The aim of the “International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature” (ISDCL) is academic research into the deuterocanonical and cognate literature on an international, interconfessional and interreligious basis, through the...

Das Romanwerk Joseph und seine Brüder von Thomas  Mann ist eine besonders ambitionierte Wiederaufnahme eines Textes aus dem Alten Testament. Der Erzähler reflektiert sein Tun, das ihn vor Herausforderungen stellt: Wie soll er, an seine eigene...

In the last number of years, time and temporality have become important topics of research on early Jewish texts, especially in the Dead Sea Scrolls and apocalyptic literature. Different types of texts can employ multiple temporalities in order to...

Moderation: Professor Dr. Roman Dubasevych

Das Greifswalder Ukrainicum ist eine 14-tägige internationale Sommerschule des Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskollegs Greifswald und der Universität Greifswald zur Wissenschaft, Kultur und Sprache der Ukraine und wird von der Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und...

It’s 2.000 km from Berlin to Shchastya. This is precisely how far the line of collision between Russia and Western civilization has moved over the past decades. Russia will always try to „cut a window into Europe“. Such „windows“ are the Black (and...

Having become famous thanks to publications in Russian publishing houses in the 1990s and 2000s, after 2014 the Russophone Odessite poet Boris Grigor’evich Khersonskii faced allegations for his pro-Ukrainian patriotic position and criticism of...

Wir erleben gegenwärtig, wie die bildende Kunst in ihrer Freiheit der Produktion, Distribution und Rezeption zunehmend durch kritische Interventionen, durch das Einklagen individueller Befindlichkeiten und sich aufladender Debatten eingeschränkt...

A democratic system is an ever-shifting constellation of actors, practices and institutions. Currently the elite-driven model of representative democracy is challenged by declining attachment to political parties and citizens’ demands for more...

Archaea represent a major prokaryotic domain of life besides Bacteria but were recognized as such only about 40 years ago. Cultivation-independent approaches have recently  allowed the reconstruction of genomes of uncultivated microorganisms and...