Projects
A large number of projects are carried out at the Gotha collection and research centre. These range from collection-related and source-based cataloguing, preservation and research projects to digitisation and digital humanities projects. The collections are thus made usable for science and the public. The individual institutions work closely with various national and international co-operation partners. Explore a selection of current projects.
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Transcontinental Co-Productions
If the connection between the European exploration of Africa and colonialism seems unequivocal in retrospect, it may be surprising that in the 1860s, African travelers, scholars, and politicians…
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Researching Swahili
Africanist linguistics is closely connected to missionary and colonial claims to authority over the political upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. In my work, I therefore inquire into the…
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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
Bruno Hassenstein's Cartography of Japan
The project examines the influence of cartography on German-language Japanology in the late 19th century. So far, the historical development of German-language Japanology has been interpreted with a…
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The Scientific Age in the Province
With the first assembly of the Society of German Naturalists and Physicians in 1822, according to Werner von Siemens (1886), a 'scientific age' began, in which the natural sciences opened up to…
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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
Trading Animals / Animals that act
Living elephants, giraffes, ostriches, and camels, baboons, and donkeys unknown in Europe – the list of animals traded globally in the 19th century was extensive. Besides the numerous animals, various…
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Bifurcated Cartographies
Bifurcated cartographies (BC) seeks to shed light into this process from a map-making cross continental reading. It examines the representation of Guatemala, and Central America, from a foreign and a…
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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
The Rubondo-Experiment
The examination of the often neglected ecological dimension of decolonization contributes to a better understanding of the impacts of historical transformations on the natural environment.…
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Cooperation Project "Cultural Techniques of Collecting
Collecting is undoubtedly one of the oldest cultural techniques, and it constitutes a fundamental practice in various forms in contemporary cultures as well. What is collected ranges between the poles…
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La Belle Anglaise
The Lutheran Duchess Luise Dorothea, born in Sachsen-Meiningen (1710-1767), had a significant impact on the court and political-cultural life in 18th century Gotha. She belongs to a group of…
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- Friedenstein Castle Foundation
Opening up science: New ways of transferring knowledge using the example of the BROMACKER research project
The Bromacker site has been known for over 100 years and is one of the most important and productive fossil deposits for land vertebrates from the early Permian period (approx. 290 million years ago).…
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- Friedenstein Castle Foundation
Gotha around 1800: Nature – Science – History
Around 1800, Gotha was a court interconnected throughout Europe. Since the founding of the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1640), the dukes’ collecting interests gave rise to extensive collections of…
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- Gotha Research Library
Mediating Islam in the Digital Age
The Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) assumes that digitalisation and technological progress have a significant impact on Islam, with diverse and…
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Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace
The project “Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace: Education, Preservation, Access”, which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), aims to create a comprehensive bi-national academic…
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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
Cartographic Sources and Territorial Transformations in the Horn of Africa since the Late 18th Century (ETHIOMAP)
The research project comprises two partner projects being carried out simultaneously in France (funded by French National Research Agency) and Germany (funded by German Research Foundation). The…