Project Area A: Telling
- A01: Episteme as Configurative Process: Episteme between Theory and Practice in Cuneiform Law
- A02: Ancient Egyptian Philology
- A03: The Transfer of Medical Episteme in the ‘Encyclopaedic’ Compilations of Late Antiquity
- A04: Processes of Tradition Building in the Works of Aristotle
- A05 (2012–2018): From Logos to Kalām: Figurations and Transformations of Knowledge in Near Eastern Late Antiquity
- A06: Alchemia poetica. Chemical Knowledge and Poetry around 1600
- A07: Erotema. The question as an epistemic genre in the learned societies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- A08 (2018–2020): Early Islamic sciences of the Qurʾān in light of late antique commentary cultures
Project Area B: Showing
- B01: Artefacts, Treasures and Ruins – Materiality and Historicity in the Literature of the English Middle Ages
- B02: The Marvellous as a Configuration of Knowledge in Medieval Literature
- B03: Imaginatio. Knowing about Imaginative Visions. Theories of Mental Imagery in Medieval Philosophy and Theology
- B04: The Knowledge of Art. Epistemic and Aesthetic Evidentia in the Renaissance
- B05: Theory and Aesthetics of Elusive Knowledge in the Early Modern Period: Transfer and Institutionalisation
- B06: Dimensions of Knowledge Oikonomies: Theory and Practice in Premodern Mining and Cosmology
- B07: The Anecdote as a Form of Knowledge
- B08: Sibyls & Prophets. Constellations of Figural Knowledge in Premodernity
- B04: The Knowledge of Art. Aesthetics and Semantics of Figural Imagery in the Renaissance
Project Area C: Doing
- C01: Transfer of Apocryphal Knowledge through Translation in Ancient Christianity (and Judaism)
- C02 (2012–2016): Asceticism in Motion: Forms and Transfer of Habitualized Knowledge in Antiquity and Late Antiquity
- C03 (2012–2016): Interaction and Change in Oriental Legal Systems. The Transfer of Normative Knowledge as Exemplified by Zoroastrian and Islamic Law (Seventh to Eleventh Centuries)
- C04: Epistemic Dissonances. Objects and Tools of Early Modern Acoustics
- C06: Transfer and Overlap. Configurations of Knowledge in the Era of the Greek Homines Novi in the Ottoman Empire (1641–1769)
- C07 (2012–2016): Early Modernities in East Asia: Current Debates on the Origins of Modernity
- C08: Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages: Reconfigurations of Vernacularity in the Early Modern Period
- C09: Evaluations of Knowledge in Confucian Academies
- C10: Verses and Sayings. Impetus and Range of Scholarly and Popularising Discourses in the Arabic World
Further projects
- INF: Corpora in Motion: Digital Exploitation of Epistemic Transfer in Premodern Cultures
- GP: Manuscripts in Motion: Tools for Documenting, Analysing and Visualising the Dynamics of Textual Topographies
- PR: Showcasing Knowledge Transfer
- T01 (2012–2016): Objects in Transfer – Concepts for the Museographical Display of Transfer Processes between the Near East and Europe during the Pre-modern Period