Rituals
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. Nino Ferrin
Department of Education and Psychology
Primary Education
Teaching German at the Primary Level
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Media education; cultural and linguistic education
- Education research
- Educational anthropology
- Theory of rituals and performativity
Prof. Sebastian Jobs
Professor of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural history of the United States
- Alltagsgeschichte (history from below)
- History of New York
- Slavery in the United States of America
- African American history
- Gender history
- Political productions and rituals
- Rumors
Dr. Viola König
Institute for Latin American Studies
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- museum
- ethnological museum
- provenance research
- Pre-Columbian America
- ethnology of North America
Dr. Mirco Liefke
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Public service broadcasting
- Transformation processes of digitalization
- Structural change of the public sphere
- New forms of the public sphere
- Journalism
- News journalism
- Television news
- crisis and conflict reporting
- cultural transformation
- Media change
- Innovative forms of journalism
- Interpretative methods of social research
- Ethnography
Dr. Ute Luig
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Teutonenstraße 24, 14129 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- HIV/AIDS
- Natural disasters
- Sacred landscapes
- Africa (especially East-Central and West Africa)
- Gender studies
- Rituals
Dr. Christian Meyer
Professor of Chinese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Chinese Studies
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Religion(s) in China
- Confucianism
- Christianity in China
- Religious policy
Professor of Law Bettina Rentsch
Department of Law
Civil Law
Junior Professor for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law
Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews are possible in English, German and French.
Areas of Expertise
- Private international law
- International civil procedure
- Harmonization of European private law
- Corporate law
- Social theory in business/corporate law
- Anti-Semitism in private law
- Feminist theory and private law
Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Collaborative Research Centre 1171: Affective Societies
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia (social and political structures, religious diversity, gender relations)
- Vietnamese culture in Berlin
- Cultural aspects of emotions
- Socialization, education, and child development in cultural comparison
- Emotions and migration
- Gender relations (especially transgender cultural studies)
Jürgen Schaflechner
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews can be given in German, English, Urdu/Hindi
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- Populism / religious populism
- Politics of resentment
- Religious minorities in Pakistan
- Blasphemy / blasphemy laws
- Forced conversions to Islam
- Popular culture in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Ethnology of religion
- Ritual journeys
Dr. Ralf Schlechtweg-Jahn
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Medieval German Literature and Linguistics
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- German literature of the Middle Ages
- Literary theory, especially narratology
- Religion in medieval literature
- Power and violence in medieval literature
- Medieval reception
- Computer games
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. Christian von Scheve
Professor of Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Group Sociology of Emotions
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Emotions
- Social inequality
- Identity
- Economic sociology
- Values and standards
Dr. Peter Walschburger
Professor of Biopsychology
Department of Education and Psychology
Institute of Biopsychology
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology: humans as natural and cultural beings (social by nature)
- Management of individual action goals (desire for autonomy) in groups
- Familiar vs. foreign: problems of integration within and between groups (xenophobia)
- Dominance hierarchies and the dynamics of power, performance, and social motivation (craving for recognition)
- Human-environment relationships; people and media; new media
- Stress and overload: conditions, symptoms, stress regulation
- Disasters; threatening and extreme situations; trauma
- Dismay effects
- Physical-psychological interactions; mind-body relationship; nature and culture
- Moods and seasonal rhythms: conditions, hormonal and psychosocial aspects (biopsychology, biometeorology)
- Weather, climate, geographical regions, and psyche: Mediterranean vs. northern regions
- Sports psychological problems
- Adventurousness, risk-taking behavior
- Sex and gender: bio-psycho-social aspects of complementarity between men and women
- Emotional aspects of development and lifespan: children and parents, teens, adults, seniors
- Methodical, scientific, and epistemological problems in the human sciences
Dr. Christoph Wulf
Professor of Education
Department of Education and Psychology
Anthropology and Education
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Rituals
- Traditions
- Globalization and education
- Interculturalism
- Cultural diversity
- Anthropology
- Historical anthropology
- Aesthetic and cultural education