Field of Focus III Funded Projects

The research network is concerned with the validity of knowledge and its genesis as well as the design of knowledge spaces and knowledge artefacts as media for the enforcement of knowledge claims. The aim is to understand the discourses and practices by which actors, groups of people and social networks give validity to knowledge.

Under the impression of an omnipresent global environmental crisis as a major social and ecological change, the TRN is concerned with the transdisciplinary understanding of temporally and regionally different descriptions of this catastrophic situation as well as the identification and use of possible action resulting from rethinking.

The Interdisciplinary Forum of Digital Textual Science is a forum for both, young scholars and students who want to deepen their knowledge on theory and practice of digital textual science.

The Explorer Project TheoLab marks the establishment and development of a research network for digital theology at the Faculty for Theology coordinated by Dr. Stefan Karcher.