Becoming Human, Being Human: Human Differentiation and Conviviality – From the Present into Prehistory (F01 (ehem.C02))

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442261292

The project examines the history of science on human development at the intersection of the humanities and natural sciences, from the 18th century to the present. By making the CRC’s central category, “human,” its own object of inquiry, it aims at an “archaeology” of human differentiation (Foucault). The focus is on the distinctions and classifications of human beings (Hominini) based on fossil and material evidence. The project particularly concentrates on the temporality, spatiality, and relationality of such differentiations, analyzed through the four working units: taxonomy, conviviality, representation, and narrativity.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1482: Studies in Human Differentiation
• Applicant Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Johannes Paulmann; Dr. Malin Sonja Wilckens