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Current third-party funded projects

DFG-GRK 2844: Staging of religious atmosphere in ancient cultures

Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG)

Co-applicant: Prof Dr Tanja Pommerening

Term: 11/2023–10/2028

Creation of two doctorate student positions at the institute

Link to the project homepage (German only)
Ta'ziz Partnership – Scientific Collaboration: "Dealing with Material Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Between Excavation and Digitization"

Funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service; Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)

Applicants:
Prof Dr Albrecht Fuess (Islamic studies),
Prof Dr Winfried Held (classical archaeology),
Prof Dr Tanja Pommerening (history of pharmacy and medicine)

Cooperation partners:
Ayn Shams University, Cairo,
University of Alexandria,
American University of Beirut.

Press release by Marburg University from 16.6.2023
ArchaeoScent: Non-destructive and Non-contact Analysis of Archaeological Organic Residues and Artifacts

Funded by LOEWE-Exploration

Applicants:
Prof Dr Michael Keusgen (pharmaceutical chemistry)
Prof Dr Tanja Pommerening (history of pharmacy and medicine)

Term: 5/2023–12/2025
Agency and Ethics: Sensitive Objects in University Collections (AESOH)

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; BMBF)

Project leader: Prof Dr Tanja Pommerening (history of pharmacy and medicine)

Co-applicants:
Prof Dr Edith Franke (study of religions),
Prof Dr Ernst Halbmayer (cultural anthropology).

Coordination: Katrin Weber (history of pharmacy and medicine)

Creation of one post-doc position and one doctoral student position at the institute.

Term: 7/2023–6/2027

Co-operation partners:
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim,
Übersee-Museum, Bremen,
Senckenberg Nature Museum, Frankfurt am Main,
Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel.

Press release by Marburg University from 12.7.2023

Link to the project's homepage (German only)
Gedenkbuch Opfer der nationalsozialistischen "Euthanasie"-Morde in Oberbayern

Funding by the district of Upper Bavaria

Applicant: Prof Dr Maike Rotzoll (history of pharmacy and medicine)

Employee: Ann-Kathrin Hinz, M.A.

Term: 1/2024–10/2027
Normal#crazy art. Works from a psychiatric context between diagnostics and aesthetics after 1945

Subproject 8 of DFG FOR 3031 "NORMAL#VERRÜCKT Zeitgeschichte einer erodierenden Differenz"

Co-applicant: Prof Dr Maike Rotzoll

Employee: Dr Christof Beyer

Term: 1/2022–12/2024
Mineralia in cancer therapy in the 18th to 20th century with special reference to homeopathy

Dissertation fellowship by the Waltraud Hülshorst Foundation

Awardee: Esther Jestädt

Supervisor: Prof Dr Christoph Friedrich

Term: 01.03.2020 until 31.05.2024
An Annotated Digital Catalogue and Index of Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs in the Galenic Corpus

Funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG)

Project manager: Dr Maximilian Haars

Term: since 6/2021

Link to the description of the project (external link)

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