Supporting 120 fte, the Institute for Culture and History is by far the largest of the four research institutes in the Faculty of Humanities. Its research programme covers the period from classical Antiquity until today. Thanks to the input of researchers from a great variety of cultural and historical disciplines (including archaeology, media studies, history, art history, history of the book, history of literature, literary criticism, musicology, theatre studies, European studies and religious studies), the ICH can boast of a broad range of research themes and strategies.

The same variety also guarantees ample points of departure for interdisciplinary cooperation. The ICH’s overall research profile is characterized by a shared historicizing and contextualizing approach (which distinguishes it from ASCA, where historical objects are approached from a predominantly systematic, contemporary and theoretical perspective), as well as by a strong focus on European culture and history.