Objektepistemologien im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik

Objektepistemologien fragen nach dem ‚Was‘, dem ‚Wie‘, dem ‚Warum (so)‘ und dem ‚Wozu‘von vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Diskursen zu, Konzeptualisierungen von und Hand-lungsroutinen an, mit und infolge von Dingen. In ihrem Zentrum stehen das Wissen überdie Dinge mit den darin vielfach implizit enthaltenen Konzeptualisierungen von Dingensowie der Zusammenhang zwischen diesem Dingwissen und der epistemischen oder szien-tifischen Praxis. Dabei erweisen sich die in der Dingpraxis ausgedrückten Zuschreibungenan Dinge als variabel, differentiell und temporär. Der Beitrag führt in den innovativen,transdisziplinären Forschungsraum der Objektepistemologien ein und kontextualisiert ihntheoriegeschichtlich. Außerdem bietet er einen Überblick über die weiteren Beiträge desSammelbandes

Materializing Culture - Culturizing Material. On the Status, Responsibilities and Function of Cultural Property Repositories within the Framework of a "Transformative Scholarship"

Certain theoretical streams in the cultural and social sciences that are occasionally subsumed under the term "New Materialism"(see Witzgall), as well as recent social, political, cultural and media technology developments require a theoretical and research-political repositioning of academic object repositories. For it is obvious that under the influence of these multi-layered, partly interwoven processes, the status, responsibilities, as well as the function and spheres of activity of these object or cultural property repositories with research commitment (on the term see section 2 below) are currently undergoing long-lasting change.For the respective institutions, these changes not only result in complex challenges regarding contents and structure, but also present extraordinary opportunities for the fulfillment of their academic, social and political responsibilities.The appropriate handling of these challenges and opportunities can substantially contribute to the sharpening of the academic and social profile of these institutions and increase their visibility on both a national and international level

A GIŠ on a Tree: Interactions between Images and Inscriptions on Neo-Assyrian Monuments

The study of the relationships between images and writing in the Ancient Near East is a broad field, which includes different approaches of historical and philological analysis. In this article, I will focus on an aspect of such relationships that has been only partially analysed in previous studies, that is, visual and semantic interactions between images and inscriptions in some Neo-Assyrian monuments when part (i.e. one or more cuneiform signs) of an inscription interplays with the part of the sculpted image (i.e. one element of the image or part of it) that it crosses. The purpose of this article is to try to answer the following questions: is it possible to positively identify interactions of this kind? Is it possible to interpret their meaning and to understand their function (or functions)? Were they meant to be a sort of con- cealed “game” within the inscription, or were they meant to be seen? And once they were seen, who was the intended recipient, the audience, of such interactions? As will become evident in the course of the article, my belief is that there are no unequivocal answers to these questions

Newborn Genetic Screening for Hearing Impairment: A Preliminary Study at a Tertiary Center

Universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) is of paramount importance for early identification and management of hearing impairment in children. However, infants with slight/mild, progressive, or late-onset hearing impairment might be missed in conventional UNHS. To investigate whether genetic screening for common deafness-associated mutations could assist in identifying these infants, 1017 consecutive newborns in a tertiary hospital were subjected to both newborn hearing screening using a two-step distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) screening and newborn genetic screening (NGS) for deafness. The NGS targeted 4 deafness-associated mutations commonly found in the Taiwanese population, including p.V37I (c.109G>A) and c.235delC of the GJB2 gene, c.919-2A>G of the SLC26A4 gene, and mitochondrial m.1555A>G of the 12S rRNA gene. The results of the NGS were then correlated to the results of the NHS. Of the 1017 newborns, 16 (1.6%) had unilateral DPOAE screening failure, and 22 (2.2%) had bilateral DPOAE screening failure. A total of 199 (19.6%) babies were found to have at least 1 mutated allele on the NGS for deafness, 11 (1.1%) of whom were homozygous for GJB2 p.V37I, 6 (0.6%) compound heterozygous for GJB2 p.V37I and c.235delC, and 1 (0.1%) homoplasmic for m.1555A>G, who may potentially have hearing loss. Among them, 3 babies, 5 babies, and 1 baby, respectively, passed the NHS at birth. Comprehensive audiological assessments in the 9 babies at 3 months identified 1 with slight hearing loss and 2 with mild hearing loss. NGS for common deafness-associated mutations may identify infants with slight/mild or potentially progressive hearing impairment, thus compensating for the inherent limitations of the conventional UNHS

Materiale Textkulturen : die DFG fördert den neuer Sonderforschungsbereich 933

"Campus-Report" heißt die Radiosendung der Universitäten Heidelberg, Mannheim, Karlsruhe und Freiburg. Die Reportagen über aktuelle Themen aus Forschung und Wissenschaft werden montags bis freitags jeweils um ca. 19.10h im Programm von Radio Regenbogen gesendet. (Empfang in Nordbaden: UKW 102,8. In Mittelbaden: 100,4 und in Südbaden: 101,1) Uni-Radio Baden: ein gemeinsames Projekt der Universitäten Freiburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe und Mannheim in Zusammenarbeit mit Radio Regenbogen – unterstützt von der Landesanstalt für Kommunikation. Sendung vom 20. Juli 201

The search for the origins of comic : Knowledge of comic theory from antiquity to the 20th Century applied to video clips

Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt Theorien zur Entstehung der Komik und des Lachens, im zeitlichen Kontext von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, vor. Im Analyseteil wird der Versuch unternommen, die Entstehung der Komik anhand von Videoclips zu ergründen

Zu Hause in der Welt von Morgen - Warum 'Kleine Fächer' unverzichtbar sind

Inhalt: Es gibt keine "Exoten"; Vielfalt begünstigt Resilienz; "Taylor for Impact" als wissenschaftspolitische Strategie

Understanding Material Text Cultures. A Multidisciplinary View

The present volume comprises 6 highly original studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies stretching from the 3rd millennium cuneiform textual record of Ancient Mesopotamia to 20th century Qur’anic boards of northern and central African provenience. The volume provides a multidisciplinary approach to material text cultures complementary to the interdisciplinary, strongly theory-grounded research scheme of the CRC 933