Language / Languages
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Dr. Norbert Dittmar
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for German and Dutch Languages and Literature
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition
Pohlstraße 5, 10785 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Problems of linguistic unification
- Minority languages
- Bilingualism
- Berlin: urban language
- Youth language
- Pidgin German spoken by Turkish immigrants
- Conversational behavior, in groups and conflicts
Dr. Ulla Haselstein
Professor of Literature
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Literature
Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Text and image
- Literary portraits
- Transculturality
- Diasporic literature
- Holocaust literature
- Avantgarde
- Native American literature
- American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
Dr. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Professor of Japanese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
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838-53857, -53856
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and literature of Japan
- History and society of Japan
- Identity discourses, culinary studies
- Cultural translation
Dr. Matthias Hüning
Professor of Dutch Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Dutch Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Dutch linguistics with a focus on language comparison (especially Dutch-German)
- History of language and language change
- Lexicology (semantics, word formation)
- Sociolinguistics and (European) multilingualism
Dr. Susanne Klengel
Professor of Latin American Studies
Institute for Latin American Studies
Division of Literatures and Cultures of Latin America
Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Latin American literatures and cultures
- Literary and cultural theory
- Image / text relations
- Cultural transfer between Europe and Latin America – history and present-day status
- Intellectual history
- Concepts of cultural translation
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Argentina / Southern Cone
- Caribbean countries
- Transregional issues and literatures / cultures in border areas
Dr. Ekkehard König
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Linguistics
Goßlerstraße 2-4, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews are possible in English, French and German
Areas of Expertise
- Language comparison (contrastive linguistics)
- Germanic language family
- linguistic typology (halting and fourfoldness of languages)
- language history (change of meaning)
- semantics and pragmatics (meaning and use of linguistic expressions)
Prof. Dr. Reimund Leicht
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Jewish Studies
Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
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The interviews can be conducted in Hebrew.
Areas of Expertise
- History of Judaism from antiquity to modern times
- Jewish philosophy in the Islamic-Arabic region and in Europe
- Christian Kabbalah (Johannes Reuchlin)
- Science of Judaism
- History of the Hebrew language
- History of the sciences surrounding Judaism
Dr. Michael Meier-Brügger
Professor of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures
Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Indo-European linguistics
- Comparative linguistics
- The prehistory of European languages
Dr. Judith Meinschaefer
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophie and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Gallo-Roman Linguistics
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Linguistics
- Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish)
- Languages in France
Dr. Manfred Pfister
Professor of English Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Wullenweberstraße 11, 10555 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- English literature from Shakespeare to the present
- Drama and theater
- English-Italian cultural relations
- Intertextuality and intermediality
- Literary translation
Dr. Michaela Sambanis
Professor of English Didactics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
Language, Emotion and Movement
- Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages
Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training
- Early acquisition of foreign languages
- Mixed-age learning settings
- English instruction tailored to specific individual needs
Dr. Shabo Talay
Professor of Semitic Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies
Semitic Studies
Fabeckstraße 23-25, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Semitic languages
- Arabic and Arabic dialectology (i.e., Syria, Iraq, Turkey)
- Aramaic languages in the Near East and in Europe
- Oriental Christians, past and present
- Christian-Muslim coexistence in the Near East
- Ethnic group of Arameans, Assyrians, Chaldeans
- Coexistence of Kurds and Syrian-Aramaic Christians (Turkey, Syria, Iraq)
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict
Dr. Ferdinand von Mengden
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Historical Linguistics of English
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Language change and language variation
- English language / history of the English language
- Old English
- Language history
- History of linguistics
- Numerals and linguistic numeral systems
- Grammaticalization
- Language and society