Research groups currently Courant Research Centre "The Multi-layered Text Protocol: Micro and Macro Level Structures in Written Discourse" Courant Forschungszentrum EDRIS: Education and Religion From Early Imperial Roman Times To the Classical Period of Islam Research Training Group 896: Images of Deities – Images of God - Images of the World. Polytheism and Monotheism in the Ancient World Research Training Group 1507: Expert Cultures from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century Promotionskolleg Wertung und Kanon. Theorie und Praxis der Literaturvermittlung in der „nachbürgerlichen“ Wissensgesellschaft PhD study program: Biodiversity and Society Free Floater Nachwuchsgruppe der Exellenzinitiative: Nominalphrasen in intensionalen Kontexten Free Floater Research Group: Music, Conflict and the State