Research projects of the Academy

This interdisciplinary project examines how new vernacular knowledge networks emerged in the Romance-speaking cultural sphere of the Middle Ages, combining methods from textual criticism, historical linguistics, and the Semantic Web.

The project produces digital editions of the temple legends of the South Indian city of Kanchipuram and combines them with documentation on temple architecture, iconography, rituals, and oral traditions.

The Judaic-Romance project is a contribution to the Judeo-French linguistic and literary tradition, which is to be examined for the first time in an interdisciplinary manner in terms of its significance for cultural studies, linguistics, and the history of theology.

An inter-academic research project aimed at creating a new database that will contribute to a better understanding of past, present, and future economic and social challenges.

The Goethe Dictionary is an individual language dictionary that presents Goethe's entire vocabulary in alphabetical order.