SFB 1482:  Studies in Human Differentiation

• Subject Area: Social and Behavioural Sciences ; Humanities
• Term: since 2021
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• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442261292

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• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• D01 - Cognitive Human Categorization II: The influence of individual beliefs on the ebb and flow of cognitive differentiations (Project Head Imhoff, Roland )
• D02 - Reflexive Human Categorization. Self-Problematisations of Sexual and Gendered Belonging (Project Head Boll, Tobias )
• D03 - The Self-formation of Categorial Entrepreneurs in Zine Media (Project Head Scheiding, Oliver )
• D04 - Acting as a Profession. Historical Conjunctures of Human Differentiation in Actor Training, Artist Marketing, and Theatres in the 20th Century (Project Heads Kreuder, Friedemann ;  Voss, Hanna )
• D05 - Differentiating Consumers: Categories of Human Differentiation in Food and Migration Discourses in Twentieth-Century U.S. Consumer Capitalism (Project Head Schäfer, Ph.D., Axel )
• D06 - Theater in competition. Diversity as a criterion for cultural funding (Project Head Husel, Stefanie )
• E01 - Successful Aging: Best Agers/Best Places. Successful Aging and Spatial Human Differentiation (Project Heads Banerjee, Mita ;  Gehrmann, Ruth )
• E02 - Human differentiations of the audience. Inclusion and exclusion through practices of addressing and segregation in contemporary theater (Project Head Wihstutz, Benjamin )
• E03 - Translation and inclusion. Practices of administrative audience differentiation (Project Head Dizdar, Dilek )
• E04 - Mobility types. Infrastructural Human Differentiation in Urban Traffic (Project Head Schabacher, Gabriele )
• E05 - European refugees between South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Self- and external categorisations in contested spaces of the twentieth century (Project Head Friedrichs, Anne )
• E06 - Status and Mobility in Welfare: Human Differentiation in Brazilian Social Programs for Poverty Alleviation (Project Head Drotbohm, Heike )
• E07 - Religion and Ethnicity. Transatlantic Mobility and Human Differentiation in Colonial Spanish America (Project Head Weller, Thomas )
• F01 - Becoming Human, Being Human: Human Differentiation and Conviviality – From the Present into Prehistory (Project Heads Paulmann, Johannes ;  Wilckens, Malin Sonja )
• F02 - Entangled Differentiations. European-African Constructions of the Category ‘Pygmy’ (Project Heads Krings, Matthias ;  Nassenstein, Nico )
• F03 - Linguistic Status Differentiation in Polynesian Societies (Project Head Völkel, Svenja )
• F04 - Reclassification and negation of difference through language policy in post-genocidal Rwanda (Project Head Nassenstein, Nico )
• F05 - Of Nonpersons and Human Defective Specimens: On the Linguistic Construction of Childhood and Disability (Project Head Nübling, Damaris )
• F06 - Machine De/Differentiation. Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education and the Digital Gaming Industry (Project Heads Dickel, Sascha ;  Kalthoff, Herbert )
• T - Theory of Human Categorization II (Project Head Hirschauer, Stefan )
• WIKOehemÖ - Responsive Science Communication II. Resonant Spaces: Encounters and Exchanges between Knowledge Forms and Diverse Publics (Project Heads Boll, Tobias ;  Dickel, Sascha ;  Krings, Matthias ;  Wihstutz, Benjamin )
• Z - Central administration (Project Head Hirschauer, Stefan )

Completed projects

• A01 - Coloristic Human Categorization. Fair Skin in- and outside of Africa (Project Head Krings, Matthias )
• A05 - Staging Differences. Mis-en-scène and interference of human categorisation in contemporary theatre (Project Head Kreuder, Friedemann )
• C03 - Pandemic Human Categorization. Proxemic Shifts in Virally Exposed Sociality (Project Heads Hirschauer, Stefan ;  Paulmann, Johannes )
• C05 - Mechanical Human Categorization. Technical Knowledge and the Ethnosociology of Robotics (Project Head Kalthoff, Herbert )

• Applicant Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Participating Institution: Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG)
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Stefan Hirschauer