Network for Transatlantic Cooperation, University of Constance - guests

Winter Term 2010/2011

• Dr. Marco Duranti [PhD, Department of History, Yale University]

• Prof. Dr. Michèle Lowrie [Associate Professor of Classics and Fine Arts, New York University]
• Prof. Dr. Shigeki Sato [Associate Professor, Fachbereich Geschichte und Soziologie, Tokyo University]

Summer Term 2010

• Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Andrew Barash [Département de Philosophie Université de Picardie Jules Verne Campus, France]
• Dr. Marco Duranti [PhD, Department of History, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Alicia E. Ellis [Visitng Assistant Professor of 20th Century Literature, Hampshire College, MA]

• Prof. Dr. Christiane Frey [Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and the College; Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Michael Geyer [Department of History, University of Chicago]
• Prof. Dr. Miriam Bratu Hansen [Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Professor, Departments of Cinema & Media Studies and English, and the College, University of Chicago]
• Joel Lande [PhD Student. University of Chicago]
• Janet Lee [Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, New York University]

• Prof. Dr. Michèle Lowrie [Associate Professor of Classics and Fine Arts, New York University]

• Sam Maglio [Doctoral Student,  Department of Psychology, New York University]
• James Mc Cormick [Doktorand der Germanistik, University of Chicago]
• Dr. Kirill Postoutenko[DAAD Gastdozent, Department of Sociology,  Smolny College St. Petersburg]
• Prof. Dr. Shigeki Sato [Associate Professor, Fachbereich Geschichte und Soziologie, Tokyo University]
• Prof. Dr. Zachary Sng [Assistant Professor für Deutsche Literatur, Brown University, Providence]

Winter Term 2009/2010

• Dr. Alexander Betts [Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford]
• Josh Bonilla [PhD Student, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. A. Marc Caplan [Assistant Professor, Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture Romance Languages and Literatures, The Johns Hopkins University]

• Dr. Marco Duranti [PhD, Department of History, Yale University]
• Joel Lande [PhD Student. University of Chicago]
• Prof. Dr. David Levin [Professor für Deutsche Literatur, University of Chicago]
• Prof. Dr. Lydia H Liu [Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Columbia University New York, USA
• James Mc Cormick [Doktorand der Germanistik, University of Chicago]
• Dr. Kirill Postoutenko[DAAD Gastdozent, Department of Sociology,  Smolny College St. Petersburg]
• Prof. Dr. Martin Puchner [Professor for English and Comparative Literature, H. Gordon Garbedian Chair in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University]
• Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier [Assistant Professor and Ph.D., Department of History, Duke University]
• Prof. Dr. Shigeki Sato [Associate Professor, Fachbereich Geschichte und Soziologie, Tokyo University]

• Prof. Dr. David Wellbery [Professor für Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Christopher Wild [Ph.D., Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and the College; Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]
• Prof. Dr. Gerhild Scholz Williams [Barbara Schaps Thomas & David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities Washington University in St. Louis, USA]
• Prof. Dr. Jay Winter [Professor für Geschichte, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Christopher S. Wood [Professor für Kunstgeschichte/History of Art, Department of the History of Art, Yale University]

Summer Term 2009

• Heather Barry [Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, New York University]

• Nutsa Batiashvili [Cultural anthropology PhD student at Washington University, St Louis, USA]
• Josh Bonilla [PhD Student, University of Chicago]
• Prof. Dr. A. Marc Caplan [Assistant Professor, Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture Romance Languages and Literatures, The Johns Hopkins University]

• Jennifer Dixon [PhD Candidate, Political Science University of California, Berkeley]

• Prof. Dr. Ron Eyerman [Professor of Sociology, Co-Director, Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS)Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Anne Fuchs [Professorin für Deutsche Literatur, University of Dublin]
• Prof. Dr. Axel Goodbody [Professor of German Studies and European Culture,  Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath]
• Prof. Dr. Phil Gorski [Professor für Soziologie, Yale University ]
• Prof. Dr. Angela Gutchess [Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology,  Brandeis University, Homepage]

• Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Hartman [Sterling Professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University]

• Prof. Dr. John Namjun Kim [Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, German and Japanese, University of California, Riverside]

• Dr. Beatrice Kobow [Department of Philosophie, UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science]

• Prof. Dr. Dominick LaCapra [Bryce & Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies,Cornell University]
• Joel Lande [PhD Student. University of Chicago]
• Sam Maglio [Doctoral Student,  Department of Psychology, New York University]
• Prof. Dr. Karl Ulrich Mayer [Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Co-Director, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE),Professor, Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS),  Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin/Germany, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Diana Tietjens-Meyers [Ignacio Ellacuria SJ Chair of Social Ethics and Professor of Philosophy an der Loyola University, department of Philosophy, Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Christopher Ocker [Associate Professor of History at the San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley]

• Prof. Dr. David Pan[Associate Professor of German, German School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine]
• Dr. Kirill Postoutenko[DAAD Gastdozent, Department of Sociology,  Smolny College St. Petersburg]
• Dr. Andrew K. Przybylski [Department of Psychology, University of Rochester]
• Prof. Dr. Shigeki Sato [Associate Professor, Fachbereich Geschichte und Soziologie, Tokyo University]
• Dr. Amanda Schantz [Department of Psychology, University of Toronto]
• Prof. Dr. Paschal Sheeran [Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield]

• Dr. Linda Shortt [University College Dublin, Ireland]

• Prof. Dr. Philip Smith[Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Director, Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS), Yale University, Department of Sociology]

• Prof. Dr. Zachary Sng [Assistant Professor für Deutsche Literatur, Brown University, Providence]

• Ann Stevenson [Poetess, Winner of the Lannan Award for a Lifetime's Achievement in Poetry, 2007]

• Prof. Dr. Michael Taylor [Assistant Professor University of Calgary, Canada]

• Dr. Netta Weinstein [Department pf Psychology, University of Rochester]
• Prof. Dr. James Wertsch [Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences, Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, USA]

• Prof. Dr. Hayden White [Professor emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz and Bonsall Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University]

• Prof. Dr. Jay Winter [Professor für Geschichte, Yale University]

   

Winter Term 2008/2009

• Prof. Dr. Leslie Adelson [Cornell University, Department of German Studies, Professor and Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies]

• Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Alexander [Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Co-Director, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale]

• Prof. Dr. Brigid Doherty [Associate Professor, Departments of Art and Archaeology and Germanic Languages and Literature, Princeton University]

• Prof. Dr. Deniz Göktürk [Berkeley, University of California, Department  of German]

• Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser [Associate Professor of German, Center for German and European Studies,  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis]

• Prof. Dr. John Namjun Kim [Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, German and Japanese, University of California, Riverside]

• Dr. Beatrice Kobow [Department of Philosophie, UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science]

• Prof. Dr. Barbara Mennel [Literatur- und Filmwissenschaftlerin, Associate Professor, University of Florida, Department of English]

• Prof. Dr.  Brinton Milward [University of Arizona, Tucson]

• Nerina Muzurovic [PhD Student University of Chicago]

• Dr. Charlton Payne [UCLA Los Angeles / Universität Konstanz, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter]

• Dr. Kirill Postoutenko[DAAD Gastdozent, Department of Sociology,  Smolny College St. Petersburg]

• Prof. Dr. Peter Hanns Reill [Professor & Director, Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA History Faculty , Department of History, UCLA]

• Prof. Dr. Shigeki Sato [Associate Professor, Fachbereich Geschichte und Soziologie, Tokyo University]

• Prof. Dr. phil. Oliver Simons [Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures,  German Department, Harvard University, Cambridge]

• Prof. Dr. Philip Smith [Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Director, Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS), Yale University, Department of Sociology]

• Leigh Ann Smith-Gary [PhD Student  Department of Germanic Studies an der University of Chicago]

• Jens Wörner [PhD Student, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

Summer Term 2008

• Robert Abbott [PhD Committee on Social Thought and The Department for Germanic Studies. University of Chicago]

• Martin Bäumel [Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Campe [Professor für Deutsche Literatur, Yale University]

• Florentina Costache [Doktorandin Johns Hopkins University]

• Lauren Shizuko Faraone [Teaching Assistant, Department of German, Johns Hopkins University, Stipendiatin  und Assoziierte des Graduiertenkollegs „Figur des Dritten“]

• Prof. Dr. Arne Höcker [Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor an der Wesleyan University, Connecticut]

• Prof. Dr. John Namjun Kim [Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, German and Japanese, University of California, Riverside]

• Joel Lande [PhD Student University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Niklaus Largier [Berkeley, University of California, Department of German]

• Prof. Dr. David Levin [Professor für Deutsche Literatur, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Michèle Lowrie [Associate Professor of Classics and Fine Arts, New York University]

• Anthony Mahler [Research Assitant, Prof. David Wellbery, University of Chicago, Chicago Teacher of German Language, The College of the University of Chicago]

• Malika Maskarinec [Doktorandin, German Department, Universität of Chicago]

• Dr. Kirill Postoutenko[DAAD Gastdozent, Department of Sociology,  Smolny College St. Petersburg]

• Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schwab [UC, Irvine, USA, Chancellor's Professor, Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, Faculty Associate in the Department of Anthropology; Core faculty in the Program in Theory and Culture; Associate Faculty in Women's Studies]

• Prof. Dr. Michael Taylor [University of Calgary, Canada]

• Prof. Dr. John R. Searle [Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy,University of California, Berkeley]

• Prof. Dr. Zachary Sng [Assistant Professor für Deutsche Literatur, Brown University, Providence]

• Prof. Dr. Samuel Weber [Northwestern University, Evanston/Chicago, IL , Department of French and Italian]

• Prof. Dr. David Wellbery [Professor für Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Christopher Wild [Ph.D., Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and the College; Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

• Mimmi Woisnitza [PhD Graduate Student at the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

Winter Term 2007/2008

• Nerina Muzurovic [PhD Student University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Christopher Wild [Ph.D., Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and the College; Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

Summer Term 2007

• Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Alexander [Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Co-Director, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale]

• Dr. David A. Brenner, Ph.D. [Fulbright Senior Scholar, Assistant Professor am Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies der Kent State University, Texas und Gastdozent, Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz]

• Prof. Dr. Shepard Forman [Center on International Cooperation, NYU]

• Prof. Dr. Michael Lipson [Department of Political Science,Concordia University]

• Prof. Dr. David Levin [Professor für Deutsche Literatur, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Karl Ulrich Mayer [Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Co-Director, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE),Professor, Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS),  Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin/Germany, Yale University]

• Prof. Dr. Peter Machamer [Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Philosophy, Homepage]

• Prof. Dr. Eric Santner [Professor für Modern Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. David Wellbery [Professor für Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

• Prof. Dr. Christopher Wild [Ph.D., Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and the College; Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

Winter Term 2006/2007

• Dr. David A. Brenner, Ph.D. [Fulbright Senior Scholar, Assistant Professor am Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies der Kent State University, Texas und Gastdozent, Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz]

Summer Term 2006

• Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Campe [Professor für Deutsche Literatur, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Peter Carnevale [Professor für Psychologie, New York University]
• Prof. Dr. Simon Chesterman [Executive Director des Instituts for International Law and Justice at New
  York University School of Law]
• Prof. Dr. Phil Gorski [Professor für Soziologie, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Alan Paskow [Professor für Psychologie, St. Mary's College of Maryland]
• Prof. Dr. Anson Rabinbach [Professor für Geschichte, Prínceton University]
• Prof. Dr. William Rasch [Professor für Germanic Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophie, Indiana University]
• Prof. Dr. Stephen J. Stedman [Professor für Political Science at Stanford University; Senior Fellow am Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) und am Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies]
• Prof. Dr. David Wellbery [Professor für Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]

Winter Term 2005/2006

• Prof. Dr. Peter Fritzsche [Professor für Geschichte, University of Illinois]
• Prof. Dr. David Levin [Professor für Deutsche Literatur, University of Chicago]

Summer Term 2005

• Prof. Dr. Catherine C. Baumann [Professor für Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]
• Prof. Dr. Sven Beckert [Professor für Geschichte, Harvard University]
• Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Campe [Professor für Deutsche Literatur, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. John Demos [Professor für Geschichte, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Dan Diner [Professor für Geschichte, Direktor des Simon Dubnow Institut Leipzig]
• Prof. Dr. Sheila Embleton [Professor für Linguistik, York University, Toronto, Ontario]
• Prof. Dr. Anne Fuchs [Professorin für Deutsche Literatur, University of Dublin]
• Prof. Dr. Margret Gilbert [Professorin für Philosophie, University of Conneticut]
• Prof. Dr. C. W. J. Granger [Professor für Ökonomie, University of California, San Diego]
• Prof. Dr. Karsten Harries [Professor für Philosophie, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Stephen Hill [Professor für Musik, Northwestern University]
• Dr. Martina Kolb [Post doc, Literaturwissenschaft, Yale University]
• Prof. Dr. Walter Mischel [Professor für Psychologie, Columbia University, New York]
• Prof. Dr. W. J. T. Mitchell [Professor für Englisch und Kunstgeschichte/Medientheorie, University of Chicago]
• Prof. Dr. William E. Robinson [Professor für Biologie, University of Massachusetts Boston]
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Samarov [Professor für Mathematik, University of Massachusetts Lowell / MIT Boston]
• Prof. Dr. Zachary Sng [Assistant Professor für Deutsche Literatur, Brown University, Providence]
• Prof. Dr. David Wellbery [Professor für Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]
• Prof. Dr. Jay Winter [Professor für Geschichte, Yale University]

Robert Abbott

[PhD Committee on Social Thought and The Department for Germanic Studies. University of Chicago]
 

E-Mail: rcabbott[at]uchicago.edu  

 

Research Topics/Interests

• Beziehung zwischen deutsche Dichtung und Philosophie im 19. Jahrhundert, insbesondere Hegel und Hölderlin

Short-CV:

Education

University of Chicago (2006-present),Ph.D. Committee on Social Thought, Department of Germanic Studies (since 2009)

St. John’s College, Annapolis (2000-2004), B.A.   Majors: Philosophy, The History of Mathematics and Science, Minors: Classical Studies, Comparative Literature

 

Employment

2008              Vienna Study Abroad Graduate Assistant, University of Chicago

2008              Assistant to Prof. David Nirenberg, Committee on Social Thought

2006              Editor, for Joe Sachs, Tutor, St. John’s  College                   

2004-2005     Math and Science Teacher, Ad Fontes Academy               

2003-2004     Music Assistant, St. John’s College             

2001-2003     Mellon Intern with Harvey Flaumenhaft, Dean, St. John’s College

 

Awards

• Recipient of Nef Summer Travel Grants in 2007 and 2008

• Senior Essay Prize, St. John’s College 2004 (Title: Herodotus VIII.59)

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Length of Stay in Constance:

• 10. - 15. Juni 2008

 

Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Teilnahme und Vortrag beim Transatlantischen Seminar: „Rahmen/Rahmung/Rahmenerzählung“

 

Guest of:

•  Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke

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Prof. Dr. Leslie Adelson

[Cornell University, Department of German Studies, Professor and Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies]

Email: laa10[at]cornell.edu

Research Topics/Interests: 

German literature from 1945 to the present; literatures of migration; postcolonial theory and German Studies; Jewish Studies; literary theory, social theory, and cultural history; feminist theory and women's literature. Address: 188 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-8540;

About Prof. Leslie A. Adelson

Professor Adelson’s teaching and research concentrate on German literature from 1945 to the present and additionally reflect interdisciplinary as well as transnational approaches to culture and history. Her focal interests include German literature of the post-war and post-socialist eras, emergent literatures often associated with minority and migrant populations (especially regarding Jews and Turks), and postcolonial theories of difference and approximation. New research projects revolve around the literary imagination as a form of labor and the conceit of futurity in German literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Former chair of the Department of German Studies, Prof. Adelson currently directs Cornell’s interdisciplinary Institute for German Cultural Studies.

(B.A. Smith College, 1974; Ph.D. Washington University,1982) has been Professor of German Studies at Cornell University since 1996, where she is also a Graduate Field member of Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies,and Comparative Literature. She teaches modern German literature with an emphasis on literature since 1945, as well as critical, feminist, and postcolonial theories of culture and history. Before moving to Cornell, she taught at the Ohio State University from 1982 until 1996 and as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Irvine in 1986. Her recent research focuses on minority discourses and migrant cultures in postwar Germany, especially those concerning Jews and Turks, and on interdisciplinary German cultural studies. Adelson's first book, Crisis of Subjectivity (1984), was the first scholarly monograph to deal with the literary prose of Botho Strauß. In 1994 the Modern Language Association of America awarded her the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Study in the Field of Germanic Languages and Literatures for her book, Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German Identity(1994). Adelson held research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in 1987 and 1992. For over a decade she has served on the editorial boards of the Women in German Yearbook, the German Quarterly, and the New German Critique. From 1992 through 1996 she also served on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on 20th Century German Literature. For her overall contributions to the field of postwar German cultural studies Adelson received the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in 1996.

Selected publications
 

“Experiment Mars.” Über Gegenwartsliteratur. Interpretationen—Kritiken—Interventionen. Ed. Mark W. Rectanus. Bielefeld: Aisthesis [forthcoming]

The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

“Migrants and Muses.” The New History of German Literature. Ed. David E. Wellbery et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 912-917

The Cultural After-Life of East Germany: New Transnational Perspectives. Ed. Leslie A. Adelson. Helen & Harry Gray Humanities Program Series 13. Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2002

“Against Between: A Manifesto.” Unpacking Europe. Ed. Salah Hassan and Iftikhar Dadi. Rotterdam: NAI, 2001. 244-255

Zafer Senocak. Atlas of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998. Ed. and trans. Leslie A. Adelson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German Identity. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993

Crisis of Subjectivity: Botho Strauß’s Challenge to West German Prose of the 1970s. Amersterdam: Rodopi, 1984

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 09.-13.12.2008

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

Evenementalisierung von Kultur.

Fatih Akıns Film „Auf der anderen Seite“ als transkulturelle Narration

Workshop im Rahmen des Exzellenzclusters „Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration“ (http://www.exc16.de/cms/)

10.-11. Dezember 2008, Universität Konstanz

 

11.Dez. 2008: 20:00-21:30 Uhr, Podiumsdiskussion mit Deniz Göktürk, Barbara Mennel, Levent Tezcan, Özkan Ezli.

Gastreferentin: Leslie Adelson (Cornell University)

Moderation: Dorothee Kimmich (Universität Tübingen)

Scala-Kino (http://scala-kinocenter-konstanz.kino-zeit.de/programm.php)

Siehe auch unter Veranstaltungen

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Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Alexander
[Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Co-Director, Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS), Yale University, Homepage, Curriculum Vitae]

E-Mail: jeffrey.alexander@yale.edu

Research Topics/Interests;

• Jeffrey Alexander works in the areas of theory, culture, and politics.
  An exponent of the “strong program” in cultural sociology, he has investigated the cultural codes and narratives that inform diverse areas of social life.

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 13.-16.12.2008

• SoSe 2007 / ständige Gastprofessur

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• 14/15.12.2008: Iconic Turn Workshop
  Teilnahme und Vortrag auf der Konferenz
  “The Performativity of Icons: Architecture, the ›Critic‹, and the Variability of Iconic Power”
  Details unter Veranstalungen
   

• 2.-11. Juli 2007: Konstanzer Meisterklasse 2007:

  "Cultural Sociology and the Iconic Turn"

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Publications:

Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006). The Civil Sphere. New York: Oxford University Press.
Alexander, Jeffrey C., Bernhard Giesen and Jason L. Mast (2006).
Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Philip Smith (eds.) (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Alexander, Jeffrey C., Ron Eyerman, Bernhard Giesen, Neil J. Smelser, and Piotr Sztompka (2004). Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2003). The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press.
 

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Giesen

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Martin BÄumel

[Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago]
 

E-Mail: mbaeumel[at]uchicago.edu

 

Research Topics/Interests:
Mediale Gegenwärtigkeit von Lyrik im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

 

Short CV
 

Education
2005 – University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies
1997 – 2004 M.A. Neuere Geschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2000 – 2002 M.A. German Literature, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1996 – 1997 Leibniz Kolleg & Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
 

Fellowships and Awards
University and Germanic Studies Fellowship, University of Chicago (2005-2010)
Hildegard Romberg Summer Fellowship, University of Chicago (2007)
Graduate Council Fellowship, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (2001-2002)
Fulbright Travel Grant (2000-2001)
Study Abroad Scholarship, Federation of German-American Clubs (2000-2001)
 

Employment
2006 – Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago
2006 – 2008 Student Coordinator, Workshop Historical Semantics, University of Chicago
2003 – 2005 Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Historisches Kolleg, München
2000 – 2002 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
 

Publications:
Translation & Editing for the Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Barbara
Fischer & Thomas C. Fox, eds., Camden House 2005.
Martin Bäumel and Stefan Manns, „Wer ist dieser Büchner? Aspekte zur Rezeption
Büchners und seines Danton im neunzehnten Jahrhundert.“ Focus on German Studies 8
(2001), 35-44.

 

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Length of stay in Constance

• 10. - 15. Juni 2008

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Teilnahme und Vortrag beim Transatlantischen Seminar: „Rahmen/Rahmung/Rahmenerzählung“

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke
   

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PROF. Dr. Jeffrey Andrew Barash

[Département de Philosophie Université de Picardie Jules Verne Campus, France]
 

E-Mail: jeffrey.barash@u-picardie.fr

 

Research Topics/Interests/Publications:

• Homepage

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Length of stay in Constance

• May - Julyi 2010

 

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Prof. Dr. Sven Beckert
[Professor für Geschichte, Harvard University (Department of History), Homepage]

E-mail: beckert@fas.harvard.edu

Research Topics/Interests:

• Nineteenth-century United States, with particular emphasis on social and economic history

• Interests include the social history of politics in the era of the Civil War, business history, labor history, and the history of the United States in global perspective.

• Courses on nineteenth century American capitalism, Gilded Age America, the political economy of North America, labor history and global capitalism.

• Currently at work on a global history of cotton in the nineteenth century.

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Length of stay in Constance:

• August 2005

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Osterhammel

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Dr. David A. Brenner, Ph.D.

[Fulbright Senior Scholar, Assistant Professor am Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies der Kent State University, Texas und Gastdozent, Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz]

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Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Campe
[Professor für Deutsche Literatur, Yale University (Department of German), Homepage]

E-mail: rudiger.campe@yale.edu

Research Topics/Interests:

• Theory and History of Rhetoric

• Literary Knowledge, on Representation in Law and Science

• Baroque Theatre and the Aesthetics of the Modern Novel
  
  Rüdiger Campe received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg and the Habilitation in 2000 from the University Gesamthochschule of Essen (Germany). He has taught German and Comparative Literature as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature and Language of the University of Essen 1986-1988 and again 1990-1996; he was a Mellon fellow at the Johns Hopkins University 1988-1990, a visiting fellow of the Graduiertenkolleg at the European University Frankfurt/Oder 1996-1998 and a visiting professor at the German Department of New York University in the spring 2000. He is the author of Das Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit. Eine moderne Textaufgabe, Ms. Essen 1999, and Affekt und Ausdruck. Zur Umwandlung der literarischen Rede im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990. Dr. Campe has also written recent articles on rhetoric and aesthetics, the literature and history of science and Baroque theatre. Dr. Campe has received grants of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

• Lebenslauf

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Length of stay in Constance:

• SoSe 2008

• 26.06. - 01.07. 2006

• 09.06. - 19.06.2005

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• 12. - 14. Juni 2008 Rahmen/Rahmung/Rahmenerzählung
  (Frames/Framing/Frame Story)
  Das Forschungskolloquium wird als Blockveranstaltung vom 12. bis 14. Juni durchgeführt. Es findet im Rahmen der Kooperation mit Prof. Rüdiger Campe (Yale University) und Prof. David Wellbery (University of Chicago) statt. Einzelheiten können Sie hier downloaden oder unter Veranstaltungen einsehen.

   

• 26. Juni - 01. Juli 2006:
  Erzähltheorie (Narratology)
  Forschungskolloquium im Rahmen der Forschungsstelle Kulturtheorie zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke und Prof. Dr. David Wellbery

Was heißt Erzählen? Diese scheinbar simple Frage beschäftigt nicht mehr nur die Philologen, sondern spielt auch in der Geschichts- und Sozialwissenschaft eine wachsende Rolle, die in den achziger Jahren einen narrative turn ausriefen und den homo narrans das Licht der Welt erblicken ließen. Insoweit unsere Welt eine kulturelle Konstruktion ist, stellt das Erzählen einen, wenn nicht den wichtigsten Schlüssel zur Welterzeugung dar. Weitere Informationen zum Seminar unter Veranstaltungen.

• 16. Juni - 18. Juni 2005
  Bildungsroman - Institutionenroman. Der Goethe- und der Kafka-Effekt. Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke (Universität Konstanz), Prof. Dr. Christopher Wild (Universität Konstanz) und Prof. Dr. David Wellbery (University of Chicago).

  Blockseminar.
  Termine: Do 16.06., 15-18 Uhr, Fr 17.06., 10-18 Uhr, Sa 18.06., 10-18 Uhr
  Weitere Informationen zum Seminar unter Veranstaltungen.

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke

• Graduiertenkolleg Konstanz

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Prof. Dr. A. Marc Caplan

[Assistant Professor, Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture Romance Languages and Literatures, The Johns Hopkins University, Homepage]

E-Mail:  acaplan4[at]jhu.edu

 

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research Topics/Interests:

The weight of an epoch: Yiddish literature and German culture in the interwar era

MARC CAPLAN, the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Professor in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. His primary interest as a scholar is to place the study of Yiddish literature in comparative contexts. His next book-length project will explore Yiddish literature written in Weimar Germany, considered in comparision with contemporaneous German literature, theater, and film. In addition to his academic commitments to the study of Yiddish literature, Dr. Caplan writes a regular column in Yiddish on popular culture for the journal Afn shvel.

 

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Vorträge/Seminare/Workshops/Konferenzen:

• 23. Juli 2009
  Byelorus in Berlin; Berlin in Byelorus: Moyshe Kulbak´s Raysn, Meshiekh ben Efrayim, and the Poetics of Nostalgia.
  Discussion paper here.

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Length of stay in Constance:

• Juni - November 2009

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Guest of:

• Fellow am "Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kolleg" des Exzellenzclusters "Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration"

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Prof. Dr. Peter Carnevale
[Professor für Psychologie, New York University, Department of Psychology, Homepage]

Email: peter.carnevale@nyu.edu

Research Topics/Interests:

• Verhandlungsforschung
• Theory of the psychological processes associated with agreement
• Special interest: testing models of the cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes associated with agreements
• Motivational bases of information processing and strategy in negotiation and social conflict
  Culture and the mediation of disputes

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 14 Tage Ende Juni/Anfang Juli 2006 (Gastprofessor an der Universität Konstanz) im Rahmen des Austauschs mit dem Social Psychology Graduate Program of the Psychology Department at the New York University.

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Workshop zum Thema “Motivational and cognitive factors in the control of negotiation behavior”.
  Der Workshop soll im Juli 2006 stattfinden.

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Peter Gollwitzer

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Florentina Costache

[Doktorandin Johns Hopkins University /Chicago; Assoziierte des Konstanzer Graduiertenkollegs „Figur des Dritten“]
 

E-Mail: florentina[at]jhu.edu

 

Research Topics/Interests:

Florentina Costache studied German Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania and holds a M.A. in German Literature from the Johns Hopkins University.  Her current ares of research include contemporary Austrian literature, narrative theory, postmodern (re)writing and deconstructive reading, as well as history of science in the 18th and 19th centuries, with particular emphasis on philosophies of nature and evolutionary theories of literature.  She is also interested in recent trends in trauma theory that call into question various representational claims raised by traditional media in a post-psycholanalytic context.  She has completed work on Freud, Wittgenstein, turn-of-the-century Vienna, the Romantic novella, problems of temporality and causation in postmodern texts, and Latin-American writers.
 

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Length of stay in Constance:

• Wintersemester 2007/2008 als Assoziierte des Graduiertenkollegs "Die Figur des Dritten"

• 12. März 2008 – 31. Juli 2008

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Guest of:

• Graduierten Kolleg "Die Figur des Dritten"

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Prof. Dr. John Demos
[Professor für Geschichte, Yale University (Department of History), New Haven, Homepage]

E-mail: john.demos@yale.edu

Research Topics/Interests:

• Early American History
• Family History
• Historical Narrative.

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 18. - 20. Mai 2005

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Teilnehmer im Rahmen des Konstanz-Yale-Workshops: History – Memory – Identity

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann

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Prof. Dr. Simon Chesterman
[Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore, Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University, Faculty Profile ]

Research Topics/Interests:

• Als Rechtswissenschaftler hat Professor Chesterman in wichtigen Funktionen mit der UN zusammengearbeitet, unter anderem als Director of UN Relations der International Crisis Group in New York. Er war außerdem für die International Peace Academy, New York, und das UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Belgrad tätig, sowie für das International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha.
• Chesterman ist Autor mehrerer stark beachteter Bücher, namentlich:
• "You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• "Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law" (Oxford University Press, 2001), das mit dem American Society of International Law Certificate ausgezeichnet wurde,
• sowie Mitherausgeber, mit Michael Ignatieff und Ramesh Thakur, von "Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance" (United Nations University Press, 2005)
• und Autor von "Civilians in War" (Lynne Rienner, 2001).
• Kürzlich erschienen oder in Arbeit sind:
• Secretary or General? The UN Secretary-General in World Politics", (mit Vorwort von Kofi Anan), Cambridge University Press, Februar 2007, unter: www.geocities.com/secretary_or_general gibt es eine Inhaltsübersicht und weiterführende Informationen.
• "Does the UN Need a Secretary or a General?" erscheint am 20.01.2007 im International Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/12/opinion/edchester.php)

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 19. Juli - 25. Juli 2006

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Beratung von Studierenden des Master-Programms "Management of Conflict and Peace" im MA-Studiengang "Public Policy and Management" des Fachbereichs Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft
• Durchführung von Doktorandenkolloquia zu den Themen "Designing
  International Intervention", "Implementing Peace Operations" sowie
  "Termination of International Interim Administrations"
• Geplantes Programm vom Lehrstuhl Professor Wolfgang Seibel
  
• Öffentliches Kolloqium mit Prof. Dr. Simon Chesterman:
  Datum: 20. Juli
  Zeit: 16 c.t. - 18 Uhr
  Ort: IBZ II
  Thema: "Shared Secrets: Intelligence and Collective Security"
  Details unter Veranstaltungen

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel

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Prof. Dr. Dan Diner
[Professor für Geschichte, Direktor des Simon Dubnow Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur an der Universität Leipzig]

E-Mail: info@dubnow.de

research Topics/Interests:

• Europäische Geschichte
• Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, des Nahen Ostens, der deutschen Geschichte, insbesondere des Nationalsozialismus und des Holocaust sowie der jüdischen Geschichte
• Cultural Engineering

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 25.05. – 31.05.2005

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Vortrag: "Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist noch nicht beendet. Über ethische und narrative Dekonstruktionen eines Gründungsereignisses", Samstag, 28. Mai 2005, 11:00, Senatssaal V 1001, im Rahmen der Tagung "Versöhnungsrituale in Europa" des SFB 485 Norm und Symbol

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Giesen

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Jennifer Dixon

PhD Candidate, Political Science University of California, Berkeley

Research Topics/Interests:

• International relations and comparative politics, politics of memory and the construction of national identity

“My fields of concentration are international relations and comparative politics. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the politics of memory and the construction of national identity. Specifically, I am interested in how states remember, forget, teach and commemorate the past; in how states construct and disseminate ideas and myths about the nation and citizenship; and in the consequences of these constructed memories and identities for both domestic and foreign policy. My dissertation is an in-depth, qualitative analysis of the sources of change in official narratives of traumatic historical events. Tracing changes over a 50-plus-year period, I am studying official narratives in Turkey and Japan. In my research, I am investigating the impact of a variety of domestic and international factors on particular narratives, trying to identify which factors influence changes in official narratives, and which reinforce continuity in such narratives. I received a BA in Government from Dartmouth College in 1999, and worked in New York for four years before starting graduate school. I speak Turkish, along with some French and German.”

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 20. - 22. April 2009

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Vortrag 21. April, 16 Uhr c.t.
  Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg

  Jennifer Dixon: “Setting the Record: Processes of Institutional Change and Continuity in the Official Turkish Narrative of the Armenian Genocide “

  Siehe auch unter Veranstaltungen

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Prof. Dr. Brigid Doherty

[Associate Professor, Princeton University, Departments of Art and Archaeology and Germanic Languages and Literature, Princeton University, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1996]

E-Mail: bdoherty[at]Princeton.EDU

Research Topics/Interests:

Before coming to Princeton in 2003, Brigid Doherty was Associate Professor of the History of Art and Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. In 2005, she held the inaugural Research Forum Visiting Professorship at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and in 2006-2007 she was the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and an Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. A member of the Steering Committees of the Programs in Media & Modernity, European Cultural Studies, and the Study of Women and Gender at Princeton, she focuses her research and teaching on the interdisciplinary study of modern and contemporary art, literature, and film, with special emphasis on relationships among the visual arts, literature, and aesthetic theory in German modernism.

Recently, with her German Department colleagues Michael W. Jennings and Thomas Y. Levin, she co-edited a volume of writings by Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media, which was published by Harvard University Press in 2008. Also in 2008, she participated in Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, in Trento, Italy, contributing a project called “The Museum of Learning Things,” which examined ways in which avant-garde artists and philosophers Germany and Austria in the 1920s variously engaged, adapted, and set out to renovate techniques of teaching and learning that had been developed in the nineteenth-century under the rubric of Anschauungsunterricht (a term that has been translated, since the mid-nineteenth century, as “instruction in perception”, “object-teaching”, “teaching through the senses”, and “training the senses”).

Doherty’s current research is connected to a book project, “Homesickness for Things,” which explores how, in 20th-century German modernism and its present-day aftermath, objects, among them persons and works of art, become containers for fantasies of return to a maternal body or family home (each broadly conceived, in material as well as symbolic terms). The project further explores how such fantasies come, in turn, to provide a basis for various ethical and political positions with regard to our understanding of history. “Homesickness for Things” situates the work of writers and artists, including the early 20th-century poet Rainer Maria Rilke and contemporary artist Hanne Darboven, in relation to theories of “projective identification” and related phenomena of thinking, feeling, and intersubjectivity in psychoanalysis.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (selected; since 2006)

Edited Volume: Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media (2008). Exhibition Catalogues: Rosemarie Trockel: Safety Curtain 2008/2009 (2008); Rosemarie Trockel: Post-Menopause (German edition, 2005; Italian edition, 2006); Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, New York, Paris (2006). Articles: “Introjektion, Übertragung, and literarische Medienreflexionen in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Briefe über Cézanne,” in Literarische Medienreflexionen, ed. Dieter Lamping (2007); “The Colportage Phenomenon of Space and the Place of Montage in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project,” in Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, ed. Beatrice Hanssen (2006); “On Iceberg and Water. Or, Painting and the ‘Mark of Genre’ in Rosemarie Trockel’s Wool-Pictures,” in MLN (2006); “Dwelling on ‘Spaces’,” in Women Artists at the Millennium, ed. Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (2006)

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Teilnahme an der Tagung Schauplätze der Evidenz

• Der Einbruch des Realen, IFK, 1010 Wien

Teilnahme und Vortrag.
Brigid Doherty :
Raphaels „Sixtinische Madonna“ um 1920.
Über den Wiederbesuch einer „Revelatio“ als „Einbruch des Realen“ Brigid Doherty fragt nach der durch die Collage- bzw. Montagetechnik  ermöglichten (Um)verwendung einiger Reproduktionen von Raphaels „Sixtinischer Madonna“ (1512–13) in zwei um 1920 in Deutschland entstandenen Kunstwerken: George Grosz„ „Germania ohne Hemd“ und Kurt
Schwitters „Merzzeichnung 151“ („Wenzelkind Madonna mit Pferd“). Sich stützend auf theoretische Einsichten Louis Marins und kunsthistorische Recherchen Johann Konrad Eberleins hat Daniel Arasse das Verhältnis zwischen Raphaels Gemälde und dem theologischen Konzept der „revelatio“ bereits untersucht und die „Sixtinische Madonna“ dabei als
herausragendes Beispiel einer „présentation de la répresentation“ in der Tradition der Europäischen Malerei seit der Renaissance bestimmt.
Brigid Dohertys Beitrag greift das „dispositif“ der „revelatio“ und der „présentation de la répresentation“ auf, um zu prüfen, wie die (Um)verwendung bzw. Darstellung dieser Reproduktionen hinsichtlich
eines „Einbruchs des Realen“ im Sinne des Tagungsthemas verstanden
werden kann.
In diesem Zusammenhang geht sie auf die von Walter Benjamin in einer Fußnote der dritten Fassung seines Essays „Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit“ (1936–39) aufgeworfene Frage nach dem „Ausstellungswert“ der „Sixtinischen Madonna“ ein. Benjamin versteht den Ausstellungswert des Gemäldes als etwas, das in der Art
und Weise seiner spezifischen Inszenierung realisiert ist, nämlich in der Tatsache, dass die gemalte Figur der Madonna so aussieht, als stehe sie kurz davor, aus dem Bildraum heraus- und in den tatsächlichen Ausstellungsraum hineinzusteigen: Sie ist eine „arca Dei“, die jungfräuliche Trägerin der „revelatio“ des fleischgewordenen Wortes, die dem Betrachter des Gemäldes so gegenübertritt, als ob sie im Begriff stehe, den realen Raum des Betrachters zu betreten.
Abschließend behandelt Brigid Doherty Schwitters' und Grosz'Verarbeitungen von Reproduktionen der „Sixtinischen Madonna“ in Relation zu dem jeweiligen historischen Kontext, in dem Raphaels Bild – sei es als Original oder als Reproduktion – so ausgestellt oder als  ausstellbar imaginiert wurde, dass seine Ausstellung selbst als ein Einbruch des Realen fassbar wird.

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Length of stayy in Constance:

• 09-13.12. 2008

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Guest of:

•  Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke

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Dr. marco duranti

[PhD, Department of History, Yale University, Homepage]

E-Mail: marco.duranti@yale.edu

Research Topics:

• Geschichte und Gedächtnis

• Dr. Marco Duranti works under the supervision of Jay Winter (primary advisor), Ute Frevert, John Gaddis and Frank Snowden. His dissertation, tentatively entitled "Human Rights and the European Dilemma, 1945-1955", investigates Western European attitudes towards international human rights initiatives in the decade after the Second World War. It argues that the rise and fall of interest in such initiatives, both within civil society and political institutions, stemmed primarily from a conflict over the political and cultural boundaries of 'Europe'. The narrative focuses on negotiations within the United Nations and the Council of Europe over the creation of an International Court of Human Rights and a European Court of Human Rights, respectively. Although the dissertation is a work of transnational and comparative history, it stresses France as the driving force behind the initial progress of Western European human rights projects and their subsequent eclipse during the escalation of decolonization and the Cold War.
• Marco Duranti spent the 2005-06 academic year on a Fulbright fellowship to the European University Institute in Florence. During this time, he conducted research in the Historical Archives of the European Communities, the Italian state archives and archives of various Catholic organizations. He is currently spending the 2006-07 academic year on a Fox International Fellowship to Sciences Po in Paris, examining documents in the French state archives, UNESCO archives, and the archives of the Council of Europe.
• Marco Duranti has published an article entitled, "Utopia, Nostalgia and World War at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair" in the Journal of Contemporary History (October 2006). He is currently writing a piece on how the Algerian War influenced French policy towards human rights initiatives in the United Nations and Council of Europe.

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• t.b.a.

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Length of stay in Konstanz:

• Januar 2010 – Januar 2011  als Postdoc

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Guest of :

•  Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann

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Prof. Dr. ALICIA E. ELLIS
[Visitng Assistant Professor of 20th Century Literature, Hampshire College, MA]

E-mail: aeeHA@hampshire.edu

Forschungsschwerpunkte/Interessen:

Alicia E. Ellis, visiting assistant professor of 20th century literatures, holds undergraduate degrees in Women's and Gender Studies and German Literature from Amherst College (1998) and an M.A. in African-American Studies from Yale University (2004). Professor Ellis is completing her doctoral work at Yale University, where she also earned an M.A. (2002) and an M.Phil. (2005) in Germanic Languages and Literatures. She has also studied at the Universities of Goettingen, Konstanz, and Heidelberg.

Her teaching and research interests include 18th- and 19th-century German literature and intellectual history; African-American and Caribbean literatures; the intersection of literature and historical thought; women's writing; and the Black Atlantic. Other research topics include the practice of adaptation as theory and innovations in generic modes.

Professor Ellis's dissertation concerns the framing of difference in 19th century revisions of Greek and Roman literature as articulations of epistemic and corporal anxiety. She has been a Five College Fellow in German Literature and taught in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College.

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Dauer des Aufenthaltes in Konstanz:

• Juni - August 2010

 

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Prof. Dr. Sheila Embleton
[Professor für Professor of Linguistics, and Vice President Academic, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Homepage]

E-mail: embleton©yorku.ca

Research Topics/Interests:

• Historical Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Dialectology
• Mathematical/Statistical Methods in Linguistics
• Onomastics
• Peircean Semiotics
• Women and Language
• Language Specialization: English, German, Romance, Slavic and Finno-Ugric

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Length of stay in Constance:

• Sonntag, 10.07. : Anreise nach Konstanz
• Montag, 11.07. Besuch der Uni Konstanz

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Guest of:

• International Office, Universität Konstanz

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Prof. Dr. RON EYERMAN
[Professor of Sociology, Co-Director, Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS)Yale University,  Homepage]

E-mail: ronald.eyerman@yale.edu

Research Topics:

• Ron Eyerman, Professor of Sociology, received his B.A. from the New School for Social Research, a Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Oregon, and his Doctorate at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is the author of several recent books, including Music and Social Movements and Cultural Trauma both from Cambridge University Press and Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity from the University of California Press. His interests include cultural and social movement theory, critical theory, cultural studies and the sociology of the arts. He is Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) with Jeffrey C. Alexander. In academic year 2007–2008 he is also the Director of Graduate Studies.

Recent Publications/ Books:

• Eyerman, Ron (2008). The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma. Duke University Press.
• Eyerman, Ron and Lisa McCormick (eds.) (2006). Myth, Meaning and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts. Paradigm Press.
• Eyerman, Ron, with Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Neil J. Smelser, and Piotr Sztompka (2004). Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Eyerman, Ron (2002). Cutural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African-American Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Eyerman, Ron and Andrew Jamison (1998). Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lenghth of stay in Konstanz:

• Sommersemester 2009

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Vortrag: "Die Ermordung Theo van Goghs: Ein kulturelles Trauma" am 19 Juli 2009 im Rahmen der Meisterklasse

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Giesen

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Lauren Shizuko Faraone

[Teaching Assistant, Department of German, Johns Hopkins University, Stipendiatin  und Assoziierte des Graduiertenkollegs „Figur des Dritten“]

E-Mail: lfaraone[at]nyu.edu

Length of stay in Constance:

• 12. – 14. Juni 2008

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

Frau Faraone arbeitete im Rahmen des GK ihr Promotionsprojekt aus, nahm an den Veranstaltungen teil und wirkte an Arbeitsgruppen mit

Vom 12. bis zum 14. Juni 2008 Teilnahme am Konstanzer  triangulären Blockseminar Chicago - Hopkins - Konstanz, mit David Wellbery, Rüdiger Campe und Albrecht Koschorke, das sich im Jahr 2008  mit dem Thema 'Rahmen/Rahmung/Rahmenerzählung' befasste.
Frau Faraone erhielt ein viermonatiges Stipendium von Mai-August 2008

 

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Prof. Dr. Shepard Formann
[Gründer und Direktor des Center on International Cooperation der New York University, Homepage]

(!!Professor Formans Aufenthalt in Konstanz ist für dieses Jahr abgesagt worden!!)

E-mail: shepard.forman@nyu.edu

Research Topics/Interests:

• United Nations

• Peacekeeping

• International Security

• Post-Conflict Operations

Vor seiner Zeit als Direktor des Centers leitete und betreute er unter anderem die "International Affairs programs" und die "Human Rights and Gouvernance programms" in New York im Rahmen der Ford Foundation. Darüberhinaus leitete er das Ford Foundation Büro in Rio de Janeiro.

Shepard Forman arbeitete als Assistant Professor an der Indiana University in Bloomington und der University of Chicago am Department of Anthropology bzw. am Department of Anthropology and Social Sciences.

 

Explizitere Informationen können Sie dem hier bereitgestellten Curriculum Vitae entnehmen.

 

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Length of stay in Constance

• Montag, 11.Juni 2007: Anreise nach Konstanz

• Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007: Abreise

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Organisiertes Programm für Professor Forman vom Lehrstuhl Professor Wolfgang Seibel - hier.

• Mittwoch, 13. Juni / 11.00 - 13.00 Uhr: "Who We Are and What We Do - Faculty and Curricula"

• 13. Juni 2007 / 16.00 - 18.00 Uhr: Öffentlicher Vortrag im MA-Studiengang "Public Policy and Managment" des Fachbereichs Politik und Verwaltungswissenschaften

• 15. - 17. Juni: Internationalen Konferenz "Administrative Science Meets Peacekeeping - Peace Operations as Political and Managerial Challenges". Professor Forman sitz der Sitzung "International Coordination" am 15. Juni 2007 vor.

Weiterführende Informationen unter Veranstaltungen.

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel

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Prof. Dr. Christiane Frey

[Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and the College; Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, Homepage]

E-Mail: chrfrey[at]uchicago.edu

Short CV:

Dr. Christiane Frey studied Comparative and German Literatures, French and Italian Philology with minor concentrations in Philosophy and Theology mainly in Bonn, Paris, Perugia and Giessen. She received her M. A. from the University of Paris Sorbonne (Lettres comparées) and studied for her Ph.D. at the University of Bonn (Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaften). Her teaching and research interests focus on the correlations between aesthetics and anthropology (in the 18th century sense of the word, meaning a conception of man based on medical knowledge) from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries, especially around 1800. Other interests are the idea of Kallipädie around 1900; the history of educating and testing intellectual talents (Prüfung der Köpfe) since the Renaissance; and concepts of time from Friedrich Schiller to Victor Hugo. Her dissertation was titled Laune: Inkonstanz und Individualität in Ästhetik und Anthropologie um 1800. She is currently revising it for publication. Her current long-term project concerns the function and rhetoric of secularization and the survival of Jewish-Christian dichotomies from Luther to Derrida. In 2003, she co-edited a book on Darstellbarkeit: Zu einem ästhetisch-philosophischen Problem um 1800 (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann). Forthcoming are articles on “Fallgeschichte(n) in Karl Philipp Moritz and Philippe Pinel” and on “Poetological Reflexions in Paul Valéry and Rainer Maria Rilke,” as well as an internet lexicon of works relating to the history of knowledge.

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Length of stay in Constance:

• Herbst 2009 – Herbst 2010

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• werden noch bekannt gegeben

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Guest of:

• Forschungsstelle Kulturtheorie

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Prof. Dr. Peter Fritzsche
[Professor für Geschichte, University of Illinois, Department of History, Homepage ]

E-mail: pfritzsc@uiuc.edu

Research Topics/Interests:

• European Cultural History
• Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus
• Kulturgeschichte der Vergangenheit und des Geschichtsbewusstseins
• Theorien über die Moderne
• Professor Fritzsche specializes in modern German and European history and is a former Guggenheim and Humboldt Fellow. Professor Fritzsche's current research focuses on comparative questions of memory and identity and vernacular uses of the past in modern Europe. His most recent book is Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (2004); his other publications include Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany (1990); A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination (1992); Reading Berlin 1900 (1996); and Germans into Nazis (1998). With Charles C. Stewart, he edited Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997). Peter Fritzsche received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986.

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 22.10.05 – 19.11.05

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Aufgaben in der Lehre
  
• Vortrag im Forschungsprojekt "Kulturtheorie und Theorie des Politischen Imaginären" über "Nostalgia und Geschichtsbewußtsein" ;
  
• Vortrag im Forschungskolleg "Norm und Symbol" über das Diskussionspapier
  "The Conceits of Modernity: The Difference of Difference and the French Revolution" von Herrn Fritzsche (Möllmann/Schlögl);
  02.11.05, 18.00-19.30 Uhr, Raum A 703
  (Siehe auch unter Veranstaltungen)
  --> Zum Lesen: "Drastic Description, the French Revolution, and Modern Identity" von Prof. Dr. Fritzsche
  
• Vortrag im Workshop zu "Ästhetik und Faschismus. Ästhetisierung der Politik oder Politisierung des Ästhetischen?" Veranstalter: Forschungsstelle / Dr. Uwe Hebekus und Prof. Dr. Sven Reichardt.
  (Details auch unter Forschungsstelle "Kulturtheorie und Theorie des Politischen Imaginären" bei Veranstaltungen);
  04.11.05, 10-18 Uhr
  (Siehe auch unter Veranstaltungen)
  
• Vortrag im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs/ Basiskollegs:
  "Urbana-Champaign: Die Geschichte der Nostalgie";
  15.11.05, 18.00h
  Raum H 306
  (Siehe auch unter Veranstaltungen)

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Albrecht Koschorke
• Forschungsstelle "Kulturtheorie und Theorie des Politischen Imaginären"
• Forschungskolleg "Norm und Symbol"
• Graduiertenkolleg Konstanz

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Prof. Dr. Anne Fuchs

[Professorin für Deutsche Literatur, University of Dublin (Department of German), Homepage]

E-Mail: Anne.Fuchs@ucd.ie

Research Topics:

• Cultural Memory in Post-War German Discourse
• Modern German Literature,
• German-Jewish Literature
• Literary Theory
• The Self and the Other in Travel Literature and German-Jewish Literature
• "Identity, Memory and Meaning in the 21st century" (see www.ucd.ie/hii)"

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Length of stay in Constance:

• May 2009
• 18. - 20. Mai 2005

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Vortrag am 28. Mai 2009: "From Baroque Splendour to Ruination: Dresden's Past in Coffee Table Books" (im Rahmen des Max-Planck-Forschungspreises). Siehe auch unter Veranstaltungen.

• Teilnahme im Rahmen des Konstanz-Yale-Workshops: History – Memory – Identity

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann

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Prof. Dr. michael geyer

[Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, Department of History and in the College, Faculty Director Human Rights Program, Homepage]

E-Mail: mgeyer@uchicago.edu

Forschungsinteressen:

• Germany: Modern Germany
• Europe: Modern Europe
• Globalization: History of Globalization
• History and Theory of Human Rights
• International & Transnational History
• War & Genocide
  

Michael Geyer ist Samuel N. Harper Professor for German and European History an der University of Chicago. 2003/04 erhielt er ein John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship und war Fellow an der American Academy in Berlin. 2007/08 wurde er mit dem Alexander von Humboldt-Forschungspreis ausgezeichnet.
Michael Geyer is the co-author of Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories, a reflection on the nature of modern German history. His recent work has focused on the history of Globalization, leading to a forthcoming book on The Global Condition in the Long 20th Century, and the development of a new core class in the College: Globalization and World History. He is a co-founder of the University's Human Rights Program.

Short CV download hier.

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Ausgewählte Publikationen:

• Mehr Informationen hier.

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Dauer des Aufenthaltes in Konstanz:

• Mitte Mai bis Mitte Juni 2010

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Vorträge/Seminare/Workshops/Konferenzen:

• Teilnahme im Rahmen des Konstanz-Yale-Workshops: History – Memory – Identity

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Gast von:

• Prof. Dr. Sven Reichardt
• Zukunftskolleg

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Prof. Dr. Margret Gilbert
[Professorin für Philosophie, University of Conneticut (Department of Philosophy), Homepage]

E-Mail: gilbert@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Research Topics:

• Philosophy of Collective Guilt

• Philosophical social theory (can be seen as a branch of the philosophy of social science or as a philosophical part of social science itself. It concerns the nature of central social phenomena such as social groups, social conventions, group beliefs and emotions, shared (or collective) intention and action. What is a social group)

• Plural subject theory

• Political philosophy (in particular the problem of political obligation and the problem of collective responsibility)

• Also interest in game-theoretical models of social processes

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Length of stay in Constance:

• 25.05. – 31.05.2005

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Vortrag: "Reconciling Groups: Role of Collective Remorse", Freitag, 27. 05. 2005, 14:00, Senatssaal V 1001, im Rahmen der Tagung "Versöhnungsrituale in Europa" des SFB 485 Norm und Symbol

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Guest of:

• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Giesen

Prof. Dr. Axel Goodbody
[Professor of German Studies and European Culture,  Department of European Studies and Modern Languages University of Bath, Homepage]

E-Mail: A.H.Goodbody@bath.ac.uk

Length of stay in Konstanz:

• Mai 2009

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Lectures/Seminars/Conferences:

• Vortrag am 5. Mai 2009: "Refreshing the Past: Peter Handke's and  Volker Braun's Literal Reconstruction of National Founding Myths in Austria and the GDR" (im Rahmen des Max-Planck-Forschungspreises)

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Gast von:

• Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann