{"id":29546,"date":"2025-04-23T12:26:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/en\/?p=29546"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:17:01","slug":"racha-kirakosian-erhalt-momentum-forderung-der-volkswagenstiftung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/en\/racha-kirakosian-erhalt-momentum-forderung-der-volkswagenstiftung\/","title":{"rendered":"Racha Kirakosian receives \u201cMomentum Funding\u201d from the Volkswagen Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Freiburg, 11\/04\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Racha Kirakosian, Chair of German Medieval Studies at the University of Freiburg’s German Department has been awarded the Volkswagen Foundation\u2018s Momentum \u2013<\/strong><\/strong> Funding for Recently Tenured Professors. This offers her the opportunity to advance the content-related and strategic development of her professorship.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The funding is aimed at professors three to five years after taking up their first tenured professorship and supports innovative approaches in research and teaching. Kirakosian\u2019s research is dedicated to religious cultural history and textual history of the Middle Ages. She plans to use the \u201cmomentum funding\u201d to expand her research to include scientific discourses of the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirakosian has been teaching in Freiburg since 2020 and was honoured in 2022 for her excellent doctoral supervision. In the same year, Kirakosian’s research on \u201cNeuromedievalism\u201d was named the winner of the Falling Walls Winner Prize in the category of Social Sciences & Humanities. In 2023, she received the Electronic Instructional Development Award. Kirakosian is a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin until the end of July 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\u201cAs part of the Momentum project, I would like to expand my research to include scientific discourses of the Middle Ages. In doing so, I hope to uncover the forms of knowledge transfer of the time, thus contributing to an inclusive history of science.\u201d\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\tProf. Dr. Racha Kirakosian\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\tChair of German Medieval Studies at the University of Freiburg’s German Department\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

To this end, a largely untapped corpus of dialogue-oriented texts from the period between approximately 1150 and 1650 AD will be digitised and then evaluated from a historiographical and data science perspective in order to expand our knowledge of scientific discourse in the Middle Ages with the insights gained from it. In addition, a new dialogue-based teaching format is to be developed in cooperation with the Universities of Stockholm and Strasbourg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\u201c<\/strong>Momentum \u2013 Funding for Recently Tenured Professors<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n\t

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\n\t\tThe Volkswagen Foundation’s \u2018Momentum \u2013 Funding for Recently Tenured Professors\u2019 is aimed at university professors <\/em>who took up their first tenured professorship three to five years ago. The aim of the funding is to support the further development of the professorship in terms of content and strategy. It is aimed at researchers from all subject areas and takes place in two phases: in the first phase, up to 850,000 euros are provided over four years, and in the second phase, up to 200,000 euros are provided over two years.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\tProfessorship website [de]\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\n\t\tUniversity of Freiburg
Tel.: +49 761 203 4302<\/a>
E-Mail: kommunikation@zv.uni-freiburg.de<\/a>\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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