single projects
DFG Research Project
SOCIAL INNOVATION THROUGH THE
NON-HEGEMONIC PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
Occult phenomena at the intersections of science, media history, and cultural transfer (1770-1970)
Spiritism and Modern Media (1770–1930)
Zander/Sziede - Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
The Immanentization of spiritualistic effects in the 19th century.
Transformations of human and technical mediums.
Schüttpelz/Voss - Universität Siegen, Germany
Technical Media and Self-Apparatuses in the Ninteenth Century
Kassung/Geoghegan - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Hans Bender – Parapsychology at the crossroads of scientific research, social inquiry, and public media (ca. 1945-1975)
Paletschek/Lux - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Projects Funded Independently of the DFG
'Higher' Knowlegde from Asia: Buddhism as an Innovative Religion for Intellectuals between Occultism, Esotericism, Philosophy, and Literature.
Mohn- Universität Basel, Switzerland
Literarische Produktion im Spannungsfeld von Esoterik und Rezeption fernöstlicher Weisheitslehren (1890-1945)
Maillard - Université de Straßbourg, France
Personal Mediums and Crime:
The History of ‘Criminal Telepathy’ in Germany (1880-1980)
Schellinger - Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V. (IGPP) Freiburg, Germany
Discourses of Abnormality:
Psychology and Religion in the History of European Religion in the late 19th and early 20th Century
Gripentrog - Universität Basel, Switzerland