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Current third-party funded projects
1) DFG-GRK 1876: Early Concepts of Humans and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged
Research Training Group at University of Mainz in cooperation with the disciplines pre- and early history (pleistocene archeology), egyptology, ancient orientalistic philology, west Asian archeology, classical philology, classical archeology, medieval and Byzantine research.
DFG joint project
Project life span: 2013 until 2022 (DFG), 2022 until 2023 (University of Mainz)
Instigator und chairwoman 2013 until 2020: Tanja Pommerening; from 2021 supporting member
Current subprojects (co-)supervised by T. Pommerening
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Riccardo Andreozzi: Cultural Exchanges in the Botanical and Pharmaceutical Field in Greco-Roman Egypt
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzUniversity of Pisa
Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge
Via Pasquale Paoli 15
56126 Pisa (PI)E-Mail: riccardo-andreozzi@hotmail.com
Project title: Cultural exchanges in the botanical and pharmaceutical field in Greco-roman Egypt
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff, Prof. Dr. Marilina Betrò
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Nicky van de Beek: A tomb with a view: Conceptualizing landscape in Egyptian tombs of the Old to New Kingdom
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzE-Mail: nbeek@uni-mainz.de
Project title: A tomb with a view: Representations of landscape in ancient Egyptian tombs from the Old to the New Kingdom (ca. 2700-1050 BCE)
Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Pruß
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Judit Garzón Rodríguez: Archaeological-philological-ethno-historical study of fundamental aspects of the penis, its symbolism and meaning in Ancient Egypt
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzE-Mail: jgarzon@uni-mainz.de
Project title: Archaeological-philological-ethno-historical study of fundamental aspects of the penis, its symbolism and meaning in Ancient Egypt
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Alexander Pruß
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Jessica Knebel: Studies on concepts of fire in Ancient Egypt
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzE-Mail: jeknebel@uni-mainz.de
Project title: Studies on concepts of fire in Ancient Egypt
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Aleksandar Milenković: Concepts of visual perception in Greek scientific thought from the 5th century BC to the 2nd century AD
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzE-Mail: almilenk@uni-mainz.de
Project title: Concepts of visual perception in Greek scientific thought from the 5th century BC to the 2nd century AD
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff, Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Rebekka Pabst: The Dead Body. Studies on Concepts of the "Corpse" in Ancient Egypt
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzE-Mail: repabst@uni-mainz.de
Project title: The Dead Body. Studies on Concepts of the "Corpse" in Ancient Egypt
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Lauer
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Oxana Polozhentseva: Dead bodies: Semantics of the mortal / transient in the German Medieval texts
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzE-Mail: o.polozhentseva@uni-mainz.de
Project title: Dead bodies: Semantics of the mortal / transient in the German Medieval texts
Supervisors: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Lauer, Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Yossra Ibrahim: Lights of Eternity – Investigating Concepts, Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Egyptian Celestial Diagrams
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzE-Mail: yibrahim@uni-mainz.de
Project title: Lights of Eternity – Investigating Concepts, Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Egyptian Celestial Diagrams
Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, apl. Prof. Dr. Marion Gindhart
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Jonny Russell: The Theory of Healing in Ancient Egypt: The Biophysical and Cultural Realities of Healing Practices from the Nile Valley during the Late Second Millennium BCE
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzUniversiteit Leiden
Matthias de Vrieshof 4, 2.04c
Witte Singel 25
2311 BG Leiden
The NetherlandsE-Mail: jrussell@uni-mainz.de
Project title: The Theory of Healing in Ancient Egypt: The Biophysical and Cultural Realities of Healing Practices from the Nile Valley during the Late Second Millennium BCE
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff, Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaper (Leiden)
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Sonja Speck: Origins and development of Ancient Egyptian body concepts in Pre- and Early Dynastic anthropomorphic sculpture.
Address:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Graduiertenkolleg 1876
Hegelstr. 59
55122 MainzE-Mail: sonspeck@uni-mainz.de
Project title: Ursprünge und Entwicklung altägyptischer Körperkonzepte in prä- und frühdynastischer anthropomorpher Plastik.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, Prof. Dr. Alexander Pruß
Homepage of the project (external link; University of Mainz)
Current publication projects
- Living Bodies, Dead Bodies and the Cosmos: Culturally Specific and Universal Concepts, edited by Chiara Ferella, Tanja Pommerening and Ulrike Steinert, Mohr Siebeck, ASK
- "Lebendig oder tot, gesund oder krank. Der menschliche Körper in vormodernen Kulturen", edited by Tanja Pommerening and Jochen Althoff, WBG, special edition in the series "Antike Welt"
2) An Annotated Digital Catalogue and Index of Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs in the Galenic Corpus
Sponsored by the German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", DFG)
Project manager: Dr. Maximilian Haars
3) Mineralia in cancer therapy in the 18th to 20th century with special reference to homeopathy
Dissertation fellowship by the Waltraud Hülshorst Foundation
Awardee: Esther Jestädt
Supervisor: Prof Dr Christoph Friedrich
Project life span: 01.03.2020 until 31.05.2024