Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Collaborative Research Center is dedicated to the examination of processes of knowledge change in European and in non-European pre-modern cultures.







UPCOMING EVENTS
See here …
… for a small selection of upcoming events held in English
1 December 2023
Prospects of Decay: Reflecting on the Decadence of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
25–27 May 2023
Imperial Fictions
01 June 2023
Tam verba quam diagramma. A visual history of the fortune and misfortune of Galileo’s and Descartes’s theories of the tides
01 June 2023
J.B. Van Helmont’s Concept of ‘Sulphurs’ as Universal Medicines
FINDS

Sound Reconstruction of Old Egyptian
Listen to the sound of Old Egyptian using the phonetic reconstruction of Pyramid Text 262 from the burial chamber of Ankhesenpepi II, Saqqara (Egypt).
Image Credits

Fragment 7495, "Aegyptische Inschriften aus den Koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin", 1913, p.3
Image Credit: Armin Hempel
PROJECTS

Project Area A: Telling

Project Area B: Showing

Project Area C: Doing

Information Infrastructure Project

Public Relations Project

Guest Project
Image Credits

Projektbereich A
Image Credit: Melanie Wiener

Projektbereich B
Image Credit: Melanie Wiener

Projektbereich C
Image Credit: Melanie Wiener

Informationsinfrastruktur
Image Credit: Melanie Wiener

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Image Credit: Melanie Wiener

Gastprojekt
Image Credit: Melanie Wiener
HIGHLIGHTS

Listen, Read & Watch
Access a wide selection of videos, audio recordings (in German or English) and photos of CRC lectures and workshops in our Listen, Read & Watch section

CRC book series
Since 2015, the CRC 980 has been publishing the book series “Episteme in Motion” in cooperation with the Harrassowitz Publishing House

Objects in Transfer
An exhibition trail created by the project „Objects in Transfer“ at the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin
Image Credits

Zum Listen, Read & Watch-Bereich
Image Credit: Christina Stivali

Schriftenreihe des SFB 980
Image Credit: Armin Hempel

Objects in Transfer
Image Credit: Mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
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