Project funding in the humanities
The Dr. August and Annelies Karst Foundation supports the humanities at the University of Konstanz. Examples of the types of projects supported by the foundation include: research work, work on an edition, research events and exhibitions, material resources and, in well-founded exceptional cases, publication projects, e.g. translations, proofreading as well as open access funding. Projects that are in line with the sustainability strategy of the University of Konstanz are particularly welcomed.
Funding is provided upon application from the humanities at the University of Konstanz. Applications from students, doctoral candidates, post-docs and professors are welcome.
The application is to be submitted in the form of a bundled PDF document by e-mail to the Foundation's office (stiftungen@uni-konstanz.de). Please find more information in the call and in the funding guidelines.
The application deadline for the current call for proposals is Friday, 27 September 2024.
Projects, that are funded by the Dr. August and Annelies Karst Foundation
2022
Conference | JProf. Dr. Carolin Antos: Actualism and potentialism: a conference in the philosophy of mathematics
Research project | Dr. Sidney Carls-Diamante: Attitudes towards voluntary death in persons with bipolar disorder
Research journey | Antonia Mayer: The role of women in entrepreneurship for sustainable development in Senegal
Publication | Dr. Susanne Schregel: Historical peace and conflict research - squaring the circle?
Workshop | Dr. Eline Smit: International and interdisciplinary workshop on the relationship between language and music
Research journey | Dr. Maria Lidola: "Coal women": Women in the Lusatian mining sik
Conference | Dr. Dominik Steinhilber: Postcolonial Infrastructure - Annual Conference of the Society for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
Workshop | Laura Hund: International PhD Workshop on Multilingual Acquisition
2021
Conference | Dr Martin Rempe: Summer School "History of Development Policy"
Conference | Dr Ariane Bertogg: Online conference of the European Divorce Research Network
Workshop | Dr Caterina Moruzzi: Agency and Scientific Creativity
Printing costs | Ole Münch: Multicultural tumult. Group formation around the London second-hand clothing market in the first half of the 19th century
Student Assistant | Dr Diana Galos: Social Media and Hiring: Applying an Intersectional Lense to a Field Experiment on Discrimination
Conference | Prof. Dr Leon Horsten: Conference on Formal Ontology for Mathematics - FOMO 2022
Printing costs | Benedikt Sepp: Thinking on the move. Theory in the anti-authoritarian movement in West Berlin (1961-1972)
2020
Workshop | Prof. Dr Bent Gebert: The arts of conflict. Forms and dynamics of persistent conflicts
Software | Denise Madsack: Timeline of the research project Zwischen Raum und Zeit - Interdisziplinäre Erhaltungsstrategien für Kunst am Bau | Software
Research trip | Verena Wallner: Research stay at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum for the dissertation project Looking over the Art(technolog)ist's Shoulder: Art Technological Research in Exhibitions
Workshop | Sarah Seidel, Philipp Lammers, Eva Blome: Workshop "Aesthetics and Society. Approaching the auto-sociobiography"
Research trip | Dr Innokentij Urupin: Inspection of the library of Pёtr Struve at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Research trip | Lisa Braun: Ivo Striegel and the Grisons
2019
Lecture | JProf. Dr Anne Kraume: Current Hour Latin America
Conference | Peter Krause: Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" in the light of recent research
Workshop | Andreas Trotzke: Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 34
Lecture | Steffen Bogen, Karin Leonhard, Jürgen Stöhr: Train by Train: Theories of Practice
Research trip | Elisa Werner: Image and Secrecy in Tudor and Stuart England
Exhibition | Dr Ulf Hailer: LINK - Artificial Intelligence and Us
2018
Exhibition | Prof. Dr Kirsten Mahlke: Constance's colonial history
Event | Prof Dr Sven Reichardt: Past and present
Research project | Dr Michael Hohlstein: "Constance 1434"
2017
Translation | Prof. Dr Eva-Maria Engelen Kurt Gödel's Philosophical Remarks, Vol. 1
Student assistant | Prof. Dr Gereon Wolters: Database conversion of the Philosophical Archive
Lecture series | Dr Alexandra Zinke: Lecture series on the topic of logic
Annual event of the Foundation | "World Cultural Heritage in Danger"
2016
Lecture series | Prof. Dr Georg Kaiser: Lectures on the subject of multilingualism
Equipment | Prof. Dr Gereon Wolters: Microfilm copy