Main Fields of Research

Philosophy

• Action and values
• Lanuage and media
• Art, aesthetics, science, and cognition
• Society, politics, morals, ethics, law
• Images of humans, emotions, religion, and gender theory

Languages and Literature Studies, Philologies

• History of language and literature from ancient times to the present; European languages
• Exploration of the major periods, trends, and tendencies of German and Dutch language and literature from the early modern period to the present
• Studies of Romanice languages according to region
• Structure and historical development of the English language and English literatures and cultures in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• English language in its global varieties
• Roman philosophy, particularly in its Christian form, and also in Latin poetry of the 12th and 13th centuries, including epic and bucolic poetry
• Greek language and Greek literature, philosophy, and culture from antiquity to the present and their impact on the non-Greek-speaking world
• Neuroscientific research on language

Dance, Theater, Music, Film, Media

• Phenomenon of dance from a historical, cultural, and social perspective
• Aesthetics, theory, and history of theater and theatrical forms and their origins and impact
• Discourse on movement and the body, history and concepts of dance as a form of knowledge about the body and movement
• Forms of film in its genesis and in its existing migration to other technologies
• History, aesthetics, and theory of film and other audiovisual media as well as the conditions of their origin and impact within different cultural and aesthetic systems
• Historiy and theory of music in its cultural context
• Cultural and medial transformation processes in research fields such as audience development and youth cultures in media cultures and structural change in the media

Involvement in Multidisciplinary Research Areas:

• Cultural dynamics
• Transregional relations
• Educational processes and educational outcomes
• Basics of biomedicine