Research Projects

Strategies for Skills Acquisition: Innovative Teaching Concepts in Teacher Training, digitally enhanced (SKILL.de)

Since 2016, in the project 'Strategies for Skills Acquisition: Innovative Teaching and Consultation Concepts in Teacher Training' (SKILL), scientists at the University of Passau have been working to close the gaps between scientific discipline, teaching methodology and educational sciences.

Narrative, expectation, experience: disability in contemporary European theatre and film

More and more often, characters with a disability are cast with individuals who have a genuine impairment. Having said that, the roles played in particular by people with a cognitive impairment in theatre and film is a topic that has hardly been researched much at all so far.

Behaviour guides as political media?

What is the right way to dress for particular occasions? What equipment do I need when travelling? How do I appropriately welcome my counterpart? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in "etiquette books", which were particularly popular in the decades around 1900.

Cuba Excursion - Diversity and Inclusion in Cuba

Student Excursion to the Caribbean Island Nation Becomes an Extraordinary Cultural Experience.

Embracing diversity - in dealing with a foreign culture, as well as in interacting with people with disabilities - was the central challenge of a student excursion to Cuba.

DFG-Conference: Disability from the perspective of cultural studies

"Inclusion, Integration, Differentiation" was the theme of the international congress organized by the Chair of Romanic Literatures and Cultures (Prof. Dr. Susanne Hartwig) in Passau. The focus was on disability as a topic in literature, cinema, and performing arts – a relatively unexplored research area that 18 scholars from six countries thoroughly explored in exchange.

DFG Conference: Inclúsion, integración, diferenciación

How do people with cognitive disabilities express themselves in the theatre? How is a film about visually impaired characters created in which they themselves take part? These and other questions will be addressed at a DFG conference on inclusion, integration and differentiation at the Chair of Romance Literatures and Cultures at the University of Passau.

DFG-Congress: Diversidad cultural – ficcional – ¿moral?

How does literature deal with the topic of diversity? At the congress "Diversidad cultural – ficcional – ¿moral?", which was held at the University of Passau from 31 January to 3 February 2018, researchers sought to answer this question by analysing Spanish-language texts.

Research Training Group: Privacy and Digitalisation

How do Social Media, Big Data and digital tracking change the definition of privacy? The Research Training Group 1681 "Privacy" of the University of Passau - funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - financed early career researchers working on fields related to privacy and digitalisation.

International DFG-Conference on ethics and literature: Ser y deber ser

At the invitation of the Chair of Romance Literatures and Cultures (Prof. Dr Susanne Hartwig), a conference on "Ethics in Literature" took place at the University of Passau from 9 to 11 October 2015. Under the title "Ser y deber ser", 20 academics from Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA gathered to discuss the role of literature, theatre and film in dealing with moral dilemmas of the 20th century.

Conference: Culto del mal, cultura del mal. Realidad, virtualidad, representación

From 12 to 14 October 2012, the congress "Culto del mal, cultura del mal" took place at the University of Passau with international participants. The significance of 'Culto del mal' in the fields of literature, theatre, cinema and the visual arts was compared under the aspects of "reality" and "fiction".