. Romanzo barocco e normatività

Conference of Project C03

06 Feb

06/02/2025 CRC staff meeting

Internal meeting

06 Feb

06/02/2025 Fellow Project Presentation

Presentation by Elena Danieli

27 Jan

27/01/2025 Zugehörigkeitsdilemmata und Wachsamkeit rassifizierter Latinx im Grenzraum USA-Mexiko

Lecture by Ingo Rohrer (B06)

23 Jan

23/01/2025 CRC meeting

Project presentation Paul Kramer (B08)

10 Jan

10/01/2025 "Princesses under surveillance? Suspected adultery in the Wettin dynasty in the 16th century"

Lecture by Maria Hauber

10 Jan

10/01/2025 Veröffentlichen unter Aufsicht. Vigilante Akteure des deutschsprachigen Literaturmarkts 1819–1848

Workshop of project A09

09 Jan

09/01/2025 Oppositionelle Öffentlichkeit im Aufbruch: Deutsche Verleger und politische Kommunikation 1800–1870

Lecture by James M. Brophy (University of Delaware)

13 Dec

13/12/2024 Diversity Basics

Internal Workshop

12 Dec

12/12/2024 CRC meeting

Project presentation Ingo Rohrer (B06)

05 Dec

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06 Dec

05/12/2024 - 06/12/2024 Vigilance and Uncertainty in Early Modernity

Workshop of project C08

28 Nov

28/11/2024 CRC meeting

Project presentation Giulia Grossi (A08)

22 Nov

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24 Nov

22/11/2024 - 24/11/2024 Shaping law and communities through petitions in 4th century Egypt

Lecture by Gulia Grossi (project A08) as part of the LMU-Cambridge Strategic Partnership

19 Nov

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20 Nov

19/11/2024 - 20/11/2024 Körpersprache und Bühnenpräsenz

Internal Workshop

14 Nov

14/11/2024 The Seduction of Surveillance: Desiring protection in an age of (in)security

Lecture by Ruben Anderson (Oxford) as part of the CRC meeting

14 Nov

14/11/2024 Vigilant Aspirations: Practicing Social Mobility in Spaces of Uncertainty

Workshop of Project B06

07 Nov

07/11/2024 What we talk about when we talk about emotion

Lecture by Pia Campeggiani (Università di Bologna)

07 Nov

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08 Nov

07/11/2024 - 08/11/2024 Internal masterclass with Pia Campeggiani (Università di Bologna)

Organized by the research training group

31 Oct

31/10/2024 CRC meeting

Project presentation Laura Schiavone (C02)

24 Oct

24/10/2024 "COVID-19 and the Hospitality Industry in Japan: Navigating Diverging Expectations"

Lecture by Gabriele Vogt (B08), Paul Kramer (B08) and James Farrer (Sophia University) at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo

24 Oct

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25 Oct

24/10/2024 - 25/10/2024 Constellations of Vigilance

CRC Annual Conference 2024

09 Oct

09/10/2024 "Latinx Experiences in PWI Higher Education: A Panel for students, staff, and faculty"

Panel Discussion lead by Ingo Rohrer (B06)

28 Sep

28/09/2024 "Whistleblowing in der Polizei - Forschungsstand und erste Eindrücke aus der Forschung"

Presentation by Riccarda Gattinger and Prof. Dr. jur. Ralf Kölbel (A06) as part of the KrimG Tagung 2024

19 Sep

19/09/2024 "Encuentro Internacional: Vigilancia en la Amazonía – Prácticas y perspectivas indígenas en el contexto actual"

Hybrid conference organised by project A10

12 Sep

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13 Sep

12/09/2024 - 13/09/2024 Workshop: 'Profit-Taking' in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Eigensinn, Herrschaft und Partizipation

Workshop by Christine Gerwin, Nina Opgen-Rhein and Hannes Ziegler (member of the SFB)

09 Sep

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10 Sep

09/09/2024 - 10/09/2024 Streichen, Rath und Tadel“. Wachsames Lesen im Cotta-Verlag 1819–1848

Workshop (project A09)

04 Sep

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07 Sep

04/09/2024 - 07/09/2024 Endangered Households. Reconfiguring spatial boundaries in the face of danger in early modern German towns

Lecture by Brendan Röder (C02) at the University of Ostrava

27 Aug

27/08/2024 „Polizey- und Vigilanzpraktiken im Vizekönigreich von Nueva Granada (17. und 18. Jahrhundert)“

Seminar with CRC guest Prof. Max Sebastian Hering Torres

18 Jul

18/07/2024 Learning ‘Nature’: A Cross-Cultural Ethnography of Children’s Relationships to the Non-Human World

Lecture by Francesca Mezzenzana (CRC member)

17 Jul

17/07/2024 Revenge as Motivation in Assyrian and Babylonian Historical Narratives, 7th–2nd centuries BCE

Lecture by Mary Frazer (Project B01) at the "European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference," Sofia, Bulgaria

11 Jul

11/07/2024 "Reflecting on Strategic Naiveté as Means to Navigate Mistrust, Ignorance, and Imagination in the Argentine Justice System"

Lecture by Ingo Rohrer (B06) at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Mainz University

11 Jul

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12 Jul

11/07/2024 - 12/07/2024 CRC retreat

Internal meeting

10 Jul

10/07/2024 Revenge as a Factor in Historical Causation in Narrative Texts from the 7th and 6th centuries BCE

Lecture by Mary Frazer (Project B01) at the Conference "Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale," Helsinki

23 Nov

23/11/2023 "Indiscreet Zeal": Common Informing und die Durchsetzung religiöser Normen in England, ca.1680–1720

Internal lecture by PD Dr. Hannes Ziegler (member of the SFB)

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