Research

We are investigating invectivity in 13 projects, covering a thematic range from History to Theatre Studies and spanning in time from Ancient Rome to present-day America

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Our Projects

Project A

Invectivity in arenas of ritualised communication in the Roman republic and imperial period (Ancient History)

Project B

Invective Enactments. Verbal degradations in the Roman society of the 1st century BC between literary tradition and fictitious orality (Classical Philology)

Defensio Germaniæ Jacobi Wympfelingii quam frater Thomas Murner Impugnauit…, Friburgi [scil. Straßburg: Johann Grüninger 1502], Titelblatt

Project D

Agonal Invectives. Diatribe Duels in Italian and German Humanism (Medieval History)

Holzschnitt von Lucas Cranach d.J. von 1545

Project E

Sacredness and sacrilege. The disparagement of the sacred within the interconfessional dispute of the 16th century (Early Modern German Literature)

Project F

Parodies and Pasquinades. Form and Formation of Modernisation Processes in Early Modern Art (Art History)

Project G

Pamphlets, lampoons, and slogans. Dynamics of invectivity and the early modern public sphere (Early Modern History)

Project H

Invective practices as emotional mobilization in Weimar democracy and Nationalsocialism 1924-1938 (Modern History)

Project I

The verdict against philistines: Forms, functions and dynamics of the invective against middle social strata in modernity (Sociology)

Project K

Theatre of discrimination. Depiction and reflection of invective dynamics in contemporary theatre, performance and action art (Theatre- and Media Studies)

Project L

Pop-Cultural Poetics and Politics of the Invective: The Invective Mode in Contemporary US-American Television (American Studies)

Project M

Invectivity in Literary and Cinematic Representations of Migration in Italy (20th/21st centuries) (Italian Studies)

Project P

Invectivity on the web: the protection of privacy and personality, civil liberties, and the constitution of (digital) public spheres (Theory of Law)

Project R

Invective Codes of Interculturalism: Ethnographical Analysis of Situations in Intercultural Trainings and Integration Courses (Sociology)

Research in 13 Projects

The CRC 1285 is investigating forms, functions and effects of degrading, offending acts of communication in thirteen projects. These projects are covering a wide field of research.

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