https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/thema/linguistics-cultures-and-arts/ Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität | Neues aus Forschung, Lehre, Studium Mon, 04 May 2026 07:48:13 +0000 de hourly 1 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-fav_guo-blau-32x32.jpg https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/thema/linguistics-cultures-and-arts/ 32 32 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/japan-honors-japanologist-michael-kinski/ Mon, 04 May 2026 07:48:11 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=88249 Michael Kinski, Professor of Japanese Cultural and Intellectual History at Goethe University Frankfurt, has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by the Japanese […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/from-classroom-to-field-rmu-students-conduct-research-in-kenya/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:54:48 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87986 From linguistic landscapes to football conversations and skateboarding subcultures, students from Goethe University Frankfurt and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz are applying their training in real-world contexts. A field excursion to […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/democracy-takes-centre-stage-association-of-classical-philologists-holds-national-congress-in-frankfurt/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:54:29 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87861 500 participants are expected at Goethe University: 7–11 April 2026, Westend Campus Under the patronage of Boris Rhein, Minister-President of Hesse, the German Association of Classical Philologists will hold its […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/four-millennia-of-cultural-history/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:48:36 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87674 Interdisciplinary publication including student contributions on ecosystem research in the Nördlinger Ries. Around 15 million years ago, an asteroid strike created the Nördlinger Ries impact crater in Bavaria, shaping a […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/when-writing-fades-but-meaning-endures-how-markus-scholz-deciphered-roman-wax-tablets-from-belgium/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:54:42 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87147 A year ago, Professor Markus Scholz, a specialist in provincial Roman archaeology and ancient inscriptions at Goethe University Frankfurt, found himself responding to an unusually high number of media inquiries. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/evidence-of-interfaith-coexistence-in-the-near-east/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:57:44 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87007 Team of archaeologists from Goethe University Frankfurt returns from excavation in Iraq with new insights into the period 1,500 years ago It seems that Christians and Zoroastrians in the fifth […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/diversified-cereal-cultivation-in-the-early-neolithic-period/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:02:47 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85930 Joint project by Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Cologne investigates prehistoric agriculture in the Rhineland and Hesse Already in the early Neolithic period, farmers in what is now […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/incredibly-vast-vocabulary/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87152 Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt are building a digital platform as a basis for language research Languages are remarkable. They reflect what is going on in our minds and enable […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/iwo-amelung-sinologist/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:20:16 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85159 How many times he has traveled to China, Iwo Amelung cannot say. “I haven’t counted, bbut altogether I’ve lived there for many years, including from 2003 to 2007, when I […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/on-the-gradual-drift-apart-the-romanticism-model/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 05:53:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84693 Why did Romanticism as an aesthetic phenomenon evolve into a Heimatkunst movement and the “Wandervogel” youth culture? Literary scholar Raphael Stübe has been awarded this year’s Novalis Prize for his […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/the-first-thing-i-asked-myself-was-is-this-fake/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:30:10 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82497 Having been brought on board by fellow Goethe University scholar and archaeologist Professor Markus Scholz, Ancient History Professor Hartmut Leppin played a vital role in deciphering the “Frankfurt Silver Inscription”. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/i-couldnt-believe-my-own-eyes-at-first/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:17:39 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82301 Professor Markus Scholz, an archaeologist at Goethe University Frankfurt, played a decisive role in deciphering the “Frankfurt Silver Inscription”, discovered rolled up in a silver amulet in a grave dating […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/teen-slang-aura-goofy-cringe-and-more/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:08:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82242 Petra Schulz, professor of linguistics, looks at Germany’s latest “teen slang word of the year” announced at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair through a linguistic lens. UniReport: Prof. Schulz, have […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/frankfurt-silver-inscription-oldest-christian-testimony-found-north-of-the-alps/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:08:43 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81940 Mysterious silver amulet turns science on its head A small silver amulet, just 3.5 cm in size, with a thin silver foil with a mysterious incision rolled into it: the […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/babylon-frankfurt/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:50:45 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81060 In the Language Café, students encounter many different languages. When you enter the Language Center on an afternoon when it is “open”, the slogan of the 2006 FIFA World Cup […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/goethe-university-frankfurt-holds-action-month-on-the-image-of-africa-in-the-german-media-and-the-role-of-academia/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:53:11 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80500 When did you last see any news about Africa in the media? Studies show that reports about Africa have diminished in recent decades. Looking back on his own work, Hans […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/the-dwindling-influence-of-american-theory/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:54:22 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80216 American postdoc Gregory Jones-Katz, currently a member of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften – Institute for Advanced Studies, investigates the history of American philosophy and cultural studies from the 1960s to the […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/this-years-1822-university-prize-goes-to-a-physicist-a-linguist-and-a-biochemist/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:24:06 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80133 Physicist Prof. Laura Sagunski, linguist Dr. Mariam Kamarauli and biochemist PD. Dr. Rupert Abele are this year’s recipients of the coveted 1822 University Prize for Excellence in Teaching, which Goethe […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/architecture-as-a-product-of-and-impetus-for-collective-processes/ Fri, 31 May 2024 13:42:34 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=79937 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/british-academy-award-for-innovative-zoroastrian-language-research/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:16:40 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=79677 The British Academy’s Global Professorships are designed to strengthen the UK’s research capacity by further enhancing collaborations with internationally renowned scholars. Linguist Prof. Dr. Saloumeh Gholami was recently awarded a […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/making-reality-picture-perfect/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:52:11 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=73591 Art educationalist Katja Gunkel investigates how social media, and Instagram in particular, has massively altered the way we handle pictures on a day-to-day basis. UniReport: Dr. Gunkel, what drew you, […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/researchers-goethe-university-ruediger-krause-archaeologist/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 06:36:25 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=73577 The language Rüdiger Krause uses is quite revealing – and not just when it comes to his Swabian origins, but also his beliefs. It clearly conveys the fascination he has […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/team-from-goethe-university-frankfurt-discovers-4300-year-old-copper-ingots-in-oman/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:58:48 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=71811 They were searching for charcoal – and found copper ingots: During a routine excavation in Oman, Irini Biezeveld and Jonas Kluge experienced how surprising archaeology can be. Their chance find […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/does-the-artificial-watercourse-in-the-hessian-ried-have-a-roman-past/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:11:08 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=68781 The Landgraben, the body of water between the German cities of Groß-Gerau and Trebur, flows into the Rhine northwest of Astheim. Its name goes back to Count Georg I (1547-1596) […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/research/hidden-from-the-romans-200-tons-of-silver-on-the-shores-of-the-river-lahn/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:41:23 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=68059 In their search for silver ore, the Romans established two military camps in the Bad Ems area near Koblenz in the 1st century AD. This is the result of research […]]]>