Angelika Epple, born 1966, is vice-rector for International Affairs and Diversity at Bielefeld University and teaches history with a focus on the history of the 19th and 20th century. Since January 2017, she has been the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing. She has broadly published on the history of globalization/s, theory of history, and historiography. She is a member of the editorial board of Bielefeld University Press.Walter Erhart is professor for German literature and literary studies at Universität Bielefeld. He received his habilitation from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and his doctorate from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. His research areas are German literature from the 18th to the 21st century, literary theory, history of the humanities, travel literature, masculinity and gender studies.Johannes Grave, born 1976, is professor of art history at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and principal investigator at the collaborative research centre »Practices of Comparing«. For his research on art around 1800, early renaissance painting and picture theory he has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2020. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of Bielefeld University Press.