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Spaces of Anti-Muslim Acts in the Greater Paris and Greater London regions
ID703328From0 May 2016to1 April 2018FunderEuropean CommissionSocial and political debates have repeatedly shown that we are now in a new religious era primarily marked by diversity. The religious diversity of European society – and in particular the visibility of Muslims in the public space – reveals that the geographical space is a key factor in the study of...SUpporting acceptance of automated VEhicle
ID814999From3 May 2019to1 October 2022FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorINSTITUTO DE BIOMECANICA DE VALENCIAWhile the deployment of connected automated vehicle (CAV) turns into reality, its acceptance has been called into question. Societal issues regarding public acceptance, user awareness and ethics, therefore, become priority concerns. The approach based on the technology push, jeopardizes social viabi...Spreading Whose Word? Transnational Imams, Religion and Politics in Turkey’s Mosques Abroad (France, UK, USA)
ID796193From4 November 2018to6 December 2022FunderEuropean CommissionSince the early 2000s, Muslim Diasporas in Europe and the USA have raised a growing interest in the public and academic spheres. While building upon this interest, the proposed research aims to bring an original contribution to the field by adopting a transnational perspective that focuses on the re...Saharan Visions of Jesus. Poetics of Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions
ID898656From6 August 2020to1 August 2023FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorKATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVENxMy project aims to study the connections between Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions, the Saharan pastoral minorities (Tuareg, Berabish, Chaanba, Kunta) in Mali and in Niger and the post-conflict situation in Sahel through the unusual prism of oral poetry. The various Christian churches use...Promising Images of Love. The Mediatisation of Values and Norms in Religious and Secular Wedding Narratives
ID101024115From2 March 2022to4 February 2024FunderEuropean CommissionDigital and electronic media play a central role in contemporary wedding rituals, be it during the preparation, the ritual itself or afterwards. Wedding photographers and videographers stage the couple during the wedding ritual and reception/party and these depictions shape the wedding couple’s and...East-Asian Buddhism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
ID793853From5 June 2018to1 August 2020FunderEuropean CommissionExplorations of Buddhism in Africa are very few and have been so far conducted at the introductory level. Moreover, in the field of religious studies there is still a marked tendency to reduce the globalization of Buddhism to its worldwide missionary activities, and to neglect crucial factors such a...Fellowships in Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the Max-Weber-Kolleg
ID665958From2 September 2015to1 August 2020FunderEuropean CommissionThe MWK-Fellows programme financed by COFUND aims to allow excellent incoming researchers from countries other than Germany (in accordance with the EU-mobility-rule) to conduct their own, freely chosen, independent research projects in a highly competitive and intellectually vibrant research environ...The Tragic Body in the Syrian Context
ID832777From1 September 2019to3 September 2021FunderEuropean Commission“SYRBODY – The Tragic Body in the Syrian Context” is one of the first attempts to think the consequences that one of the greatest tragedies of our time, the Syrian tragedy, has had on the body. This project aims to develop and disseminate a contextual philosophy of the body by drawing upon psychoana...Feminist theory after sex and gender: The nature-nurture complex in contemporary feminism reconsidered in light of the Developmental Systems Theory approach to the philosophy of biology
ID701724From6 July 2017to1 May 2021FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITETET I BERGENFEMSAG is a cross-disciplinary and methodologically novel research action that will subject prevailing assumptions about the nature-nurture issue within feminist theory to close scrutiny. Such an endeavour is highly pertinent in light of a persistent interest – and often belief – in “essential” sex...Welcoming Syrian Refugees to İstanbul University: Improving Capacity and Knowledge Sharing
ID787248From2 May 2018to0 June 2019FunderEuropean CommissionWith the flow of millions of Syrian refugees, Turkish higher education is facing the challenge of including ever growing numbers of refugee students to its system and preparing the system and institutions to their access, participation and inclusion. Although Turkey has taken crucial steps to provid...Restoration and Faith: practicing religion and conservation in Mexico's historic churches
ID701601From4 December 2016to5 November 2018FunderEuropean CommissionThe proposed project addresses the restoration of a colonial era Catholic church located in a peripheral indigenous community in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. It investigates the ways in which the professionals concerned with the conservation of the church as a federally-protected historic site engag...Democratic Secrecy: A Philosophical Study of the Role of Secrecy in Democratic Politics
ID639021From6 August 2015to1 May 2021FunderEuropean CommissionTransparency in politics is the mantra of democratic governance. Should state secrecy, such as classified intelligence programs or closed-door political bargaining be abolished? Despite its revered status, many feel that complete transparency would undermine effective functioning of governments. Tak...The Secularization Theorem in the Long Nineteenth Century
ID898294From5 May 2020to6 April 2022FunderEuropean CommissionSECULAR aims to analyze how society and politics in 19th century Europe are understood and explained in terms of secularized religious content. This means that modern phenomena are interpreted by reference to earlier, theological categories. The focus is on the social and political theory of the lon...Plant Phenome
ID833353From0 December 2019to4 April 2022FunderEuropean CommissionPlant Phenomics has been growing and advancing rapidly in the last decades. Two important facts drive this growth: 1) the need for growing more food with better nutrition quality for the world population which has been rising enormously along with increasing social inequalities; 2) the need for bett...White Islam: A New Religion for Europeans
ID892075From3 September 2021to6 August 2024FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAMThe project investigates how Islam provides a new framework of ethical norms and religious practices for a number of Europeans who are dissatisfied with the social role occupied by the Christian Churches and who express their concerns about continuous secularisation and cultural liberalisation of th...Patents, Bioethics and the Human Body: Reconceptualising Bioethics in Patent Decision-Making and the Governance Function of Patents
ID101042147From2 November 2022to0 October 2027FunderEuropean CommissionPatentsInHumans challenges the current marginalisation of bioethics in patent decision-making for technologies related to the human body. A patent gives a rightsholder the right to stop others using a patented technology. This allows them to control how that technology is provided, to whom, and on w...Occult Bohemia: Magic and Nationalism in Central Europe
ID101061403From5 September 2023to0 August 2025FunderEuropean CommissionThe project's objective is to understand and analyse ties between occultism and ethnicity and nationalism. Scholars discussed ethnicity and nationalism mostly with regard to German and Nazi occultism, however, Slavic countries also drawn interest recently and remain unexplored since there is a subst...Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) in the history of European ideas of consciousness
ID101064483From5 September 2023to0 August 2025FunderEuropean CommissionThe MSCA-PF MC-EuCon project investigates Margaret Cavendish’s philosophy (1623-73), in order to provide the first detailed interpretation of her theory of consciousness. Questions about consciousness, its origin and presence in nature, which dominate present-day philosophy of mind, arose during the...Law, Economy and Seeing Woman’s Work: Knowledge Production and the ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention in Global Migration Governance
ID101065330From6 October 2022to1 September 2024FunderEuropean CommissionThis project will investigate how knowledge production takes place within the context of an international organization (IO) – the International Labour Organization (ILO). It will look into how what we know about domestic work has developed in the context of the establishment of the ILO’s Convention...Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Re-thinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer Agency along China-Africa Fashion Value Chains
ID101044619From4 September 2022to2 August 2027FunderEuropean CommissionThe project investigates how, in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global power is manifested, negotiated and resisted in people’s daily life in a South-South setting using fashion as an exemplary case. Fashion is recognised as a significant economic force globally and one of the...Towards an Alternative History of the Age of Goethe
ID101063225From5 September 2023to0 August 2025FunderEuropean CommissionThis project challenges our understanding of the core canonical period of German literary and philosophical historiography (1770-1830) by asking: what concept of literature emerged in the period, and why were some authors and philosophically engaged figures marginalised through processes of canonisa...Rust and Revolution: Understanding Social Technologies in Enlightenment Europe through metaphorology
ID101063539From6 October 2022to1 September 2024FunderEuropean Commission"This project asks how, if we take rust with its connotations of change and corruption as a starting point, we can return to three very different clusters of phenomena, each of which has been called a Revolution - the Chemical, the French and the Industrial - to understand how texts implicated in ea...Humour as an epistemic practice of the political present
ID101040059From0 January 2023to5 December 2027FunderEuropean CommissionSomething weird is happening in politics. Satirical parties, comedic journalism and memeification are gaining more and more traction; the slippages between parody and sincerity, play and earnestness, real and fake, ridicule and seriousness have proliferated at a dizzying rate. Global entanglements,...European Women and Religious Dissent: The Advent of Modernity and the Democratic Public Sphere
ID101063043From5 July 2022to0 June 2024FunderEuropean CommissionAt a time when fundamentalisms and populisms threaten basic human rights, it is extremely important to investigate the roots of European values such as egalitarianism and democracy, in order to contribute to popular and scholarly debates on these subjects in an informed way. Addressing the historica...The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging
ID101069099From1 August 2022to3 August 2024FunderEuropean CommissionMuslims are the focus of political anxieties in Europe and the US. Over the last decade, numerous studies have documented the racialization of Muslims, and the impact of those discourses on those identified as such. Yet the embodied and sensorial dimension of the racialization of Muslims remains la...