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Excellence Cluster Topoi researchers from over 30 disciplines analyzed the interplay of ‘space’ and ‘knowledge’ in the formation and transformation of ancient cultures and societies.</span> </div></aside><aside id="widget_sp_image-6" class="widget widget_sp_image"><a href="/knowledge-transfer/exhibitions-and-events/" target="_self" class="widget_sp_image-image-link"><img width="309" height="232" class="attachment-full" style="max-width: 100%;" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20120621_69_Ausstellung_Jenseits_des_Horizonts_Wannenmacherwidget2.jpg 309w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20120621_69_Ausstellung_Jenseits_des_Horizonts_Wannenmacherwidget2-300x225.jpg 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20120621_69_Ausstellung_Jenseits_des_Horizonts_Wannenmacherwidget2-200x150.jpg 200w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20120621_69_Ausstellung_Jenseits_des_Horizonts_Wannenmacherwidget2-266x200.jpg 266w, 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The ﬁrst synthesis of this research was presented in 2012 at the Pergamon Museum in the large-scale Topoi exhibition “Jenseits des Horizonts” (Beyond the Horizon).</span></div> </div></aside><aside id="custom_html-12" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><div class="widget-latest-news" style="padding-top: 24px; margin: 0 -17px"> <a href="https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/" class="no-ext-symbol"><img class="widget-latest-news-image" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Banner_Berliner-Antike-Kolleg-55x55.jpg"> </a> <h4 class="widget-latest-news-header"><a href="https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/" class="no-ext-symbol">Berliner Antike-Kolleg</a></h4> <div class="widget-latest-news-text">The Berliner Antike-Kolleg provides an enduring basis for coopertion in ancient studies in the Berlin/Brandenburg region, one that will last well beyond the conclusion of Topoi.</div> </div></div></aside><aside id="widget_sp_image-10" class="widget widget_sp_image"><img width="309" height="210" class="attachment-full" style="max-width: 100%;" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20160418_179_Kick_off_Edition_Topoi_widget©Topoi.jpg 309w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20160418_179_Kick_off_Edition_Topoi_widget©Topoi-300x204.jpg 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20160418_179_Kick_off_Edition_Topoi_widget©Topoi-200x136.jpg 200w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20160418_179_Kick_off_Edition_Topoi_widget©Topoi-294x200.jpg 294w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20160418_179_Kick_off_Edition_Topoi_widget©Topoi-250x170.jpg 250w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20160418_179_Kick_off_Edition_Topoi_widget©Topoi-280x190.jpg 280w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20160418_179_Kick_off_Edition_Topoi_widget©Topoi-187x127.jpg 187w" sizes="(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20160418_179_Kick_off_Edition_Topoi_widget©Topoi.jpg" /><div class="widget_sp_image-description" ><h4 ><a style="color: #fff;" href="/people/senior-fellows/"">International Guests</a></h4> <div style="margin-bottom: 46px; font-size: 13px; color: #fff; font-family: Open Sans;">More than 307 international junior and senior fellows collaborated with their Topoi colleagues on specific projects, duscussed their research at conferences and workshops and gave public lectures.</div> </div></aside> </div> <div id='frontpage-sidebar-center'> <aside id="widget_sp_image-5" class="widget widget_sp_image"><a href="/knowledge-transfer/publicationdatabase/" target="_self" class="widget_sp_image-image-link"><img width="309" height="191" class="attachment-full" style="max-width: 100%;" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Widget_publications.jpg 309w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Widget_publications-300x185.jpg 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Widget_publications-200x124.jpg 200w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Widget_publications-275x170.jpg 275w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Widget_publications-280x173.jpg 280w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Widget_publications-187x116.jpg 187w" sizes="(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Widget_publications.jpg" /></a><div class="widget_sp_image-description" ><h4><a style="color: #fff;" href="/knowledge-transfer/publicationdatabase/">Publications</a></h4> <div style="margin-bottom: 68px; font-size: 13px; color: #fff; font-family: Open Sans;">More than 2300 publications listed in the Topoi publication database have been written or edited by Topoi researchers.</div> </div></aside><aside id="custom_html-6" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><a href="/research/early-career-and-professorships/"><h4 style="font-size: 14px; color: #033f7b;">Early career Researchers</h4></a> <span>Topoi enthusiastically supported young researchers at all stages of their careers: from the Master level to graduate studies and post-doctoral studies.</span> </div></aside><aside id="widget_sp_image-9" class="widget widget_sp_image"><img width="309" height="210" class="attachment-full" style="max-width: 100%;" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20090328_Rammkernsondierung_Jan-Krause_©-Jan-Krause_widget.jpg 309w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20090328_Rammkernsondierung_Jan-Krause_©-Jan-Krause_widget-300x204.jpg 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20090328_Rammkernsondierung_Jan-Krause_©-Jan-Krause_widget-200x136.jpg 200w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20090328_Rammkernsondierung_Jan-Krause_©-Jan-Krause_widget-294x200.jpg 294w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20090328_Rammkernsondierung_Jan-Krause_©-Jan-Krause_widget-250x170.jpg 250w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20090328_Rammkernsondierung_Jan-Krause_©-Jan-Krause_widget-280x190.jpg 280w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20090328_Rammkernsondierung_Jan-Krause_©-Jan-Krause_widget-187x127.jpg 187w" sizes="(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20090328_Rammkernsondierung_Jan-Krause_©-Jan-Krause_widget.jpg" /><div class="widget_sp_image-description" ><h4><a style="color: #fff;" href="/partners/topoi-worldwide/">Interdisciplinary cooperation</a></h4> <div style="margin-bottom: 26px; font-size: 13px; color: #fff; font-family: Open Sans;">Topoi demonstrated the potential of interdisciplinary cooperation for research into the ancient world. Researchers from more than 30 disciplines worked together on numerous projects and exchanged views on overaching issues.</div> </div></aside><aside id="custom_html-10" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><a href="/partners/host-institutions/"><h4 style="font-size: 14px; color: #033f7b;">Partners</h4></a><span>The cluster’s cooperation partners included the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Archaeological Institute, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.</span></div></aside> </div> <div id='frontpage-sidebar-right'> <aside id="custom_html-11" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><div class="widget-latest-news" style="padding-top: 24px; margin: 0 -17px"> <a href="/partners/topoi-worldwide/"> <img class="widget-latest-news-image" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/topoi-worldwide-55x55.jpg"> </a> <h4 class="widget-latest-news-header"><a href="/partners/topoi-worldwide/">Topoi Worldwide</a></h4> <div class="widget-latest-news-text">Topoi was part of a world-wide network of ancient studies, and therefore the cluster benefited from international cooperation. Exchange with international institutions was carried out at various levels, from research projects to institutional collaboration and graduate education.</div> </div></div></aside><aside id="widget_sp_image-4" class="widget widget_sp_image"><img width="309" height="190" class="attachment-full" style="max-width: 100%;" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20180419_Topoi-Jahrestagung-2018_Wannenmacher-event-widget.png 309w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20180419_Topoi-Jahrestagung-2018_Wannenmacher-event-widget-300x184.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20180419_Topoi-Jahrestagung-2018_Wannenmacher-event-widget-200x123.png 200w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20180419_Topoi-Jahrestagung-2018_Wannenmacher-event-widget-275x170.png 275w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20180419_Topoi-Jahrestagung-2018_Wannenmacher-event-widget-280x172.png 280w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20180419_Topoi-Jahrestagung-2018_Wannenmacher-event-widget-187x115.png 187w" sizes="(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20180419_Topoi-Jahrestagung-2018_Wannenmacher-event-widget.png" /><div class="widget_sp_image-description" ><h4 ><a style="color: #fff;" href="/events/workshops/">Events</a></h4> <div style="margin-bottom: 47px; font-size: 13px; color: #fff; font-family: Open Sans;">With more than 25 international conferences each year, Topoi shaped the ancient studies agenda in Berlin and beyond.</div> </div></aside><aside id="custom_html-9" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><a href="/research/early-career-and-professorships/"><h4 style="font-size: 14px; color: #033f7b;">NEW PROFESSORSHIPS</h4></a> <span>As part of a strategy to further strengthen Berlin's expertise in ancient studies, Topoi created a significant number of new fields and professorships, now funded by the universities.</span> </div></aside><aside id="widget_sp_image-7" class="widget widget_sp_image"><img width="309" height="190" class="attachment-full" style="max-width: 100%;" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bergsas_summerschool_bak_widget.png 309w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bergsas_summerschool_bak_widget-300x184.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bergsas_summerschool_bak_widget-200x123.png 200w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bergsas_summerschool_bak_widget-275x170.png 275w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bergsas_summerschool_bak_widget-280x172.png 280w, /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bergsas_summerschool_bak_widget-187x115.png 187w" sizes="(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/bergsas_summerschool_bak_widget.png" /><div class="widget_sp_image-description" ><h4 ><a style="color: #fff;" href="https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/bergsas/index.html">Graduate School </a></h4> <div style="margin-bottom: 26px; font-size: 13px; color: #fff; font-family: Open Sans;">For its more than 180 PhD students, Topoi introduced in 2011 a structured graduate education: the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) of the Berliner Antike-Kolleg. </div> </div></aside> </div> </div> </hgroup> </div> <footer id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div style="width:1000px; margin: 10px auto"> <nav id="access-footer" role="navigation"> <h3 class="assistive-text">Footer menu</h3> <div class="menu-footer-menu-container"><ul id="menu-footer-menu" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-14174" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-14174"><a href="/home/impressum/">Impressum</a></li> </ul></div> </nav> <div style="text-align: right;">There will be no updates to this website after October 31, 2019, as the Excellence Cluster comes to an end on that date.</div> </div> </footer> <script type="text/javascript"> function showhide_toggle(type, post_id, show_text, hide_text) { var $link = jQuery("#"+ type + "-link-" + post_id) , $link_a = jQuery('a', $link) , $content = jQuery("#"+ type + "-content-" + post_id) , $toggle = jQuery("#"+ type + "-toggle-" + post_id) , show_hide_class = 'sh-show sh-hide'; $link.toggleClass(show_hide_class); $content.toggleClass(show_hide_class).toggle(); if($link_a.attr('aria-expanded') === 'true') { $link_a.attr('aria-expanded', 'false'); } else { $link_a.attr('aria-expanded', 'true'); } if($toggle.text() === show_text) { $toggle.text(hide_text); } else { $toggle.text(show_text); } } </script> </body> </html>