There are many jokes about disability. In the media, people with disabilities are increasingly appearing in comic contexts, e.g. in (sometimes award-winning) film comedies such as Colegas (Brazil 2013), Campeones (Spain 2018), Die Goldfische (Germany 2019) or The Peanut Butter falcon (USA 2019).
What biases do we hold when we see actors with a disability in film or theatre? To confront us with the image we have of people with a disability, the DFG project EEEM will develop an interactive online game.
In a joint research and development project, the Chair of Digital Humanities and the Grassl planning office are developing a new and innovative service to make hidden wall paintings in historical architecture visible.
A lack of background knowledge in digital privacy can have structural or personal reasons. The BMBF project DiversPrivat has set out to develop mechanisms to improve data protection competence among digital service users.
Professor Karoline Reinhardt (University of Passau) and Professor Roberta Picardi (Università del Molise) have invited German and Italian early career researchers to Villa Vigoni on the banks of Lake Como for extensive talks to develop new political and philosophical approaches to the issue of migration.
On 1 January 2023, the academic network funded by the German Research Foundation "Inclusive Philology. Literary Disability Studies in German-speaking Countries" (DFG project number 509035805), funded by the German Research Foundation, began its work.
Spanish-language workshop on the presence of people with disabilities in theatre, film and dance.
Exchange between the research groups Rediart XXI, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, ReDiArt-XXI - Representación de la discapacidad en España and EEE - Erzählung, Erwartung, Erfahrung, Univeristy of Passau, about the research results of the past years.
Researchers at the University of Passau are taking part in the Jean Monnet network EUCON. Five universities from the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union will be analysing relations between their two regions in the next three years.
Although comedy and disability are often considered together in the arts (for example in film comedies), there are virtually no theoretically and methodologically sound discussions of this topic in the cultural or social sciences, let alone a joint consideration of 'disability and comedy' from the dual perspective of literature (film, theatre) as a symbolic and social system.
The Professorship of Medieval German Literature will be hosting a symposium on the presence of the Nibelung myth in schools, universities, and the general public from 23 to 25 September 2021 in collaboration with the Chair of German Literature and Language Education, placing a special focus on media diversity in the reception of the Nibelungs and the different didactic approaches that can be effective in teaching the “Song of the Nibelungs” at school.
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