Vom 16.- 18. März 2020 fand in Göttingen die erste Tagung einer Reihe zum Thema „Digital History“ statt, die von der AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft im VHD ausgerichtet und von Karoline Döring (München), Stefan Haas (Göttingen), Mareike König (Paris) und Jörg Wettlaufer (Göttingen) organisiert wurde. Inzwischen fanden weitere Tagungen in Berlin, Halle und Salzburg statt. Informationen zum Thema Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft finden sich auf dieser Seite:
This ongoing project is exploring the social use of the affect shame in a historical and evolutionary perspective. Shaming and humiliating rituals in penal law and folklore have been applied in higher and lower justice over a period of more than 600 years in European history. The adaptive advantages of shame have been discussed recently with reference to ethnographic evidence and game theory. Although shame is deeply rooted in submissive behaviour, it seems to be a relatively new adaptation in primates and is said to be one of the few distinctive features of man from higher apes. In this ongoing study, I use material from historical late medieval and early modern Western and East-Asian societies for a cross-cultural comparison of the prosocial function of shame and shaming rituals in traditional societies. So far two collective volumes have been published.
Duration: 2004 – 2027
