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Aetiologies – Founding Narratives in Literary, Scholarly, and Scientific Discourses

The interdisciplinary research group ‘Aetiologies’ studies creation narratives, literary and scientific origin stories as well as political foundation narratives with an eye to their contexts and rhetoric.

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Within the framework of the research group, eight sub-projects deal with founding and explanatory narratives in religious-mythological, theological, political, scientific, and literary texts as well as in visual media.

Chronos and Chthoniê
New Creation
Imagining Dark Age Britain
Creation and Authorship
Antiquarianism and Aitology
Aitologies in the Natural Sciences
Imperial Aitology
Cosmogonies and Stories of Extinction

Participating Institutions

The ‘Aetiologies’ research group is an inter-institutional association of researchers from the two Berlin universities, Humboldt-Universität and Freie Universität, as well as the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research.