Judaism
Dr. Giulio Busi
Professor of Jewish Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Jewish Studies
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Beginning of anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages
- The Pope
- History of Jewish mysticism
- Jewish culture in late antiquity and the early modern period
- Situation of the Jewish population during the German occupation of Italy
- History of the Jewish religion and ethics from antiquity to the present
- Italy: Cultural heritage
Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek
Professor of German Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
German Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Culture of emotions
- Satire, irony, comedy
- German-Jewish contemporary literature
- Modern poetry
- Theater of the Enlightenment
- Neurocognitive poetics
Dr. Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis
Professor of Balkan Studies
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Mobile
Areas of Expertise
- Balkans, especially Greece and Cyprus
- Religion in the Balkans
- Religion in the Middle East
- Jews in the Balkans
- Relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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. 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. Claudia Ulbrich
Professor of History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Early Modern History and Gender History
DFG Research Group “Self-Narratives in Transcultural Perspective”
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Research on transcultural self-testimony, autobiography theory
- Gender history
- Christian-Jewish relations in the early modern period