The Institute of Archaeological Studies was founded in 2002 from the subjects of classical archaeology and prehistory and early history. The unique formal and content-related link between the two sister disciplines is therefore the heart of the institute. Both subjects are also represented not only in their respective core areas, but also take into account a methodologically, objectively, chronologically and geographically extended concept of science by a variety of offers, such as the subject of archaeometry or events on the archaeology of the Phoenician diaspora
The Historical Institute is dedicated to the research and mediation of history in all its facets. It is the largest of the three institutes of our faculty with a wide range of activities with chairs and departments in epochal and thematic and regional characteristics. The institute is one of the largest historical research institutes in Germany.
In research and teaching, the Art History Institute devotes itself to the visual arts of the Western world in all its breadth, i.e. from late antiquity to the present. Since its founding in 1965 under Max Imdahl (1925-1988), it has placed particular emphasis on the constitution, creation and development of aesthetic modernity and its historical preconditions.
The institute plays a decisive role in the anchoring of contemporary art in the academic and overall cultural context.
The Centre for Mediterranean Studies (ZMS) bundles the subjects and cross-epoch Mediterranean research in the German-speaking world. In contrast to the "Mediterranisms" of colonialism and the time of the Cold War, it does not postulate any unity, continuity, specificity or singularity of the region. Rather, it defines the Mediterranean in the sense of Cross Area Studies as a contact zone of Africa, Asia and Europe, which is comparable to and intertwined with other fluvial, maritime and terrestrial interaction spaces.
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