The Formation and Transformation of Space and
Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations
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  • About
  • Research
    • Topoi I (2007-12)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Spaces
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Transformations
    • Topoi II (2012–2019)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Space
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Topoi Plus
      • Key Topics
      • Topoi Lab
      • Forum – Spatial Data Analysis
      • TOPOImap und TOPOIorganon
    • Early Career and professorships
  • Knowledge Transfer
    • Publications
      • Publication Database
    • Edition Topoi
      • Open Access
      • Book Series
      • eTopoi
      • Data Publication
    • Events
    • Teaching
    • Dialog
      • Spotlight on …
      • Journalist in Residence
      • Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
    • Exhibitions
      • KTESIPHON
      • LIENZO SELER II
      • The Soul is an Octopus
      • THRAKISCHE MÜNZEN
      • Forum Romanum 3.0.
      • MUSEUMSVISIONEN
      • ANTIKE BAUFORSCHUNG
      • IRON METALLURGY
      • Jenseits des Horizonts
      • Auf den Kopf gestellt!
      • Antike Welten
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  • Dissertations

  • Alexander von Aphrodisias und die antike Diskussion über die körperliche Lokalisation des herrschenden Seelenteils
  • Aristotle on Parts of the Soul
  • Conceptions of the beyond in John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • Connections between the deconstruction of ancient spaces and post-ancient construction projects, using the example of the use of spolia in the construction and new construction of St. Peters Cathedral in Rome as a case study
  • Current stagings of ancient spaces in museum contexts
  • Das Septizonium des Septimius Severus – Geschichte, Niederlegung, Transport und Wiederverwendung seiner Baumaterialien
  • De-limitation and acquisition - The transformation and resemantization of ancient spaces in Heinrichs of Neustadt 'Apollonius von Tyrland'
  • Die Frau im Haus. Die Stellung der Frau in ökonomischen Schriften der Antike und in der Hausväterliteratur der frühen Neuzeit
  • Epistemologische Figuren und Konfigurationen der Orientierung
  • Galen, De locis affectis I-II: Kritische Ausgabe mit Übersetzung und Kommentar
  • Perception, imagination, and construction of ancient Greek spaces in eighteenth-century English travel writing
  • Strategies of Visualization in German Archaeology, 19th-20th c.
  • The Babylonian Extispicy Rituals and their Scholarly Background
  • The Babylonian heritage in early islamic cosmology
  • The Establishment and Reconstruction of Copernicanism from the 16th to the 18th Century
  • The Social-Cultural Practice of Medicine in II-I Millennium Mesopotamia.
  • Vernetzen! Eine Medienkulturgeschichte
  • Vision and Script. The Revelation of Afterworld Spaces in Texts from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • camminando vedrete. Paths through ancient Rome in the travel literature from the 7th to the 16th century
  • Research Projects

  • Agrimensura. Culture, Agriculture and "Agrimensura" in the Roman Empire and in 15th and 16th-century Italy
  • Antike Räume in Tischhöhe. Maßstab & Perspektive in Museen
  • Archaeotopia, the archaeological site as focus, expression and motor of collective identities
  • Aristoteles' Theorie der Seelenteilung
  • Außenräume in Innenräumen – Die musealen Raumkonzeptionen von Walter Andrae und Theodor Wiegand im Pergamonmuseum
  • Balances, Steelyards and the Foundation of Mechanics (The Force of the Lever)
  • Dienen. Von der Sklaverei zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft
  • Edition of Galen’s Quod animi mores corporis temperamenta sequantur
  • Editionsprojekt: Internationale Besucherstimmen zur Museumsinsel, 1830–1950
  • Evolution in Zeit und Raum
  • Genealogy, Migration Myths & Mythotopography
  • Grenzen von geographischen Räumen, Kulturräumen und Denkräumen
    Zur Neuordnung des Museums für islamische Kunst
  • History of Cultural Theories
  • Migration narratives in ancient Near Eastern Studies
  • Moving Beyond: Towards an Early Modern Aesthetics of the Other World
  • Philosophische Theorien der Seelenvermögen in der späteren Tradition
  • Pneumatic Machines and the Constitution of Matter (The Force of Void)
  • Skulpturen im Raum: Alberto Giacometti und Amara
  • Spoliierung und Transposition. Kategorien und Methoden einer objektorientierten Archäologie antiker und antikisierender Räume und Raumvorstellungen
  • The Recovery of Space
  • Topoi Sonderausstellung – Jenseits des Horizonts
  • Zeiträume – Milet in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike
  • Ägypten im Museum. Transnationale Studie zu ägyptischen Museumsräumen in Europa im 19.Jh.
  • Professorial Dissertation

  • Metrology. Scales and Situations of Justification since Antiquity

Spokespersons

Ernst Osterkamp
Jürgen Renn

Groups

(D-III-E-II-1) Dialectical Topoi
(D-III-E-II-2) Body & Soul
(E-CSG-II) Culture Theories
(E-CSG-III) Spread of Knowledge
(E-CSG-IV) Museums
(E-CSG-V) Space & Collective Identities
(E-I) Spaces of Motion
(E-II) Epistemology of Space

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