Zukunftskolleg 2014 Annual Report Zukunftskolleg free • creative • connecting Zukunftskolleg free • creative • connecting Content Foreword ............................................................................................................................................... 6 UNAI ATXITIA MACIZO • Multiscale modeling of magnetic materials • DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS ..................................7 BRENDAN BALCERAK JACKSON & DORIS PENKA • Foundations of semantics • DEPARTMENTS OF PHILOSOPHY & LINGUISTICS............. 8 MAGDALENA BALCERAK JACKSON • Festival of the imagination – A philosophical retreat • DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ..9 BEATRIZ PUENTE BALLESTEROS • Tasting chocolate in China: Medicine, politics and global trade flows during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722) • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY .................................................. 10 JULIEN BERNARD • On the trail of Hermann Weyl • DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ..................................................... 11 FRANCESCA BIAGIOLI • Interactions between philosophy and the sciences in the debate about spatial intuition and the foundations of geometry • DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ...................................................... 12 JULIA BOLL • The bare life on stage • DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE ......................................................................... 13 THOMAS BÖTTCHER • Facing the challenges of antibiotic resistance • DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ........................... 14 DANIELE BRIDA • Setting up a new laboratory to study novel two-dimensional materials • DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS .................................................................................................................................. 15 JOANNA CHOJNICKA • Where hope and anger meet: Dissident Polish and Latvian LGBTQ discourses on the web • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY .......................................................................................... 16 MONIKA CLASS • Beyond disciplinary boundaries: Medical cases as genre • DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE .............. 17 ELEANOR COGHILL • An endangered language – and an endangered community • DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS ..... 18 MAITÉ CRESPO GARCÍA • Navigating through virtual Konstanz • DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ................................... 19 MARÍA CRUZ BERROCAL • Good results in ongoing archaeological excavations in Hoping Dao, Keelung, Taiwan • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY ................................................................................................ 20 SARANG DALAL • The retina as a window to the brain • DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ............................................ 21 PANTELEIMON ELEFTHERIOU • Logic colloquium 2014 • DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS ................................ 22 BIANCA GAUDENZI • Looted art and restitution in the twentieth century: Europe in transnational and global perspective conference University of Cambridge, September 18-20, 2014 • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY ............................................................................................................... 23 DENIS GEBAUER • A new perspective on the birth of crystals • DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY .................................... 24 Zukunftskolleg free • creative • connecting BARBARA HAUSMAIR • Archaeology of forced labour in the Alps – The Suggadin camp in the Montafon Valley • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY .................................................................................................. 25 WOLF-DIETMAR HÜTTEROTH • Identifying water reward in the fly brain • DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY ........................... 26 LAURA IAPICHINO • Multiobjective PDE-constrained optimization using the reduced-basis method • DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS ......................................................................................................... 27 ZHONGBAO JIAN • Suppression of chain transfer in catalytic acrylate polymerization via rapid and selective secondary insertion • DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ............................................................................ 28 ANDREAS KARRENBAUER • Improving flat panel displays by discrete optimization • DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE ...............................................................................................................................29 CLAUDIUS KRATOCHWIL • The search for the genetic basis of natural diversity • DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY ................ 30 ANDREA LAILACH-HENNRICH • A priori synthesis and imagination • DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ................................. 31 BEN LAMBERT • Forced global singularity in a geometric flow equation • DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS ............................................................................................................................................. 32 JULIA LANGKAU • Thought experiments and philosophical methodology • DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ................. 33 ELLIOTT LASH • Subject positions in old and middle Irish • DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS ......................................... 34 SVEN LAUER • What you should do if you want to go to Harlem • DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS ............................. 35 PHILIP LEIFELD • xergm: Extensions of exponential random graph models • DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION .................................................................................................................................. 36 BERNARD LEPETIT • Light signaling and photoprotection in photosynthetic eukaryotes with “green” and “red” chloroplasts • DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY .......................................................................................... 37 MARILENA MANEA • Protein expression profile of HT-29 human colon cancer cells after treatment with a cytotoxic daunorubicin-GnRH-III derivative bioconjugate • DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ....................... 38 TEAGUE O'MARA • Social solutions to energetic bottlenecks • DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY/ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY ............................................................................................................... 39 MICHAEL PESTER • The hidden sulfur cycle in rice paddy soil • DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY ........................................ 40 TORSTEN PIETSCH • Magnetic order on the atomic scale • DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS ................................................ 41 DANIEL PLAUMANN • Where are the solutions? • DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS .....................................42 MARIA DANIELA POLI • Law and society: Same-sex marriage according to the constitutional courts • DEPARTMENT OF LAW ..................................................................................................................................... 43 GIANLUCA RASTELLI • Ground-state cooling of a carbon nanomechanical resonator by spin-polarized current • DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS .................................................................................................................. 44 Zukunftskolleg free • creative • connecting TANJA RINKER • Bridging research and practice: The Center for Multilingualism at the University of Konstanz • DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS ........................................................................................................... 45 ELENA ROSSEEVA • Mesocrystals: Building up “crystals” from nanoparticles • DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ............. 46 ANTONIO ROTOLO • All along the watchtower • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY ............................................. 47 PARASKEVI SALAMALIKI • Economic policy uncertainty and real economic activity • DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ....... 48 NINA SCHNEIDER • Brazilian propaganda: Legitimizing an authoritarian regime • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY............................................................................................................................................49 SEBASTIAN SCHUTTE • Explaining and predicting large-scale violence in civil conflicts • DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ...................................................................................................................50 DENIS SELETSKIY • Quantum interference: Symmetry breaking • DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS ..................................... 51 MINMIN SHEN • An interactive framework for insect tracking • DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE ... 52 ULRICH SIEBERER • The politics of portfolio design in Germany • DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION .... 53 ALINE STEINBRECHER • More than human history • DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY ......................................... 54 MARGARITA STOLAROVA • NeoHelp – A new tool for investigating the development of help-related content perception and processing • DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ................................................................. 55 DANIEL SUMMERER • Chemical epigenetics • DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ................................................................. 56 EDINA SZÖCZIK • Scientific retreat: Electoral competition in the democratizing multinational Habsburg Empire (July 21-22, 2014) • DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ..................................... 57 MARGARET THOMAS • Mathematical exchange by the bay • DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS ..................... 58 ANDREAS THUM • Bringing brains in line • DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY ....................................................................... 59 BORBALA ZSUZSANNA TÖRÖK •