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This section provides comprehensive information on the latest developments at FRIAS. Here, you can find news about the achievements and publications of our community, articles on significant activities, and access to publications and video documentation related to FRIAS. Subscribe for regular updates and download FRIAS materials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Daniela M\u00fcller<\/strong> (FRIAS Fellow 2021-25) has published the monography Katharer des Nordens<\/a> at Herder Verlag. The study offers a historical investigation into the presence and influence of the Cathar movement in Northern Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries, tracing their impact along the Rhine, Meuse, and Seine.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Manuela Boatc\u0103 <\/strong>(Rector\u2019s Fellow 2021\/22) has been appointed Theodor Heuss Professor<\/a> at The New School for Social Research in New York. The sociologist, whose expertise lies in decoloniality, global inequalities, and transnational entanglements, will hold the professorship for one year.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marlene Bartos<\/strong> (FRIAS Direktorin 2015\/17) und Johanna Pink<\/strong> (FRIAS Steuerungsgremium) erhalten vom Europ\u00e4ischen Forschungsrat zwei ERC Advanced Grants<\/a>. Sie forschen zur Ged\u00e4chtnisbildung im Gehirn sowie zur Entstehung der islamischen Moderne anhand von Traditionen der Koranauslegung im 19. Jahrhundert.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sabine D\u00f6ring<\/strong> (Guest Researcher 2026\/27) is currently examining the relationship between individual freedom, solidarity and the common good as part of her Volkswagen Foundation Fellowship. In line with this research, she recently published an article<\/a> on the current challenges facing liberal democracy. Earlier this year, she introduced a monograph<\/a> focusing on the relationship between politics and academic freedom (both publications in German).<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Eva von Contzen<\/strong> (FRIAS Fellow 2017\/23 & 2024\/25) berichtet in der FAZ <\/a>\u00fcber den FRIAS-Workshop \u201eAnglophone Studies in the Age of Generative AI: Scholarship, Criticism, Teaching<\/a>\u201c von Gero Guttzeit <\/strong>(FRIAS Fellow 2025\/26). Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Herausforderungen und Chancen generativer KI f\u00fcr Literatur-, Kultur- und Sprachwissenschaften.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Evie Malaia<\/strong> (FRIAS Fellow 2017\/18) has published a study in PLoS One<\/a> that builds on her FRIAS project on the role of visual and linguistic complexity in language development. The article investigates how age and language experience shape visual perception.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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