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:
Ancient History (Project A)
"Invectivity in arenas of ritualised communication in the Roman republic and imperial period"
Classical Philology (Project B)
"Invective Enactments. Verbal degradations in the Roman society of the 1st century BC between literary tradition and fictitious orality"
Medieval History (Project D)
"Agonal Invectives. Diatribe Duels in Italian and German Humanism"
Early Modern German Literature (Project E)
"Sacredness and sacrilege. The disparagement of the sacred within the interconfessional dispute of the 16th century"
Art History (Project F)
"Parodies and Pasquinades. Form and Formation of Modernisation Processes in Early Modern Art"
Early Modern History (Project G)
"Pamphlets, lampoons, and slogans. Dynamics of invectivity and the early modern public sphere"
Modern History (Project H)
"Invective as an emotional mobilization from the Weimar Republic to National Socialism, 1924-1938"
Sociology (Project I)
"The verdict against philistines: Forms, functions and dynamics of the invective against middle social strata in modernity"
Theatre and Media Studies (Project K)
"Theatre of discrimination. Depiction and reflection of invective dynamics in contemporary theatre, performance and action art"
American Studies (Project L)
"Pop-Cultural Poetics and Politics of the Invective. The Invective Mode in Contemporary US-American Television"
Italian Studies (Project M)
"Invectivity in Literary and Cinematic Representations of Migration in Italy (20th/21st centuries)"
Theory of Law (Project P)
"Invectivity on the web: the protection of privacy and personality, civil liberties, and the constitution of (digital) public spheres"
Sociology (Project R)
"Invective Coding of Intercultural Encounters: Ethnographical Analysis of Situations in Intercultural Trainings and Integration Courses"
