Humanities

History / Archeology

Research team at Göttingen University analyse data from burial sites spanning nearly 4,000 years. People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one-s role in society belongs in the past. But was it even the case in prehistory? Archaeologists at the University of Göttingen have investigated the representation of gender in Neolithic and Bronze Age graves (around 5500 BC to 1200 BC), in order to understand if the idea of gender in prehistoric Europe was really as -binary- as might be expected.

An international team of researchers including the University of Freiburg identifies engravings in Jordan and Saudi Arabia as the oldest known scaled building plans in human history.

Law - May 25

University of Freiburg legal scholar to work in shaping the newly established European institution. Maximilian Haedicke of the Faculty of Law of the University of Freiburg is going to become a UPC judge on 1 June 2023.

An international team has created a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world's languages.

"Great Heidelberg Book of Songs" is a historical testimony of extraordinary universal value. The Codex Manesse - a splendidly crafted collection of Middle High German songs and sayings in the stocks of the Heidelberg University Library - has been admitted to UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme as world documentary heritage.

Currently 139 jobs in fields Law, Linguistics/Literature, History/Archeology, Media, Art and Design, Philosophy, Religions, Music.
Selected Jobs
Law - 26.05
Assistent / Assistentin University of Zurich
History/Archeology - 24.05
Professur (m/w/d) Universität Trier
Linguistics/Literature - 17.05
Doktorand:in germanistische Sprachwissenschaft University of Zurich
History/Archeology - 16.05
Doktorierende in historische Bauforschung und Konstruktionsgeschichte (m/w/d) Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ
Computer Science - 15.05
4-year PhD position in Automatic Sign Language Processing University of Zurich
History/Archeology - 11.05
Zwei Assistierende oder Postdoktorierende University of Zurich
Law - 11.05
Doktorand/in University of Zurich
Art and Design - 04.05
Universitätsprofessur (W2) Plastik Technische Universität Dortmund
Art and Design - 04.05
Professorship (W2) Sculpture Technische Universität Dortmund