NEWS and EVENTS
Research Topics of the Institute
The Ludwig Uhland Institute (LUI) is the Department of Historical and Cultural Anthropology at one of Germany’s oldest and most renowned universities. It is located in the heart of Tübingen and is housed in two buildings in the complex of the Tübingen Castle (Schloss Hohentübingen), the former residence of the House of Württemberg and the university’s founder, Duke Eberhard I. The institute has its own publishing house (Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde), an exhibition hall as well as a large collection of textual, graphic, photographic, audio, video, and material sources documenting past everyday and popular cultures, which are used in teaching and research.
Contact
Burgsteige 11 (Schloss) | 72070 Tübingen
+49 (0)7071/29-74886 +49 (0)7071/29-5330 (Fax) lui@uni-tuebingen.de location map
Opening hours
Library |
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| during the semester | Monday - Thursday | 10 am - 6 pm |
| Friday | 10 am - 2 pm | |
| during the semester break | Monday - Thursday | 12 am - 4 pm |
| Secretariats | ||
Institute Administration (Margrit Stickel) | Tuesday - Thursday | 9 - 12 am 2 - 4 pm |
| Friday | 9 am - 2 pm | |
Academic Administration (Jasmina Pfeiffer) | Monday - Thursday | 9:30 - 12 am |
| Monday | 1 - 2 pm | |
| Tuesday / Thursday | 2 - 4 pm |
Office hours
Office hours - no appointment necessary. Office hours of the not mentioned lecturers by arrangement.
Karin Bürkert | Thursday | 2:30 - 4 pm |
Gesa Ingendahl | Monday Thursday | 2 - 3 pm 2:30 - 4 pm |
Reinhard Johler | Thursday | 2:30 - 4 pm |
Monique Scheer | Thursday | 2:30 - 4 pm |
Thomas Thiemeyer | Thursday | 2.30 - 4 pm |
Study Abroad and Advising for Foreign Students | Thursday | 5 - 6 pm |
Office hours during the semester break will be posted in the "News".
The Institute
The Ludwig Uhland Institute is located in the middle of the university town of Tübingen: the Institute's offices are housed in two buildings in the Tübingen Castle complex. Lectures are generally held in the university's main building. The Institute has important collections encompassing texts, pictures, photographs, audio and video recordings, and objects, which are used in teaching and research.
The Discipline
Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (EKW) in Tübingen is one of the disciplines that emerged from the field of Folklore Studies. It examines phenomena of everyday culture both in the present day and from a historical perspective. Both perspectives are used to analyze and interpret cultural orders and dynamics in modern societies. This is why we refer to the field in English as Historical and Cultural Anthropology. The basic theoretical category of EKW is culture, which is understood as the ongoing process of practical negotiation of the rules by which people, groups, and societies live together, communicate with one another, and distinguish themselves from one another. EKW investigates how people work, how they organize their daily lives and interact with one another, how they deal with both their natural and cultural heritage, and what images they themselves construct regarding these relationships.
At other universities, our field is called "European Ethnology".