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Prof. Christian Baden

Christian Baden has specialized in the analysis of meaning co-construction in dynamic discourse. Key aspects of his research relate to frames and narratives as semantic structures, the transmission and reconstruction of meaning between distinct discourses and toward recipients, as well as the cognitive representation of meaning and knowledge in mind. His research has focused on various aspects of European political discourse, crisis discourse, and the discursive construction of conflict and propaganda.

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Christian Baden’s main methodological work relates to the development and integration of discourse analytic, (automated and manual) content-analytic, and (semantic) network analytic methods. Drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative techniques of data collection, his aim is to advance techniques for the analysis toward a rigorous comparative and dynamic analysis. Christian Baden opened his Habilitation process (Project title: Measuring Meaning: Unraveling the dynamic co-construction of political discourse) in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Institute for Communication Science & Media Research (IfKW), LMU Munich.

 

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Prof. Christoph Menke

Christoph Menke is a German philosopher and Germanist and has been a professor of philosophy in Frankfurt am Main since 2009. He is considered an important representative of the 'third generation' of the Frankfurt School.

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Menke works primarily on topics of political and legal philosophy, theories of subjectivity, ethics and aesthetics. Since summer semester 2009, Menke heads the Normativity and Freedom research project in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence, which aims to investigate how freedom is founded as social normativity and why freedom is always freedom from social participation and thus from normativity. Against this background, particular attention is paid to the figure of subjective rights that characterizes the form of government in modern societies.

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Prof. Ingrid Baumgärtner

Prof. Ingrid Baumgärtner

Ingrid Baumgärtner has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Kassel since 1994. She previously taught at the University of Augsburg (1983–1992) and was a Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG and Visiting Scholar in Princeton, Stanford, and at the Villa I Tatti in Florence.
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Prof. Maria Mavroudi

Maria Mavroudi is Professor of Byzantine History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.