Historicizing Comparisons (S02*)

• Subject Area: Medieval History ; General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies ; German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature) ; Art History ; Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317664947

Project S02 investigates how practices of comparing that are constituted through media and materiality impact processes of historicization. The mediality and materiality of historicizing comparisons shape the emergence of concepts of 'history' as general understandings on a macro-level. At the same time, these general understandings influence the respective practices. The project thus integrates two principal questions of the CRC: It addresses the contingent effects of mediality and materiality on practices of comparing as well as the interrelations between comparison and historicization.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1288: Practices of comparisons: Ordering and changing the world
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Lars Deile; Professor Dr. Johannes Grave; Professorin Dr. Berenike Herrmann; Dr. Britta Hochkirchen; Professorin Dr. Kornelia Konczal; Dr. Elisa Ronzheimer; Professorin Dr. Silke Schwandt