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The Archeology of Transformation: The Necropolis of Niedernai and the 5th Century in the Upper Rhin Valley – Nied’Arc5
The cemetery of Niedernai discovered in 1995 and nearly undisturbed, is the only nearly fully and modern excavated necropolis of the second half of the 5th century not only within Alsace but also in its wider surroundings. Based on the analysis of 32 graves (with 33 dead) of the relatively small gra
From Royal Tumuli to Urban Necropoleis; A Modern Approach of Funerary Archeology for the Study of Social Stratification and Local Identites in Pergamon and in Aeolis during the Hellenistic Period. – NekroPergEol
The necropoleis and the great tumuli of Pergamon and the Eolian cities of Kyme and Elaia represent a priceless archaeological heritage for understanding the political, social and cultural dynamics in a key region of Hellenistic Asia Minor. They offer a wide range of sociological and historical conte
Literary Creativity and Biological Knowledge in the 19th Century – BIOLOGRAPHES
The word ‘biology’, invented at the beginning of the nineteenth century, marked the formation of a new object of study, which immediately aroused a keen interest among specialists in other disciplines as well as writers. French literature very quickly seized upon the biological sciences, used them w
Transnational floodrisk management in the Rhine bassin. A historic - progressiv approach – TRANSRISK²
The first objective of the project TRANSRISK ² consists in the strengthening of the geohistorical transnational database of the floods established during the program TRANSRISK. In order to do that, we are adopting a triple extension: temporal, spatial, and thematic. It will indeed be a question of e
Iron Age landscapes on the Straits of Gibraltar: the territories of La Silla del Papa and Los Castillejos de Alcorrín (ninth to first century BC) – ARCHEOSTRAITS
This project has as its starting point the excavations carried out by a Franco-Spanish team and by a German-Spanish team on the two largest Iron Age settlements of the north side of the Strait of Gibraltar, separated by a distance of 40 km: La Silla del Papa in Tarifa (Cadiz) and Los Castillejos de
Political corruption: immoral money and political influence in France and Germany, 19th and 20th centuries – POCK2
We ask for the extension of a research project, already funded by ANR and DFG, concerning the history of political corruption in France and Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (POC / K). In light of recent historical research in Europe, the corruption does not refer to specific practic
Texts, Tells and Semantics: Modelling the Historical Geography of Upper Mesopotamia in the 2nd mill. BC by an integrated analysis of cuneiform texts, archaeological data and space using geo-informatics and the semantic web – TEXTELSEM
The Franco-German cooperation project examined questions related to the historical geography of Upper Mesopotamia and the regions situated in the East of the Tigris during the 2nd millennium BC. The systematic comparison of the structural use of the space during two different historical periods open
A SYSTEMATIC BREAKDOWN OF STIMULUS-RESPONSE ASSOCIATIONS – SRA
To identify whether the processes involved in Stimulus-Response associations that are formed via implementation or instruction are the same To investigate whether their formation and durability is affected by top-down and bottom-up factors. -- -- -- Stimulus-response (S-R) learning comprises
New Religiosities in Turkey: Reenchantment in a Secularized Muslim Country ? – NEORELIGITUR
The concept of “new religiosities« has emerged as a fertile tool for the study of beliefs and practices associated with the New Age currents, modern esotericism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. New religiosities are perceived as corollaries of the processes of secularization, individualization and globaliza
Professionnal development and workers' capabilities in French and German companies. An approach through multinational corporations – DEVENT
Therefore we have chosen three spheres of inquiry: 1) employees’ capability as regards quality of work – in terms of both the quality of work performed and the quality blanav conditions pertaining to that work; 2) employees’ capability in the field of professional development; and 3) employees’ capa
Mathematics: Objectivity by representation – MathObRe
The aim of our project is to argue for a twofold (hypo)thesis: (a) Mathematical representations established by stipulations contribute to the constitution of mathematical ontology and to shaping of mathematical reasoning. (b) Mathematical object-constitution is analogous to scientific object-const
Contemporary environmental history of the Soviet Union and the successor states, 1970-2000. Ecological globalization and regional dynamics – EcoGlobReg
EcoGlobReg is devoted to understanding how ecological concerns shaped society and politics in the late Soviet Union and the post-Soviet space. We analyse the sometimes tumultuous processes associated with the ecologization and de-ecologization of politics and society in the last three decades of the
« Perso-Indica » : the Persanisation of Indian Learning (13th-19th centuries) – Pers-Ind
Several factors have contributed to erasing the translation movement of Indian sources into Persian from the main events of the intellectual history of South Asia and the Muslim societies during the pre-modern period. Colonial historiography has created the view which considers Muslim political hege
Disfluent Utterances, Exclamations and Laughter in Dialogue – DUEL
Although disfluencies, exclamations and laughter occur frequently in spoken conversation, they have received little attention both within formal theories of grammar, where they are widely perceived as phenomena outside of its range, and practical dialogue modelling, where they are perceived as distr
Measuring Divergent Thinking in Youth and the impact of culture – Medityc
In a context where exchanges between cultures are multiplying, partly because of globalization, it is important to study the impact of multiculturality on creative performance. The objective of the MEDITYC project was twofold. The first objective was to investigate a number of factors related to cul
Institutionalizing Human Trafficking. A French/German Comparison. – ProsCrim
In an international and national context marked by the multiplication of debates and instruments aimed at combating trafficking in women for sexual exploitation, the ProsCrim project focused on institutional practices for qualifying and categorizing the forms of exploitation surrounding prostitution
Multilevel prosodic processing in a crosslinguistic perspective – MUPROCROSS
Research on early language acquisition has shown that prosodic information is one of the earliest cues infants use to bootstrap into the acquisition of lexical and syntactic properties of the target language (e.g. Morgan & Demuth, 2006) and that infants acquire language specific prosodic properties