The following centers and collaborative research projects are engaged in this focus area:

• Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin
• Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group: Mythische Literaturwerke der altbabylonischen Zeit als wissenspraktische Artefakte (since 2019)
• ERC Project: BabMed – Babylonische Medizin (2013–2018)
• CRC 980: Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period (since 2012)

Activities

2024

• June 7-8, 2024, Conference: Wissensgeschichten – von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit, SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“
• April 15, 2024, Talk: "The Ontological Turn and Why We Should Be Interested", ZODIAC und Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums
• April 11–12, 2024, International Workshop: Phanariot Knowledge Transfer in Context, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• April 3–5, 2024, International Conference: “… that is the Question” – Towards a History of the Question as an Epistemic Genre in the Early Modern Age, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• March 13–15, 2024, Workshop: ‚wunder‘ in Serie. Verfahren der Akkumulation von Mirabilien, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• February 6–7, 2024, Conference: Jakob Böhme um 1800, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• February 2, 2024, Lecture: Catalan Maps and Jewish Books. The Intellectual Profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325–1387), Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• January 19, 2024, Lecture: Translating German Mysticism: The Construction of a European Idea (Jacob Böhme), Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"

2023

• December 1, 2023, Workshop: Prospects of Decay: Reflecting on Rusty Language and the Decadence of Taste in Eighteenth-Century France, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• November 17–18, 2023, Workshop: Transparenz. Ästhetische und politische Praktiken der Handzeichnung, 1400 bis heute, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• September 21–22, 2023, Workshop: Keilschriftrecht zwischen Theorie und Praxis, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• September 21–22, 2023, Workshop: Textual Transmission, Interpretation and Reception, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• July 20, 2023, Guest lecture: Mitte ohne Ende. Balance als Daseinsmetapher in Ovids Spätwerk, Aristotelismus-Zentrum
• June 15-17, 2023, Literature Festival: Assemblage Berlin. 60 Years of Intermediality in Literature, Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin 
• February 10-11, 2023, Workshop: Mobile Avantgarden. Netzwerke der Moderne im östlichen Europa und in Skandinavien, Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities

2022

• June 21, 2022, Workshop: Zwischen Entwurf und Konkretion. Ästhetische und produktive Konfigurationen der Linie in Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik der Vormoderne, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• June 15, 2022, Audio event: THE SOUND OF SCIENCE: Der Grüne Caesar, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• June 10, 2022, Lecture: Handhabe und Anweisung in der ‚Kunstliteratur‘ der Frühen Neuzeit, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• February 16, 2022, Lecture: Die altgriechischen ‘Sea Shanties’ im Videospiel Assassin’s Creed, Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie

2021

• December 17, 2021, Workshop: Challenging the Canon of the Arts and their Disciplines. A Workshop on Transdisciplinary Methodologies, GRK 2638: Normativität, Kritik, Wandel

• November 5, 2021, Conference: Carmen Schmechel: Fermentation. Eine Wissens- und Kulturgeschichte, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• Septmeber 17–18, 2021, Conference: AMASSING PERSPECTIVES: Recent Trends in Syriac Iconography, Forum Mittelalter – Renaissance – Frühe Neuzeit
• June 21, 2021, Conference: Le ricerche archeologiche italiane in Marocco. Il Capitolium di Sala (Chellah, Rabat): un tempio romano ai confini dell'impero, Italienzentrum
• June 16–18, 2021, Conference: Traditionen der materia medica, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• April 29, 2021, Workshop: Natural Resources in Early Modern Economies of Knowledge, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• January 19, 2021, Conference: Berliner Weltliteraturen | Prof. Dr. Miltos Pechlivanos (Freie Universität Berlin): Der griechische Bürgerkrieg und das geteilte Berlin: "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" und Antigone lebt, Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin

2020

• November 13, 2020, Conference: Artificial intelligence in International Arbitration. Vortrag von Dr. Cecilia Carrara (Legance Avv. Ass.), Italienzentrum
• October 1–2, 2020, Workshop: Gattungsmischung - Hybridisierung - Amalgamierung. Zur historischen Tragweite literatur-, bild- und musikwissenschaftlicher Beschreibungsmodelle mit Bezug auf ,Seicento' und ,Barock', DFG-Forschungsgruppe FOR 2305 - Diskursivierungen von Neuem
• June 25–27, 2020, 8th Annual Meeting. Ästhetiken als Wissenspraktiken in der Vormoderne, Achte Jahrestagung des Sonderforschungsbereichs 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit“
• April 24, 2020, Lecture: Prof. Michelle Karnes, Notre Dame University: „Marvels as Objects of Knowledge“, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit“
• February 17–18, 2020, International Workshop: Early Modern Encyclopaedism on South-Eastern Europe, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit“
• February 11, 2020, Lecture: Dr. Marinos Sariyannis, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS), Foundation for Research and Technology, Griechenland: "The Ottoman World of Knowledge: Horizons and Limits“, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit“

2019

• September 30–October 2, 2019, Conference: Wissen in Buchgestalt, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• September 18–19, 2019, Workshop: Wunderkammern – Materialität, Narrativik und Institutionalisierung von Wissen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• September 13, 2019, Workshop: Bauhaus y Latinoamérica: el balance de un siglo (1919-2019), Lateinamerika-Institut
• July 5–7, 2019, Workshop: Renaissance – Baroque – Religious Humanism – Orthodox/Early Enlightenment: Periodization problems in the history of Knowledge in Early Modern South-East Europe, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 27–29, 2019, Annual Conference: (Nicht)Wissen – Dynamiken der Negation in vormodernen Kulturen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 14, 2019, Lecture by Prof. Giorgio Agamben: Zu Walter Benjamins Messianismus, Italienzentrum
• June 3–5, 2019, Noether-Konferenz 2019: Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt? Über neues Wissen, alte Denkmuster und strukturelle Veränderungen, Cluster of Ecxellence MATH+, Gender Equality Officer of Freie Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• May 23, 2019, Lecture of Prof. Hanneke Grootenboer (University of Oxford): Painting as Thinking: The Case of the Pensive Image, Kunsthistorisches Institut
• May 17, 2019, Vortrag von Simon Goldhill: Travelling Tales: How Religious Groups Re-Write Books in Late Antiquity, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• April 15–16, 2019, International Workshop: Asymmetries of Knowledge, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• February 28, 2019, Workshop: Arbeitsgespräch zu Johann Valentin Andreae und den Rosenkreuzer-Schriften, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• February 22, 2019, Workshop: Savoire faire & Faire savoir dans les académies en France (XVIIe Siècle), Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", Project B05: Theory and Aesthetics of Elusive Knowledge in the Early Modern Period: Transfer and Institutionalisation
• February 8, 2019, Workshop: Wissenshybride zwischen Textwissen und Neubeobachtung. Formen und Medien der Gelehrsamkeit in der republique des lettres, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• January 21–22, 2019, Workshop: Fremdsprachenlehrwerke in der Frühen Neuzeit: Perspektiven – Potentiale – Herausforderungen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"

2018

• November 8–9, 2018, Workshop: Transfer und Adaption von Sprach- und Schriftwissen im Alten Orient, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", Project A01 "Episteme als Konfigurations-Prozess: Binnenströme des Wissens in keilschriftlichen Textcorpora"
• November 9, 2018, Guest Lecture of Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff (TU Dresden):
  "Invektivität und die Konstituierung von Öffentlichkeit in der Reformationszeit", Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• November 6–7, 2018, Workshop: Bücher in Bewegung, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• November 1–2, 2018, Workshop: Aetius of Amida, Books on Medicine, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• October 25–27, 2018, Workshop: Wissen en miniature - Theorie und Epistemologie der Anekdote, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", Project B07 "Die Anekdote als Medium des Wissenstransfers"
• September 27–28, 2018, Conference: Remote Access: The Philosophy, Anthropology and Archaeology of Remote Visual Conspicuousness, Institute of Philosophy
• September 10–11, 2018, Workshop with Prof. Kathryn Starkey: „Things in Medieval Literature, Society, and the Visual Arts“, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• July 24–25, 2018, Joint Workshop 2018: Causality or Contingency: What Keeps Culture Going?, Principles of Cultural Dynamics
• June 28–30, 2018, Conference: Wissensoikonomien – Ordnung und Transgression in vormodernen Kulturen, 6th annual conference of the Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 21–July 12, 2018, Seminar: Texts before Texts: How and Why Were Mesopotamian Texts Written? With Prof. Dr. Paul Delnero (John Hopkins University), Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 11–12, 2018, Workshop: Politeness Crossing Times and Spaces, International Workshop organised by project C08 “Teaching Early Modern Routines of Everyday Communication within Contexts of Linguistic Diversity”
• June 9, 2018: „Wissensschätze heben – eine Reise durch vormoderne Wissenslandschaften“, Project of the Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period" at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
• June 1, 2018, Lecture: „Der Esstisch – vom Repräsentationsort zum Gesprächsmöbel. Eine kultur- und kommunikationsgeschichtliche Skizze“, Event Series „WissensFragen“, Dr. Angelika Linke, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 22–23, 2018, Conference: What is an Academy? Early Modern Learned Societies in a Transcultural Perspective, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period" in Kooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• May 18, 2018, Workshop with Prof. Shane Butler: „Reading Soundly“, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 16, 2018, Workshop: Konfessionalisierungsprozesse im Osmanischen Reich, Bilateral Workshop of the Project C06 "Transfer und Überlagerung. Wissenskonfigurationen in der Zeit der griechischen homines novi im Osmanischen Reich (1641–1730)" and "OTTOCONFESSION: The Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the Entangled Histories of Confession-Building the Ottoman Empire, 15th–17th Centuries", CEU Budapest
• January 16, 2018, Lecture: Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung und Naturkunde. Alterität, Rasse und Hybridisierung in der Philosophiegeschichte um 1800, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"

2017

• December 15–16, 2017, Workshop: Confessionalization and/as Knowledge Transfer in Eastern Christianity, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• December 11, 2017, Workshop: The Know[ing] How of Early Modern Italian Academies, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• December 7–8, 2017, Workshop: Picturing the Revelation: Dreams, Prophecy and Imagination in Medieval Traditions, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• December 4, 2017, Conference: Kurz und Gut! Kommunikation in den Geisteswissenschaften in Zeiten von Twitter, Slam und ‚alternativen Fakten‘, Graduiertenkolleg 2190 "Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte kleiner Formen", Excellence cluster Topoi, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• November 16, 2017, Lecture Series: Wissensdarstellung – Darstellungswissen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• July 21–22, 2017, Conference: Medieval Texts in Transit, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• Summer Semester 2017, Lecture Series, Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft und jüdische Wissenskulturen
• June 29–July 1, 2017, Conference: Umschreiben / Re-Writing. Materiale und epistemische Dimensionen von Retextualisierung in der Vormoderne, 5th Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period" in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Centre 933 "Materiale Textkulturen" (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
• June 27, 2017, Lecture, Dr. Thomas Lentes: Liturgie und Historiographie im Mittelalter oder: Über die rituelle Produktion von Sinn, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 23–24, 2017, Workshop: Geschichte in Anekdoten - Wissenstransfer in Suetons Kaiserviten, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 21–23, 2017, Conference: Aristotelismus und Naturwissen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 16, 2017, Lecture, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Paul Schwindt: Die Umschrift des Todes - Zur 'Realpräsenz' der Zeichen in Vergils Aeneis, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 18–19, 2017, Workshop: Erzählung und Argument - Formen impliziter Syllogistik in vormoderner Literatur und Philosophie, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 12–13, 2017, Workshop: Die Materialität der Wissensordnungen und die Episteme der Zeichnung, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 4–6, 2017, Workshop: Confucian Academies in East Asia, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• April 26, 2017, Lecture: Bücher und Bilder: Medien der (divina) commedia und ihre Evidenzen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"

2016

• December 1–2, 2016, Conference: Das Haus schreiben. Wissensbewegungen in der ökonomischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit (1300‐1700), Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• September 23–26, 2016, Conference: Aspects of Qur’ānic Scholarship - Philology meets Theology, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period" in Cooperation with the Center for Islamic Theology of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the Corpus Coranicum Project of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften