Working Groups

Working Groups are made up of members from different disciplines, focus on various aspects, and contribute to publications and events.

 

Working Group on Law and Contemporary History

The Working Group was founded in 2012. Its aim is to promote the integration of academic cultures so that both disciplines can broaden their perspectives on knowledge and share them. In doing so, the Working Group is responding to the dynamics of recent decades, during which the relationship between state and economy, government and parliament, and between society, law and politics has changed significantly at a transnational level. Since then, the standards of conduct for the state and society have taken on a fluid character, open to rapid change. The repercussions for the academic system affect not only the natural, technical and economic sciences, but also the legal and historical disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. 

The Working Group has set itself the task of highlighting the interrelationship between legal, political and social developments across the various periods of the 20th century. Accordingly, issues relating to national and European history are discussed at annual conferences and, where appropriate and feasible, translated into research projects. By integrating different perspectives, the working group promotes dialogue between disciplines in order to heighten awareness of the historical nature of law and the significance of the historical process in the development of law. The working group expects this to provide impetus for new research and will involve early-career researchers accordingly. Where research projects emerge from this, they are to be published as edited volumes or monographs in the working group’s series, which is published by Mohr Siebeck.

Mitglieder

Prof. Dr. Julia Angster, Universität Mannheim
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Brückweh, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Prof. Dr. Pascale Cancik, Sprecherin, Universität Osnabrück
Prof. Dr. Eckart Conze, Universität Marburg
Prof. Dr. Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Universität Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Lena Foljanty, Universität Wien
Prof. Dr. Dieter Gosewinkel, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Dr. Frieder Günther, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin
Prof. Dr. Christoph Gusy, Universität Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Jan-Otmar Hesse, Universität Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Matthias Jestaedt, Universität Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard, Universität Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Oliver Lepsius LL.M., Universität Münster
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Metzler, HU Berlin
Prof. Dr. Fabian Michl, Universität Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Middendorf, Universität Jena
Prof. Dr. Jana Osterkamp, Universität Augsburg
Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel, Sprecher, LMU München
Prof. Dr. Lutz Raphael, Universität Trier
Prof. Dr. Hans Christian Röhl, Universität Konstanz
Prof. Dr. Joachim Rückert, Universität Frankfurt a. M.
Prof. Dr. Anne Röthel, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schönberger, Universität zu Köln
Prof. Dr. Frank Schorkopf, Universität Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Günther Schulz, Universität Bonn
Prof. Dr. Eva Schumann, Universität Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Jan Thiessen, Sprecher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin

Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator: Lars Legath

E-Mail: akrz@adwmainz.de

Jahrestagungen

Das Interesse des Arbeitskreises richtet sich zunächst auf die gegenwartsnahe Zeitgeschichte. Schritt für Schritt soll dann der Zusammenhang von Geschichte und Recht mit Blick auf die früheren Jahrzehnte des 20. Jahrhunderts gesichtet werden. Die Jahrestagungen befassen sich vorerst mit signifikanten Gerichtsentscheidungen der höchsten Gerichte oder mit internationalen Vertragswerken, weil darin sowohl Fakten (Domäne der Historiker) als auch Normen (Domäne der Juristen) zusammenwirken und im Wechselbezug analysiert werden können.

Übersicht über die Tagungsthemen

2012: Programmdiskussion
2013: Der Brokdorf-Beschluss des BVerfG 1985
2014: Mitbestimmung im politischen, sozioökonomischen und rechtsgeschichtlichen Prozess
2015: Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf
2016: Zeitgeschichte der Staatsbürgerschaft. Zum Verhältnis von nationaler und transnationaler Rechtsgeschichte
2017: Die Erfindung der Europäischen Union (1985–1992)
2018: Die Autonomie des Rechts
2019: Recht im Transit. Die DDR und die Rechtsordnung der Bundesrepublik – Sondierung eines Forschungsfeldes
2021: (Ent)Parlamentarisierung als Konzept und Deutung im 20. Jahrhundert
2022: Die Wiederbelebung eines ›Nicht-Ereignisses‹. Verfassungsdebatten von 1989 bis 1994
2023: Recht und globale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
2024: Unsichere Zeiten? Politik und Recht im nuklearen Zeitalter (1950er–1980er Jahre)
2025: Gerichtskultur des frühen Bundesverfassungsgerichts
2026: Der Vorrang der Verfassung – Genesen, Lesarten, Herausforderungen 

Publikationen

Working Group on Digital Music Edition

The Working Group's inaugural meeting took place on 26 November 2015. The Working Group sees its role as addressing aspects of music encoding and fostering dialogue between the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) and the music edition projects based at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. To this end, the working group organises annual events focusing on specific issues arising from musicological edition projects and the MEI format. The aim is to respond to the ongoing development of digital edition methods, which have significantly transformed the field of music philology.

Like TEI, the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is an international academic community that actively expands the format and adapts it to new requirements. Whilst MusicXML is very much geared towards the commercial music market, MEI was specifically designed for use in musicology and music research. All of the long-term musicological projects included in the Academies Programme in recent years now work with MEI: the Carl Maria von Weber-Complete Edition, the Reger-Complete Edition, Beethoven’s Workshop, Corpus monodicum, as well as the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Complete Edition and the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Complete Edition, which are jointly supervised with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy.

Since 2009, a council has been in place responsible for the further development of MEI. In the course of 2014, MEI also adopted new statutes designating the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz as the host institution. At the end of 2014, the community elected a new MEI Board comprising nine international members.

Mitglieder

Prof. Dr. Thomas Betzwieser, Akademie Mainz
Benjamin W. Bohl, M.A., MEI Board
Prof. Dr. Kurt Gärtner, Akademie Mainz
Dr. Johannes Kepper, MEI Board
Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal, Sprecher
Prof. Dr. Susanne Popp, Projektleitung Reger-Werkausgabe
Dr. Laurent Pugin, MEI Board
Kristina Richts, M.A., MEI Board
Prof. Torsten Schrade, Digitale Akademie
Prof. Dr. Joachim Veit, Projektleitung Carl-Maria von Weber Gesamtausgabe und Beethovens Werkstatt

Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin: Dr. Tanja Gölz

Working Group on Autoimmune Diseases with a focus on chronic neuropathies (concluded)

At the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, a Working Group on autoimmune diseases, with a focus on chronic neuropathies, has been established with the support of the Walter and Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Foundation. Members of the Academy, the Young Academy and invited experts contribute their expertise in the fields of neurology, pharmacology, pain research, immunology, psychology, internal medicine and pathology to the working group, with the aim of jointly investigating the as yet unexplained causes of these profound conditions, which are increasing significantly in line with demographic change. Autoimmune diseases manifest themselves when the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues or cells, causing damage. They can affect various organs and tissues throughout the body. At the Working Group's inaugural meeting, which took place on 26 October 2017 at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, the fundamentals of neuropathic pain were presented and discussed from both a clinical and a basic research perspective. The Working Group focuses on autoimmune diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis and peripheral neuropathies, and aims in the long term to develop approaches for new, more individually tailored therapies.

Mitglieder

Prof. Dr. med. Elke Lütjen-Drecoll, Leiterin des AK, ehemalige Präsidentin der Akademie
Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Schwab, Leiter des AK, Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie Stuttgart

Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. mult. Niels-Peter Birbaumer, Universität Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Frank Birklein, Universitätsmedizin Mainz
Prof. Dr. med. Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Prof. Dr. Alexander Flügel, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Gerd Geisslinger, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Franz Grehn, Universitäts-Augenklinik Würzburg
Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Jochen Heinze, Universität Magdeburg
Prof. Dr. Dontscho Kerjaschki, AKH-Vienna General Hospital
Dr. Kristina Lippmann, Universität Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Paulsen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Prof. Dr. Peter W. Reeh, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Prof. Dr. Heinz Wiendl, Universitätsklinikum Münster

Working Group on Migration

The Working Group on Migration was established in response to the upheavals of the past decade, which are referred to in political circles as ‘populism’ but extend beyond purely political issues. Its aim is to analyse and discuss these problematic developments in the context of migration-related issues. To ensure these complex issues are properly researched, the working group has an interdisciplinary composition: It comprises established historians, political scientists, sociologists and economists. Several members of the Young Academy are also represented in the Working Group. It meets approximately twice a year and contributes to the internal exchange among Academy members, the production of publications and the organisation of events at the Academy.

Mitglieder

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bräuninger, Universität Mannheim
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kálmán Graffi, Universität Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Silke Hans, Universität Göttingen
Dr. Andreas Haupt, Universität Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hradil, Universität Mainz
Prof. Dr. Peter A. Kraus, Universität Augsburg
Prof. Dr. Elke Lütjen‑Drecoll, Universität Erlangen
Dr. Dominik M. Müller, Max‑Planck‑Institut für ethnologische Forschung Halle
Dr. Daniel Potthast, LMU München
Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, Universität Osnabrück
Prof. Dr. Norbert Schneider, Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung Wiesbaden
Dr. Astrid Séville, LMU München
Prof. Dr. Martin Werding, Universität Bochum
Prof. Dr. Gernot Wilhelm, Universität Würzburg

Neuroscience Working Group on ‘Neural Dynamics and Information Processing’ (concluded)

In order to strengthen neuroscientific exchange at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz and thereby establish a key focus area, the Working Group on ‘Neural Dynamics and Information Processing’ was founded. This group examines the interplay between synapses, neurons and network oscillations. Among other things, the following questions are of interest: How and where is information received, processed and stored in the brain? Which subtypes of nerve cells are essential, and what influence do synaptic modulations have on information processing? Which neural ‘circuits’ perform which tasks, and how does their size influence the process? Such questions are intended to strengthen interdisciplinary exchange between cellular, systems and theoretical neuroscience, with the aim of enriching the respective state of knowledge through that of the other subdisciplines. The international symposium “Brain Dynamics and Information Processing”, which took place on 24–25 February 2021 at the Mainz Academy, served as a platform to discuss this project within a broader context. The symposium was supported by the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Foundation and the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience.

Mitglieder

Dr. Kristina Lippmann, Vorsitz des AK
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jost, stellv. Vorsitz des AK, Max-Planck-Institut Leipzig, Akademie Mainz

Prof. Dr. Markus Diesmann, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Akademie Mainz
Prof. Dr. Wulfram Gerstner, EPFL Lausanne, Akademie Mainz
Prof. Dr. Herrmann Wagner, RWTH Aachen, Akademie Mainz

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und der Literatur | Mainz
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und der Literatur | Mainz