In March 2011, Prof. Dr Susanne Hartwig's Chair of Romance Literatures and Cultures organised the bi-annual German Hispanic Studies Conference in collaboration with the University of Passau. This was the largest specialist conference in the German-speaking world to focus on Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
On 22 November 2008, the gala ship Regina Danubia set sail at 1 p.m. as the "Letters and Numbers Ship". The day, which brought together literature and maths in Passau, was part of a prize-winning project in the "Heads and Tails" ideas competition.
Flanking the production of the Valkyrie from Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung planned by the State Theatre of Lower Bavaria in the spring of 2020, and in cooperation with the Chair of Modern German Literature, the Professorship of Medieval German Literature will be organising a public reading of the Ring from April / May to July 2021, with the aim of presenting Wagner's opera tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung" in its entirety.
Flight, expulsion and upheavals on account of two world wars: How did the "age of extremes" change the Silesian aristocracy? A German-Polish-Czech research project devoted itself to this question and produced a documentary in the process.
The Research Training Group will reconstruct the concept of privacy with the overall aim of developing a comprehensive theory of privacy and describing its parameters and interaction with other concepts.
The Passau Centre for eHumanities (PACE) investigates new computer-based approaches to determine the needs of the humanities and cultural studies fields for research and teaching. The Centre The Passau Centre for eHumanities (German) is an important component of the eHumanities field at the University of Passau.
How did Rome deal with defeats, losses and losers? What were the effects on the army and society? Researchers at the University of Passau develop a "Theory of the Roman Defeat" that is connected with Rome's culture, society and political system.
In light of the ever-increasing role digitalisation plays in both research and many professional fields related to the humanities, this project is devoted to introducing students of humanities to the basics of computer science as well as digital humanities.
Together with PD Dr. Jörg Noller, Prof. Dr. Karoline Reinhardt has launched a new academic network funded by the DFG. The network will analyse and systematize phenomena of digitalization - the Internet, artificial intelligence, computer games and virtual reality - in terms of their significance for our lives.
SKILL, which stands for 'Strategien zur Kompetenzentwicklung: Innovative Lehr- und Beratungskonzepte in der Lehrerbildung' ('strategies for competency development: innovative teaching and advice concepts in teacher education'), is a joint cross-faculty project of the University of Passau, aimed at further developing teacher education in collaboration with the Teacher Education Centre (German).
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