Max Weber Foundation Calls https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls.html Max Weber Foundation Calls en © Max-Weber-Stiftung Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:15:57 +0100 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:15:57 +0100 TYPO3 EXT:news news-12523 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:42:15 +0100 CfP: Beiträge für die nächste Ausgabe Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken (QFIAB) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/cfp-beitraege-fuer-die-naechste-ausgabe-quellen-und-forschungen-aus-italienischen-archiven-und-bibli.html Bewerbungsschluss: Januar 2025 Das Jahrbuch widmet sich der italienischen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte sowie der Geschichte der deutsch-italienischen Beziehungen in transregionalen bzw. transnationalen Zusammenhängen vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Publiziert werden Aufsätze (nach Peer Review) sowie Rezensionen, Forschungs- und Tagungsberichte, bevorzugt in deutscher und italienischer, vereinzelt auch in englischer Sprache. In der Rubrik "Forum" erscheinen Essays zu aktuellen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Fragen und Diskussionen. Autorinnen und Autoren von fachwissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen (5.–21. Jahrhundert) zum oben genannten Themenprofil oder ihre Verlage können Rezensionsexemplare an die Redaktion der Zeitschrift senden.

Hinweise für die Abgabe von Manuskripten
Deadline für Band 105 (2025): Januar 2025.
Umfang: max. 100 000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen)
Redaktionelle Richtlinien

Redaktion
Susanne Wesely wesely[at]dhi-roma.it

Editorial Board
Direktion und alle wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen des DHI Rom

Sie möchten in QFIAB publizieren?
Anfragen bezüglich einer Publikation in der Zeitschrift "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken" können an die Redaktion gerichtet werden. Veröffentlicht werden Originalbeiträge, die hohen internationalen wissenschaftlichen Standards entsprechen und die Vorgaben geltender Autoren- und Urheberrechte einhalten.

Code of Conduct (pdf, 98 KB)

Printpublikation / Open Access
QFIAB erscheint gedruckt und seit 2022 auch jahrgangsweise auf der Basis von Subscribe-to-Open im Goldenen Open Access unter der Creative Commons-Lizenz CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 auf der Verlagswebseite. Ab Band 18 (1926) stehen alle Bände der Zeitschrift online auf der Publikationsplattform der Max Weber Stiftung perspectivia.net kostenlos als Volltext zur Verfügung.


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news-12521 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:30:48 +0100 Call for Papers: The Art of Organizing Work: Structures, Procedures, and Economies of Craft Workshops in the Early 20th Century (DFK Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-the-art-of-organizing-work-structures-procedures-and-economies-of-craft-workshops-in.html Bewerbungsschluss: 28. Februar 2025 Conference at DFK Paris, June 26–27, 2025
Concept: Léa Kuhn (ZI München) and Beate Söntgen (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)

Call for papers

How do artists and craftspeople work together? How do these collaborations affect their respective statuses and the value of their products? How are decisions made during the processes of design and execution? What effects do the particular geographical, political and economic conditions have on the production process, reception and marketing of the art objects created?

These are some of the questions the conference will consider in relation to the period starting from the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, which also took stock of the state of arts and crafts production at that time, until the beginning of the Second World War. This period is characterized by the increasing mechanization and automation of the production processes of arts and crafts objects, with established artists increasingly becoming involved in their manufacture. Discussions on the collaboration between the so-called “fine arts” and craft often revolve around the influence of art on craft. Our focus is on the reciprocity of exchange within this cooperation and the discursive intermingling between these two fields. How is work structured and what kinds of organizational forms are found in different types of workshops? How are these related to artistic demands, or to the use and functions of the manufactured objects?

In many avant-garde movements the applied arts played an important socio-cultural and political role. The economic side was often ignored however, for the sake of the requisite social interventions. In what ways do economic and political conditions determine the production processes and the cooperation between art and craft? What role do educational ideals and programs play? How does the educational training in workshops differ from that in art academies, beyond the orientation towards sales? What avant-garde practices found their way into the workshops and how does this affect production? And conversely, how does the knowledge of materials, techniques and processes generated in workshops influence forms of artistic expression?

The conference addresses a diverse range of disciplines including art, design and cultural studies, sociology, and in particular organizational sociology, and the economic sciences, and seeks new perspectives on artistic production at the margins of “classical modernism”. We welcome contributions on exemplary cases, as well as methodological insights, particularly from the field of working structures, organization and the intermingling of discourses.

 

Contributions (20 minutes in length) should relate to at least one of the following thematic focuses:

  • Working structures and processes, design and realization
  • Programmatic approaches, economics and marketing
  • Discursive intermingling between art and craft, and between the singular and the serial

This English-language conference will take place at the German Center for Art History in Paris (DFK Paris) from June 2627, 2025. Travel expenses will be reimbursed.

Contribution proposals (300 words) and a short CV should be sent by February 28, 2025 to: patricia.fritze(at)leuphana.de.

We also request a first version of the manuscript by June 6, 2025, i.e. three weeks before the conference, for the planned publication, which will be circulated among the contributors in advance.

The final manuscripts (4000-5000 words and max. 8 illustrations) for the publication should be submitted by August 29, 2025.


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news-12514 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:22:45 +0100 Call for Papers: 30th Transnational Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-30th-transnational-doctoral-seminar-german-history-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-c.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15. Januar 2025 Jun 03, 2025 - Jun 06, 2025

Seminar at GHI Washington | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

Call for Papers

The German Historical Institute Washington and the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University are pleased to announce the 30th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, which will take place in Washington DC on June 3-6, 2025.

The seminar will bring together advanced doctoral students from Europe and North America to discuss their dissertation projects with one another and a small group of faculty mentors. The organizers welcome proposals from doctoral students working on any aspect of the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-speaking Central Europe or on topics in European, transnational, comparative or global history that have a significant German component. Doctoral students working in related fields – including art history, legal history, and the history of science – are also encouraged to apply. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted six weeks in advance. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English; therefore, fluency in both languages is a prerequisite. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. In addition, a travel subsidy will be available for those who do not have travel funding from their home institution.

We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage (that is, in the write-up rather than research stage) but who will be granted their degrees after June 2025. Applications should include: (1) vita, max. 2 pages; (2) dissertation project description, max. 1000 words; (3) provisional table of contents, indicating which chapters have been completed (max. 2 pages), (4) letter of reference from the major dissertation advisor (commenting on progress toward completion and fluency in English and German). Applicants may submit their materials in German or English (preferably in the language in which they are writing their dissertation). The first three documents should be combined into a single PDF (file name should start with applicant’s last name) and submitted via upload at the online portal by January 15, 2025. Letters of reference should be emailed to Richard Wetzell at wetzell(at)ghi-dc.org (preferably as a PDF) by the advisor by the same date. Questions may be directed to Richard Wetzell via email.

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news-12513 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:18:00 +0100 Call for Papers: 16th Workshop on Early Modern German History https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-16th-workshop-on-early-modern-german-history.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01. März 2025 16th Workshop on Early Modern German History

Workshop | 6 June 2025

Conveners: Bridget Heal (University of St. Andrews), David Lederer (NUI Maynooth), Alison Rowlands (University of Essex) and Mirjam Haehnle (GHI London)

Venue: GHIL

Our first workshop ran in 2002 and has established itself as the principal forum in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland for new research on early modern German-speaking Central Europe. It fosters exchange on work-in-progress between post-graduates and experienced scholars in a relaxed atmosphere. Previous transdisciplinary themes include artistic and literary representations, medicine, science and musicology, as well as political, social, economic, military and religious history. Contributions are also welcome from those wishing to range outside the period generally considered as ‘early modern’ and those engaged in comparative research on other parts of early modern Europe. 

The day will be organized as a series of themed workshops, each introduced by a panel chair and consisting of two to three short papers followed by discussion. The papers present key findings in summary format for discussion and/or suggestions. Each participant has 15 minutes to highlight their work-in-progress and indicate how work might develop in the future. 

The workshop is sponsored by the German History Society and the German Historical Institute London in cooperation with the GHI Washington. Participation is free, including lunch. However, participants will have to bear costs for travel and accommodation themselves. 

Doctoral students from North America (USA and Canada) who wish to present at the workshop can apply for two travel funding grants provided by the GHI Washington. Please indicate your interest in this grant in your application. 

Support for postgraduate and early career researchers from the United Kingdom and The Republic of Ireland is available on a competitive basis, subject to eligibility requirements. 

Postgraduate members of the German Historical Society currently registered for a higher degree at a university in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, and those who have completed a PhD within two years of the deadline for application but who have no other institutional sources of funding may apply for up to £150 for travel and accommodation expenses. Please see the GHS website for further information and application deadlines. 

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a short synopsis (max. 300 words) and a CV by 1 March 2025 to J.Triandafyllou@ghil.ac.uk

Call for Papers (PDF)

 

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news-12487 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:46:05 +0100 Call for Papers: Visuelle Repräsentation des Parlamentarismus seit 1789. Ein europäisches Panorama https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-visuelle-repraesentation-des-parlamentarismus-seit-1789-ein-europaeisches-panorama.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15. Dezember 2024 Organisiert von: Dr. Andreas Biefang (Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien, Berlin); Dr. Jürgen Finger (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris)
Wo: DHIP
Wann: 26.–28. November 2025
Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Dezember 2024

Ohne Bilder kann der moderne Parlamentarismus nicht existieren. Als repräsentative Herrschaftsform, die auf tendenziell freien Wahlen und dem freien Mandat beruht, ist er auf schriftliche, mündliche und visuelle Kommunikation mit dem »Volk« angewiesen, um das Vertrauen der Wähler in die politische Vertretung herzustellen und zu erhalten. Denn die politische Repräsentation im Parlament ist, wie Hans Kelsen bereits 1926 schrieb, eine »Fiktion«, deren Glaubwürdigkeit kommunikativ permanent bestätigt werden muss. Seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert entstanden deshalb in Großbritannien und Frankreich sowie in der Folge in allen Staaten, die moderne Parlamente einrichteten, zahlreiche visuelle Zeugnisse des parlamentarischen Lebens – entweder als Selbstdarstellung der Parlamente und der Abgeordneten oder als Zuschreibung durch Bildjournalisten, Fotografen, Karikaturisten und künstlerische Beobachter. Sie wurden als öffentliche Bilder durch vielfältige Medien verbreitet und wurden teil eines öffentlichen Diskurses über den Parlamentarismus.

Diese weit gestreute Überlieferung wurde bislang nur punktuell untersucht und selten für die historische Parlamentarismusforschung fruchtbar gemacht. Vor allem fehlt eine gesamteuropäische Perspektive, die vergleichende Aussagen über die jeweiligen parlamentarischen Öffentlichkeitsregime erlaubte: Nur durch die Betrachtung von Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden lässt sich die Frage beantworten, ob und inwieweit es eine geteilte, spezifisch europäische Bildsprache des Parlamentarismus gab oder gibt. Die Entschlüsselung der Semantik der parlamentsbezogenen Bilder erlaubt es, die machtpolitische Stellung der Parlamente in den jeweiligen institutionellen Ordnungen präziser zu erfassen.

Die Vorträge der Tagung sollen Bausteine zu einem europäischen Panorama parlamentarischer Bilderwelten liefern, und zwar für den Zeitraum von der Französischen Revolution bis in die 1930er Jahre, als nicht nur in politischer Hinsicht, sondern mit der Bedeutungszunahme des Rundfunks und des Films auch mediengeschichtlich eine neue Epoche begann. Die Beiträge können die Parlamente auf der nationalen oder auch auf der föderalen Ebene betreffen, auch diachrone oder synchrone Vergleiche sind möglich. Unter anderem sind Vorschläge zu folgenden Themenbereichen erwünscht: (Bild-)Medienwandel zu Beginn, während und am Ende des vorgeschlagenen Zeitraums, Bildnisse von Abgeordneten, Parlamentarismus und Historienmalerei, Parlamentarismus und Karikatur, Parlamentarismus in der illustrierten Presse, Frauenwahlrechtsbewegungen, Frauen als Parlamentarierinnen, Wahlkämpfe und Wahlen, Parlamente in der Produktwerbung, visueller Antiparlamentarismus etc.

Im Sinne der historischen Bildforschung ist die Tagung interdisziplinär ausgerichtet. Insbesondere sind Beiträge aus den Geschichts-, Medien- und Kunstwissenschaften erwünscht. Wir laden ausdrücklich auch Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen ein, Vorschläge einzureichen.

 

Ihre Vorschläge für einen ca. zwanzigminütigen Vortrag (etwa 2.000 Zeichen und unter Angabe Ihrer institutionellen Anbindung) bitten wir bis zum 15.12.2024 an Andreas Biefang (biefang@kgparl.de) und Jürgen Finger (j.finger@dhi-paris.fr) einzureichen.

Konferenzsprachen sind Französisch, Englisch und Deutsch.

Die Kosten für Reise und Unterkunft (i.d.R. zwei Übernachtungen) der Referentinnen und Referenten werden von den Veranstaltern übernommen.

» Zum Call for Papers auf Deutsch und Englisch (PDF)

 

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news-12477 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:39:42 +0100 Call for Application: Long-term Visiting Fellowships at the GHI https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-application-long-term-visiting-fellowships-at-the-ghi.html Bewerbungsschluss: 10. Januar 2025  

The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) is now accepting applications for its long-term visiting fellow program. The fellowships will be granted for a period of 6 to 12 months in the following thematic areas:

  • History of Knowledge
  • Migration, Kinship & Belonging
  • History of Race & Ethnicity
  • History of the Americas
     

The identified thematic areas are intended to be broad in scope. Applicants are encouraged to identify up to two areas for which they wish to submit their application. Please be sure to make clear in the application why your research project fits within the identified area as well as why the GHI would be a good place for you to work on your research project. Additionally, the proposed research projects should clearly make use of historical methods and engage with the relevant historiography related to the specific thematic area.

The fellowship will preferably start in September 2025. The Fellow is expected to be in residence in Washington, DC, and participate in GHI activities and events. The Fellow will have the opportunity to make use of the resources in the Washington metropolitan area, including the Library of Congress and the National Archives, while pursuing his or her own research. Travel within the U.S. to work in archives and libraries will also be possible. Candidates doing original research for a dissertation or a second book project will be given preference.

The fellowship is open to both doctoral and postdoctoral scholars based in North America and Europe. The monthly stipend is € 2,400 for doctoral students and € 3,400 for postdoctoral scholars. In addition, fellowship recipients based in Europe will receive reimbursement for their round-trip airfare to the U.S.

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants should be based at (or recent graduates of) a North American or European university or research institute. Postdoctoral scholars should be untenured. For doctoral students applying, ABD status (or the equivalent) is required prior to commencing the fellowship. For postdoctoral scholars applying, the preference is for projects that are designed for the "second book" (Habilitation or pre-tenure equivalent).

Questions about applying or for the fellowship program in general should be directed to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org.

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news-12476 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:33:52 +0100 Call for Papers: The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1850s-2000s https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/cfp-the-campus-and-beyond-higher-education-and-social-inequalities-in-europe-and-north-america-1850s.html Deadline: 08. Dezember 2024 International Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Conveners: Raphael Rössel (GHI Washington), Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago), and Stefanie Coché (Gießen University)

Call for Papers

This conference aims to bring scholars of European and North American higher education together to consider three main themes: access, on-campus inequities, and the social consequences of higher education’s dramatic expansion. The conference presupposes that higher education and its impact on Western societies has changed dramatically since the late nineteenth century. In Europe and North America, universities have evolved from hyper-exclusive havens of elites to entry points for broad sections of the population seeking social and professional security. In the United States, a mere three percent of young adults attended college in 1890, compared to thirty percent in 1950. Today, about two-thirds of US high school graduates decide to enroll in higher education. To many, a degree from an institution of higher education presents the sole path to (relative) economic independence.

Despite the enormous importance of higher education to both individuals and societies, the existing historiography has hardly addressed the relationship between higher education and social inequalities. Scholars of college life have often limited their focus to students’ political activities, especially left-wing protests. Although historians of higher education have placed the transformation of university cultures in broader contexts, they have often disregarded the wider economic, political, and social consequences of the changes on campus.

This international conference focuses both on distinct European and North American trajectories of the social impact of collegiate education as well as on transatlantic interdependencies and interactions. The conference addresses three central topics.

The first is the history of access to higher education. The opportunity to attend university was and often still is connected to identity and/or economic affluence. However, the significance of these aspects for university access fundamentally changed over time. From about 1880 to 1950, gender, religion, disability, and ethnicity enabled or prevented university attendance or only permitted matriculation at segregated institutions. Over the course of the twentieth century, exclusionary policies based on identity markers were (formally) lifted. However, higher education institutions that continue to utilize identity markers for admission decisions (e.g., womens’ colleges and some faith-based institutions) or highlight their tradition as once segregated institutions (e.g., HBCUs) have persisted in North America but play only a marginal role in Europe. Simultaneously, the role of individual and/or family wealth as a prerequisite for university access has significantly increased. Against the backdrop of rising tuition costs, student loans programs, among other things, forced millions of Americans (and a rising number of Europeans) into debt and increased their risk of poverty. Large segments of the student population have turned to non-residential institutions to reduce costs, but these students also often struggle to find housing and job opportunities in competitive urban markets.

Secondly, the conference traces the long-term effects of on-campus inequalities. Universities have always been hierarchical places. Power struggles between faculty and students have shaped the social history of college life. Furthermore, these groups were and are also marked by stark internal differences and hierarchies. On both sides of the Atlantic, exclusive student societies became a hallmark of campus cultures after 1850. Academic clubs, sports teams, and fraternal orders served not merely as extracurricular activities but also as the bases for powerful personal networks. The conference attempts to unearth whether and to what extent student groups secured privileges on and beyond campuses through their admission policies, their worldview and/or their rituals. How exactly did different actors generate belonging and social inequality? How did these negotiation processes change over the decades? Which actors relied on what patterns of legitimization and when, and what do changes in these constellations reveal? The conference will also address inequalities among teachers and other university employees. In both North American and European academia, for instance, unionized college faculty faced political backlash during Red Scares. But how did unionization as well as changes in employment status and occupational profiles of academic and non-academic personnel affect social relationships on campus, as well as the public perception of colleges?

The third focus of the conference addresses the societal consequences of higher education’s expansion. Transatlantic differences in the organization of higher education are striking, so we assume that this is a key element. While the majority of (Central) European universities were and are public, two-thirds of all US universities and colleges are not state-affiliated, and a substantial number of US institutions operate for profit. The conference seeks to analyze the political, economic, and social impact of these structural differences. How, for instance, did church-run colleges influence the values of their graduates? How did the formation of private universities in European higher education or the rise of for-profit institutions in the US in the second half of the twentieth century change students’ motives for studying and the public perception as well as the “worth” of a college degree, especially as so-called knowledge industries became more important to Western societies?

We invite scholars from different methodological and historical backgrounds to convene and develop a common research agenda. The thematic range includes, but is not limited to, the following potential topics:

  • Social and cultural history of access to higher education (e.g., admission restrictions based on gender, race, disability, etc.; history of affirmative-action policies, history of university enrollment, history of elite institutions)
  • Social and economic impact of college degrees and the relationship of higher education and social stratification
  • History of the Campus as a workplace (e.g., unionization, history of student employment, social history of non-academic and academic professions within colleges)
  • History of university/college affordability (e.g., student loans, tuition payments, student housing)
  • History of private and for-profit higher education in North America and Europe
  • Social and cultural history of student organizations (e.g., fraternities/sororities, social clubs/eating clubs, religious student orders, varsity/college sports teams)
  • History of segregated and/or separated institutions within higher education (e.g., history of HBCUS, history of women’s colleges, history of Deaf higher education, history of religious seminaries)
     

The conference will take place from October 9 - 10, 2025, and will be hosted by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) in English via the GHI conference platform by December 8, 2024.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel are available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.

Please contact Nicola Hofstetter-Phelps (hofstetter-phelps(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online or if you have other questions related to the event.

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news-12469 Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:42:42 +0100 Call for Application: Publikation im Jahrbuch (QFIAB) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-application-publikation-im-jahrbuch-qfiab.html Bewerbungsschluss: Januar 2025 Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken (QFIAB)

Das Jahrbuch widmet sich der italienischen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte sowie der Geschichte der deutsch-italienischen Beziehungen in transregionalen bzw. transnationalen Zusammenhängen vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Publiziert werden Aufsätze (nach Peer Review) sowie Rezensionen, Forschungs- und Tagungsberichte, bevorzugt in deutscher und italienischer, vereinzelt auch in englischer Sprache. In der Rubrik "Forum" erscheinen Essays zu aktuellen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Fragen und Diskussionen. Autorinnen und Autoren von fachwissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen (5.–21. Jahrhundert) zum oben genannten Themenprofil oder ihre Verlage können Rezensionsexemplare an die Redaktion der Zeitschrift senden.

Hinweise für die Abgabe von Manuskripten
Deadline für Band 105 (2025): Januar 2025.
Umfang: max. 100 000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen)
Redaktionelle Richtlinien

Redaktion
Susanne Wesely wesely[at]dhi-roma.it

Editorial Board
Direktion und alle wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen des DHI Rom

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news-12468 Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:01:47 +0100 Call for Papers: Soziologie und Sozialgeschichte der Musik https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-soziologie-und-sozialgeschichte-der-musik.html Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2024 Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe Soziologie und Sozialgeschichte der Musik in der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung

 

in Zusammenarbeit mit der Musikgeschichtlichen Abteilung des Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom (DHI Rom) und der Universität Koblenz:

 

Ort und Termin: 13. bis 15. Oktober 2025 am DHI Rom

Deadline der Einreichung: 30. November 2024

Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch und Italienisch

 

Für die themenoffene Arbeitstagung laden wir dazu ein, Beiträge über aktuelle Forschung im Bereich der Soziologie oder Sozialgeschichte der Musik einzureichen. Willkommen sind Vorschläge aus allen Gebieten der Forschung zu Soziologie und Sozialgeschichte der Musik: empirisch-soziologische, sozialgeschichtliche, theoretische, aus Themenbereichen wie den Gender oder Intersectional Studies, der Popularmusikforschung, globaler, lokaler und glokaler Musikgeschichte, musikalischer Ökonomie usw.

 

Der CfP steht allen Forschenden offen, die Mitgliedschaft in der Fachgruppe oder der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung ist nicht notwendig. Die Arbeitstagung ist insbesondere für Early Career Researchers gedacht. BA- und MA-Studierende sowie Promovierende sind daher speziell aufgefordert, sich zu bewerben.

 

Die Übernachtungskosten für zwei Nächte werden ebenso wie die Verpflegung während der Tagung übernommen. Die Reisekosten sind von den Teilnehmer*innen selbst zu finanzieren. Wir machen hier Promovierende auf die Möglichkeit aufmerksam, entsprechende Anträge für Auslandsvorträge beim DAAD zu stellen. Für Beschäftigte an Universitäten gibt es ggf. auch die Möglichkeit, eine Förderung bei der Heimatuniversität zu beantragen. In Härtefällen ist ein Zuschuss zu den Reisekosten oder die Online-Teilnahme möglich, bitte halten Sie in diesem Fall Rücksprache mit uns.

 

Bitte reichen Sie Ihr Proposal mit einem Abstract von max. 2000 Zeichen bis 30. November 2024 im Bewerbungsportal des DHI Rom ein. Über die Entscheidung der Annahme informieren wir Sie bis Ende Dezember.

 

Bei Rückfragen wenden Sie sich bitte an:

 

PD Dr. Vera Grund

Musikgeschichtliche Abteilung des DHI Rom

v.grund@dhi-roma.it

 

Prof. Dr. Corinna Herr

Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogie der Universität Koblenz

cherr@uni-koblenz.de

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news-12455 Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:46:39 +0200 Call for Application: Musikwissenschaftlicher Studienkurs 2025 „Musikstadt Rom: Macht – Musik – Medien“ https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-application-musikwissenschaftlicher-studienkurs-2025-musikstadt-rom-macht-musik-medien.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15. November 2024 „Musikstadt Rom: Macht – Musik – Medien“

Musikwissenschaftlicher Studienkurs

16. bis 22. März 2025, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom

 

Als politisches und religiöses Zentrum spielte Musik in Rom stets eine wichtige Rolle im Spiel der Mächtigen um Einfluss und Prestige. Dies begann nicht erst mit der christlichen Tradition, sondern galt besonders für das antike Rom, in dem die Herrschenden Theater- und Musikaufführungen als staatspolitisches Mittel zur Stabilisierung der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse und als Ort der politischen Kommunikation nutzten. Ebenso lässt sich Musik als Medium zur Repräsentation von Macht in religiösen wie weltlichen Kontexten der Neuzeit an zahlreichen Orten in Rom erfahren, in Kirchen, Opernhäusern oder Privatpalästen. Die bedeutenden Musiksammlungen, die in privaten und öffentlichen Archiven der Stadt liegen, zeugen von der medialen Bedeutung ihrer Dokumentation. Die Geschichte der im Faschismus gegründeten Cinecittà mit ihren staatlichen Filmstudios zeigt dagegen eindrucksvoll die Relevanz des italienischen Films als Medium in politischen Kontexten, dessen Erfolg nicht zuletzt mit der Herausbildung einer speziellen italienischen Filmmusiktradition in Verbindung steht.

 

Im Rahmen des Studienkurses „Musikstadt Rom: Macht – Musik – Medien“ werden wir uns mit Orten, an denen Musik als Medium oder Medien der Musik von der Geschichte bis in die Gegenwart eine Rolle spiel(t)en, befassen. Neben Besichtigungen und Stadtspaziergängen ist in Kooperation mit Prof. Dr. Luca Aversano eine gemeinsame Studentsconference am DAMS (Discipline Arti Musica Spettacolo) der Università degli Studi Roma Tre geplant.

 

Kursleitung

PD Dr. Vera Grund (DHI Rom, Musikgeschichtliche Abteilung)

Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann und Prof. Dr. Peter Niedermüller (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

 

Die Übernachtung in einem Doppelzimmer für sechs Nächte wird übernommen ebenso wie die Kosten für Eintritte und öffentliche Verkehrsmittel in Rom. Die Reisekosten sind von den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern selbst zu finanzieren. Wir weisen auf die Möglichkeit der Förderung der Reise durch den DAAD hin (www.daad.de).

 

Voraussetzungen:

Die Bewerbung für den Studienkurs Musikstadt Rom: Macht – Musik – Medien ist ab dem fortgeschrittenen Bachelorstudium möglich. Von den Kursteilnehmer:innen wird erwartet, ein Poster vorzubereiten und dieses im Rahmen der Studentsconference zu präsentieren (mögliche Sprachen Italienisch und Deutsch). Außerdem ist die Teilnahme an zwei vorbereitenden Zoom-Sitzungen sowie an den Besichtigungen obligatorisch.

 

Bewerbungen mit einem aussagekräftigen Motivationsschreiben werden bis 15. November 2024 ausschließlich über unser Bewerbungsportal https://application.dhi-roma.it entgegengenommen. Bitte laden Sie über das Bewerbungsportal eine aktuelle Immatrikulationsbescheinigung, eine Befürwortung durch eine/n Hochschullehrer/in sowie den Nachweis eines ausreichenden Krankenversicherungsschutzes hoch.

 

Wir danken der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) und dem Verein der Freunde des Deutschen Historischen Instituts (DHI) in Rom e.V. für die finanzielle Beteiligung an der Förderung des Studienkurses.

 

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news-12443 Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:45:01 +0200 Call for Papers: Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-universities-and-the-public-good-research-education-and-democracy-since-1945.html Deadline: 19. Januar 2025 Workshop and Young Scholars Forum at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany | Conveners: Charles Dorn (Bowdoin College, Maine), Axel Jansen (German Historical Institute Washington), Charlotte Lerg (Amerika-Institut, LMU München), Till van Rahden (Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes, Université de Montréal), and Richard F. Wetzell (German Historical Institute Washington)

Call for Papers

The conference is kindly funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Please note: This CFP addresses two groups. We invite scholars to submit paper proposals for a General Workshop. We also invite emerging scholars (doctoral students) to submit proposals to receive feedback on their projects by senior scholars in a special Young Scholars Forum set aside for this purpose during the conference. More on this below.

As the controversies currently engulfing colleges and universities around the globe indicate, institutions of higher education remain sites of conflict and contestation among competing social, cultural, economic, and ideological forces. These conflicts have deep historical roots. During the heyday of the so-called liberal consensus after World War II, universities on both sides of the Atlantic were celebrated as symbols of enlightened liberalism, promoting a democratic ethos and social responsibility. The 1960s saw these traditions tested and reinterpreted amidst generational conflicts over the ideals and realities of participatory democracy. By the early 1980s, higher education institutions faced twin challenges: a conservative backlash and the rise of neoliberal economic ideologies.

To better understand higher education’s role in the current international political climate, the proposed conference provides an opportunity to reflect on the history of colleges and universities in North America and Europe since 1945. Characterized as “world institutions” whose dedication to scientific and humanistic endeavors seemed to align with a universalistic liberalism, colleges and universities nevertheless responded to global opportunities and pressures from their own particular perspectives and perceived societal roles.

While universities have long facilitated academic exchange, the period since World War II witnessed three important developments. First, a new and unprecedented focus on science, and technology brought universities, as research institutions, to the forefront of public attention and policy considerations. Second, a resurgent discourse on democratic structures and civic engagement compelled universities to reassess their public mission in light of emerging concerns about elitism, accessibility, and public service. Third, with the advent of mass higher education, universities engaged in a new wave of globalization through academic exchange, the proliferation of study abroad programs, and international fellowship programs.

These developments provide a framework for conference participants to examine the relationship between North American and European universities as institutions, nodes of networks, and competitors in research, education, and funding within an evolving political landscape. As universities during the second half of the twentieth century became, according to sociologists David John Frank and John W. Meyer, “the centerpiece” of a globalized knowledge society, they were simultaneously shaped by local, regional, and national settings as well as by cultural and political expectations and demands.

The conveners invite contributions that explore the history of colleges and universities in the transatlantic region as centers of education and research since 1945. Topics to be discussed include:

  • How have higher education institutions defined their responsibilities and roles for various communities, such as regional, national, or global communities? How have they responded to cultural and political criticism of their work since 1945?
  • How significant has the transformation of universities in North America and Europe been since 1945? How substantial are contemporary claims to innovation, such as Clark Kerr’s designation of the “multiversity”? By becoming global players, have universities evolved into new and different kinds of institutions? What, if anything, ties them to older models? What models did they seek to emulate, and what models were actually implemented?
  • How have universities navigated post-colonial social, political, and economic transformations, both domestically and globally? How have justice movements influenced institutional structures, policies, and purposes?
  • What role have political initiatives played in shaping higher education, particularly transnational or global initiatives (e.g., the OECD, the EU, the Bologna Process)?
  • What has been the relevance and impact of transnational emulation, such as striving to meet European or “American” models?
  • How have intellectual, political, and managerial agendas shaped the national and/or global roles of universities, fields of research, and education?
  • What is the history of the global expansion of North American and European universities abroad? What has prompted global expansion and cooperation, and what has been the effect on research, teaching, and the public standing and role of universities?
  • What has been the impact of shifts in funding sources on research and education? How have economic crises and government financial policies affected universities?
  • What has been the impact of management agendas and styles in universities on research and education, and vice versa? What are the trajectories of engagement between the different levels and functions of universities?
  • How have universities balanced initiatives for science diplomacy, international student mobility, their commitment to research and reflection, and their responsibilities (including legal national security mandates) to protect key technologies and knowledge? What strategies have been developed to respond to strict oversight or outright hostility towards universities in autocratic and some democratic states?
  • How have institutions, along with their students, faculty, and administrations, navigated populist challenges to the role of universities in society? How have universities been affected by the reinterpretation and appropriation of some of their core ideals (from academic freedom to liberal education or democratic discourse) by counter-movements, technological development, or geopolitical challenges?

The conference will bring together scholars from diverse fields, including history (such as the history of science and the history of education), sociology, and science studies, as well as related disciplines. We will also invite university leaders and policymakers to join the conversation. The conference will feature panels, roundtable discussions, and a keynote address. We expect to invite up to 50 colleagues to participate. The conveners aim to publish contributions as a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal or as an essay collection.

As part of this conference, three distinct paper sessions will be designated as a Young Scholars Forum, providing doctoral students with an opportunity to receive feedback on their pre-circulated papers from senior scholars. These sessions will offer emerging scholars a platform to discuss their work and network during a critical phase of their careers.

The conference will be held at Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover (Germany). The deadline for proposals is January 19, 2025. Please upload a paper proposal for the General Workshop or the Young Scholars Forum via this link. A proposal consists of single PDF file containing a brief description of the research project (up to 300 words), a brief CV (1 or 2 pages), and contact information. Successful applicants will be notified in February 2025.

Accommodation will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel may be available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.

Please contact Nicola Hofstetter (hofstetter-phelps(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online or if you have other questions related to the event.

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news-12439 Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:35:00 +0200 Call for Application: 3. Spring School „Schlaglichter der italienischen Geschichte im Mittelalter“ https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/cfa-3-spring-school-schlaglichter-der-italienischen-geschichte-im-mittelalter.html Bewerbungsschluss: 03. November 2024 Kaum eine Stadt der Welt ist so reich an internationalen Forschungsinstitutionen wie Rom, kaum ein Land so reich an vormodernen Quellenbeständen wie Italien. Junge Forschende finden dort beste Voraussetzungen, um spannende Themen zu untersuchen und mit Wissenschaftler*innen aus aller Welt in Kontakt zu treten. Als Forum des internationalen Austauschs und als Vermittler zwischen unterschiedlichen Wissenschaftskulturen, vor allem zwischen Italien und Deutschland, ist das Deutsche Historische Institut (DHI) in Rom mit seiner umfangreichen Spezialbibliothek seit über 100 Jahren ein zentraler Anlaufpunkt.

Die Spring School will junge Studierende für die facettenreiche italienische Geschichte im Mittelalter begeistern und gleichzeitig auf die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, in Rom wissenschaftlich zu arbeiten, hinweisen.

Spezialist*innen aus dem DHI sowie Mitglieder des wissenschaftlichen Beirates des Instituts führen anhand ausgewählter Materialien in grundlegende Aspekte der italienischen Geschichte ein, wecken Interesse an offenen Fragen und vermitteln handwerkliche Fähigkeiten zur Quellenanalyse. Auf dem Programm steht ebenfalls der Besuch eines römischen Archivs und des Laterankomplexes.

Die Kosten für vier Übernachtungen mit Frühstück trägt das Deutsche Historische Institut.

 

Voraussetzungen:

Die Bewerbung steht allen fortgeschrittenen Studierenden deutscher und italienischer Hochschulen nach erfolgreichem Besuch eines Proseminars im Bereich der mittelalterlichen Geschichte und vor Abschluss des Masters offen. Erforderlich sind sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

 

Bewerbungsmodalitäten:

Bewerbungen werden bis 3. November 2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal https://application.dhi-roma.it entgegengenommen. Bitte laden Sie über dieses Portal eine aktuelle Immatrikulationsbescheinigung, einen Transcript of Records, eine Befürwortung durch eine/n Hochschullehrer/in sowie den Nachweis eines ausreichenden Krankenversicherungsschutzes hoch.

 

Kontakt:

Prof. Dr. Florian Hartmann (RWTH Aachen): hartmann(at)histinst.rwth-aachen.de

Dr. Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom): wolf(at)dhi-roma.it

 

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news-12434 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:59:00 +0200 Call for Papers: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-historicizing-the-refugee-experience-17th-21st-centuries-1.html Deadline: 21. November 2024 (verlängert) The University of Tübingen (UT), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA) are pleased to announce the fifth International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, which will be held at the GHI’s Pacific Office at the University of California, Berkeley, July 7–10, 2025.

The purpose of this seminar is to promote the historical study of refugees, who are too often regarded as a phenomenon of recent times. By viewing the problem of refugees from a historical perspective, the seminar seeks to complicate and contextualize our understanding of peoples who have fled political or religious conflicts, persecution, and violence. By bringing together 14 advanced PhD students and early postdocs from different parts of the world whose individual research projects examine refugees in different times and places, we intend to give a sense of purpose to this emerging field of study and demonstrate the value of viewing the plight of refugees from a historical perspective. The seminar is meant as a platform to share research findings, ideas, and work in progress.

We invite contributions from recent PhDs, as well as young scholars in the final stages of their dissertations. In addition to historians, we also encourage applications from researchers working in the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, ethnic and area studies, but expect the application to make explicit reference to historical dimensions. Possible contributions include:

  • Studies of refugee movements and exile diasporas in various periods and places;
  • Studies of the ethnic, gendered, racial, religious, and other characteristics of refugee groups and how they impact on reception policies and processes;
  • Studies of reception and aid policies, and on the repercussions of refugees on host states and societies;
  • Studies of the changing inter-state framework of refugee movements, such as international or inter-imperial cooperation, the role of international governmental or non- governmental actors, humanitarian organizations, etc.;
  • Studies of the infrastructures of exile (camps, networks, economies, regulations)
  • Studies of the conceptual history of refugees and exile (legal history, administrative practice, cultural history, etc.)
     

Papers will be pre-circulated five weeks before the seminar to allow maximum time for peers and invited senior scholars to engage in discussions on the state of the field. The workshop language will be English. The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and 

accommodation. The seminar is hosted by Jan C. Jansen (UT), Dane Kennedy (George Washington University) and Simone Lässig (GHI). The participants will be joined by a group of leading senior scholars in the field of refugee history, including Delphine Diaz (University of Reims-Institut universitaire de France), Ilana Feldman (George Washington University), Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester) and Susanne Lachenicht (University of Bayreuth).

The seminar is supported by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, the University of Tübingen, the ERC project “Atlantic Exiles”, and the German Historical Institute. For more information on the seminar and its previous cohorts, visit its website.

Please submit a brief CV (max. 2 pages) and a proposal of no more than 750 words in English in one PDF by November 21, 2023 (extended) to refugee-history(at)histsem.uni-tuebingen.de. Please contact us under the same email address if you have any questions. Successful applicants will be notified in December 2024.

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news-12412 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:05:06 +0200 Call for Papers: Genesis of professions and language learning https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-genesis-of-professions-and-language-learning.html Deadline: 30. November 2024 Max Weber Network Eastern Europe

German Historical Institute in Paris

Société internationale d’histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde

In association with the German Research Foundation (DFG)

International workshop: Genesis of professions and language learning 16th – first half 19th c.

MW Network Eastern Europe, Helsinki

15-16 May, 2025

The early modern period saw the emergence of a number of professional groups in Europe that both shared characteristics with modern professions and showed distinct early-modern features. A key aspect of this process was the introduction of specialized education, which often included language learning. This was particularly true for occupations where proficiency in specific languages was essential, such as diplomats, diplomatic translators, secretaries, scribes, scholars, and clerics. Moreover, due to the intensification of transnational contacts and geographical mobility among specialists as well as the circulation of printed books, language proficiency became an integral part of the education for many other professional groups, such as military officers, engineers, and artists. Although language proficiency was highly valued among many professionals, the acquisition of foreign language skills varied significantly across different professional milieus. For some groups, such as the learned professions, language learning was part of their formal educational path. For others such as nobility, family strategies and personal experiences, such as educational travel, played a more significant role. For example, the linguistic training of aspiring diplomats remained, for a long time, dependent on the latter rather than on targeted professional training. However, signs of change emerged with the establishment of schools for future foreign affairs personnel and practices such as attaching young men to diplomatic missions as chevaliers d’ambassade or embassy secretaries. One question concerns the importance of linguae francae, particularly the role of French compared to other languages (both European and non-European) in the curriculum of early modern ‘professions’. Over the course of the early modern period, French became the main diplomatic lingua franca whose role increased particularly in the second half of the seventeenth and in the eighteenth centuries. However, the importance of French grew as well for many other specialists, such as military officers, engineers, scholars, and more. Social criteria played an important role: while for many diplomats from noble families French was part of their upbringing, for young men from other social strata it was a valuable addition and, in some cases, the central component of their professional knowledge and expertise. Another question concerns the relationship between the existing linguistic training and the personnel policy of early modern state administrations. To what extent did the latter influence the choice of languages and the forms of their acquisition within the institutions they supported financially, compared to the influence of other actors, such as school directors and teachers, who often pursued their own agenda? The objective of the workshop is to contribute to our understanding of the roles played by both state and private actors in the development of linguistic training for early modern professional groups and to assess differences in the emerging professionalisation policies across Europe.

Questions which are of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

  • Institutions and practices in language learning for aspiring professionals
  • (Foreign) language proficiency as a professional skill and/or part of the professional ethic of a group; the role of language training versus training in other disciplines in a growing specialisation
  • The place of linguistic training within career structures
  • The role of linguae francae, for example French, versus other languages in the linguistic training of would-be professionals
  • Family strategies for language acquisition
  • State and non-state actors providing linguistic training
  • The dissemination of models for organizing training, including linguistic instruction

Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Guido Braun (University of Upper Alsace); Prof. Harry Lönnroth (Jyväskylä University).

Working language of the workshop: English, with the possibility to present papers in French.

Organizing committee: Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute in Paris), Sophie Holm (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe).

Prospective participants are invited to submit their proposals to the following email address: vrjeoutski@dhi-paris.fr

Important dates:

  • Submission deadline: 30 November 2024
  • Notification of paper acceptance: 15 December 2024

The organisers may cover part of the travel expenses.

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news-12401 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:26:00 +0200 Call for Application: “Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History” https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/cfa-revolutionary-disruptive-or-just-repeating-itself-tracing-the-history-of-digital-history.html Bewerbungsschluss: 16. September 2024 NFDI4Memory, together with the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP), is awarding four travel grants for early career researchers to attend the conference “Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History”, which will take place from 23-25 October 2024 at the DHI Paris.

In recent years, interest in the history of the digital humanities has grown. The 9th dhiha conference at the German Historical Institute Paris from 23-25 October 2024 will connect to this growing interest. It will explore the overlooked history of digital history from different perspectives and emphasize the importance of understanding the field’s past by examining historical developments, methods, and research gaps. The aim is to highlight past achievements and offer a critical perspective on the evolution of digital history, challenging the rhetoric of novelty that often surrounds it. The conference program can be found here: https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/9978

Applications are open to Master’s students and doctoral candidates in the field of digital history or digital humanities.

In return, you commit to accompanying the conference in the media, e.g. in the form of a conference report, a blog post, a photo story on Instagram, postings on the official Mastodon or X-account of the DHIP, a podcast, mini-videos, etc. (but we are happy about any creative format!). You can choose the language in which you want to write!

Please apply by 16 September 2024 by e-mail to DH@dhi-paris.fr with a letter of motivation (max. 2 pages) containing a brief outline of your ideas for media coverage of the conference and a short CV in tabular form (max. 1 page) in a merged PDF file. If your application is successful, you will receive a grant of up to 400 euros (from Germany/Europe) and up to 200 euros (from France) to cover travel and accommodation costs for the conference. The funds will be paid out after submission of receipts and after submission of your contribution to the media coverage of the conference.

Acceptances will be announced by e-mail by 20 September 2024.

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news-12396 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:55:52 +0200 Call for Application: Kurzfristige Mobilitätsstipendien – Teilnahme an Konferenzen, Workshops und Kolloquien im Südkaukasus https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-application-kurzfristige-mobilitaetsstipendien-teilnahme-an-konferenzen-workshops-und-kollo.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31. Oktober 2024 Das Büro Georgien der Max Weber Stiftung fördert im Feld der Geschichtswissenschaft und ihrer Nachbardisziplinen die weitere Entwicklung von wissenschaftlichem Austausch und wissenschaftlicher Kooperation zwischen den Forschungslandschaften im Südkaukasus und in Deutschland. Zu diesem Zweck schreiben wir für die Zeit vom 1. Juli bis zum 31. Dezember 2024 kurzfristige Mobilitätsstipendien für die Teilnahme an Konferenzen, Workshops und Kolloquien aus.

Die Bewerber:innen sind fortgeschrittene Masterstudierende, Doktoranden und Doktorandinnen oder Post-Docs, die an eine Einrichtung in den Staaten des Südkaukasus angebunden sind. Sie arbeiten zu einem Thema, das dem Forschungsprofil des Büro Georgien entspricht (https://mwsgeorgien.hypotheses.org/1).

Das Stipendium ermöglicht die Teilnahme an einer Veranstaltung, die für das jeweils eigene Forschungsprojekt von begründeter Relevanz ist. Es ist für die Mehraufwendungen bestimmt, die sich aus der Teilnahme ergeben. Die Erstattung der Kosten erfolgt gegen Vorlage der entsprechenden Rechnungen.

Erstattet werden:

− Fahrt-/Flugkosten für eine Hin- und Rückreise, jedoch höchstens 500,- €

− Übernachtungsgeld, jedoch höchstens 70,- € pro Übernachtung

Die Kostenübernahme ist insgesamt auf 700,- € begrenzt.

Neben dem formlosen Bewerbungsschreiben sind folgende Unterlagen einzureichen:

• Exposé zum Forschungsprojekt und Erläuterung der Relevanz der Veranstaltung (max. 2 Seiten)

• Kurzgutachten des akademischen Betreuers (bzw. eines anderen Experten im relevanten Bereich) (bis zu einer Seite)

• Lebenslauf (mit Publikationsliste)

• Einladung des Veranstalters

• Kopie der Bachelor-, Master- bzw. Promotionsurkunde

• Nachweis der Kenntnisse der Arbeitssprache der Veranstaltung

Die Bewerbung kann in Deutsch oder in Englisch eingereicht werden.

Bitte senden Sie alle Schreiben und Dokumente in einer pdf-Datei ausschließlich per E-Mail an info@mws-georgia.org

Ein Rechtsanspruch auf die Bewilligung des Stipendiums besteht nicht. Wir weisen ausdrücklich darauf hin, dass für alle Reisen und Forschungsaufenthalte, für die es Mittel zur Verfügung stellt, eigenverantwortlich für einen ausreichenden Krankenversicherungsschutz zu sorgen ist. Bei Krankheit oder Unfall zahlt das Netzwerk keine Beihilfe.

Weitere Auskünfte erhalten Sie per E-Mail unter: info@mws-georgia.org

Neue Bewerbungsfristen sind der 26. Mai, der 31. August und der 31. Oktober 2024.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung!

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news-12394 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:35:57 +0200 Call for Papers: Infrastructural Turn. How Materiality Shapes Exhibitions about Difficult Pasts https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-infrastructural-turn-how-materiality-shapes-exhibitions-about-difficult-pasts.html Deadline: 31. Oktober 2024 29-31 May 2025

In recent decades, memory and museum studies have vastly researched the social, political, and aesthetic concepts of exhibition narratives about difficult pasts. However, many other factors in the display of difficult pasts in museums, art galleries, or sites of memory have gone largely unnoticed. These include the materiality of exhibition spaces, technological developments, and administrative frameworks. While they are part of the everyday work of exhibition practitioners, they receive little attention from scholars.

In order to better understand these seemingly “banal” and yet very powerful aspects of exhibition (and memory) making, the conference organizers are drawing inspiration from infrastructure studies. According to this perspective, infrastructure is more than just an enabling subsystem beneath any visible structure that becomes palpable only when it breaks down. It can be seen as an active factor or an actant, a verb rather than a noun, a conjunction and intra-activity between elements and actions that ultimately lead to the creation of a cultural production.

Following these theoretical developments, we propose to examine various infrastructural factors that actively condition and shape historical and/or artistic exhibitions about difficult pasts, and to consider the exhibitions themselves as being, in turn, infrastructures of collective memory. These factors include, but are not limited to, artefact materiality and conservation requirements, exhibition space design, curatorial strategies, installation formats and display technologies, legal frameworks, management strategies and funding sources for cultural institutions, collaborative networks, cultural education strategies, audience development, public relations, disability law and policy, security protocols and safety standards.

As the conference takes place at the German Historical Institute Warsaw and is funded by the Polish-German Research Foundation, we are particularly interested in papers dealing with the difficult Polish-German past, namely the Second World War and the Holocaust. However, proposals related to exhibitions on other forms and histories of persecution, war and violence from East-Central Europe and beyond are also welcome. We refer to the concept of exhibition in its broad historical, artistic, and ethnographic sense and therefore welcome contributions on various forms of exhibiting history. We are also open to interdisciplinary and comparative approaches that combine discussions of exhibitions considered as infrastructures with other media of memory.

We encourage submissions on the following topics:

 • material and institutional histories of exhibitions

• technological and environmental factors of exhibiting history

• financial and legal frameworks of exhibiting history

• curatorial practices in exhibition making

• exhibiting history in times of digitalization, VR and AI

• transnational and global challenges in exhibiting local histories

The conference language is English. We are open to submissions from any discipline as well as to transdisciplinary contributions.

Practical Information:

The conference will take place at the German Historical Institute Warsaw on 29 – 31 May 2025. Conference participants are asked to submit an abstract and biography. Presentations should last no more than 20 minutes. The travel and accommodation expenses of the invited guests will be covered by the organizers. Selected papers will be considered for publication in an academic journal or collective monograph of international relevance.

Organizers: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska and Izabela Paszko (GHI Warsaw)

To Apply: Please submit the title, abstract (ca. 250 words) and short biography (ca. 150 words) by e-mail to Izabela Paszko (paszko@dhi.waw.pl) by 31 October 2024. You will be notified about your participation by 30 November 2024.

Timeline:

Submission deadline: 31 October 2024

Notification of Acceptance: 30 November 2024

Conference: 29-31 May 2025

Contact: paszko@dhi.waw.pl

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news-12393 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:29:36 +0200 Call for Papers: Echoes of Conflict. Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-echoes-of-conflict-health-consequences-of-war-and-violence-across-generations.html Deadline: 30. November 2024 International Conference, Prague, 8–10 April 2025

We are pleased to announce the international conference Echoes of Conflict: Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations. This conference aims to explore the multifaceted impacts of war and violence on individuals and communities, encompassing its physical, mental, and societal dimensions. By delving into the intimate effects of war on health, governmental and societal responses at both national and international level, as well as itstransgenerational (mental) health effects, we seek to provide a comprehensive understanding of the enduring legacy of conflict.

Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, it is time to shift the focus toward the intimate impacts of war and violence on individuals and their health, with a special emphasis on transgenerational consequences. This reflection goes beyond the concept of post-memory to include new perspectives on how the traumas of war are experienced and processed across generations.

The conference aims to move from the global political aftermaths of war to victim care, the rebuilding of affected families and homes, and individual consequences for (mental) health. It also seeks to examine social transformations caused by mass violence, mass displacement, border and regime changes in the aftermath of World War II, and how individuals and communities have coped with these challenges.

We are honored to announce Prof. Michał Bilewicz, the renowned social psychologist from the University of Warsaw, as our keynote speaker. Prof. Bilewicz's work on intergroup relations, prejudice, and the psychological effects of historical trauma will provide valuable insights into our discussions.

Join us as we explore the enduring health consequences of war and violence across generations and work towards a more compassionate and resilient future.

Conference Themes:

Intimate Effects of War and Violence on Individuals and Their Health:

Explore individual and family experiences of coping with the physical and psychological aftermath of war and violence, as well as strategies of returning to normality. Examine life in post-war societies, navigating physical injuries and psychological trauma.

Governmental and Societal Responses to the Post-war Health Crisis:

Analyze governmental and societal approaches to caring for victims and rebuilding affected families and homes. Investigate public health policies addressing the health consequences of war, including the management of diseases and pandemics.

Transgenerational (Mental) Health Effects:

Investigate the impact of war and violence on the second and third post-war generations' physical and mental health. Assess strategies and programs for transgenerational care and the processes of rebuilding families across generations.

Inclusive Conference:

We encourage contributions from history and other related fields such as sociology, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, psychology, and social psychology, and others to promote a comprehensive exploration of this topic. Submissions should emphasize the historical dimensions of their chosen theme. We welcome contributions from across Europe and beyond, highlighting the diversity of experiences and responses to war and violence in different regions.

Submission Guidelines:

- Abstracts Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024

- Notification of Acceptance: 15 January 2025

- Full Papers Submission Deadline: 31 March 2025

- Conference Dates: 8 to 10 April 2025

- Venue: Karolinum, Charles University, Ovocný trh 560/5, Prague

Please submit abstract (250–300 words) and a brief bio (150 words) no later than November 30, 2024, to the following email: echoes@usd.cas.cz

For inquiries and further information, please contact: mrnka@dhi-prag.cz

Conference Organizing Committee

Dr. Adéla Gjuričová, Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Prof. Dr. Ota Konrád, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague

Dr. Jaromír Mrňka, German Historical Institute Warsaw, Prague Branch

Prof. Dr. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, German Historical Institute Warsaw

Prof. Dr. Ioulia Shukan, Center for Russian, Caucasian, Central European and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC), School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, EHESS, Paris

Dr. Iryna Sklokina, Center for Urban History, Lviv

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news-12375 Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:27:48 +0200 Call for Application: Postgraduate Research Students Conference 2025 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-application-postgraduate-research-students-conference-2025.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15. November 2024 The 29th Postgraduate Research Students Conference of the German Historical Institute London will take place on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January 2025. The Conference aims to give postgraduate research students from the UK and Ireland working on German history the opportunity to present their work-in-progress and to discuss their research with other students working in the same field.

 The Conference is intended for postgraduate research scholars working on German history from the Middle Ages to the present at a UK or Irish university. Ph.D. students at all stages are encouraged to apply. All participants will be expected to briefly present their research projects, but if capacity is limited, preference will be given to second- and third-year students.

 A course on German Palaeography is planned for the first day of the conference. Should you wish to take part, please indicate your interest in your application. Please note that places will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Application Details

If you are interested in attending, please send an email to PGconference@ghil.ac.uk by Friday 15th November 2024 and you must include the following: 

  • full contact details – name, address, email address and telephone number
  • the exact title of your Ph.D. project
  • the date you started your Ph.D. project (and whether you are enrolled part- or full- time)
  • the name, address, email address, and phone number of your university and supervisor
  • an indication of whether you have undertaken research in Germany
  • an indication of whether you wish to participate in the Palaeography course scheduled for the morning of 9th January 2025

 The GHIL will arrange accommodation for participants from outside the Greater London Area and offer a lump sum towards the cost of travel to London.

Call for Applications (PDF file)

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news-12356 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:21:28 +0200 Call for Papers: The Place of the Holocaust in German-Jewish History and Memory https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-the-place-of-the-holocaust-in-german-jewish-history-and-memory.html Deadline: 30. September 2024 May 18th 2025 - May 20th 2025

Eighth Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History in Berlin | Organized by Anna-Carolin Augustin (German Historical Institute Washington), Mark Roseman (Indiana University Bloomington), and Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam), and the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts with additional support from the Indiana University Europe Gateway in Berlin

We invite proposals for papers to be presented at the Eighth Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History to take place at the Indiana University Europe Gateway in Berlin, May 2025. We seek proposals specifically from postdoctoral scholars, recent PhDs as well as those in the final stages of their dissertations.

The aim of the two-day workshop is to bring together a small transatlantic group of junior scholars to explore new research and questions in Jewish history. Via pre-circulated papers and brief presentations at the workshop itself, participants will offer insights in their respective individual research projects and at the same time engage in a broader discussion on sources, methodology, and theory in order to assess current and possible future trends in the modern history of Jews in Europe, the Americas, and beyond.

For some time, historians have sought to bring the history of German Jews out of the shadow of the Holocaust. Especially for the period before 1933, and particularly before 1914, scholars have been at pains to show that the history of German Jewry was not simply characterized by antisemitism, exclusion, and delusions of acceptance. And while the theme of studies on Jews in postwar Germany was for a long time a community “living with packed suitcases”, German reunification and the Jewish immigration waves of the 1990s have evoked new questions and themes to complement or supersede the concern with the aftershocks of the Holocaust.  

So, what is the place now of National Socialism and the Holocaust in our current understanding of German Jewry? Does it remain the critical vanishing point for the history of German Jews before 1933?  Questions that might be raised include:

  • To what extent was pre-1933 German Jewish history destined for disaster? What kind of alternative histories and trends can be/ have been offered about the place and experience of Jewry in pre-Nazi German society? 
  • How far did Jewish responses to National Socialism and the Holocaust draw on Jewish practices and traditions that predated the catastrophe?
  • How far is Jewish life in Germany, and are German Jewish diasporas elsewhere in the world, still shaped – in identity, aspirations, and memory by the experience of the Holocaust?  How did the Nazi-Past influence the perception of Judaism/Jewish presence – e.g. the role of the Zentralrat der Juden in Postwar West-Germany, the preservation and or neglect of Jewish heritage sites in East and West Germany? 
  • How did this specific lens of looking at Jewish history through Holocaust history also shape and affect the historiography on Germany Jewry in the postwar period? How far did it determine what was visible in Jewish heritage and what remained invisible? And how did it influence public representations of Jewish history in Germany – in museums, memorials, or schools and teaching curricula?
  • What role did Jewish perspectives and actors play in memorialization processes in the Post-Holocaust era?  How distinctive is the relationship of Jewry in Germany, or of German-Jewish diasporas to the Holocaust compared with other elements of the postwar Jewish world?
     

We invite:

  • historical research that raises questions about the place and significance of the Holocaust in the history of pre-1945 German Jewry broadly understood, and of Jewry in the postwar Germanies;
  • historiographical research that explores the way in which history writing has juxtaposed (or not) the history of German Jewry, and the Holocaust;
  • Memory studies tackling questions of trauma, commemoration, restitution, identity and more.
     

The workshop language will be English. The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation. Please submit short proposals (750 words max.) and a one-page CV by September 30, 2024 here. Successful applicants will be notified by October 15.

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news-12336 Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:45:38 +0200 Call for Papers: Food, Migration, and Belonging in 20th Century European History https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-food-migration-and-belonging-in-20th-century-european-history.html Deadline: 20. September 2024 Conference at German Historical Institute | Pacific Office at UC Berkeley | Conveners: Maren Möhring (University of Leipzig), Isabel Richter (GHI Washington Pacific Office at UC Berkeley)

Food has a long tradition as a marker of social and cultural norms, relationships, and difference in modern history. As Sidney Mintz highlighted, eating food is “never a purely biological activity,” but rather a basic activity with social meaning(s) that are communicated symbolically, and have histories” (Mintz 1996: 7). Europe’s diverse food cultures have been significantly shaped by migration processes; migrants formed an integral, if often marginalized, part of European societies and played an important role in (re)creating Europe’s foodways. The proposed conference explores the intersection of migration studies and food studies: It tests the analytical potential of food practices and food histories for people migrating to and from Europe and asks how we might view the history of European societies differently by examining migrant foodways. This perspective opens a window onto different layers of historical analysis from individual experiences to the discourses of absorbing societies; from the domestic to the public; from everyday practices of preparing, serving, and consuming food to questions of public health, religion, and migration politics. Furthermore, food histories articulate how “modern,” “traditional,” “migrant,” and “ethnic” cuisines are constructed and have often been gendered and racialized, as well as how the local and the global intersect.

In the  last twenty years or so, food and migration have been discussed in migration studies as well as in food studies: historians, anthropologists, and sociologists have analyzed the role of food in migration processes focusing on regional case studies, such as migrant experiences in Australia (Hage 1997, Cardona 2004, Frost 2008), the U.S. (Kalcik 1984, Diner 2001, Ray 2007, Panayi 2010), and  Europe (Jamal 1996, Harbottle 1997, Cook 1999, Berg 2008, Tuomainen 2011). Recent studies also featured the making of world cuisines from a global studies perspective (Bender/Cinotto 2024). Studies in German history have highlighted the role of migrant entrepreneurs in the establishment of ethnic cuisines in West Germany since the 1960s (Möhring 2012, Möhring 2014, Marquart/Sterzinger-Killermann 2020) and in German-Jewish emigration to Palestine in the 1930s (Alianov-Rautenberg 2013). Food in migration processes has also been linked to the history of the senses and to body history (Stoller 1989, Holtzman 2006, Abbots 2013) and to gendered histories of food labor (Baxter 1988, Limeberry 2014).

The proposed conference, “Food, Migration, and Belonging in Twentieth-Century European History,” focuses on foodways as the articulation and embodiment of individual and collective identities in migration processes and will explore the relevance of food practices as an expression of belonging. The conference will discuss multilayered food histories and their potential for untangling the complexities of homemaking, hybridization and third cultures in 20th century Europe. We are particularly interested in contributions on food and its impact on the making of communities and its effects on social, cultural, and religious belonging(s). By highlighting the semiotic and material, the sensual and emotional dimensions of food practices, the conference aims at gaining a better understanding of the creation and transformation of (group) identities and social relations in European migration societies in the 20th century.  We will use food as a lens to reflect on a variety of places, spaces, and methodologies in  transregional European history, including topics such as

  • Food and memory (the commemorative function of food; nostalgia; social rituals of serving and preparing food; food and emotions)
  • Approaches to food and “the body” in migration societies (i.e., bodily senses, taste, and smell in terms of food consumption; discourses about domestic science, health, purity etc.)
  • Transcultural encounters via food; hospitality and conviviality
  • Culinary racism (negative depictions of the taste and smell of the food of the “other”; culinary hierarchies)
  • The role of food in the social lives of diasporas (food gifts from home communities and sharing dishes across time and space; food and the sense of attachment to or detachment from the home country)
  • Food and home/homemaking (notions of “belonging” and of where and what “home” can mean; use of food for asserting one’s place in a new setting)
  • Food, migration, and religion (e.g., the challenges of religious dietary laws in migration processes, kosher cooking in Jewish migration; debates in absorbing societies about migrants’ religious practices, i.e., halal slaughtering in Europe)
  • Third Culture cuisines in Europe (blending food from the first generation’s “home country” with flavors of the next generation’s current location)
  • Objects/material culture in the study of food and migration (i.e., migrants and long-term residents confronted with processing unknown food; handling unfamiliar household appliances, etc.)
  • Methodological challenges (food consumption as a fleeting practice and methodological questions about how to approach its historical meanings; question of useful sources in migration and food studies)
  • Methodological and theoretical reflections on how belonging can be conceptualized and evaluated
     

The conference will be held in English and will be hosted by the GHI Pacific Office at Berkeley (richter(at)ghi-dc.org). Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, a short CV, and contact information (address, phone, email), must be submitted online in a single pdf (the file name should be the last name of the applicant) by September 20, 2024:

Please contact Heike Friedman (friedman(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have problems submitting your information. Decisions will be sent out by mid-October 2024.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will be expected to make their own travel arrangements. Some subsidies for travel will be available upon request, especially for those who might not otherwise be able to attend the conference, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. There is no registration fee.

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References: 

Abbots E.-J., Lavis A. (2013), Introduction: Mapping the new terrain of eating: Reflections on the encounters between foods and bodies, in: E.-J. Abbots, A. Lavis (eds.), Why We Eat, How We Eat: Contemporary Encounters Between Foods and Bodies, London: Routledge.

Alianov-Rautenberg, Viola (2013), Schlagsahne oder Shemen-Öl? Deutsch-jüdische Hausfrauen und ihre Küche in Palästina 1936-1940, in: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 41, pp. 82-96. 

Avieli, Nir (2017), Food and power. A culinary ethnography of Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Baxter S., Raw G. (1988), Fast food, fettered work: Chinese women in the ethnic Catering industry, in: S. Westwood, P. Bhachu (eds.), Enterprising women: ethnicity, economy, and gender relations, pp. 58–75.

Bender, Daniel E./ Cinotto, Simone (eds.) (2024), Food Mobilities. Making World Cuisines, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Beyers L. (2008), Creating Home: Food, ethnicity and gender among Italians in Belgium since 1946, Food, culture, & society 2008, vol. 11 (1), pp. 7-27.

Charon Cardona E. T. (2004), Re-encountering Cuban tastes in Australia, in: The Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol, 15(1), pp. 40-53.

Cook I., Crang P., Thorpe M. (1999), Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food, in: S. Roseneil, J. Seymour (eds.), Practising Identities: Power and Resistance, pp. 223–48.

Diner H. R. (2003), Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Douglas, Mary, (1966), Purity and danger. An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo, New York: Praeger.

Freeman, Andrea (2013), The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk: Food Oppression and the USDA, UC Irvine Law Review 3(4), pp. 1251-1277.

Frost N. (2008), Strange people but they sure can cook! An Indonesian womens group in Sydney, in: Food, Culture and Society, Vol. 11 (2), pp.173–89.

Hage G. (1997), At home in the entrails of the West: Multiculturalism, ethnic food and migrant home-building, in: H. Grace, G. Hage, L. Johnson, J. Langsworth, M. Symonds (eds), Home/World: Space, community and marginality in Sydney’s West, pp. 99–153.

Harbottle L. (1997), Fast food/spoiled identity: Iranian migrants in the British catering trade, in: P. Caplan (ed.), Food, health and identity, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 87–110.

Holtzman J. D. (2006), Food and memory, in: Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 35 (1), pp. 361-78.

Jamal A. (1996), Acculturation: The symbolism of ethnic eating among contemporary British consumers, in: British Food Journal, Vol. 98 (10), pp. 12–26.

Kalcik S. (1984), Ethnic foodways in America: Symbol and the performance of identity, in L. Keller Brown, K. Mussell (eds.), Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity, pp. 37–65, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Limeberry, Veronica A. (2014), Eating in Opposition: Strategies of Resistance Through Food in The Lives of Rural Andean and Appalachian Mountain Women. Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2466. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2466

Marquardt, Vivienne/ Sterzinger-Killermann, Clara (2020), Zwei Kugeln süss-sauer mit scharf. Münchens migrantisch geprägte Gastronomie, München: Allitera.

Mintz, Sidney W. (1985), Sweetness and power. The place of sugar in modern history, New York: Viking.

Mintz, Sidney (1996),Tasting food, tasting freedom: Excursions into eating, culture, and the past, Boston: Beacon Press.

Möhring, Maren (2012), Fremdes Essen. Die Geschichte der ausländischen Gastronomie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, München: Oldenbourg.

Möhring, Maren (2014), Food for Thought: Rethinking the History of Migration to West Germany Through the Migrant Restaurant Business, in: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 49 (1), Special Issue: Migration in Germany’s Age of Globalization, pp. 209-227.

Panikos, Panayi (2010): Spicing Up Britain. The Multicultural History of British Food, Reaktion Books.

Pitts, Johny, Robinson, Roger (2022), Home is not a place, London: Harper Collins.

Ray K. (2004), The migrant’s table: meals and memories in Bengali-American households, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Stoller D. (1989), The taste of ethnographic things: the senses in anthropology, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Tuomainen H. M. (2011), Ethnic identity, (post)colonialism and foodways: Ghanaians in London, in: Food, Culture and Society, Vol. 12 (4), pp. 525-54.

Valenze, Deborah (2011), Milk: A local and global history, New Haven: Yale University Press.

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news-12334 Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:39:16 +0200 Call for Papers: Elsass 39–45: Menschen im Krieg https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-elsass-39-45-menschen-im-krieg.html Deadline: 28. Juli 2024 Tagung in Straßburg am 6. und 7. Februar 2025 und Podiumsdiskussionen im Elsass von November 2024 bis Juni 2025

Die Gedenkveranstaltungen zum achtzigsten Jahrestag des Endes des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Frankreich bieten die Gelegenheit, die Bildung nationaler Narrative über die Libération zu hinterfragen und über die Einbeziehung heterogener regionaler Erinnerung nachzudenken. Mit diesem Ziel organisieren die UMR 3400 ARCHE der Universität Straßburg und die Archives d’Alsace eine Reihe von wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Veranstaltungen, die der besonderen Geschichte des Elsass im Zweiten Weltkrieg gewidmet ist und den Arbeitstitel »Elsass 39–45. Menschen im Krieg« trägt. Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungen soll über die sehr spezifische Art und Weise nachgedacht werden, wie das Elsass befreit wurde und wie die zu diesem Zeitpunkt im Elsass anwesenden Menschen die Libération erlebten. Auch der spezifische Kontext, aus dem das Elsass befreit wurde, soll bei dieser Gelegenheit erneut untersucht werden, nämlich die De-facto-Annexion durch das »Dritte Reich«.

Eine wissenschaftliche Tagung wird am 6. und 7. Februar 2025 in Straßburg stattfinden, gerahmt von acht Vortragsveranstaltungen und Podien zwischen November 2024 und Juni 2025 im ganzen Elsass. Diese Reihe wird die aktuelle historiografische Erneuerung zum Thema Elsass im Zweiten Weltkrieg dokumentieren und zu dieser beitragen. Die Präsentation und Analyse von fünfzig biografischen Fallstudien wird von der Vielfalt und Komplexität individueller Lebenswege im Kontext von Krieg, Annexion durch ein totalitäres Regime und Befreiung zeugen.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie in dem PDF unten.

Vorschläge für Beiträge zum Kolloquium und zu den Diskussionsveranstaltungen sind zusammen mit einer Zusammenfassung von ca. 2.000 Zeichen und einer kurzen biografischen Notiz in deutscher oder französischer Sprache bis zum 28. Juli 2024 an catherine.maurer@unistra.fr und post@frederic-stroh.eu zu richten.

Die Vorschläge werden dem deutsch-französischen wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Tagungsreihe vorgelegt. Die Kandidaten werden bis Ende September 2024 über das Ergebnis informiert. Die Aufteilung zwischen dem Kolloquium und den Podiumsveanstaltungen wird im Dialog mit den ausgewählten Rednern erfolgen.

Das Kolloquium wird am 6. und 7. Februar 2025 in Straßburg (Maison interdisciplinaire des Sciences Humaines d’Alsace - MISHA - und Archives d’Alsace) stattfinden, während die Konferenzen und Debatten monatlich zwischen November 2024 und Juni 2025 im Elsass abgehalten werden.

Arbeitssprachen: Französisch und Deutsch

 

Organisation: Carine Lévêque (Archives d’Alsace), Catherine Maurer (Univ. Straßburg), François Petrazoller (Archives d’Alsace), Frédéric Stroh (Univ. Straßburg).

Deutsch-französischer Beirat: Christian Bonah (Univ. Straßburg), Jürgen Finger (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris), Benoît Jordan (Archives de la Ville et de l’Eurométropole de Strasbourg), Audrey Kichelewski (Univ. Straßburg), Michaël Landolt (Centre européen du résistant déporté), Carine Lévêque (Archives d’Alsace), Catherine Maurer (Univ. Straßburg), Marie Muschalek (Univ. Freiburg i. Br.), Frédérique Neau-Dufour (Région Grand Est), Sylvia Paletschek (Univ. Freiburg i. Br.), Nicolas Patin (Univ. Bordeaux), François Petrazoller (Archives d’Alsace), Jérôme Schweitzer (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg), Frédéric Stroh (Univ. Straßburg), Alexandre Sumpf (Univ. Straßburg), Benoit Vaillot (Univ. Luxemburg), Marie-Bénédicte Vincent (Univ. Besançon), Marie-Claire Vitoux (Univ. Mulhouse).

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news-12312 Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:20:25 +0200 Call for Papers: Histories of Violence in Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Perspective https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-histories-of-violence-in-central-and-eastern-europe-a-comparative-perspective.html Deadline: 30. März 2025 The history of violence is part of the human condition. For many decades, studies have focused on statistical, military, anthropological or psycho-historical perspectives, but have largely centered on Western Europe, Asia, the USA or approach the subject from the standpoint of global history. East Central Europe, however, has been specifically characterized by a chain of violent conflicts since the Middle Ages. Everyday life was also shaped by violent relationships and dependencies for centuries. The same applies to gender relations and family relationships. In the 19th century, social and political conflicts often became nationally or ethnically charged and led to uprisings against Romanov, Habsburg and Hohenzollern rulers, empires also run largely by by force. The 20th century, characterized by two world wars, civil wars, border conflicts, and totalitarian regimes, exploded the conventional boundaries of violence.

Integrating the history of violence in East Central Europe within the broader sweep of the human experience remains a scholarly desideratum. The majority of studies on violence in this geographical area pertain to interethnic conflicts of states or national groups. Anti-Jewish violence has been widely studied and violence under conditions of occupation, particularly during the Second World War, has also received a great deal of attention. In the course of the shift in focus towards the history of rural regions and their inhabitants, which is particularly visible in Polish public discourse, other phenomena and traditions of violence have also been engaged in recent years. This prompts the question of the extent to which approaches and concepts that have been developed in the long tradition of studying violent histories in East Central Europe can be “exported” beyond this particular region.

We invite proposals to participate in a conference devoted to the history of violence in East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Especially welcome is work on different types of violence: physical, symbolic, psychological, and military. We invite papers that pose bold theses and explore different research categories: gender, class, race, ethnicity. We encourage discussion of stories of individual, but also collective violence, from the perspective of social history, legal history, cultural and military history.

We encourage submissions on the following themes:

  • continuity and variability in different types of violence from the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century
  • the evolution of narratives about violence and their constant components
  • the concurrence and interrelationship between different types of violence
  • theories of violence in historical practice

The conference is open to a diversity of methods, sources, and types of narrative construction, to discuss “non-history” stories in various configurations made possible by comparison of different historical periods and geographical areas. We especially welcome contributions that not only transfer proven methods to our geographical area, but also provide impulses for a specifically East-Central European contribution to the universal understanding of violent phenomena.

The conference will be held within the walls of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, a new center that is an important point on the map of the study of Polish history, in the context of the history of the States and people of Central and Eastern Europe.
 

Conference: Histories of Violence in Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Perspective

Warsaw, 15-17th of September 2025


The conference is organized by:

  • Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw
  • Museum of Polish History in Warsaw
  • Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw
  • Commission on Slavonic and East European Studies of the Committee of Historical Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences
  • German Historical Institute Warsaw
  • The Society of Friends of History

Keynote speakers are:

  • Diana Dumitru Georgetown University, Washington
  • Stuart Carroll, University of York
  • Piotr Maciej Majewski, University of Warsaw

The conference will be held in English. The organizers do not cover travel costs, but they provide meals.

Conference committee:

Conference Board: Philip Dwyer, Christhardt Henschel, Jeffrey Kopstein, Aneta Pieniądz, Natalia Starchenko, Michał Trębacz

Organizing committee: Victoria Gerasimova, Tomasz Kempa, Michał Kopczyński, Artur Markowski, Marta Pawlińska, Dariusz Adamczyk

We invite you to submit paper proposals by March 30, 2025 on the Google form.

Please feel free to contact historiesofviolence@uw.edu.pl if you have any questions or require further information. 


Website DHI Warschau

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news-12299 Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:47:07 +0200 Call for Papers: Germans in the Asia-Pacific Region: (Post) Colonial Entanglements, Conflicts and Perceptions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/germans-asia-pacific-region-cfp.html Deadline: 30. September 2024 JUN 25, 2025 - JUN 27, 2025

Conference in Flinders University (city campus), Adelaide, South Australia | Conveners: Mathew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Isabel Richter (GHI Washington Pacific Office at UC Berkeley)

In August 2023, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told an Australian audience “it is clear that the Indo-Pacific will play a decisive role in the 21st century.” Baerbock also intimated that Germany wants to become more deeply engaged in the region to assist in “strengthening the global rules that we all rely on” at a time when China is returning to the ranks of the major global powers.

But a long and complicated history informs Germany’s recent turn toward the Asia-Pacific region. Often overlooked is the fact that Germany once had a sizeable colonial empire there, with possessions in China, New Guinea, Nauru, Samoa, and many parts of Micronesia, including the Marshall, Mariana, and Caroline Islands. German firms, missionaries, and settlers established themselves in the region in the mid-nineteenth century, while scientists and researchers came to Asia and the Pacific as part of their scholarly endeavors, extracting artifacts in some places, while training local residents in German-style science in others. The experience of German colonial rule – of being educated by German missionaries, employed by German firms, and studied by German scientists – left a lasting and yet largely unacknowledged impression of the peoples of Asia and the Pacific.

After the First World War and the transfer of former German colonies in the region to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand as League of Nations Mandates, Germany played a less important role in Asia and the Pacific but still retained an important foothold. Ex-Governor of Samoa and Colonial Secretary Wilhelm Solf served as German Ambassador to Japan, laying the groundwork for a close relationship that would eventually see Japan become Nazi Germany’s Pacific ally during the Second World War. During that war, large numbers of German Jews fled and resettled in China. In the Pacific, as historians such as Christine Winter have shown, small political parties modelled on the National Socialist Party also sprang up in German expatriate communities in former German possessions such as New Guinea and Samoa.

In the postwar era, the two German states, the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, followed vastly different trajectories. While Leftist students in the West rallied around Ho Chi Minh, the Federal Republic solidly supported the United States war in Vietnam and even took in South Vietnamese refugees. Meanwhile, despite tensions with China in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, the German Democratic Republic offered some limited migration opportunities for fellow communists from Vietnam to serve as guest workers in East German factories.

What are the contours and legacies of German history in the Asia-Pacific region? Conference participants will examine the complex and varied interactions between Germans and the peoples of the Pacific and Asia-Pacific coast. The conference seeks to uncover Germany’s various entanglements in the region and to investigate the forms of cooperation and conflict that characterized German endeavors in the region. The chronological starting point for this investigation is the establishment of the Hamburg firm Godeffroy und Sohn in the Samoan capital of Apia in 1857. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the conference will evaluate the histories of German trade, religion, culture, science, and settlement in the Asia-Pacific region, emphasizing how these were affected by shifting attitudes towards gender, race, and class. It will also examine the military, diplomatic, and humanitarian presence of Germans there and consider forms of knowledge transfer during the Wilhelmine, Weimar, Nazi, and postwar eras. It seeks to grapple with the sporadic (as opposed to steadily evolving) nature of Germany’s impact on the region and to offer a set of histories that demonstrate the multifaceted nature of German encounters with Asia and the Pacific.  

To these ends, the conference seeks to answer questions such as:

  • What was the nature of German colonialism and later political and cultural involvement in Asia and the Pacific, and how did it compare with German colonial activities elsewhere?
  • What role did warfare, diplomacy, and trade play in establishing Germany in the Asia-Pacific region between the 1850s and the 1980s?
  • Does an exploration of gender and racial relations link German history in the Asia-Pacific region to a broader history?
  • How did Asian and Pacific peoples experience and respond to German colonial endeavors, political overtures, and knowledge production in their region?
  • What are the legacies of German scientific and anthropological activity in the region, and how do these histories inform current debates about repatriation and restitution?
  • How did Germany’s involvement in two World Wars and the Cold War affect the Asia-Pacific region and German activity there?

The conference will be held in English. Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, a short CV, and contact information (address, phone, email) should be submitted online in a single pdf (the file name should be the last name of the applicant) by September 30, 2024. Decisions will be sent out by early November 2024.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will need to make their own travel arrangements. Subsidies for travel will be available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. There is no registration fee.

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news-12298 Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:36:15 +0200 Call for Application: Medieval History Seminar 2025 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-application-medieval-history-seminar-2025.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31. Januar 2025 Conveners: Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Michael Grünbart (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), and Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews)

Venue: GHIL

The German Historical Institutes in London and Washington, D.C., are excited to announce the fourteenth Medieval History Seminar, to be held in London from 8 to 10 October 2025. The seminar will bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2024/2025) in medieval history from American, Canadian, British, Irish, and German universities for three days of scholarly discussion and collaboration. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to their peers and distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Conveners for the 2025 seminar will be Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Michael Grünbart (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), and Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews).

The Medieval History Seminar invites proposals from all areas and periods of medieval history and is not limited to historians working on German history or German-speaking regions of Europe. All methodological approaches are welcome. Applications from neighbouring disciplines are welcome if the projects have a distinct historical focus.

The seminar is bi-lingual and papers and discussions will be conducted both in German and English. Participants must have a good reading and listening comprehension of both languages. Successful applicants must be prepared to submit a paper of approximately 5,000 words by August 15, 2025. They are also expected to act as commentator for other papers presented in the seminar.

Travel and accommodation expenses of the participants will be covered. Applications may be submitted in German or English and should include:

  • a CV (including institutional affiliation, postal address, and e-mail)
  • a description of the proposed paper (4–5 pages, double-spaced)
  • one letter of recommendation

Please e-mail a single PDF-file with all documents to: j.triandafyllou@ghil.ac.uk

The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2025.

For further information, please contact Stephan Bruhn: s.bruhn@ghil.ac.uk

German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ (UK)
Tel. +44–(0)20–7309 2050

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news-12297 Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:33:32 +0200 Call for Papers: Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400 – 1500 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-trans-sainthood-in-translation-ca-400-1500.html Deadline: 30. September 2024 Organizers: Mariana Bodnaruk (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna), Stephan Bruhn (GHIL) and Michael Eber (Georg-August University, Göttingen)

Venue: German Historial Institute London

22-23 May 2025

Trans saints – monachoparthenoi, saints who are initially described as female by their hagiographers, but transition to a male (often monastic) identity – are present in every late antique and medieval Christian tradition. The textual and artistic renderings of these figures offer a comparative key to conceptualizing trans bodies and trans souls across geographical and chronological boundaries. Binary cis-heteronormativity has long been portrayed as unchanging and unchangeable, as outside of the scope of history. This is a central plank in the playbook followed by transphobes worldwide, in the ever-escalating “culture war” against trans and queer people. Highlighting both the ubiquity and multivalence of premodern trans monks, and connecting across disciplinary divides to do so, is urgent work, not least because it provides a necessary counterpoint to such historically inaccurate rhetoric. 

Following the insights of the “performative turn” in queer and trans studies that underscores the enactment and negotiation of gender identity through lived experiences, social practices, and narratives, we welcome explorations of gender and sexuality in the textual traditions in both East and West and in their translation. We also take into consideration aspects related to the ”performative turn” in visual studies in the last decade, as relevant for both medieval Eastern and Western hagiographic iconographies of trans saints, focusing on visual representations actively shaping identities and power dynamics and incorporating the embodied experience of the ritual practices. 

While texts regarding fifteen trans saints are attested in the Eastern Mediterranean, this conference will focus on those whose vitae were available in Greek as well as in Latin: Eugenia*us, Euphrosyne*Smaragdus, Marina*us, Pelagia*us and Theodora*us. However, we particularly invite papers covering linguistic and artistic traditions beyond Greek and Latin, from Coptic to Old Norse. Taking seriously the connectivity of the Latin West, the Orthodox East, and the Islamic World in the Middle Ages, we adopt a trans-cultural comparative approach. Thus, contributions with a multilingual perspective are particularly welcome, as are those covering both textual and iconographic representations. Conference proceedings may be published as an edited volume. 

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers. Possible questions include – but are not limited to – the following: 

  • How are the trans saints described as performing their gender? What gendered language is used in different traditions of their vitae? 
  • What role does sexual desire play in the performance of gender? Who is desirable to whom, and in what context? 
  • What role do familial ties (biological and spiritual) play in the construction of the trans saint’s gender? 
  • How does the trans saint’s performance of gender intersect with other aspects of their identity – religion, ethnicity, social status, age? 
  • How are trans saints translated – as texts (between languages), as relics (between places), as visual representations (from text to image)? Does re-writing/translating/visualizing a vita change the way the saint is gendered? 
  • Do different linguistic traditions of these vitae engage differently with locally important intertexts/spaces/etc.? 
  • How are trans saints materialized – in manuscripts, sculpture, iconography, cult spaces? 

To apply, please send an abstract of up to 300 words, as well as your name, pronouns, and a short bio, to michael.eber@history.ox.ac.uk by September 30, 2024. We welcome applications from scholars at any stage of their career, but particularly encourage early career researchers to apply. We are currently in the process of acquiring funding to cover at least part of the participants’ travel expenses

Call for Papers (PDF file)

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news-12255 Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:52:57 +0200 Call for Application: Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-application-real-time-history-engaging-with-living-archives-and-temporal-multiplicities.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15. August 2024 Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History at the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) | Conveners: German Historical Institute Washington in collaboration with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), Chair for Digital History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, NFDI4Memory, and Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe

The conference will focus on the theme of “living archives” and their significance in contemporary history. Submissions are encouraged to address the value of living archives for real-time history, reflect on access and stewardship issues, provide examples for analyzing living archives, and explore the history and technology behind them. Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2024.

Date and Location

March 19-21, 2025, German Historical Institute Washington, DC, USA

Conference Theme

The Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around the concept of living archives and its relevance for contemporary history. The digital transformation has challenged scholars and memory workers to define their engagement with historical temporalities, with the past, present and future, in new ways. Digital technologies can be used effectively to support the development, analysis, and preservation of collections, projects, and tools that feature diverse temporal perspectives, including multifaceted, dynamic, relational, and cyclical conceptions of time. Such approaches can challenge, or even disrupt, prevalent linear conceptions of the progression of historical time. While this opens many possibilities for historical projects, it also presents new challenges. For example, historians and memory workers who have used digital technologies to document history in (almost) real time must now address new, unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable ethical and legal questions associated with “documenting the now.” Similarly, while taking advantage of the ability of new methodologies to collect large sets of data in a short period of time, we are repeatedly confronted with the fragility of digital objects and systems, and the challenges and costs of digital preservation, with the futures of the past in a digital era ranging between abundance and scarcity as astutely predicted by Roy Rosenzweig over two decades ago.   

Our conference will provide a forum to discuss these and other questions related to making history in real time. A particular focus will be on the increasing number of initiatives designed to capture history by creating “living archives” supported by digital technology. Originally, the concept of “living archives” goes back to the oral history movement during the 1970s and 1980s, when historians set out to capture people’s life experiences and memories while facilitating the transmission of generational memories embodied by living individuals. With the evolution of digital technologies, conceptions have broadened in recent decades to include a variety of collections and archives capturing events as they occur and in their immediate aftermath. This includes pioneering rapid response digital collecting projects like the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, as well as the countless recent projects documenting people’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic such as A Journal of the Plague Year in the United States or Covidmemory in Europe. It also includes collections and archives utilizing social media to document the Black Lives Matter movement, the Arab Spring, the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, and archives and art installations created as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to mention a few. Participatory documentation and archiving projects have also empowered migrants of all ages to document and preserve their migration experiences. Most recently, several projects and collections are documenting wartime experiences such as in Ukraine through social media. These approaches conceive of archives and collections as discursive, dynamic, and open-ended processes that actively contribute to present events and developments, which, in turn, shape the development of living archives and public history.

Submission Guidelines

For this three-day conference, we invite colleagues to submit proposals by August 15, 2024, for:

  1. workshops for (hands-on) presentations of projects, tools, or skills (90 minutes),
  2. or individual presentations (20 minutes)

that:

  1. Discuss the value of living archives for doing real-time history By emphasizing the contingency and open-ended character of historical developments, “living archives” confront scholars and memory workers with fundamental questions regarding their roles and responsibilities in the present. How can living archives support ongoing dialogues about cycles of violence and oppression in the past, present, and future? What are the epistemological implications for the thinking, doing, and narrating of history when scholars are actively engaged in the creation, stewardship, and analysis of sources through living archives? Do living archives contribute to the democratization of historical storytelling by promoting multi-vocality and “shared authority” in digital public history?
     
  2. Reflect on access to and stewardship of living archives What are some of the ethical and technical implications of “documenting the now,” including documenting the experiences of historically marginalized people and communities? How can individuals and groups be empowered to manage digital collections and archives outside of established repositories and in the post-custodial tradition throughout the life cycle of projects and records? How can living archives be maintained in an environment that is dominated by large for-profit companies driving rapid technical developments and media obsolescence? How can living archives balance the epistemological virtues of open access and respect for informational self-determination and privacy? What might ethical and professional long-term stewardship and research data management of these projects look like?
     
  3. Provide examples for analyzing living archives. What methodological strategies and frameworks exist to analyze collections of data that continue to evolve over time? What does it mean if archival responsibility shifts from preserving the past for the future to documenting a multiplicity of pasts, presents, and futures? Are there best practices for the documentation of the building, managing, and maintaining of living archives aiming at promoting transparency and traceability of data? What practices can avoid creating indexical regimes that (re)produce biases or representational inequalities?
     
  4. Explore the history and technology of living archives. What insights can the long history of living archives offer for scholars and memory workers creating and maintaining such archives today? What are the origins of the idea of living archives? What is the specific “archival performativity” of living archives and memory banks, and do they activate historical records in a different way than other forms of archives? How have advancements in technology influenced the development, design, and public use of living archives? How did new “mnemotechnologies” shape the documentary impulses of people and how did this affect historical imagination? Has the digital era paved the way for a new “snapshot culture” making “everyone their own historian”?


The conference will offer a dynamic, inclusive international forum to discuss these and other questions. Building on the established format of past GHI conferences on Digital History and Digital Humanities, we invite submissions of traditional analytical papers, reports reflecting on past and present projects, and workshops. We specifically encourage archivists to apply. While reflections about “living archives” will be an important component of the conference, we also invite presentations drawing on other experiences and analyses of time – and temporal multiplicities – in the digital environment.

Registration and Contact Information

Although we favor in-person attendance of participants and presenters, facilities for hybrid participation will be provided with the aim of making the event as inclusive as possible. Please submit a short CV and paper abstract of no more than 500 words to our conference platform by August 15, 2024. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel is available upon request (for one presenter per paper or workshop) for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. For further information regarding the event’s format and conceptualization, please contact Jana Keck, keck@ghi-dc.org. For questions about logistics (travel and accommodation), please contact our event coordinator Nicola Hofstetter, hofstetter-phelps@ghi-dc.org.

Group Bibliography

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5420323/living-archives-dh-conference-2025/library

Conference Committee

  • Daniel Burckhardt, GHI Washington
  • Andreas Fickers, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
  • Peter Haslinger, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
  • Katharina Hering, GHI Washington
  • Torsten Hiltmann, Chair for Digital History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Jana Keck, GHI Washington
  • Simone Lässig, GHI Washington
  • Lincoln Mullen, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM)
  • Atiba Pertilla, GHI Washington

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news-12228 Thu, 23 May 2024 13:01:30 +0200 Call for Application: Prize of the German Historical Institute London https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/prize-of-the-german-historical-institute-london-ghi-london.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31. Juli 2024 The Prize of the German Historical Institute London is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on

  • German history (submitted to a British or Irish university),
  • British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university),
  • British-German relations or British-German comparative history (submitted to a British, Irish, or German university).

The Prize is 1,000 Euros and will be presented on the occasion of the GHIL’s Annual Lecture on 25 October 2024.

To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed doctoral exams and vivas between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024.

 

To apply, send one copy of the thesis with

  • a one-page abstract
  • examiners’ reports on the thesis
  • a brief CV
  • a declaration that the work will not be published before the judges have reached a final decision
  • a supervisor’s reference

to reach the Director of the German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ, by 31 July 2024. Applications and theses should be sent by email as a PDF attachment to: prize@ghil.ac.uk.

 

If the prize-winning thesis is on British history, British colonial history, British-German relations or British-German comparative history it may also be considered for publication in one of the Institute's publication series.

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news-12202 Wed, 08 May 2024 09:50:40 +0200 Call for Papers: Empty Boxes? Modeling the Lost and Ephemeral in Premodern Sacred Spaces https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-empty-boxes-modeling-the-lost-and-ephemeral-in-premodern-sacred-spaces.html Deadline: 15. Juni 2024 Workshop

Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

29-30 May 2025

Organizers Chiara Capulli, Vera Grund, Klaus Pietschmann, Kris Racaniello, Elisabetta Scirocco, Tobias C. Weißmann

Promoting Institutions Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom, Research Project CANTORIA – Music and Sacred Architecture, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Premodern sacred space was never in stasis. It was moving, active, and filled with materials, objects, sounds, and people that combined to create an atmosphere of the sacred and, sometimes, the miraculous. As space in flux by definition, the sedimented temporality of devotion – ie. the fundamental composition of the space over time – poses many difficulties for historical modeling, conservation, and restoration practices, against the backdrop of the dramatic changes that spaces, installations, and practices have undergone over the centuries. More durable evidence has won out in the history and historiography of spatial reconstruction. But what of perishable materials, objects, and architectural installations, as well as musical and sonic manifestations? How do we responsibly approach recreating such ephemeral features that once graced these interiors, enlivening the volumes of often-vacant digital models? Models constitute a frozen image, necessarily in conflict with such activated sacred space. Despite this seemingly contradictory polarization, modeling “snapshots” of activated spaces enriches our understanding and documentation of the past and advances previously stagnant historiographic queries. In particular, immaterial elements such as sound and movement can be made communicable through digital reconstructions. The combination of 3D reconstructions, virtual acoustics (auralizations) and historical performance practice enables immersive simulations of the multi-sensory experience of medieval sacred spaces.

Responding in part to the sensory turn, this workshop seeks papers that address the lost or ephemeral aspects of medieval sacred spaces in two senses:

- material, installation, or object-oriented holistic approaches to reconstruction,

- innovative approaches to modeling or reconstructing embodied experience, visually and aurally induced imaginaries, and sensorial interactions with sacred space through, for example, agent-based modeling.

We foresee three possible thematic sessions:

Session 1: Spatial Voids: Modeling the Gray Zones Advancements in 3D modeling have significantly improved the understanding of complex architectures. However, ensuring academic accuracy in these visualizations remains a subject of debate. This session invites papers addressing the challenges of digitally reconstructing lost or significantly altered buildings, proposing methods to compensate for limited historical data, and transparently conveying interpretative decisions to viewers.

Session 2: Digitally Reconstructing the Ephemeral: Music, Sound and Textile Architectures In light of recent interdisciplinary progress in the emergent field of sound studies, this session seeks papers addressing the incorporation of acoustic data into spatial models. A special focus on textiles is desired but not required for this session, as such virtual soundscape modeling is uniquely impacted by ephemeral materials, like veils, curtains, or other architectural installations.

Session 3: Simulating Sensoriums: Virtual Experiences and the Problem of Sensory Archiving Sensory studies open new questions for spatial modeling even beyond auralization processes. This session seeks papers taking new approaches to the integration of sensation into virtual models, for example, through agent-based modeling which might simulate historical performance practices.

The decidedly interdisciplinary workshop addresses art and architecture historians, musicologists and musicians, digital engineers, 3D environmental artists, (archeo)acousticians and sound engineers.

We are particularly interested in receiving proposals for 20-minute papers presenting results from collaborative endeavors and incorporating problems, methodological challenges, open questions, and potential next steps in the field. We welcome submissions and papers in German, Italian, and English.

Interested speakers are invited to submit an abstract of their proposed paper (max. 500 words) and a short CV (max. 300 words) through the Bibliotheca Hertziana’s recruitment platform by June 15th.

The organization will provide accommodation for speakers and will offer reimbursement –within reasonable bounds– for travel expenses.

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news-12201 Wed, 08 May 2024 09:46:43 +0200 Call for Papers: Imagined Futures in Japan and Beyond https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-imagined-futures-in-japan-and-beyond-a-workshop-at-the-german-institute-for-japanese.html Deadline: 15. Juni 2024 A workshop at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo
Organizer: Nicole M. Mueller, Senior Research Fellow

October 9 - October 11, 2024

The DIJ, in collaboration with the German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH) Tokyo, is hosting an interdisciplinary workshop delving into both fictional and nonfictional portrayals of Japan’s technological future. We will juxtapose these visions with those from other cultures and analyze them through the lens of “narrative” and “sociotechnical imaginary” theoretical frameworks.

The future begins with imagination. Consider Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Metaverse’, inspired by Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, or Japan’s ‘Society 5.0’ campaign, envisioning a digitally transformed “Super Smart Society”. Japanese tech giants like Sony and NTT also recognize storytelling’s role in fostering innovation and societal acceptance of emerging technologies, particularly in Sci-Fi collaborations. These narrative visions of Japan’s tech-driven future make some predictions about the future, but most importantly, they channel emotional attitudes, such as hope and fear.

This situates them within the realm of “narratives” and “sociotechnical imaginaries”. Like “discourse”, narratives thoroughly pervade scholarly and everyday discussions. Peter Brooks (2022) illustrates this by noting how even mundane purchases, like buying cookies, involve encountering brand narratives proudly displayed on the packaging. Similarly, the theoretical concept of narrative spans a wide range of academic disciplines: “life narratives” are gathered through qualitative interviews in sociology and psychology, purposefully crafted narratives are a research subject of political science (election campaigns), legal studies (legal argumentation and statements) and economics (marketing), while cultural (meta-)narratives are addressed by cultural studies and history. One reason for this omnipresence of narrative might be their persuasive and even therapeutic power, which, as Fritz Breithaupt (2022/2024) suggests, rests in their ability to promise rewarding emotions.

Building from this, “sociotechnical imaginaries” can be defined as a more normative subtype of narrative instrumentalized in political and economic contexts. Introduced in Jasanoff and Kim’s 2009 study on the differing attitudes towards nuclear energy in South Korea and the US, sociotechnical imaginaries have been almost exclusively studied within Science and Technology Studies.

The aim of our workshop is to bring together scholars whose work engages with narratives and/or imaginaries of the future, especially but not exclusively in relation to Japan. Presentations may address the content of said narratives and imaginaries, their influences on the academic and non-academic discourses, or different methodological approaches (including those from Digital Humanities). In addition to the workshop presentations, we will invite practitioners from Japan’s tech industry for practical insights into the creation and circulation of future-related imaginaries. An excursion to sites in Tokyo where Japanese conceptions of the future become tangible is also planned.

The workshop is organized by Nicole M. Mueller (DIJ Tokyo) in cooperation with Christian Oberländer and Uwe Wolfradt (MLU Halle-Wittenberg). The Keynote Speaker is Fritz Breithaupt (Experimental Humanities Lab, Indiana University Bloomington), author of The Dark Sides of Empathy (2019, Cornell University Press), and The Narrative Brain (in press, Yale University Press).

Travel (national and international) and accommodation in Tokyo can be provided for a total of around 10 participants. We plan to do partially hybrid panel sessions via zoom, but for presenters, attendance in person is preferable.

Scholars whose research aligns with the thematic scope of our workshop are invited to send their abstracts (500 words maximum) for their planned presentations (in English) via E-Mail to mueller(at)dijtokyo.org by June 15, 2024. We plan to publish the presented papers and our discussion results as an edited volume.

We welcome paper proposals by scholars from different career stages (including PhD students) and from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. Participants who are accepted for the workshop will be notified by July 5, 2024.

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news-12195 Thu, 02 May 2024 13:28:00 +0200 Call for Papers: Symposium (Online) on Cross-Border Mobility https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-symposium-online-on-cross-border-mobility.html Deadline: 20. Mai 2024 The Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, in cooperation with DAAD Regional Office New Delhi and ICAS:MP announces the Call for Papers for the Digital ‘Early Career Research Symposium’ on the theme of Cross-Border Mobility to be held online from 15 – 17 July 2024

The ECR symposium aims to provide a unique platform for early career researchers to showcase their research work in the fields of humanities and social sciences with the focus on cross-border mobility and a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics:

•             Refugees and Irregular Migration

•             Law and Migration 

•             Narratives of Migration

•             Migration and Education

•             Labour Migration (incl. Health)

Early career researchers from South Asia, Germany and Europe who work on topics related to India, South Asia, Germany and Europe are welcome to submit their abstracts for consideration. Doctoral students and postdocs, who completed their doctoral defence no more than two years ago, are eligible to apply. 

To register and submit your abstract, please take the following survey by clicking on the link below:

https://www.daad.de/surveys/919374?lang=en

Application deadline: 20 May 2024

The submitted proposals will be selected and shortlisted by an expert committee. Selected candidates for presentation during the symposium will be informed by 10 June 2024.

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news-12188 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:29:20 +0200 Call for Papers: RESISTING AUTHORITARIANISM IN EURASIA. Civil Society and New Solidarities https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-resisting-authoritarianism-in-eurasia-civil-society-and-new-solidarities.html Deadline: 07. Mai 2024 leksanteri Institute | University of Helsinki | 23–25 October 2024

Deadline for submitting panel, roundtable, and paper proposals: 7 May 2024

We welcome submissions to the 23rd Annual Aleksanteri Conference. This year’s conference will address the challenges posed by the spread and seeming resilience of authoritarianism in Eurasia in a variety of spheres: political contestation, social movements, political legitimacy, repression, and cultural resistance. All of these spheres reflect the formation and transformation of solidarities in the turbulent times, disruption of previously existing identities in the context of ongoing war in Ukraine and emergence of new ones.

The upcoming conference aims to explore political transformations in Eurasia from the perspective of various actors and institutions, with a particular emphasis on civil society organizations and political resistance. The conference will focus both on developments within authoritarian states and on how democracies have confronted the challenges posed by authoritarianism, including by resorting to armed resistance.

By addressing issues related to authoritarian resilience and spillover in the present and past, as well as themes such as legitimacy, civil resistance in times of war, and oppression, the conference seeks to shed light on the reshaping of political alliances and solidarities in the new era. It also aims to examine the cultural and historical origins of dictatorial as well as pluralistic regimes. Furthermore, the conference aims to explore how cultural, economic, and political attitudes have changed in times of profound crisis.

Schedule and deadlines

  • Deadline for submitting proposals: Tuesday, 7 May 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: Monday, 10 June 2024
  • Registration fees due by:
    • Early bird (130 €): Sunday, 30 June 2024
    • Standard (170 €): Friday, 6 September 2024
  • Conference programme published: late September 2024
  • Conference: 23–25 October 2024

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news-12186 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:18:37 +0200 Call for Papers: Winter School on In-between: Intermediaries and Intermediate Places in Global Labour – Past & Present https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-winter-school-on-in-between-intermediaries-and-intermediate-places-in-global-labour.html Deadline: 01. August 2024 PhD students are invited to submit a paper proposal (approx. 500 words), abstract, a short summary of their argument, current affiliation, and short bio-note latest by 1 August, 2024 to:
Michaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi: dimmers@mwsindia.org

Subject: Winter school: In-between: Intermediaries and Intermediate Places

Candidates with PhD funding are expected to fund their trips. However, candidates without funding can apply in their application for support of their travel expenses. You will be informed about the outcome of your application by 30 September, 2024. Successful applicants will be expected to pre-circulate their papers among the participants by 1 December, 2024.

For further information and queries, please contact:
Michaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi: dimmers@mwsindia.org

Organisers:

Sebastian Schwecke, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Michaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Christian Strümpell, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Christian G. De Vito, University of Vienna, Austria
Hanne Osthus, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Paola Revilla Orías, Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia
Paulo Cruz Terra, Universidade Federal Fluminese, Niterói, Brazil
Silvia Grinberg, National University of General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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news-12185 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:13:41 +0200 Call for Papers: Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-parliamentary-junctures-in-continental-europe.html Deadline: 31. August 2024 Organizers: Piotr Kuligowski, Wiktor Marzec, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk

Academic Committee: Marnix Beyen, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Paulina Kewes, Judit Pál, Henk te Velde

First Edition, 23-24 January 2025

Residues and Innovations within Imperial Orders. Political Assemblies in Continental Europe, 1800-1850

The turn of the 18th and 19th centuries witnessed profound transformations in the political landscape of continental Europe, that might be dubbed a Napoleonic moment. Novel ideas regarding national community and state centralization led to the rapid decline of residual republican systems, including almost synchronous collapses of the Dutch Republic, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Italian city-republics. Simultaneously, it paved the way for a new type of political assemblies representing a broader, modernly conceived nation, including the third estate. These newly established bodies often deviated from local political traditions, generating uncertainty but also stirring desire for change. These were, however, often created by politicians educated in the time of the 18th century ancien régime. The year 1815 marked a new wave of parliamentarization in Europe, guided by the provisions of the Congress of Vienna and subsequent treaties. Unlike in the Napoleonic era, the architects of the post Viennese order sought to restore and adapt previously existing representative institutions.

Both pre- and post-Vienna political assemblies, characterized by limited sovereignty were integrated into a broader imperial orders but often situated in buffer zones of empires. While securing imperial rule in these diverse interfaces, these assemblies articulated national-revolutionary claims in times of upheavals and crises, which spurred on centrifugal forces. By comparing these assemblies in the context of their nascent parliamentary culture mixing old forms and innovative designs, a deeper understanding of imperial nexus of power sovereignty, and representation on heterogenous territories can be fostered.

In the first edition of the 'Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe' conference, we welcome submissions addressing various aspects of representative assemblies' internal and external functioning during the first half of the nineteenth century. Exemplary areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:

  • parliamentary rhetoric / discourse and concepts,
  • rearticulations of traditions,
  • procedural and conceptual innovations,
  • assemblies in interface peripheries and inter-imperial bids,
  • social composition of assemblies.

Particular attention will be given to political assemblies situated in imperial borderlands.

Submission deadline: August 31st, 2024

Please send the title, abstract (up to 300 words), and a short CV (one-two pages) at parljunctures@mail.com

Selection results: mid-September 2024 Venues: German Historical Institute, Warsaw (23rd of January 2025)

Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (24th of January 2025)

Practicalities:

The conference organizer will provide accommodation to all participants. If necessary, travel expenses may be covered up to 300 EUR.

The conference results will be published in the form of a special issue of a respected journal in the field (in English). Participants are expected to circulate drafts of their papers at least two weeks before the workshop.

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news-12173 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:54:27 +0200 Call for Applications: Workshop zur deutschen Paläographie https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-application-workshop-zur-deutschen-palaeographie.html Bewerbungsschluss: 30. Juni 2024 28.–29. Oktober 2024 am Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris (DHIP)

Ältere deutsche Handschriften zu lesen, erscheint Anfängern auf dem Gebiet der Paläographie oft als unüberwindliches Hindernis. Um diese Hürde zu nehmen, bietet das DHIP Studierenden, Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftlern einen zweitägigen Workshop mit praxisorientierter Einführung in die deutsche Paläographie an. Der Workshop konzentriert sich auf die deutsche Schreibschrift des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts und stellt das Lesen von ausgewähltem Übungsmaterial unter Anleitung in den Mittelpunkt. Unterrichtssprache ist deutsch.

Wenn Sie teilnehmen möchten, senden Sie bitte bis zum 30. Juni 2024 ein Motivationsschreiben und einen Lebenslauf (vollständig und in einer PDF-Datei) an Niels F. May: nmay@dhi-paris.fr.

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news-12146 Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:06:07 +0200 Call for Papers: Mit dem zweiten Weltkrieg abschließen? Zivilbevölkerung zwischen Befreiung und Wiederaufbau https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-mit-dem-zweiten-weltkrieg-abschliessen-zivilbevoelkerung-zwischen-befreiung-und-wied.html Deadline: 26.04.2024 Wann: 19.–20.9.2024
Wo: Nancy

Wie haben Zivilisten in Frankreich, Belgien, Luxemburg, den Niederlanden und Italien sowie in Deutschland und Österreich die Zeit der »Befreiung« erlebt? Konnten Sie mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg »abschließen« und wie taten sie dies? Die Tagung anlässlich des 80. Jahrestags von débarquement und Libération geht von der Prämisse aus, dass Frauen und Männer in den genannten Gebieten über nationale Unterschiede hinaus eine gemeinsame Erfahrung des Kriegsendes und ein gemeinsames Schicksal teilten. Deshalb sollen Status, Erlebnisse und Gefühle der Zivilbevölkerung vor dem Hintergrund des Kriegsendes untersucht werden. Dieses bestand meist aus einer Abfolge von Phasen des Wartens, der Kämpfe, unmittelbarer Gefahr und Instabilität und der Neuordnung der Nachkriegsgesellschaften. Dabei kommen Erwartungen und Ängste, die Interaktionen der Zivilbevölkerung mit Militärs beider Seiten sowie den Angehörigen anderer Länder und Staatenlosen in den Blick, ihre Überlebensstrategien und Anpassungsversuche an die permanent sich wandelnde Situation. Wie gelang es den Menschen, mit dem Krieg abzuschließen?

Die Organisatorinnen und Organisatoren schlagen mehrere thematische Achsen vor, in die sich die vorgeschlagenen Beiträge einordnen können: Zivilbevölkerung während der bewaffneten Befreiung; Koexistenz von Zivilisten und Soldaten nach den Kämpfen; Normalität und Vergessen; Erinnerung.

Diese Tagung wird von der Universität Lothringen (CRULH), dem Goethe-Institut Nancy und dem Musée lorrain/Palais ducal im Rahmen der Mission »80 ans de Libération« organisiert, mit Unterstützung der Stadt Nancy und des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris.

Beitragsvorschläge (maximal 3000 Zeichen, mit einem kurzen Lebenslauf) sind bis 26. April 2024 bei den Organisatorinnen und Organisatoren einzureichen: laurent.jalabert(at)univ-lorraine.frjean-noel.grandhomme(at)univ-lorraine.fr. Eine Rückmeldung erfolgt nach der Sitzung des wissenschaftlichen Beirats, Anfang Mai 2024.

Vorträge können in französischer, deutscher oder englischer Sprache gehalten werden. Es wird keine Simultanübersetzung geben, sodass zumindest passive Kenntnisse des Französischen und der weiteren genannten Sprachen begrüßenswert sind.

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news-12133 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:31:03 +0100 Call for Papers: Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-euro-mediterranean-entanglements-in-medieval-history0.html Deadline: 03. Juni 2024 Veranstalter: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris/Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom
Ort: Online-Zoom
Datum: Akademisches Jahr 2024/2025
Seminarsprache: Englisch
Organisatorinnen: Dr. Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris), Dr. Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom)

Die Deutschen Historischen Institute Paris und Rom setzen im akademischen Jahr 2024/2025 die Onlineseminar-Reihe zum Thema »Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History« fort. Die Veranstaltungen finden im Zweimonatsrhythmus statt. Sie richten sich sowohl an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs als auch an etablierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aller mediävistischen Disziplinen. Ziel ist es, ein internationales und interdisziplinäres Forum zu schaffen, auf dem vielfältige Themen und methodische Ansätze vorgestellt und diskutiert werden können.
Wir laden interessierte Forscherinnen und Forscher herzlich ein, ihre laufenden oder vor Kurzem abgeschlossenen Arbeiten vor einem internationalen Publikum zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Bitte schicken Sie einen Abstract (1–2 Seiten) und kurzen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis) bis zum 3. Juni 2024 an asagasser@dhi-paris.fr und wolf@dhi-roma.it.

Themen
Der geographische Raum ist bewusst nicht klar umrissen und umfasst Europa sowie den Mittelmeerraum im weitesten Sinne. Einbezogen sind auch Verflechtungen zwischen dem euromediterranen Raum und anderen Weltregionen. Folgende Themenfelder stehen im Mittelpunkt:

  • Regional übergreifende, transkulturelle und interreligiöse Verflechtungen (Prozesse/Ergebnisse);
  • Grenz- und Kontakträume;
  • Soziale Netzwerke und interpersonelle Beziehungen;
  • Migration und Mobilität;
  • Transfer, Diffusion und Adaption bzw. Transformation von Ideen, Wissen und materiellen Objekten.

Seminarablauf
Im Mittelpunkt des Seminars steht der Austausch von Ideen. Unsere Referierenden beginnen mit einer 10- minütigen Keynote, in der sie ihre laufenden oder kürzlich abgeschlossenen Forschungsarbeiten vorstellen. Im Anschluss folgt ein 10-minütiger Kommentar eines Spezialisten. Dieser bildet die Grundlage für die anschließende 40-minütige Diskussion mit dem Online-Publikum.

Termine
Dienstags 17.00–18.00 Uhr (MEZ)

  • 24. September 2024
  • 26. November 2024
  • 28. Januar 2025
  • 25. März 2025
  • 27. Mai 2025

Kontakt für Fragen zum Forschungsseminar: Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris, asagasser@dhi-paris.fr) und Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom, wolf@dhi-roma.it).

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news-12116 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:57:58 +0100 Call for Papers: Refugees in Global Transit: Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s–50s https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers0.html Deadline: 30. April 2024 Conference in Mumbai, India | Organized by Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington), Sebastian Schwecke (Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi), and Swen Steinberg (Queen's University, Kingston). in collaboration with Christoph K. Neumann (OI Istanbul), Maria Framke (Erfurt University), and Jens Hanssen (OI Beirut).

Between the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s and decolonization after World War II, a range of non-Western, in many cases colonial, regions became hubs for people in transit. A growing body of new research on refugees “In Global Transit,” many of them Jews in flight from Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe, has highlighted this forced migration to, and in, the Global South. Scholars are documenting refugee encounters with local populations and colonial authorities, their search for more permanent new homes, as well as their attempts to maintain contact with, and facilitate the escape of, those left behind.

This conference builds on the emerging scholarship on cultural, social, and political encounters – connections and disconnects – among diverse groups of European and non-European refugees and with highly stratified host populations, including existing Jewish communities, colonial officials and settlers, and other migrants. While much of this research has relied on sources produced by state or colonial officials or the refugees themselves, this conference aims to explore new approaches and sources that require knowledge of local and national languages, archives, and histories.

“Transit” refers to individual and collective experiences of living in-between – that is, in spaces people did not envision remaining in permanently. However, it also refers to regions and countries like Turkey, Palestine, and India, where refugees from Nazi Europe found a safe haven while these regions were themselves undergoing turbulent transitions.

Examining this volatile historical moment raises further questions applicable to other refugee and migrant experiences in crisis: What kinds of knowledge transfer can we observe, and what kinds of boundaries and prejudices obstructed such transfers? What were the differential impacts of class, gender, and age on notions of ethnic, national, “racial,” and religious differences? And how can we uncover the long-term memories of this global diaspora of WWII refugees after most of them moved beyond their transit spaces in the decades following independence, state building, and – in some cases – new forms of forced migration?

We welcome paper proposals for an international conference that brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary and cross-epochal approach and are especially interested in exchange with and among scholars in and/or from the Global South. This conference aims to focus specifically on:

  • hospitality, friendship, and enmity
  • peaceful and violent encounters, connections, disconnects, and separations
  • processes of and obstacles to knowledge transfer and cultural translation
  • the formation and perception of diasporas
  • memories in and of transit.


The conference will be held in English. Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals for entire panels (up to three papers) are welcome. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, a CV, and contact information (address, phone, email) must be submitted ONLINE in one pdf by April 30, 2024. Applicants will be informed about the acceptance of their paper by the end of June 2024.

Accommodation will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel are available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. Please inform us if you can utilize funds from your home institution to participate in the conference. There is no registration fee.

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news-12115 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:50:49 +0100 Call for Papers: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-catholicism-and-the-cold-war-in-latin-america.html Deadline: 01. April 2024 Die Konferenz findet im Rahmen des Projekts The Global Pontificate of Pius XII: Catholicism in a Divided World, 1945–1958 statt (University of Oxford, 21.–22. November 2024).
Wir freuen uns auf Beiträge von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern, die sich mit dem römischen Katholizismus und dem Kalten Krieg in Lateinamerika von ca. 1940 bis ca. 1990 beschäftigen.
Bitte reichen Sie bis spätestens 1. April 2024 ein Abstract von höchstens 250 Wörtern ein, inklusive des Titels der Präsentation, des/der Autor(en) Name(n) und der institutionellen Zugehörigkeit(en)

Hier geht es zum Call for Papers.


We are pleased to announce the “Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America” conference to be held from November 21-22, 2024 at the University of Oxford with support from “The Global Pontificate of Pius XII” project directed by Dr Simon Unger (GHI Rome). We seek contributions from scholars working on Roman Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America from c. 1940 to c. 1990. Participants may be invited to contribute to a related edited volume co-edited by Dr Daniel McDonald (Oxford), Professor Jaime Pensado (Notre Dame), and Dr Simon Unger. The conference will include both panels and a workshop to further develop the volume. We especially encourage applications from scholars based in Latin America as well as from Early Career Researchers.

The conference endeavours to assist with travel costs and accommodation for as many participants as possible, prioritizing those without institutional support and Early Career Researchers. Latin America comprised a central arena in both the global transformation of the Catholic Church and in the Cold War during the twentieth century. The elevation of Pope Francis (2013-present) to become the first Latin American pope reopened fraught questions about the role of the Catholic Church during the Cold War. Similarly, the opening of new archival collections, most notably that of the papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958), have invigorated an already thriving historiography. Here, we take inspiration from recent work on the Cold War that has moved beyond conceptualizing the conflict as a clash between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies. Rather, Latin America’s Cold War consisted of overlapping layers of conflicts of local, national, and transnational scale wherein struggles over culture, social citizenship, inequality, local issues, and more became enmeshed with one another.

Key questions we will collectively address include:

  • How did the different Latin American Churches influence the global Catholic Church’s actions amid the Cold War?
  • How can examining transnational religious networks and cultural discourses reshape our understanding of the global Cold War?
  • How did the Vatican intervene in Latin America during the Cold War, including but not limited to measures to prevent the spread of communism and its relations with authoritarian regimes?
  • And finally, how can unpacking these complex processes simultaneously help us move beyond established narratives while establishing new frameworks and periodizations?

While we welcome submissions on any topic that addresses these questions, we are especially interested in transnational approaches that place Latin America in a global context. Along these lines, possible topics may include but are not limited to works that examine the Catholic Church, Catholicism, and the Cold War with regards to:

  • Inequality and poverty, including social Catholicism; liberation theology; and, relations with social revolution, communism, and socialism.
  • Culture, including conflict over morality; gender and sexuality; race and racism; as well as counterculture, student movements, and 1968.
  • Layperson movements, including Catholic Action and its specialized branches (JOC, JUC, JEC, JAC, etc.); Pax Romana; Base ecclesiastical communities (CEBs); as well as right-wing Catholic movements such as Family, Tradition, and Property and the National Synarchist Union, among others.
  • Global connections, including with decolonization in the Global South; the Vatican and its diplomatic outreach; inter-American networks; democratizing and post-WWII Europe; as well as international NGOs. • Politics and political Catholicism, including Christian Democracy; dictatorships and state terror; as well as human rights and transitional justice.
  • Ecclesiastical and theological approaches, including accounts focused on specific clergy, national Churches, missionaries, orders, and the papacy; the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965); the Conferences of Medellín (1968) and Puebla (1979); papal encyclicals and their reception; as well as theological debate on the aforementioned issues.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words including a presentation title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation(s) no later than April 1, 2024. In the abstract, please indicate whether you would contribute to the edited volume. Abstracts and any questions should be submitted to Daniel McDonald (daniel.mcdonald@history.ox.ac.uk) and Jaime Pensado (jpensado@nd.edu).

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news-12114 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:46:20 +0100 Call for Applications: Studienreise - München für Mediävisten 2024 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-studienreise-muenchen-fuer-mediaevisten-2024.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01. Juni 2024 München für Mediävisten 2024

Einblick in die Arbeit deutscher Forschungsinstitutionen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte

Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris (DHIP) bietet vom 25.–29. August 2024 eine Studienreise nach München für Studierende und Promovierende deutscher und französischer Universitäten und Hochschulen an.

Bewerbungsschluss: 1. Juni 2024

Die Studienreise bietet deutschen und französischen Studierenden und Promovierenden der mittelalterlichen Geschichte mit guten Grundkenntnissen in der jeweils anderen Sprache die Möglichkeit, einen vertieften Einblick in das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem zu gewinnen und auf diese Weise den akademischen Austausch zu fördern.
Geplant sind Besuche der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, des Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchivs, der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte sowie des Historischen Kollegs.

Eine Teilnahmebescheinigung kann ausgestellt werden.

Die Teilnahmegebühr beträgt 50,- EUR. Die Reisekosten (üblicherweise Bahnfahrt, 2. Klasse, bis max. 180,- €) und Übernachtung werden vom DHI Paris getragen.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf sowie ein kurzes Motivationsschreiben enthalten. Sie sind bis zum 1. Juni 2024 unter dem Stichwort »München für Mediävisten« an Frau Dr. Amélie Sagasser zu richten: asagasser@dhi-paris.fr.

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news-12113 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:39:10 +0100 Call for Applications: Wartime Occupations in Europe (20th-21st centuries) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-wartime-occupations-in-europe-20th-21st-centuries.html Bewerbungsschluss: 03. Mai 2024 Wartime Occupations in Europe (20th-21st centuries)

Socio-historical perspectives

International Conference

CERCEC-EHESS, Paris, November 7-8, 2024

 

The Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory since 2014 has brought into stark focus 20th century experiences and legacies of occupation in Europe. They are central in national memory cultures while generating polemics and conflicts up to this day, which are not resolved, but often enflamed, by the large body of historical research that has explored all the nuances and “greyness” of these difficult pasts. Beyond discrete case studies, we lack a clear understanding of the specificities of modern occupations, of the ways that people experience them, how they transform social, economic, political relations. 

What happens when a territory “is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army” during on-going international military conflict, when authority is split between the “legitimate power” and its exercise “in fact” by that power’s military enemy, as defined by the Hague and Geneva Conventions?

Much of the discourse and expectations surrounding this question continue to be shaped by the post-1945 diptych of “collaboration” and “resistance” as the two emblematic responses to foreign occupation and consequently the measure of all social behavior under occupation. Both terms became loaded not just with political, but with moral meaning, providing the bedrock of European post-war memory and mythmaking. Both come with expectations of legal retribution/recognition. This framework has become so entrenched in European memory and political culture as to seem natural, although it is reductive and historically situated. It also largely ignores the dynamic and fluid aspects of occupation, which is defined by much of the same uncertainty and risk as the war experience itself. It thus has limited value as either guide for empirical research or as conceptual framework to understand the complexity of social experiences of wartime occupation. Historical research has highlighted many of these aspects, turning to “attentism”, “grey areas”, forms of “passive resistance” and “cooperation”, without succeeding in providing an alternative conceptual framework for understanding this foundational experience of modern European societies.

The aim of this international conference is to explore ways to research and conceptualize the social experience of occupation beyond this post-1945 framework, through interdisciplinary discussion between historians, sociologists, and other social scientists working on contemporary European societies, within a comparative conversation including different occupations in all regions of Europe during different conflicts. We aim to shed light on the structural conditions, shifting dynamics, social actors, and orders, as well as lived experiences of wartime occupation as a social phenomenon. We welcome submissions that address the conceptual and methodological challenges of scientific research on past and present situations of wartime occupation.

We define wartime occupations as social situations, where a belligerent exercises authority over the territory and population of a country with which it is actively at war. These situations are also marked by the primacy of military actors and objectives, the presence of violence, a high degree of unsettledness, as well as the war-induced uncertainty over future outcomes.

Among the topics we would offer for consideration are:

  • Social actors: how to identify and map the plurality of state and non-state actors involved at different scales from the micro-social to international? State actors include various representatives of at least two states claiming legitimate authority over the territory and the population; these can be local or central actors, present or not on occupied territory, military, police or civilian, with sometimes competing agendas. Non-state actors include civilians with diverse positions relative to state authorities, parastatal actors, militant groups with autonomous agendas, criminal ones... All these actors are forced to redefine their social identities and positions, their interactions, practices, language, values with various resources and constraints. How can we analyze their various degrees of autonomy? How can we understand “occupiers” and “occupied” as new social identities and categories, whose relations are defined by radical power imbalances, which reshape feelings of belonging and collective identities?
  • Temporalities and lived experiences: how do the circumstances of invasion or retreat of occupying troops and the duration of occupation shape its experience by civilians? How is the time of everyday life transformed? How does war remain present, how do bombings, military operations and movements shape it? How are the extraordinary temporality of occupation and the ordinariness of everyday life articulated? How are time horizons of action and future expectations redefined? In how far is occupation a transformative experience? In how far are pre-war trajectories predictive or not, what pre-war dispositions and resources are useful or not? Many European regions have known repeated wartime occupations during the 20th and the 21st centuries, and some are occupied and liberated repeatedly during the same conflict: how does past experience shape the one under examination?
  • Space: wartime occupation is accompanied by spatial fragmentation and reconfiguration, as pre-war borders take new meaning without disappearing and occupied territory is redefined by its position relative to the front-line. The movements of people and goods are disrupted, as the occupiers restrict and redirect them to serve what they see as their security and economic needs, including through evacuations and deportations. The distance to the front-line, the proximity to or integration in the territory of the occupying state, the natural environment, the communication and transportation infrastructures, rural or urban settings, are some of the many factors that spatially define different regimes and situations of occupation.
  • Competing social orders and norms: how do the warring states adapt their legislation to address the situation of occupation? How are jurisdictions redefined? How are the state actors using legislation and regulations, on different levels, to restrict the population’s autonomy, encourage or enforce loyalty, and serve the state and army’s own objectives? How are laws enforced, how is behavior under occupation judged during the war itself? How do people under occupation understand and negotiate the sudden changes in regulations? How are these changes related to the renegotiation of social norms? How are social norms enforced, or not, under uncertainty? How does the competition between irreconcilable political orders under circumstances of uncertainty shape the experience of social order? How is the extraordinariness of the situation used by different state actors to experiment policies? How, why, and when do occupied territories become “laboratories” of new policies and orders?
  • Economic dimensions: the destruction of property, the absence of parts of the population, legal uncertainty on property rights, and the value of goods, state policies that aim at exploiting the economic resources of the occupied territory for war while using their redistribution for reward and retaliation, are some of the issues that characterize wartime occupations. How do economic conflicts play out under such situations? How are social and economic hierarchies and networks redefined? How do occupying authorities articulate their aims of economic exploitation and loyalty extraction? How does the population navigate this politicization of economic survival through transformed practices, relations, strategies?
  • Wars: How do we conceptualize the multiplicity of violent conflicts on different scales and with various actors and goals that characterize many occupation situations? How do political, social, economic conflicts, rooted or not in pre-war conflicts and political movements, play out under occupation? How to analyze their autonomous dynamics and logics as well as their articulation with each other and with “the” war? How does a renewed and social understanding of occupation help us reconsider the use of concepts such as “civil wars”, “internecine wars”?
  • Mass violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity: wartime occupations are associated with widespread violence against civilians. For example, pillage, rape, and violence committed for “security” purposes, including arbitrary detention, kidnapping, torture and collective reprisals, are not only common, but are in various way “crimes of occupation”, violence against civilians directly linked to the specific situation of military occupation. What are those links? How do the dynamics of military occupation produce violent situations? How do occupying powers try to curb or to exploit these? Beyond this “ordinary” violence of occupation, are there specific situations, logics and dynamics that explain how occupations become spaces of mass violence and genocide?

We welcome submissions (max. 700 words) by all social scientists, including historians, on any wartime occupation in 20th and 21st century in Europe. The conference will include a half-day workshop specifically dedicated to an interdisciplinary discussion of sources and methods; submissions should point to these as well.

All applications should be sent by May 3, 2024, to: wartimeoccupations.conference(at)gmail.com.

The language of the conference will be English. Applications can be sent in most European languages, including Ukrainian, and fluency in English is not required to take part, although correct understanding is welcome. Organizers can help participants with weak English skills but strong scientific proposals during the conference.

The conference will take place on 7-8 November 2024 in Paris. The organizers will try to cover all the costs for participants who are not funded by their home institutions. Costs for all Ukrainian participants (currently in Ukraine or displaced abroad) will be entirely covered.

This conference is part of activities conducted by “War and Society in Central and Eastern Europe (20th-21st centuries)” Research Alliance (EURETES, EHESS – MESR) that bring together CERCEC-EHESS, Charles University in Prague and Lviv Center of Urban History. It is supported by the Osteuropa Network of the Max Weber Foundation, the German Historical Institute in Paris and the Marc Bloch Center (Berlin).

Scientific committee:

Xavier Bougarel (EHESS)

Masha Cerovic (CERCEC-EHESS)

Franziska Exeler (Freie Universität Berlin – Cambridge)

Jürgen Finger (Institut historique allemand de Paris)

Laurent Gayer (CERI-Sciences Po Paris)

Ota Konrad (Charles University, Prague)

Lukasz Krzyzanowski (Warsaw University)

Sophie Lambroschini (Centre Marc Bloch)

Anne Le Huérou, (University Paris Nanterre)

Silvia Serrano (Sorbonne Université)

Ioulia Shukan (University Paris Nanterre)

Iuliia Skubytska (Princeton University)

Ismee Tames (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Utrecht University)

 

Zur Website des Le CERCEC, Centre d’études russes, caucasiennes, est-européennes et centrasiatiques

Zur Website des DHI Paris

Zur Website des MWN Osteuropa

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news-12100 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:01:18 +0100 Call for Applications: Tagung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen im Bereich der Möbel- und Raumkunst https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-tagung-fuer-nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen-im-bereich-der-moebel-und-raumkunst.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01. Juli 2024 mobile – Gesellschaft der Freunde von Möbel- und Raumkunst e. V. ist die Interessengemeinschaft für alle, die sich wissenschaftlich, privat oder beruflich mit Möbeln und Raumkunst befassen. Der Verein fördert auf vielfältige Weise die Bewahrung, Erforschung und Vermittlung von Möbeln und Raumkunst. Neben Seminaren und Exkursionen unterstützt mobile die wissenschaftliche Forschung, u. a. mit einer eigenen Schriftenreihe. mobile fördert Tagungen, Restaurierungsmaßnahmen und Forschungsprojekte. Ein besonderes Anliegen des Vereins ist es, den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs zu fördern. Um den Dialog zwischen Museumsfachleuten, Restauratorinnen und Restauratoren, Sammlerinnen und Sammlern und dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs zu stärken, organisieren mobile, die HAWK Hildesheim, Fakultät bauen und erhalten / Studiengang Restaurierung und das Deutsche Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris eine Tagung in der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst in Hildesheim (HAWK).

Die Tagung versteht sich als ein Angebot an Nachwuchs­wissenschaftler­innen und Nachwuchs­wissenschaftler, eigene Forschungs­projekte im Kreis von Fach­kolleginnen und Fach­kollegen zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Ziel der Tagung ist es, einen intensiven Austausch und eine Vernetzung innerhalb der deutsch­sprachigen Möbel- und Raumkunst­forschung über die Grenzen der einzelnen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen hinaus zu gestalten.

Das Kolloquium richtet sich an Doktoranden (m, w, d), Postdoktoranden (m, w, d), Habilitanden (m, w, d) und allgemein an jüngere Forscher (m, w, d) von Hochschulen und musealen Einrichtungen des deutsch­sprachigen Raums, die sich mit Themen der Möbel- und Raumkunst befassen, wobei keine Beschränkungen bezüglich Epochen, Gattungen, Themengebieten etc. bestehen. Die Teilnehmenden werden gebeten, das eigene Forschungs­projekt im Rahmen eines etwa 20-minütigen Vortrags zu präsentieren. Je nach Stand der eigenen Recherchen sind hierbei sowohl Arbeits­berichte als auch die Vorstellung von Thesen oder Zusammenfassungen des Forschungsbeitrags willkommen.

Unterbringungskosten für zwei Nächte sowie Verpflegung und eine Erstattung der Reisekosten bis zu 150 Euro werden übernommen.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis), eine knappe Zusammenfassung des Forschungsprojekts sowie ein Motivationsschreiben enthalten. Ein Anspruch auf Zulassung besteht nicht.

Die Bewerbungen sind bis zum 01. Juli 2024 zu richten an:
Dr. Andreas Büttner
Kurator Kunstgewerbe, Gemälde und Skulpturen
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Steintorwall 14
38100 Braunschweig
andreas.buettner(at)braunschweig.de

Auskünfte erteilen:

Verantwortliche Person am DFK

Dr. Jörg Ebeling

Forschungsleiter / Bibliotheksleiter

Telefon +33 (0)1 42 60 67 66

jebeling(at)dfk-paris.org

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news-12099 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:56:56 +0100 Call for Applications: Internationales Vernetzungstreffen des Festival de l’histoire de l’art 2024 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-internationales-vernetzungstreffen-des-festival-de-lhistoire-de-lart-2024.html Bewerbungsschluss: 07. April 2024 2024 findet die dreizehnte Ausgabe des Festival de l’histoire de l’art statt. Das vom Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) organisierte Festival ist eine Veranstaltung des französischen Kulturministeriums. Seit 2011 bietet der Kongress, der sich sowohl an ein internationales Fachpublikum als auch an interessierte Laien richtet, eine einzigartige Gelegenheit, die Kunstgeschichte in Frankreich und ihre Vertreter:innen kennenzulernen. Vielfältige Formate wie Konferenzen, Roundtable-Gespräche, Ausstellungen, Büchersalons und Filmvorführungen laden an drei Tagen zur Begegnung und zum Austausch ein. Das diesjährige Festival verschreibt sich aus Anlaß der Olympischen und Paralympischen Spiele dem Thema »Sport«, als Gastland wurde Mexiko ausgewählt.

Zum dritten Mal wird das internationale Vernetzungstreffen in Form einer zweiteiligen Veranstaltung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Nationalen Autonomen Universität von Mexiko (UNAM), der Maison Universitaire Franco Mexicaine (MUFRAMEX), dem DFK Paris und dem Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris durchgeführt. Ziel des Treffens ist es, Studierende und Promovierende frankophoner, deutsch- und spanischsprachiger Universitäten zusammenzubringen und die Grundlagen für Austausch, Diskussion und Zusammenarbeit zu schaffen.

Das Vernetzungstreffen besteht aus zwei Volets und konzentriert sich sowohl auf Fragen der kunsthistorischen Ausbildung wie auch auf die nach der praktischen Anwendung der Kunstgeschichte. Der erste Teil findet vom 28. bis 30. Mai 2024 in Paris statt. Drei Tage Seminar, Besuche von Museen und Institutionen eröffnen den Teilnehmenden die Möglichkeit, Pariser Sammlungen und Archivbestände mit einem Bezug zu Lateinamerika kennenzulernen. Den zweiten Teil bildet die anschließende Teilnahme am Festival im Schloss Fontainebleau. Die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen können vom 31. Mai bis zum 2. Juni Vorträge, Diskussionsrunden, Filmvorführungen und andere Veranstaltungen besuchen, die das reichhaltige Programm des Festivals anbietet. Ein gemeinsames Seminar zu Methodenfragen vervollständigt das Programm.

Diese Ausschreibung richtet sich an Studierende, die einen Master 2, ein Doktorat oder ein Postdoc absolvieren und Forschung im Bereich der Kunstgeschichte, des Kulturerbes oder der Architektur, der Museumsstudien und der Archäologie betreiben. Bewerbungen müssen bis Sonntag, den 7. April (vor Mitternacht) eingereicht werden. Bedingungen und Details zur Bewerbung finden Sie in der nebenstehenden PDF-Datei. 

Link zum Bewerbungsformular: https://www.festivaldelhistoiredelart.fr/application-form-international-student-sessions-fha24/

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news-12098 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:46:17 +0100 Call for Applications: Forschungsstipendium DFK Paris September 2024 | INHA https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-forschungsstipendium-dfk-paris-september-2024-inha.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15. Mai 2024 Das Deutsche Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris) und das Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) vergeben zum 1. September 2024 gemeinsam ein einjähriges Stipendium.

Das Stipendium richtet sich an herausragende Wissenschaftler/-innen der Kunstgeschichte aus Frankreich, Deutschland und dem internationalen Ausland, die am Anfang ihrer Karriere stehen (Doktorand/-innen und Postdoktorand/-innen). Ziel der Förderung ist es, wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit innovativen Forschungsansätzen zu unterstützen, die der Kunstgeschichte neue Perspektiven erschließen. Diese Arbeiten sollen sich mit kunsthistorischen Fragen befassen, die den europäischen und außereuropäischen Künsten zugrunde liegen oder sie miteinander in Verbindung bringen, insbesondere durch vergleichende Ansätze oder solche, die sich auf epistemologische, methodologische oder historiografische Aspekte konzentrieren. Themen zur Enteignung, Plünderung, Aneignung und Provenienz von Kunstwerken können ebenfalls Forschungsgegenstand sein.

Bewerbungen mit einem erforderlichen Aufenthalt in Paris werden bevorzugt behandelt.

Bedingung ist, dass die/der ausgewählte Kandidat/-in während des Förderzeitraums im engen Kontakt und Austausch mit dem DFK Paris und dem INHA steht und sich überwiegend in Paris aufhält.

Die Stipendiat/-innen forschen jeweils sechs Monate am Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris) ab September 2024 und am Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) ab März 2025. Die ausgewählten Stipendiat/-innen erwartet ein anregendes Arbeitsumfeld, das ihnen auch den Zugang zu den Archiven und den Austausch mit internationalen Expert/-innen erleichtern soll.

Der Umfang des Stipendiums beträgt monatlich 1.750 Euro (zuzüglich eines monatlichen pauschalen Sachkostenzuschusses von 250 Euro sowie ggf. einer Kinderzulage) für die Dauer von 12 Monaten. Die/der ausgewählte Kandidat/-in wird jeweils für sechs Monate am DFK Paris und am INHA als Wissenschaftler/-in gefördert. Das Stipendium beinhaltet ferner die Bereitstellung eines Arbeitsplatzes sowie die Nutzung der infrastrukturellen Ressourcen beider Institute.

Bewerbungen für die Auswahl 2024-2025 müssen auf https://candidature.inha.fr/ bis zum 15. Mai 2024 eingereicht werden.

Nur die auf diesem Wege eingereichten Bewerbungen werden im Auswahlverfahren berücksichtigt. Die Auswahlkommission, bestehend aus Peter Geimer, Julia Drost, Éric de Chassey und Juliette Trey, wird im Juni 2024 zusammentreten.

Zusammensetzung des Bewerbungsdossiers

Das Bewerbungsdossier kann in deutscher, französischer oder englischer Sprache verfasst werden.

- Ein Bewerbungsanschreiben, adressiert an den Direktor des Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris) und die Interimsdirektorin des Département des études et de la recherche des INHA

- Einen Lebenslauf

- Eine Projektbeschreibung (maximal 3 Seiten) zzgl. einer Bibliographie mit Angaben der zu sichtenden Quellen sowie ein Zeitplan

Die Auswahlkommission tagt einmal jährlich.

Weitere Informationen und Kontakt:

Sekretariat des Département des études et de la recherche

Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA)

Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 03 85 81

E-Mail: der-dir@inha.fr

Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris)

Abteilung Förderprogramme

Tel.: + 33 (0)1 42 60 68 23

E-Mail: stipendien@dfk-paris.org

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news-12070 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:44:42 +0100 Call for Applications: Summer School „The British Empire and the History of Capitalism“ https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-summer-school-the-british-empire-and-the-history-of-capitalism.html Bewerbungsschluss: 12. April 2024 21st Summer School

3–6 September 2024

Venue: Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

Capitalism, broadly understood as an economic and social order characterized by profit-seeking and market exchange, has become constitutive of modern societies. The expansion of trade between Europe and Asia since early modern times facilitated a boom in capitalist enterprise not only in Northwestern Europe but also in large parts of the world that now became linked to the global economy. The coercive, exploitative practices of colonialism and the expansionist forces of imperialism undergirded this global growth of capitalism.

The history of capitalism and capitalist expansion on the back of European imperialism has long drawn the interest of historians. For example, the colonial capitalism of the cash-crop plantations in the Americas and the parallel growth of the transatlantic slave trade has been much debated for its impact, both on the rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century, and on the current shape of the world. The emergence of world markets under the auspices of industrialization and imperialism went hand in hand with a transformation of economic structures and global labour relations. The British Empire stood at the centre of these fundamental shifts in the world economic order. Global capitalism on the back of empire catapulted Britain into a global economic power, arguably at the cost of its colonies, such as South Asia.

This summer school will engage with the history of capitalism in the British Empire especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Our tutors, Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick)Dr Karolina Hutkova (LSE), and Professor Tirthankar Roy (LSE), will discuss key questions regarding the development of capitalism in the British transatlantic economy as well as in the relations between Britain and South Asia, stressing the circulation of resources (capital, knowledge, people, and/or materials) as well as economic, social, and political conditions in these and resulting from those developments. Finally, the course will explore how the history of capitalism in Britain’s imperial past has shaped, and continues to shape, modern Britain and its former colonies.

The summer school is a part of the on-going collaboration between the German Historical Institute London and the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. The course convenors are Professor Alexander Engel (LMU Munich) and Dr Indra Sengupta (GHI London).

The course will take place at LMU Munich on 3 - 6 September 2024. It is aimed at advanced BA or MA students of history or other related subjects at all German universities. An interest in the history of the British Empire and the history of capitalism is desirable.

Please note: Selected participants will be expected to attend all the classes. The course language is English and participants will be required to study the mandatory readings (around 15 chapter/article length pieces) to prepare for the classes. The readings will be sent out a few weeks ahead of the course.

The course is open to students from all German universities. However, a separate selection process applies to students from the LMU who should directly contact the convener Professor Engel.

Please apply in writing by Friday 12 April with the following documents:

  • A cover letter of 1-2 pages explaining why you wish to take part in the summer school;
  • A brief letter of recommendation from your supervisor;
  • A list of courses you have attended and exams you have taken

The organisers will bear the cost of accommodation in Munich and sandwich lunch will be provided on the days of the summer school. It may be possible to make a small contribution towards the cost of travel to Munich. Unfortunately, we are unable to cover any other costs.

Please send us your application as a single PDF file and by email only to Dr Indra Sengupta i.sengupta@ghil.ac.uk

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news-12057 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:38:07 +0100 Call for Papers: Punish and Rehabilitate through Work (19th-20th century) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-punish-and-rehabilitate-through-work-19th-20th-century.html Deadline: 04. April 2024 Punish and Rehabilitate through Work: Institutions, Discourses, and Agency in Central, Eastern, and Western Europe at the End of the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century

Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO
German Historical Institute Warsaw
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
Date: November 13–15, 2024

Workhouse, house of correction, reformatory, forced labour colony, disciplinary labour camp, etc. – these are only a few designations of the disciplinary institutions that proliferated across Eastern, Central, and Western Europe during the late 19th and in the first half of the 20th century. These disciplinary institutions served a dual purpose of confinement as well as correction. Behind their walls or within their compounds, citizens who deviated from the prevailing middle-class norms of “proper work” and “decent behaviour” were confined as well as corrected by making use of their labour. The declared aim of such institutions, whose tradition dates back to the early modern period, was therefore not only to punish individuals whose mobility, livelihood and other types of conduct were criminalised, but also to turn “alcoholics”, “beggars”, “delinquents”, “pimps”, “prostitutes”, and “vagrants”, to name only a few groups who were targeted, into “orderly citizens”.

The majority of existing research has focused on the 18th and 19th centuries and the role of the continental as well as the English workhouse in Western Europe in relation to nascent capitalism. Therefore, shifting the focus on the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century opens up new possibilities for inquiring into the continuities and discontinuities of the practices and functions of previously established or newly created disciplinary institutions that were intended to provide additional punishment while simultaneously correcting the allegedly deviant subjects through labour. In particular, the regions of Central and Eastern Europe underwent significant political, social and economic development during this period. This development included the transition from semi-peripheral regions of empires to nation-states and many turbulent transformations of political regimes, encompassing liberal and popular democracies, authoritarian regimes as well as Nazi and state-socialist dictatorships. The political transformations often went hand in hand with significant economic fluctuations, such as the Great Depression or the two world conflicts. In addition, various social and penal reforms were introduced during this period, which had serious repercussions on the idea of who and how should be punished and/or rehabilitated through work.

In this workshop, we aim to bring together scholars from various fields, mainly experts in the history of social policies, history of convict or forced labour, histories of diverse marginalised or criminalised groups, history of criminology and penal law, and history of prisons and prison reform. Our intention is to explore the locally diverse disciplinary institutions such as continental workhouses, reformatories for young offenders, forced labour camps, etc. from various perspectives. These institutions could be located at the nexus of confinement, labour, and rehabilitation. They were embedded in a wider net of penal, social and economic measures and at the same time debated in expert circles as well as on the pages of the popular press. We also want to overcome the fact that the historiography of these various institutions remains very much focused on Western Europe, captive to national narratives, mostly overlooking institutions designed for women and often fragmented among a variety of research perspectives that overlap with each other only sporadically. Finally, in order to see possible innovations in this research field, we want to discuss the existing concepts (including disciplination, forced labour, and convict labour) that serve to interpret the meaning of these institutions and the methods and sources which could be used in order to reconstruct the everyday life of men and women assigned to these institutions as well as to re-examine the institutions’ role in confining specific groups of inhabitants, namely the Roma and Sinti.

Issues we would like contributors to address in the workshop are:

1. INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS

  • What functions did these disciplinary institutions perform in the broader context of social processes of exclusion and inclusion?
  • How did the constitutive tension between the rehabilitation and confinement of inmates affect the position of these institutions within gradually diverging systems of punishment and social welfare?
  • Which actors (e.g. different bodies of the state, municipalities, churches, private companies etc.) were involved in different aspects of these institutions and in which ways?

2. IDEAS AND PRACTICES

  • How to interpret the relationship between the diverse contemporary discourses of rehabilitation and punishment, and the changing practice of the disciplinary institutions such as continental workhouses, forced labour camps and reformatories?
  • What role did the disciplinary institutions play in the discourses and imaginations of social outcasts, especially those who were labelled as “Gypsies”?
  • Did these popular as well as expert ideas and discourses shape the practice?

3. INMATES AND STAFF

  • Who actually were the people confined in these institutions, in terms of their age, gender, class, professions, ethnicity, nationality, etc.?
  • Why were they confined and in what ways were they deemed to need reforming?
  • Who was recruited as staff in the disciplinary institutions and how?

4. LABOUR AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY

  • What kinds of labour were used to correct male and female convicts and what concepts (e.g. forced labour or convict labour) could be used in order to capture the complexities of penal and economic goals?
  • How were the inmates’ conditions negotiated in relation to the labour market, wages, etc. in the outside world?

5. EVERYDAY LIFE AND METHODOLOGY

  • What were the living conditions and everyday life of the inmates and how did the everyday life of male and female convicts differ?
  • How were the social hierarchies and order negotiated by the inmates and the staff?
  • What types of sources and methods can be used in order to reconstruct everyday life and to capture the agency of the inmates and how?

6. (DIS-)CONTINUITIES

  • How did these disciplinary institutions change over time?
  • What role did the agency of inmates play in particular?
  • How were they influenced by political development of the state or local administrations?

We especially welcome scholars who deal with these topics in the context of Central and Eastern Europe and/or apply innovative qualitative and/or quantitative methods and approaches.

Our plan is to publish an edited volume.

Workshop languageEnglish.

Organisers:

Pavel Baloun (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences / Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
Lucie Dušková (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO)
Jaromír Mrňka (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
Klára Pinerová (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Jiří Smlsal (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Deadlines:

  • Abstract Submission (max. 300 words with short bio): April 4, 2024
  • Communicating Acceptance: April 22, 2024. Selected participants will be invited to submit a paper of 3,000–5,000 words as a basis for the book chapter.
  • Paper Submission: September 30, 2024
  • Submit Abstracts to prworkshop2024@hiu.cas.cz

Venue: Prague

Keynote Speaker: Sigrid Wadauer (University of Vienna)

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news-12034 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:52:58 +0100 Call for Contributions: Max Weber Foundation Conference on Harmful Entanglements https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-contributions-max-weber-foundation-conference-on-harmful-entanglements.html Bewerbungsschluss: 25.02.2024 Orient-Institut Istanbul, May 14th–15th.

Entanglements are the order of the day. In the last two decades or so, the notion of entanglement has not only been very popular with historians (histoire croisée, Verflechtungsgeschichte), but also on fields such as comparative literature, cultural anthropology, archeology, and some social sciences. The concept of entanglement enables researchers to avoid dealing with clearly (pre-)defined social or political entities. It has awarded researchers the opportunity to attain a freely chosen vantage point with regard to both their evidence and concepts. Finally, it has proved especially suitable for the analysis of social, intellectual and political agency and interdependencies because of the concept’s capacity to break down asymetries, dilute binaries and highlight questions of process (how?) over quiddity (what?) and cause (why?).

The conference on ‘Harmful Entanglements’ thus addresses a phenomenon caused not so much by a principal methodological flaw in the concept of entanglement. Rather, it aims to answer to the unacknowledged conditions of the concept’s ubiquity, or, with other words, by its own ‘entanglement’ in a particular political context. Arguably, the study of and the various approaches to entanglements are products of an era of run-away globalisation and the heuristic possibilities it has enabled/unleashed. Scholars also began to ask questions that, to a degree, mirror the concerns and expectations of this kind of neo-liberal instability and acceleration. While many studies of entanglement were fed by general optimism in their transformative power, significant research has also been conducted on problems created by entanglement that encompasses topics such as environmental history, international law and diplomacy, (post-) colonialism, and the position of racist and fascist cultural production in the history of modernity or the project of modernism.

By and large, however, a silent assumption has been dominant: entanglement has come to be considered a phenomenon that obeys a logic of accretion. Entanglement by default seems not to lead to disentanglement but to a new level of tighter entanglement. The last few years with their crises of contagion, war, and economic rifts and collapses may offer a good occasion to question this assumption. It seems to be time to look at those who in the past or today reject to be entangled and at those etanglements that apparently proved detrimental. We aim to ask questions such as: What kind of entanglements have been regarded as sufficiently “bad” (harmful, exploitative, morally or legally unjustifiable, politivcally flawed, economically costly and so on) to provoke attempts at disentanglement? As dependencies (they may be understood as mutual as ever) involve power inequalities, the question of agency in disentanglements becomes crucial: What regimes of power trigger decolonialisation and neo-colonialisation processes? Do harmful entanglements lead to cultures of the vernacular, the backwater, the obscure – or at least to a longing for them? Do everincreasing entanglements continuously diminish agency and lead to an animosity against connectedness (as is observable in the present conjuncture of failing optimism in globalization)? Which actors are prone to fear or reject entanglements as principally dangerous or disastrous? When and why do attempts at disentanglement fail?

This year's Max Weber Foundation Conference is already the eighth such meeting organised by the Max Weber Foundation for German Humanities Institutes Abroad. The previous conferences of this format took place at the German Historical Institutes in Paris, Warsaw, Moscow, Washington, Kairo, Rome, and Tokyo. The Foundation Conference format takes up research topics from the institutes of the Max Weber Foundation and discusses them in an internationally comparative, trans- and interdisciplinary manner. The Foundation Conferences involve all of the Foundation's institutes and their partners.

The conference will take place in connection with the opening of the new building of the Orient-Institut Istanbul in the centre of Istanbul, in Galip Dede Caddesi 65, close to the Galata Tower. Keynotes will be delivered by Prof. em. Dr. Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University) and Prof. Dr. Eugene Rogan (Oxford University).

We invite papers that engage with these or related problems in the past or present and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Funding (travel-expenses, board and lodging) are available for participants not affiliated with the Max Weber Foundation.

The language of the conference is English. A volume of contributions will be published.

Please apply with an abstract of two pages and a cv to https://www.oiist.org/cfc/.

Deadline for applications is Sunday February 25th.

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news-12018 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:29:11 +0100 Call for Applications: Binational Visiting Tandem Fellowship in the History of Migration at the GHI's Pacific Office in Berkeley https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-binational-visiting-tandem-fellowship-in-the-history-of-migration-at-the-ghis.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31.02.2024 The German Historical Institute (GHI) and the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (IES) are seeking applications for a Binational Visiting Fellow Tandem for postdoctoral researchers. The 24 months fellowship program contributes to the research network “Knowledge in Transit - Migrants’ Knowledge in Comparative Perspective” at the GHI's Pacific Office in Berkeley.

The GHI’s fellowship program promotes cutting-edge research in history and related disciplines and international exchange of scholars. For this purpose, the GHI and IES invite two postdoctoral scholars, one from a German and one from a North American university, to collaborate as a binational research tandem during a 24-month fellowship. The GHI's Pacific Office research programs center on histories of knowledge and migration in a broadly comparative perspective, addressing the experiences of many different migrant groups, home and transit lands, and receiving societies. Moreover, they widen the geographical focus from European history to include Latin American and Pacific histories of migrant knowledge.

The visiting tandem program is designed for postdoctoral historians with a strong interest in the history of knowledge and migration and an outstanding academic record. For applicants based in Germany, a good working knowledge of English is essential. Applicants may apply individually and be matched by the GHI or apply together with their potential tandem partner. Preference will also be given to candidates doing original research for a new book project.

The visiting fellow tandem program at the GHI's Pacific Office presents an excellent opportunity for scholars to develop their expertise by collaborating closely, to work with additional resources and to make connections with others in their fields.  The successful applicants will be in residence at the GHI's Pacific Office for a 24-month fellowship, starting in September 2024. They will be expected to conduct their research and fully participate in the academic life at the GHI's Pacific Office. Further, in collaboration with the staff at the GHI's Pacific Office, they will organize a workshop at an institution of higher education at the North American West Coast of their choice in their field of expertise. Fellows will have access to the UC Berkeley academic and social facilities (library, databases, email address, office space at the IES, etc.) and are offered the opportunity to make use of further resources in the greater Bay Area–including the Magnes Collection, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives in Stanford or the National Archives/ Pacific Region in San Bruno–while pursuing their research agendas.

A member institution of the Max Weber Foundation, the German Historical Institute Washington is a distinguished independent research institute, conducting inter- and transdisciplinary research with a transatlantic focus. The GHI's Pacific Office is located at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies. It organizes a series of programs and scholarly events aimed at facilitating cooperation and dialogue among researchers in the humanities and social sciences based in North America and Germany, in Latin America and the Pacific world.

Funding will be provided for a 24-month stay at the GHI's Pacific Office/ UC Berkeley. The monthly stipend will be $5562 per month. In addition, fellowship recipients will receive reimbursement for their round-trip economy airfare. The GHI regrets that it is unable to provide accommodation for its fellows.

If you have questions concerning the fellowship, please contact Isabel Richter (richter(at)ghi-dc.org).

Eligibility Requirements

  • Applicants must have completed a PhD before the start date of the fellowship

  • Prospective fellows should be currently or recently affiliated with a North American or European research institution or university at the time of their application 

  • Applicants should be able to take leave for the duration of the program to be in residence in Berkeley, CA for the fellowship

APPLY


Apply online

To apply please fill out the online application form by January 15, 2024 January 31, 2024 (deadline extended). Please include the following materials in your application (uploaded to the online portals as one pdf):

  1. a cover letter

  2. a CV

  3. a copy of the certificate of your most recently achieved qualification or transcripts

  4. a research project proposal (2,000 words max)

  5. a workshop proposal which includes the intended workshop theme and scope as well as the intended host institution (1,000 words max)

Please send two letters of reference to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org.

While applicants may write in either English or German, we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. We can accept applications in electronic form only.

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news-12017 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:25:38 +0100 Call for Applications: Reisestipendium https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-reisestipendium.html Bewerbungsschluss: 03.03.2024 Das Deutsche Historische Institut in Rom

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

 

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Reisestipendien

an.

 

Das Reisestipendium ermöglicht Studien in Archiven und Bibliotheken, die für Qualifikationsarbeiten (Doktorarbeiten oder Habilitationsschriften) und für wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit Italienbezug notwendig sind. Die maximale Förderdauer beträgt drei Monate.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte oder Musikwissenschaften.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Reisestipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 3.3.2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

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news-12016 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:24:05 +0100 Call for Applications: Forschungsstipendium https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-forschungsstipendium.html Bewerbungsschluss: 03.03.2024 Das Deutsche Historische Institut in Rom

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

 

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Forschungsstipendien

an.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis einschließlich 3.3.2024 über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

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news-12015 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:17:17 +0100 Call for Applications: Stipendien zur Stellung eines Antrages auf Drittmittelförderung https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-stipendien-zur-stellung-eines-antrages-auf-drittmittelfoerderung.html Bewerbungsschluss: 03.03.2024 Das Deutsche Historische Institut in Rom

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

 

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Stipendien zur Stellung eines Antrages auf Drittmittelförderung

an.

Anspruchsvolle und innovative Forschungsprojekte, die am DHI Rom angebunden werden sollen, können zielgerichtet gefördert werden, um Antragsreife für eine Drittmittelfinanzierung zu erlangen. Die maximale Förderdauer beträgt sechs Monate.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte oder der Musikwissenschaften.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 3.3.2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen

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news-12014 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:14:49 +0100 Call for Applications: Forschungsstipendien im Bereich der Musikwissenschaften https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-forschungsstipendien-im-bereich-der-musikwissenschaften.html Bewerbungsschluss: 03.03.2024 Das Deutsche Historische Institut in Rom

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

 

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Forschungsstipendien im Bereich der Musikwissenschaften

an.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Musikwissenschaften.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis einschließlich 3.3.2024 über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

Die Bewerbung schließt das stillschweigende Einverständnis der Bewerberin/des Bewerbers ein, dass der am Auswahlverfahren beteiligten Kommission für Auslandsstudien in der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) Einsicht in die Bewerbungsunterlagen gewährt wird.

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news-12012 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:59:10 +0100 Call for Applications: Deutsch-französischer Geschichtspreis für Master-Abschlussarbeiten (DHI Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-deutsch-franzoesischer-geschichtspreis-fuer-master-abschlussarbeiten-dhi-paris-1.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2024 Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris verleiht 2024 zum zehnten Mal den deutsch-französischen Geschichtspreis für Master-Abschlussarbeiten.

Eingereicht werden können Arbeiten, die im Zeitraum vom 1. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2023 an einer Hochschule in Deutschland oder Frankreich als Master-Abschlussarbeit (oder Äquivalent, z. B. Zulassungsarbeit zum Staatsexamen) in den Geschichtswissenschaften oder einer historisch arbeitenden Disziplin verteidigt und mit einer Note von »gut« bis »sehr gut« (in Frankreich 14/20 und besser) bewertet worden sind. Der Untersuchungsgegenstand soll bei einer Einreichung an einer deutschen Hochschule der französischen Geschichte, hingegen bei einer Einreichung an einer französischen Hochschule der deutschen Geschichte entnommen sein oder für beide Fälle der deutsch-französischen Geschichte angehören. Der Untersuchungszeitraum kann von der Spätantike bis in die jüngste Zeitgeschichte reichen.

Bewerbungsfrist: 1. März 2024

Für die Teilnahme am Wettbewerb senden Sie bitte per E-Mail Ihre Abschlussarbeit zusammen mit dem Gutachten des Betreuers oder der Betreuerin der Arbeit, einer zweiseitigen Zusammenfassung auf Französisch bzw. Deutsch (jeweils in der Sprache, in der die Arbeit nicht verfasst wurde), einem Bewerbungsschreiben und einem tabellarischen Lebenslauf in einem einzigen PDF-Dokument an: geschichtspreis@dhi-paris.fr.

Der deutsch-französische Geschichtspreis für Master-Abschlussarbeiten ist mit 500 € dotiert. Der Preisträger oder die Preisträgerin wird nach Paris zur Preisverleihung im Rahmen des Jahresvortrags des DHIP eingeladen. Reise- und Übernachtungskosten werden erstattet. Nach einer positiven externen Begutachtung können wesentliche Aspekte der Preisschrift als wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz in der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris (DHIP) »Francia. Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte« veröffentlicht werden.

Eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen des DHIP sowie Hochschullehrern und Hochschullehrerinnen wählt unter den eingegangenen Bewerbungen den Preisträger oder die Preisträgerin aus. Ein Rechtsanspruch auf die Verleihung des Preises besteht nicht.

Jury: Corine Defrance, Claire Gantet, Silke Mende, Jörg Oberste

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news-12011 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:57:12 +0100 Call for Applications: Aufsatzpreis des DHIP https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-aufsatzpreis-des-dhip.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2024 Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris (DHIP) ist ein wichtiger Akteur international ausgerichteter historischer Forschung und es übernimmt eine zentrale Vermittlungsfunktion zwischen der deutschen und französischen Geschichtswissenschaft. Die Forschungsschwerpunkte des DHIP sind die französische, deutsch-französische, afrikanische sowie die digitale Geschichte.

Der Aufsatzpreis des DHIP ermöglicht die Veröffentlichung von Ergebnissen einer herausragenden deutschen Dissertation oder Habilitation im Bereich der Forschungsschwerpunkte des Instituts als französischsprachigen Aufsatz. Das DHIP übernimmt die Kosten für die Übersetzung (in Höhe von ca. 2.000 €) sowie die redaktionelle Betreuung des Aufsatzes. Dieser soll anschließend in der Zeitschrift »Francia« oder nach Absprache in einer anderen einschlägigen französischsprachigen Zeitschrift veröffentlicht werden.

Der Bewerbung für den Preis sind folgende Unterlagen beizulegen:

  • eine dreiseitige Zusammenfassung der Dissertation bzw. Habilitation, die das Potential einer übersetzten Aufsatzfassung für die französischsprachige Forschung skizziert und eine erste Idee für den Aufsatz formuliert (Resümee, Fallstudie, konzeptioneller Text etc.),
  • ein Lebenslauf,
  • das Manuskript der eingereichten Dissertation bzw. Habilitation,
  • die Gutachten bzw. der rapport de soutenance de thèse.

Die Dissertation bzw. Habilitation müssen in den letzten zwei Jahren (1. Januar 2022–31. Dezember 2023) eingereicht worden sein.

Über die Preisvergabe befindet ein international zusammengesetztes Gremium von deutschen und französischen Historikerinnen und Historikern:

Olivier Richard (Universität Straßburg),
Martin Wrede (Universität Grenoble Alpes),
Jens Ivo Engels (Technische Universität Darmstadt),
Christine Zabel (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris).

Die Bewerbungen richten Sie an emarchioni@dhi-paris.fr. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 1. März 2024.

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news-12010 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:53:21 +0100 Call for Papers: »Die Herzen der Leuchtenberg« − Erinnerungskultur(en) einer europäischen Adelsfamilie im 19. Jahrhundert https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-die-herzen-der-leuchtenberg-erinnerungskulturen-einer-europaeischen-adelsfamilie-im.html Deadline: 15. April 2024 Internationales Kolloquium zu den Erinnerungskultur(en) in der Familie Leuchtenberg, organisiert vom Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris) gemeinsam mit dem Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau und dem Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, aus Anlass des 200. Todesjahrs des Gründungsvaters der Leuchtenberg-Dynastie, Eugène de Beauharnais, verstorben am 21. Februar 1824 in München. Das Kolloquium findet vom 24. bis 26. Oktober 2024 im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum in München statt. Vorschläge für 30-minütige Vorträge in deutscher, französischer oder englischer Sprache werden bis zum 15. April 2024 an folgende Adresse erbeten: leuchtenberg(at)dfk-paris.org

Siehe die ausführliche Präsentation im beigefügten PDF.

(FR) « Les cœurs des Leuchtenberg » – Culture(s) mémorielle(s) d’une famille de la noblesse européenne au XIXe siècle

Colloque international sur la ou les cultures mémorielle(s) de la famille Leuchtenberg, organisé par le Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art Paris (DFK Paris) en collaboration avec le Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau et le Bayerisches Nationalmuseum à Munich, à l’occasion du bicentenaire de la mort du fondateur de la dynastie des Leuchtenberg, Eugène de Beauharnais, mort le 21 février 1824 à Munich. Le colloque se tiendra du 24 au 26 octobre 2024 au Bayerisches Nationalmuseum à Munich. Les propositions pour des conférences de 30 minutes en allemand, français ou anglais sont à adresser avant le 15 avril 2024 à l’adresse suivante : leuchtenberg(at)dfk-paris.org

Voir la présentation détaillée dans le pdf ci-joint.

(EN) “The Hearts of the Leuchtenberg” – The Culture(s) of Remembrance of a 19th-Century European Noble Family 

International colloquium on the cultures of remembrance within the Leuchtenberg family, co-organized by the German Center for Art History Paris (DFK Paris) with the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich, on the occasion of the two-hundredth anniversary of the death of the founding father of the Leuchtenberg dynasty, Eugène de Beauharnais, who died on 21 February 1824 in Munich.The colloquium will take place 24–26 October 2024 in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich. Proposals for presentation of 30 minutes are requested in German, French, or English by 15 April 2024 to the following address: leuchtenberg(at)dfk-paris.org.

See the detailed presentation in the pdf enclosed.

 

Organisationskomitee / Comité d’organisation / Organizing Committee

  • Elisabeth Caude, Directrice du Service à Compétence Nationale des musées nationaux des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, de l’île d’Aix et de la Maison Bonaparte à Ajaccio
  • Dr. Jörg Ebeling, Forschungsleiter, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris
  • Dr. Sybe Wartena, Wissenschaftlicher Referent für Möbel, Musikinstrumente, Spiele und Stadtmodelle, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum  

Wissenschaftliches Komitee / Comité scientifique / Scientific Committee 

  • Dr. Birgit Jooss, Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds, Leiterin Kunst und Tradition
  • Dr. Sylvia Krauss-Meyl,  Archivdirektorin a.D. im Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchiv München
  • Lars Ljungström, Head of the Department of Collections and Documentation, The Swedish Royal Collections, Schweden
  • Prof. Dr. Hans Ottomeyer, ehemaliger Präsident der Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin
  • Marina Rosa, Vorsitzende des Centro documentazione Residenze Reali lombarde

Verantwortliche Person am DFK

Dr. Jörg Ebeling

Forschungsleiter / Bibliotheksleiter

Telefon +33 (0)1 42 60 67 66

jebeling(at)dfk-paris.org

Zur Website des DFK

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news-12009 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:51:09 +0100 Call for Papers: Paris – Nidwalden – Rome. Le caractère de passage de l’art et la Suisse centrale entre fonction de charnière pour le transport de l’art et transformation innovante https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-paris-nidwalden-rome-le-caractere-de-passage-de-lart-et-la-suisse-centrale-entre-fon.html Deadline: 25. Februar 2024 Paris – Nidwalden – Rome. Le caractère de passage de l’art et la Suisse centrale entre fonction de charnière pour le transport de l’art et transformation innovante

Le modèle de pensée opposant le centre et la périphérie a déplacé l’attention de la recherche de l’observation du développement des grands centres artistiques vers les lieux vivant dans leur orbite régionale et leur contribution à l’évolution des arts. Ainsi notre conception de l’influence, du transfert et de l’appropriation de l’art s’est-elle déportée tandis que l’image traditionnelle de son histoire faisait l’objet de réajustements. Mais comme modèle susceptible d’approcher la manière dont se déroulent réellement la réception artistique, la production et les influences, cette conception se révèle elle aussi insuffisante. Car si l’on veut casser l’idée d’un développement linéaire de l’art dans ce qu’elle a de statique, toutes les images d’un transfert artistique pensé selon un schéma mathématique et géométrique s’avèrent contre-productives. Les topographies de l’art obéissent bien plutôt à l’idée d’un relief présentant de multiples formes.

À partir d’une région centrale pour l’histoire européenne de l’art à l’époque moderne, le colloque entend éclairer le rôle joué par les points de passage névralgiques du déplacement de l’art. En matière de voyages d’œuvres, d’artistes ou d’idées, les obstacles réels et les chemins possibles jouent de fait un rôle crucial, tout comme les conditions politiques ou infrastructurelles. Dans le centre de la Suisse et en particulier la région du lac des Quatre-Cantons convergent les voies qu’emprunte l’art venant de l’Europe du Nord et de l’Ouest pour rejoindre une destination dans le Sud, et inversement. Pour se rendre dans le Nord, les œuvres et les artistes exportés depuis le nord de l’Italie passent forcément par les cols des Alpes, en l’occurrence ici par le col du Saint-Gothard qui reste aujourd’hui encore le point de passage principal sur un itinéraire qui va de Milan à l’étape de Stans et Lucerne via Côme et Lugano. La seule alternative est la voie maritime et fluviale par le port de Gênes puis, vers le nord, par la vallée du Rhône. 

À l’exemple du canton de Nidwald, nous ne nous attacherons pas seulement au lieu et à son infrastructure comme instance de médiation. En effet, le canton est pertinent et représentatif pour mener une analyse permettant d’étudier aussi bien le rôle de la région et de ses protagonistes comme passeurs, qu’également la constitution d’une contribution propre à l’histoire de l’art. La naissance d’un style architectural vernaculaire, par exemple dans le type des églises de campagne, montre comment rivalisent et fusionnent des éléments du baroque romain, du décor tessinois, de la sculpture du nord de l’Italie, de la peinture française et des églises du sud de l’Allemagne, pour donner finalement naissance à des solutions jusqu’alors inédites. Les architectures civiles, les maisons bourgeoises des villes par exemple, s’inspirent quant à elles de modèles parisiens et allemands. Dépendantes de modes parfois décalées dans le temps, des voyages des maîtres d’œuvres ou des circuits empruntés par les manuels d’apprentissage ou des recueils d’échantillons ou de plans, les instances du transfert sont en même temps de nature institutionnelle. 

À travers la personne du peintre Johann Melchior Wyrsch, formé à Rome, Zurich et Paris, qui met son expérience de l’École de peinture et de sculpture de Besançon au service de l’école de peinture qu’il fondera plus tard à Lucerne, un volet du colloque sera donc consacré à une carrière artistique européenne exemplaire (Winkelriedhaus, Stans, 6 septembre 2024).

Auparavant, une première partie portant sur l’histoire de l’architecture (Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 28–29 mai 2024) se propose d’appréhender la genèse des traditions locales en matière de construction dans le contexte des centres européens de l’histoire de l’architecture.

Le projet entend dépasser le dualisme des modèles de pensée actuels, il fait du cheminement le but de l’étude en portant son intérêt sur les tendances marquantes de l’architecture et des arts plastiques non seulement à l’écart des grands centres artistiques mondains en Europe, mais surtout dans une région privilégiée qui peut être comprise autant comme un lieu de passage et de médiation que comme un lieu bénéficiaire d’innovations.

Les propositions pour des communications de 20 à max. 30 minutes sont à adresser jusqu’au 25 février 2024 à mcastor(at)dfk-paris.org et kultur(at)nw.ch.

Siehe die deutsche Fassung der Ausschreibung im beigefügten PDF.

Nom du responsable

Dr. Markus A. Castor

Directeur de recherches / Responsable des éditions de la coll. Passages Online

Téléphone +33 (0)1 42 60 67 13

mcastor(at)dfk-paris.org

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news-11987 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:50:53 +0100 Call for Papers: Recovering & Uncovering the Past of Diverse Communities in Imperial Spaces: Memory and Self-Organization in Urban Centres of the Eastern European and Ottoman Realms https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/past-of-diverse-communities.html Deadline: 16. Februar 2024 Location: Tbilisi, Georgia; Date: 12-13 September 2024

Type: in person Conference language: English

Conveners: Max Weber Foundation – Georgia Branch Office & Orient-Institut Istanbul in cooperation with Ilia State University, Tbilisi

The Orient-Institut Istanbul and the Georgia Branch Office of the Max Weber Foundation in Tbilisi are jointly organizing a two-day workshop on the everyday life of urban communities in minority position in imperial pasts; on their memory and heritage. We intend to bring together historians and anthropologists to present diverse experiences of ethnic and religious communities in the cities of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Of particular interest to us are the history of the institutions that these communities created to function within the city, their ethnic and religious infrastructure, forms of agency, and their representation in private memory. A separate section shall be devoted to the past of communities no longer present today that nevertheless once played a pronounced role in urban life and whose cultural, artistic, and architectural heritage is still being appreciated and conceptualized both by contemporary residents and outside observers. We encourage an anthropological as well as a historical approach to the study of the past and presence of historical minority communities of imperial cities, while being open to a wide array of different approaches and methodologies employed in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Send please your submissions (paper proposal of ca. 300 words and your CV) to the following address by 16 February 2024: info@mws-georgia.org

Acceptance decisions will be made by the beginning of March 2024.

Call for Papers (PDF)

Website MWS Georgia Branch Office

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news-11986 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:49:13 +0100 Call for Papers: Young Scholars Forum: Histories of Migration - Transatlantic and Global Perspectives https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/young-scholars-forum.html Deadline: 15. März 2024 Eighth Annual Young Scholars Forum | Pacific Office of the GHI in Berkeley | Conveners: Isabel Richter (GHI Pacific Office Berkeley) and Benno Gammerl (European University Institute Florence)

The Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington at UC Berkeley is soliciting proposals for papers to be presented at the Eighth Annual Young Scholars Forum: Histories of Migration, which will be held at UC Berkeley on October 21–22, 2024. We seek contributions from postdoctoral scholars, recent PhDs, and advanced doctoral candidates in the humanities or social sciences.

The 2024 Forum focuses on the intersection of migration and gender and sexuality studies. Exploring gender relations, modes of intimacy, and sexual diversity is crucial to a nuanced analysis of both the causes and consequences of migration and of mobility regimes and practices. Starting from an understanding of gender and of sexuality as constructed within multiple intersecting power relations (including class, age, race, ethnicity, and geopolitical location), we welcome theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions dealing with interconnections between gender studies, sexuality studies, and migration studies. Whereas sociologists and geographers began charting this important territory in the 2000s, historians and researchers in the humanities have lagged behind. As a result, historical approaches to these interconnected subjects are still few and far between. The Forum will explore the potential of gender-based analyses and queer historical perspectives on migration experiences; representations of femininity and masculinity constructed by actors themselves and by receiving societies; heteronormativity and how it shaped migrant histories; labor migration and gendered labor markets; sex work and migration; (im)migrant families, motherhood, and fatherhood; migration and gender-based violence; the mobility of transgender people; the shifting regimes of intimacy in the places people left, traversed, and settled; and other related questions.

The Forum approaches its annual theme from a trans-epochal and transregional perspective. We seek to link current developments to both the past and the present. We encourage applications from junior scholars in history, gender studies, sexuality studies, the social sciences, political sciences, anthropology, as well as area studies, ethnic studies, and other related fields. Contributions in other media, such as film and photography, will be considered as well. Papers will be pre-circulated to allow for maximum discussion time with peers and invited senior scholars. The workshop language will be English. The Forum will be hosted by Isabel Richter (GHI Pacific Office Berkeley, contact email: richter(at)ghi-dc.org) and Benno Gammerl (European University Institute Florence).

Selected participants might have the opportunity to extend their stay in Berkeley (by up to two weeks) through the California Archive Research Award (CARA). CARA funds can be used for research in various libraries and archival collections in the San Francisco Bay Area. These include, for example, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the Hoover Archives at Stanford University, the National Archives in San Bruno, the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Public Library, and the Bay Area Lesbian Archives in Oakland.

Please indicate in the online application form if you would like to be considered for the CARA grant. We will award the additional funding to up to two applicants. Please upload a brief CV and a proposal of no more than 750 words by March 15, 2023, to our online portal. Please contact Heike Friedman if you have problems submitting your information. Applicants will be informed of the outcome in April.

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news-11985 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:44:48 +0100 Call for Papers: Centenary of the Locarno Treaties and Collective Security Policy in Europe https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/locarno-treaties-collective-security.html Deadline: 29. Februar 2024 International conference: "Centenary of the Locarno Treaties and Collective Security Policy in Europe: Reality – Reflection – Reassessment – Re-establishment?"

Date 
24–25 October 2024, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Organizing institutions
German Historical Institute Warsaw
Charles University
Philipps-University Marburg
University of West Bohemia
Conference languages: English, German

Annotation
In October 1925, seven international treaties were concluded in Locarno and signed in London on 1 December 1925. Germany was admitted to the League of Nations in September 1926. The Locarno Conference was attended by Reich Chancellor Hans Luther and German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, Austen Chamberlain for Great Britain, Aristide Briand for France, Émile Vandervelde for Belgium, and, briefly, Edvard Beneš for Czechoslovakia, Aleksander Skrzyński for Poland and Benito Mussolini for Italy. For European security policy since the Peace Treaty of Versailles, the de-militarisation of the Rhineland, the securing of Germany’s western borders and options for its eastern borders, and last but not least the Soviet Union’s perspective on Central Europe, the treaties laid important foundations for Europe within the framework of the League of Nations. They were based on the principle of peaceful conflict resolution and were designed to take account of different security needs. Arbitration and defence treaties contributed to this. However, the Locarno Treaties were not without controversy and led, for example, to the resignation of the German nationalist ministers in October 1925. In conjunction with the Treaties of Rapallo (April 1922) and Berlin (April 1926), they reflect German power and security policy, which defied clear Western or Eastern European categorisation. The potential for revisionist demands in the form of the return of German colonial territories, the shifting of the German eastern border and a possible unification of Austria with the German Reich was as much a part of the policy of understanding as was the conciliatory “spirit of Locarno,” but ended abruptly with the occupation of the Rhineland in 1936.

Under the central question of security in political, economic, social, and military terms, the conference will examine the international significance and impact of the Treaties of Locarno in their historical long-term perspective and discuss how and whether they can be understood today, almost one hundred years later, as part of the European dynamics of security policy. Contributions will focus on the treaty-based security system in Central Europe in the 1920s and the diplomatic negotiations from a transnational perspective.

Selected papers will be printed in a conference collective monograph, planned for issue in 2025/2026. The organizers will cover accommodation.

Please send proposals of contributions – title, abstract (no longer than 300 words), CV – by 29 February 2024 to the following email address: conference2024@ff.cuni.cz

Organizers
Jaromír Mrňka, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Benedikt Stuchtey, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Department of Modern History, Philipps-University Marburg
Lukáš Novotný, Department of Historical Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia
Václav Horčička, Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles Universit
Jaroslav Valkoun, Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

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news-11984 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:36:17 +0100 Call for Papers: Victimhood - Acknowledgement - Politics of Memory: Struggle over the Memory of Suffering https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/memory-of-suffering.html Deadline: 30. Januar 2024 CfP: Victimhood - Acknowledgement - Politics of Memory: Struggle over the Memory of Suffering

3-5 September 2023, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung Dresden

The second half of the twentieth century saw a change in the concept of victimhood in post-socialist and post-conflict countries. Although victims are often perceived through the prism of their trauma and passivity, attention is currently focused also on their active role in the transitional justice and their social mobilization. It turns out that victims and their organizations have been playing an important role in democratic transition and public history and appeared on the political scene as distinct and powerful groups and managed to achieve some of their main goals such as compensations, rehabilitations, redress and acknowledgment. Representatives of victim associations (especially former political prisoners and their offspring) have also turned into ‘guardians of memory’. Their role is to share their experience and simultaneously defend the image of the group and the association. Their main goal is not only to integrate the history of the victims and survivors of the state socialist dictatorship into broader political and national history, but to enforce their version of the past as the dominant narrative as well.

The aim of the interdisciplinary conference is to focus on associations of victims of post-socialist countries in the east central Europe. The conference will focus on what role victim organizations (political prisoners, victims of repression of state socialism) played after the year 1989, what were their goals and activities to achieve recognition and redress. The conference aims to explore these organizations as participants in public life and the formation and maintenance of collective memory, as well as how these associations sought to emphasize and use or promote their collective memory and interpretation of history in the political process and contribute to the democratization of society.

Academics from various disciplines have contributed to a growing body of literature on victimhood in recent years. Together, these studies analyse the concept of victimhood in different geographical and historical contexts. This conference seeks to bring together scholars from various academic disciplines (history, psychology, sociology, political science and anthropology) working on aspects of the victimhood, victim organisations, victim trauma, victim politic and transitional justice in the post-socialist countries. We propose to follow three broad tracks to identify how victimhood was shaped, how the victims and their organisations acted as political actors in demands for redress and acknowledgement. We are also interested in the consequences of constructing victimhood in the democratic transitions, both positive and negative. The goal of this conference is:

 

1.Victimhood as a social construct

We consider victimhood as a socially and politically constructed category and characterize victimhood as a form of collective identity based on harm caused by an individual, group or state and therefore our aim is to focus on the questions of how and why some people transform their trauma into a collective identity. Because the victimhood is not only a moral and legislative matter, but also to a significant extent political, we want to study how political and social context shaped the narratives of victims and influences the form of victimhood. We are also interested in the questions such as, how victims define themselves and why some victim group received the victim status and obtained political and social acknowledgement and various advantages, while other groups not.

2.The role of victims in transitional justice and democratisation

As various studies have shown, victim organizations adopt different strategies and become active political actors. We are interested in the roles that of victims and their organization played in the transitional justice. In this regard, we would like to explore how victims shaped the democratisation process, their involvement in the legislative process, their strategies and objectives. How they influenced the legislative changes regarding rehabilitation, restitution, compensation and recognition? We are also interested in victim associations as participants in public life and the formation and maintenance of collective memory as well as how these associations tried to emphasise and utilise or promote their collective memory and interpretation of history in the political and educational process.

3.Shadows of victimhood

While the victim organizations are rightly understood as legitimate representatives of victims and their claims, their influence on democratic political developments can be controversial. Their activities on the one hand helped society cope with the difficult past, but on the other brought to public space a polarized narrative that was not limited to members of the Communist Party, but to other ethnic, religious, and sexual minority groups as well. They presented their statements from a position of moral superiority as the victims of communism, and any condemnation of their views was seen as belittling their experience and relativizing their suffering. The conference aim is to better understand how narratives of victimhood in various post-socialist countries exacerbated affective polarization.

Proposals
Proposals of 300–500 words, accompanied by a short biographical note, should be sent by January 30, 2024 to the following addresses: pinerova@usd.cas.cz. As we plan to have commentaries for each session, papers of 2,000 words are required to be pre-circulated by October 1, 2024.

Decisions will be announced no later than February 28, 2024.

Funding is limited for people from Europe, but we are open for other participants from other non-European countries and we are offering the digital participation.

 

Organised by: 

Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden (HAIT)
Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (ÚSD)

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news-11968 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:48:07 +0100 Call for Papers: SURRÉALISMES Paris 2024 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-surrealismes-paris-2024.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15. März 2024 Surréalismes Paris 2024 ist die sechste Ausgabe des Jahreskongresses der International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS), deren Ziel die interdisziplinäre und interregionale Vernetzung, Vermittlung und Organisation von Veranstaltungen (Kolloquien, Foren, Ausstellungen, Veröffentlichungen) ist.

Der Kongress der ISSS Surréalismes Paris 2024 verschreibt sich der Erforschung des Surrealismus in allen Bereichen und Dimensionen und versteht sich als Forum für die Diskussion innovativer Forschungsansätze der künstlerischen, literarischen und weiteren Ausdrucksformen des Surrealismus. Der Kongress der ISSS leistet einen Beitrag zu einem internationalen Netzwerk von Kunsthistoriker/-innen, Künstler/innen, Schriftsteller/-innen, kulturellen Akteur/-innen sowie kreativen Persönlichkeiten aus allen Kontinenten, die auf dem Gebiet des Surrealismus wirken.


Der Kongress ISSS Surréalismes Paris 2024 wird vom 28. bis zum 30. Oktober 2024 auf dem Campus der American University of Paris (AUP) stattfinden, in Kooperation mit dem Centre d'histoire de l'art (DFK Paris), der Universität Jean Monnet Lyon-Saint-Étienne (ECLLA) sowie der Universität Sorbonne Nouvelle. Neben Einzelvorträgen, Rundgesprächen und thematischen Panels werden Filmvorführungen, Lesungen, Besuche von Ausstellungen im Musée national d'art Moderne – Centre Pompidou usw. organisiert. Genaue Angaben werden im Programm bekanntgegeben.


2024 ist ein besonderes Jahr, denn es markiert den hundertsten Jahrestag des Manifeste du Surréalisme von André Breton, Une vague de rêves von Louis Aragon oder die Gründung der Zeitschrift La Révolution surréaliste im Herbst 1924. Zahlreiche Veranstaltungen (Ausstellungen, Kolloquien, Vorträge, Veröffentlichungen u.a.) sind zu diesem Anlass in ganz Frankreich geplant. Über das Jubiläum hinaus wird mit dem Kongress die Arbeit der fünf vorangegangenen Ausgaben des Jahreskongresses der ISSS weitergeführt, um die Vitalität des Surrealismus ebenso wie seine kontinuierliche internationale Verbreitung von 1924 bis heute zu befragen. "Um nicht zu vertrocknen", schrieb Benjamin Péret 1935, muss der Surrealismus "aus dem engen Rahmen der Grenzen Frankreichs heraustreten und eine internationale Gestalt annehmen". Der interdisziplinäre und transversale Kongress der ISSS Surréalismes Paris 2024 wird daher die Gelegenheit bieten, diese Internationalisierung bis hin zur Entstehung eines weltweiten Surrealismus in einem globalisierten Kulturmarkt umfassend zu erforschen.


Die internationale, nicht auf Europa beschränkte Öffentlichkeit des Surrealismus verdient es, diskutiert zu werden. Wo und durch welche Foren hat er sich verbreitet? Auf welche Widerstände und welche Zustimmung stieß er im Laufe seiner Geschichte je nach Ort und Kultur? Wie gestaltete sich seine Rezeption in Europa und darüber hinaus auf allen Kontinenten? Wie entwickelten sich die Beziehungen zwischen dem vermeintlichen "Zentrum" (Paris) und den sogenannten "Peripherien"? Wurde der Surrealismus durch diese internationale Erweiterung geschmälert oder bereichert? Hat die Bewegung ihre Eigenart verloren oder hat der Surrealismus im Gegenteil in seiner internationalen Präsenz die Bausteine einer unerlässlichen Erneuerung gefunden? Hat die fortschreitende Kommerzialisierung der Kunst den poetischen Anspruch, für den sie sich einsetzte, abgeschwächt? Hat seine Ästhetisierung und Musealisierung die politische Revolte, die er verkörperte, endgültig erstickt? Kurzum: Wie steht es heute weltweit um den Surrealismus?


Welche poetische Subversion, welche politische Revolte kann der Surrealismus noch nähren? Welche Gegensätze lassen sich noch formulieren? Es ist mithin die pluralistische Aktualität des Surrealismus als Verkörperung unterschiedlichster Ansätze, die uns in Paris zusammenbringen wird. 


Vorschläge für Einzelvorträge (20 Minuten) sollten eine Zusammenfassung von max. 250 Wörtern, einen Titel, ggfs. die institutionelle bzw. universitäre Anbindung sowie die Kontaktdaten des/der Teilnehmers/in enthalten. Vorschläge für thematische Panels sind sehr willkommen. Diese können drei oder vier Vorträge umfassen. Bewerbungen für Panels sollten einen zusätzlichen Absatz enthalten, der die thematische und methodische Ausrichtung einschließlich eines Titels darlegt. Rundgespräche und alternative Formate sind ebenfalls willkommen. Schließlich ermutigen wir auch Forscherinnen und Forscher, die an Themen im Zusammenhang mit dem erweiterten Surrealismus arbeiten, zur Teilnahme.

Tagungssprachen sind Französisch, Englisch und Spanisch.
Bitte senden Sie Ihre Vorschläge bis zum 15. März 2024 an die folgende Adresse: isssparis2024(at)laposte.net.
Einen Bescheid erhalten Sie spätestens am 15. Mai 2024.


Organisationskomitee der ISSS Paris 2024

  • Julia Drost (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, DFK Paris) 
  • Fabrice Flahutez (Universität Lyon-Saint-Étienne, Institut Universitaire de France)
  • Olivier Penot-Lacassagne (Universität Sorbonne Nouvelle)
  • Iveta Slavkova (American University of Paris)
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news-11967 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:44:08 +0100 Call for Papers: Diskussionsrunde zum Thema Frankreichforschung für Doktorand:innen https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-diskussionsrunde-zum-thema-frankreichforschung-fuer-doktorandinnen-deutscher-kongres-1.html Bewerbungsschluss: 07.01.2024 Das Deutsche Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris (DFK Paris) schreibt erstmalig 10 Reisestipendien für Doktorand:innen zum Deutschen Kongress für Kunst­geschichte 2024 in Erlangen aus, die sich dem Bereich der Frankreich­forschung zugehörig fühlen und die aktuelle Fragen zum Thema gemeinsam diskutieren möchten.

Auf dem Deutschen Kongress für Kunstgeschichte, der vom 13. bis zum 17. März 2024 in Erlangen stattfinden wird, richtet das DFK Paris in Kooperation mit dem Postdoc-Forum Frankreich­forschung ein Fachforum zum Thema Frankreich­forschung aus. Dort soll gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Status­gruppen des Fachs und in größtmöglicher Breite und Vielfalt die Frage diskutiert werden: Was ist Frankreich­forschung heute?

Wie jedes Forschungs­feld, das sich über einen geografischen bzw. nationalen Zuschnitt definiert, ist auch das Feld der Frankreich­forschung zum Objekt einer kritischen Revision geworden. Worauf bezieht sich das Präfix »Frankreich« der Frankreich­forschung – auf ihre Gegen­stände, ihre Archiv‑ und Museums­bestände oder auf eine methodische Ausrichtung? Wie verhält sich Frankreich­forschung zu den Heraus­forderungen einer trans­kulturellen Kunstgeschichts­schreibung? Welcher heuristische oder historische Wert macht es sinnvoll, weiterhin von Frankreich­forschung zu sprechen? Wir wollen fragen, auf welche Weise das Konzept der Frankreich­forschung ein Knoten­punkt für das gemeinsame Nachdenken über aktuelle Heraus­forderungen im Fach Kunst­geschichte sein kann.

Auf dem Kongress selbst ist eine zweiteilige Veranstaltung vorgesehen. Am Beginn steht eine Podiumsdiskussion mit pointierten Statements von Vertreter:innen unter­schiedlicher Status­gruppen und Arbeits­bereiche (Doktorand:innen, Postdoktorand:innen, Professor:innen, Kurator:innen). Den zweiten Teil der Veranstaltung bildet ein offenes Gespräch unter allen Anwesenden (Podium und Publikum). 

Um die Diskussion jedoch möglichst nachhaltig zu gestalten und der Gruppe der zu einem Thema mit Frankreich­bezug forschenden Doktorand:innen eine gut hörbare Stimme auf dem Fachforum zu verleihen, soll sich bereits im Vorfeld eine Gruppe von zehn Doktorand:innen konstituieren, die ihre Fragen und Vorschläge zum Thema der Frankreichforschung zusammenträgt und diskutiert. Geplant sind hierzu Treffen per Zoom im Vorfeld des Kongresses (gemeinsam mit der Leitung des Frankreichforums und autonom), die dem gemeinsamen Austausch dienen sollen. Die Gruppe selbst kann dann aus ihren eigenen Reihen zwei Personen bestimmen, die auf dem Podium in Erlangen jeweils mit einem fünfminütigen Statement zur Frage »Was ist Frankreichforschung heute?« vertreten sein werden. Die gesamte Gruppe ist aufgefordert, sich intensiv an der anschließenden offenen Diskussion zu beteiligen.

Haben Sie eine dezidierte Haltung zum Thema Frankreichforschung? Oder drängende Fragen, die sich aus Ihrer Arbeit heraus ergeben und die Sie gerne mit anderen diskutieren möchten? Dann bewerben Sie sich für die Diskussionsrunde Frankreichforschung. 

Bitte senden Sie hierzu bis zum 7. Januar 2024 einen kurzen Text (max. 500 Wörter) an stipendien(at)dfk-paris.org, der 1. Ihr Dissertationsthema und 2. Ihren Ansatz und Ihre Fragen zum Thema »Frankreichforschung heute« pointiert darstellt, und fügen drei bis fünf Sätze zu Ihrer Biografie hinzu (Studien‑ und Promotionsort etc.). Wir werden Sie noch im Januar benachrichtigen, ob Sie für die Diskussionsrunde ausgewählt wurden. 

Das Stipendium umfasst die Erstattung der Fahrtkosten (bis max. 250€) zum Kongress nach Erlangen, zwei Übernachtungen (bis max. 100€/Nacht) vor Ort und die Kongressgebühren.

Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche Bewerbungen. Bei Rückfragen schreiben Sie gerne an die stellvertretende Direktorin des DFK Paris, Léa Kuhn, unter lkuhn(at)dfk-paris.org

Organisation und Leitung des Fachforums Frankreichforschung: 
Peter Geimer / Léa Kuhn (DFK Paris) 
in Kooperation mit Elisabeth Fritz / Lisa Hecht / Thomas Moser (Postdoc-Forum Frankreichforschung)

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news-11959 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:57:00 +0100 Call for Papers: Queer Urban Underworlds in European State Socialism https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-workshop-queer-urban-underworlds-in-european-state-socialism.html Bewerbungsschluss: 18.02.2024 Prague, 17.09 - 19.09.2024

We are excited to announce a call for papers for a workshop to form a collaborative and interdisciplinary team. The workshop's primary goal is to collectively prepare a panel submission for the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) conference in 2025 while concurrently working on a collective monograph for a distinguished publication thematic series.

Concept:

The workshop aims to explore the living worlds and underworlds of state socialist cities, focusing on gendering and queering current research on the urban history of Eastern Europe under state socialism. It draws inspiration from the intricate dynamics of "living worlds" and "underworlds" within the urban landscape of state socialist cities in Eastern Europe. Stemming from exploring urban spaces as manifestations of societal power structures, the concept of "underworlds" goes beyond the physical confines beneath the city's surface, encapsulating hidden facets of urban life. Reflecting prevailing values and ideas regarding societal organization, these "underworlds" serve as fields of power marked by the indelible signs of social inequalities and the majority's dominance.

This nuanced understanding becomes the foundation for probing into the gendered and queer dimensions of state socialist cities, offering insight into the intricate complexities of urban life during this era. As we delve into these hidden realms, we aim to unravel the interplay between those in control and those under control, shedding light on the obscured facets of urban life and exploring unique strategies urban actors develop in adapting public spaces to their goals. Through this collective exploration, we seek to contribute significantly to the evolving narrative of Eastern European urban history.

Themes:

We invite submissions from various disciplines that explore the intersections of gender and queerness within the urban history of Eastern Europe during the state socialist era, i.e., of the so-called Eastern Bloc outside the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1991.

At the same time, the main emphasis of the contributions should be on the period of late socialism, its possible connections, continuities, and discontinuities with the subsequent post-socialist transformation.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Gendered and queer spaces in state socialist cities.

2. Gendered everyday life and queer experiences in connection to the diversity of urban populations

3. Gender and queer aspects of subcultures, countercultures, and resistance movements.

4. Architectural and spatial implications of state socialism on gender and queerness.

5. Historical perspectives on the LGBTQ+ community in Eastern European cities.

Goals:

1. ASEEES Panel Submission: Develop a comprehensive and engaging panel proposal for presentation at the ASEEES 2025 Convention (Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025, Washington, DC), fostering dialogue and intellectual exchange.

2. Collective Monograph: Collaborate on designing and crafting a thematic monograph for submission to prestigious publishers that will introduce gender and queerness into the urban history of the Eastern Bloc state socialist dictatorships.

Important Information:

Venue: Prague, Czech Republic, EU

The organizer provides all selected active participants with accommodation for two nights.

Reimbursement of travel expenses is possible. Specify the request in the application.

 

Submission Guidelines:

We invite interested participants to submit abstracts (250-300 words) and a brief bio (150 words) by 18.02.2024.

Please send your proposals to QWPrague2024(at)gmail.com

 

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 18.02.2024

Notification of Acceptance: 22.03.2024

Submission of Papers: 15.08.2024

Workshop Date: 17.09. - 19.09.2024

 

We welcome submissions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines passionate about unraveling the multifaceted history of state socialist cities in Eastern Europe.

Join us in this collaborative venture to explore the Living Worlds and Underworlds of State Socialist Cities, contributing to the gendering and queering of Eastern European urban history.

 

Jaromír Mrňka, German Historical Institute Warsaw, Prague Branch

Adéla Gjuričová, Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Ladislav Jackson, Society for Queer Memory, Prague

Věra Sokolová, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

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news-11926 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 10:33:57 +0100 Call for Papers: Revolutionary, disruptive, or just repeating itself? Tracing the History of Digital History https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-revolutionary-disruptive-or-just-repeating-itself-tracing-the-history-of-digital-his.html Bewerbungsschluss: 10.01.2024 Den digitalen Geschichtswissenschaften fehlt oft der Blick in die eigene Vergangenheit. Statt auf eine etablierte Geschichtsschreibung zurückgreifen zu können, scheint jede Generation von Historikerinnen und Historikern das Versprechen der digitalen Geschichte mit all den damit verbundenen Hoffnungen, Visionen und Ambitionen neu zu entdecken. Die Tagung »The History of Digital History« vom 23.–25. Oktober 2024 am DHIP möchte dem entgegenwirken.

Einreichungsfrist: 10. Januar 2024

 

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news-11916 Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:16:39 +0100 Call for Papers: 29th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the 19th and 20th Centuries https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-29th-transatlantic-doctoral-seminar-german-history-in-the-19th-and-20th-centuries.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2024 23.06.2024 - 25.06.2024

Seminar at the Harnack Haus, Berlin-Dahlem | Conveners: Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University), Stefanie Schueler-Springorum (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin), and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

Call for Papers

The German Historical Institute Washington and the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University are pleased to announce the 29th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, which in 2024 is being organized in cooperation with the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin, and the Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. The seminar will take place in Berlin on June 23-25, 2024.

The seminar will bring together advanced doctoral students from Europe and North America to discuss their dissertation projects with one another and a small group of faculty mentors. The organizers welcome proposals from doctoral students working on any aspect of the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-speaking Central Europe or on topics in European, transnational, comparative or global history that have a significant German component. Doctoral students working in related fields – including art history, legal history, and the history of science – are also encouraged to apply. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted six weeks in advance. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English; therefore fluency in both languages is a prerequisite. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. In addition, a travel subsidy will be available for those who do not have travel funding from their home institution.

We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage (that is, in the write-up rather than research stage) but who will be granted their degrees after June 2024. Applications should include: (1) vita, max. 2 pages; (2) dissertation project description, max. 1000 words; (3) provisional table of contents, indicating which chapters have been completed (max. 2 pages), (4) letter of reference from the major dissertation advisor (commenting on progress toward completion and fluency in English and German). Applicants may submit their materials in German or English (preferably in the language in which they are writing their dissertation). The first three documents should be combined into a single PDF (file name should start with applicant’s last name) and submitted via upload at the online portal by January 15, 2024. Letters of reference should be emailed to Richard Wetzell at wetzell(at)ghi-dc.org (preferably as a PDF) by the advisor by the same date. Questions may be directed to Richard Wetzell via email.

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news-11905 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:37:50 +0100 Call for Papers: Mobilität in der Geschichte Afrikas. Neue Zugänge zum »mobility turn« https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-mobilitaet-in-der-geschichte-afrikas-neue-zugaenge-zum-mobility-turn0.html Bewerbungsschluss: 07.01.2024 Datum: 04.–07.07.2024
Ort: Paris
Veranstalter: DHIP und CESSMA
Organisationskomitee: Dr. Susann Baller, Dr. Robert Heinze (beide DHIP), Dr. Didier Nativel (CESSMA)

Mobilität ist eine der grundlegenden Funktionen in jeder Gesellschaft. Diese Erkenntnis beschäftigt seit einigen Jahren die Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, darunter auch die Geschichtswissenschaften. Bereits 2013 wurde dazu ein »mobility turn« ausgerufen. Der Ansatz differenziert zwischen unterschiedlichen Formen von Mobilität. Damit erlaubt er es, viele soziale Prozesse, die sonst getrennt untersucht werden, in ihren Verflechtungen zu analysieren: von Migration über technische Infrastruktur und Stadtentwicklung zum Transport von Ressourcen, Waren und Menschen. Inzwischen hat die weltweite COVID-Pandemie neue Aufmerksamkeit auf die Grenzen von Mobilität gezogen. Vor diesem Hintergrund lohnt es sich, das Konzept aktuell auch für die Geschichte Afrikas neu zu beleuchten.

Die Sommeruniversität des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris (DHIP) und des Centre d’études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques (CESSMA) versammelt Forschende aus Deutschland, Frankreich, anderen europäischen Ländern und Afrika, um die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen des »mobility turn« in der Geschichte Afrikas und der afrikanischen Diaspora zu diskutieren. Epochenübergreifend werden Arbeiten zu verschiedenen Formen von Mobilität untersucht und deren räumliche, politische, soziale, kulturelle sowie ökologische Konsequenzen betrachtet. Dabei sollen auch Verbindungen zwischen Sozial-, Kultur-, Technik- und Umweltgeschichte herausgearbeitet und die räumliche Ordnung Afrikas sowie ihr beständiger Wandel durch afrikanische Mobilitäten in historischer Perspektive hinterfragt werden. Einreichungen aus anderen Disziplinen der Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften – sofern sie auch eine historische Dimension besitzen – sind explizit erwünscht.

Die Sommeruniversität umfasst vier inhaltliche Schwerpunkte und entsprechende Fragenkomplexe:

  1. Räume und Mobilität: Welche Formen von Mobilität lassen sich historisch in Afrika identifizieren? Wie (re-)strukturieren sie die räumlichen Ordnungen des Kontinents in der Welt, Welche Räume ergeben sich durch eine von Mobilität ausgehenden Geschichte Afrikas? Wo beginnen die Routen afrikanischer Mobilität und wo enden sie (bspw. in einem »Black Atlantic«) Wie formen (»natürliche« und gebaute) Räume Mobilitäten und wie verändern Mobilitäten diese?
  2. Praktiken und Infrastrukturen: Welche Akteure hat eine Geschichte der Mobilität in Afrika und wie etablieren sie in Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Umwelt und einander Formen der Mobilität? Welche Eigenlogiken besitzen Infrastrukturen der Mobilität und ihrer Kontrolle, wie Grenzen, Verkehrsinfrastrukturen, Transporttechnologien und wie verändern sich diese in der Nutzung durch die Akteure, oder auch im Konflikt mit ihnen? Gibt es spezifisch afrikanische Kulturen der Mobilität? Wie haben sich diese historisch herausgebildet? Wie interagieren sie mit anderen Mobilitätskulturen in einer zunehmend globalisierten Welt?
  3. Soziale Konfigurationen und Aushandlungsprozesse: Wie wirken sich intersektionale Ungleichheiten und Diskriminierungen (class, race, gender) auf Mobilitäten aus? Welche Akteure und Akteursgruppen sind identifizierbar und welche Handlungsspielräume nutzen sie? Lassen sich epochenübergreifend Kontinuitäten afrikanischer Mobilität identifizieren? Welche Konflikte um Kontrolle der Mobilität ergeben sich vor, während und nach der Kolonisation?
  4. Methoden und konzeptuelle Anregungen für die Geschichte Afrikas: Wie verhält sich ein von Mobilität ausgehender Ansatz konzeptuell zu verschiedenen historiographischen Ansätzen von Kultur- über Sozial- zur Technikgeschichte? Wie kann er diese miteinander in sinnvoller Weise zu neuen Fragestellungen verbinden?

Insgesamt werden 14 Doktorierende und Postdocs (bis max. 2 Jahre nach Abschluss der Dissertation) an der Sommeruni teilnehmen. Die Veranstalter streben eine anteilige Übernahme der Reisekosten an (vorbehaltlich der Zusage für die beantragte Drittmittelfinanzierung). Voraussetzung dafür ist die Zusage der Drittmittelfinanzierung. Die Veranstaltungssprachen sind Französisch und Englisch. In Ausnahmefällen dürfen Papers vorab auf Deutsch eingereicht, müssen dann aber in einer der anderen beiden Sprachen präsentiert werden.

Interessierte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber schicken bis zum 7. Januar 2024 ein Abstract (500 Wörter), eine Kurzbiographie (200 Wörter) sowie genaue Kontaktdaten (Email, Telefonnummer, wenn vorhanden ORCID oder Webseite) in einem PDF-Dokument an sommeruni(at)dhi-paris.fr. Ausgewählte Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten werden eingeladen, bis zum 22. April 2024 einen schriftlichen Beitrag von max. 10 Seiten (ca. 20.000 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen) auszuformulieren, der allen Teilnehmende zugänglich gemacht wird.

Bewerbungsschluss: 7.01.2024

Bewerbungen und Anfragen an: sommeruni(at)dhi-paris.fr

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news-11900 Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:33:37 +0100 Call for Papers: Die Anatomie der leidenden Seele. Die Entstehung der Psychiatrie in Mittel- und Osteuropa vom 18. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1750–1920). https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/cfp-anatomie-der-leidenden-seele.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31. Dezember 2023 Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für eine Werkstatt-Konferenz in Prag, die in Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Karlsuniversität Prag und der Prager Außenstelle des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Warschau vom 29. bis zum 31. Mai 2024 stattfindet.

Das Interesse an der Geschichte der Psychiatrie begann allmählich beachtenswert seit den 1970er Jahren zu sein, als mehrere einflussreiche Sozialwissenschaftler und Historiker die „Anti-Psychiatrie-Bewegung“ kritischer Reflexion unterzogen haben, aber auch als zudem die Konzepte von M. Foucault bei ihnen größere Resonanz gefunden haben. Etwa bis zu den 1960er Jahren war in den kanonischen Darlegungen der Geschichte der Psychiatrie die optimistische und nahezu hagiographische Bewertung der ersten Ansätze humaner Behandlung von psychisch Kranken vorherrschend, welche gewöhnlich mit der Tätigkeit von P. Pinel, V. Chiarugi oder S. und W. Tuke verbunden wurde.

Während der späten 1960ern und in den 1970ern begegnen wir dabei immer häufiger Kritik an der zeitgenössischen psychiatrischen Praxis, insbesondere dann an dem Missbrauch von Internierung, Psychopharmaka und anderer Eingriffsformen in die menschliche Freiheit und Integrität. Nicht ausschließlich die provokativen Thesen von M. Foucault waren bei dieser kritischen Einstellung von Belang, sondern z. B. auch das Theaterstück von K. Kesey Let's Get Him Out of the Wheel (verfilmt vom tschechischen Emigranten M. Forman unter dem Titel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). In ihren Werken stellten manche bedeutenden Psychiater, allen voran T. Scheff und T. Szasz, nicht nur die zeitgenössischen psychiatrischen Verfahren in Frage, sondern auch das Konzept der „Geisteskrankheit“ als solches, indem sie auf seine konstruktivistische Beschaffenheit und zudem auf seine Missbrauchsmöglichkeiten hingewiesen haben.

Ist „Geisteskrankheit“ nur eine Art „Restkategorie“ zur Bezeichnung unerwünschter Verhaltensweisen, die nicht ohne weiteres kriminalisiert werden können? Galt etwa „Irrenhaus“ nur als geordnete Einrichtung zur Internierung unbequemer sozialer Elemente, die nicht legal eingesperrt werden können (wobei die Grenzziehung zwischen beiden Kategorien immer heikel sein dürfte)?In Mittel/Osteuropa tauchte ähnliche Kritik erst ab den 1990er Jahren auf, insbesondere mit der Aufdeckung brutaler Praktiken in psychiatrischen Einrichtungen in der ehemaligen UdSSR, wo politischer und ideologischer Missbrauch psychiatrischer Einrichtungen zur Internierung und ziviler Degradierung unbequemer Personen Alltag war.Das gemeinsame Motiv all solcher Untersuchungen stellte die Akzentuierung sozialer und politischer Dimensionen dieses scheinbar „gerechten“ medizinischen Bereichs dar.

Das Ziel der geplanten Tagung ist ein überregionaler Vergleich der Bedingungen und Strategien, unter denen sich die Psychiatrie als eigenständiges medizinisches Fachgebiet und als spezifisches Behandlungsangebot in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern und Regionen zwischen dem späten 18. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert entfalten hat (d.h. im Wesentlichen von den aufklärerischen Ursprüngen des „humanistischen Diskurses“ über psychische Erkrankungen bis zur Verbreitung der Psychoanalyse einerseits und der Psychopharmaka andererseits).

Obwohl die Veranstaltung Forschern und Forscherinnen aus ganz Europa offensteht, sollten insbesondere die noch wenig erforschten Gebiete Mittel- und Osteuropas dadurch gefördert werden.

Mögliche Themen:

1) Vom „Wahnsinn“ zur „Geisteskrankheit“: Was ist eine „Geisteskrankheit“?
Inwiefern haben die ausgewählten Autoren (bzw. die ausgewählte Zeit/Region/Sprachraum) definiert, was „Geisteskrankheit“ überhaupt ist? Inwieweit ist diese wirklich „psychisch“? Kann sie auch „körperlich“ sein? In welchem Verhältnis steht solche Krankheit eigentlich zur körperlichen“ Krankheit?

2) „Die Ordnung des Wahnsinns“: Taxonomie:
Auf welche Art und Weise wurden diese Krankheiten klassifiziert, in Kategorien gegliedert? Welche Krankheiten wurden hier überhaupt klassifiziert, bei welchen Krankheiten wurde diskutiert, ob sie „geistig“ sind oder nicht (die Frage der Epilepsie, der Hysterie usw.)?

3) Die Etablierung des „psychiatrischen Diskurses“: Wie wurde ein spezifischer, von der Körpermedizin abgrenzbarer Diskurs der „Seelenmedizin“ etabliert? Wie definierte er seine Besonderheit, seine Exklusivität, seine Forschungs- und Behandlungsfelder? Wie funktionierte die Vernetzung von Ärzten, die sich diesem bis dahin vernachlässigten Zweig der Medizin zuwandten?

4) Psychiatrie als Fachbereich: Die Etablierung der „Aliénistique“ als universitäre Disziplin, als spezifischer Zweig der Medizin: Wer, wann, auf welchen Wegen und mit welchen Strategien erreichte diese Institutionalisierung? Wie hat er sein Fach und seine Existenz legitimiert?

5) Behandlung: Was wissen wir über die „neuen“ Behandlungen, die seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert bei der Behandlung psychisch kranker angewandt wurden und von denen behauptet wurde, sie seien „menschlich“ und „wirksam“? Wie sollten „Arbeitstherapie“, „Beschäftigungstherapie“, „Musiktherapie“ in der Theorie, aber auch in der Praxis funktionieren? Was wissen wir noch über die drastischen (und in der Tat rein physischen) Methoden der „neuen“ „heilenden“ Behandlung von Patienten? (der sogenannte Cox-Stuhl, der Autenrieth-Wickel, das „Haarschnurziehen“...usw.)?

6) Von der „Irrenanstalt“ zum „psychiatrischen Krankenhaus“: Wie funktionierten die ausgewählten Einrichtungen für psychisch kranke? Wer richtete sie ein, leitete sie, was war ihr Zweck? Welche Arten von „geisteskranken“ Patienten wurden dort aufgenommen? Wie (und ob überhaupt) funktionierte die „Behandlung“ dort?

7) Der Staat, das Recht und die psychische Gesundheit: Wie verhielt sich der Staat zur geistigen Gesundheit und umgekehrt zum Wahnsinn oder später zur Geisteskrankheit? Wie hat der Staat die „Medikalisierung des Wahnsinns“ in die Rechtsmaßnahmen integriert? Wann entstand die forensische Psychologie oder Psychiatrie? Und welche Rolle spielte der Wahnsinn/die psychische Krankheit im Rahmen des Ermittlungsverfahrens (ob der psychisch Kranke eher Angeklagte oder vielmehr Zeuge war)?

8) Welche anderen unterstützenden Formen der Betreuung und Behandlung gibt es in dieser Zeit, ganz abgesehen vom medizinischen Bereich? Welche Rolle spielten die Geistlichen/Kirchen? Entsprachen sie in irgendeiner Weise den neuen medizinischen Verfahren, spiegelten sie in irgendeiner Weise das „Konzept“ der Geisteskrankheit als solches wider?


Bitte senden Sie den Titel und die Zusammenfassung Ihres Beitrags bis zum 31. Dezember 2023 an leidende.seelen.prag2024(at)gmail.com in Englisch und gleichzeitig auf Deutsch oder Polnisch/Tschechisch. Um das Thema klarzustellen, können Sie auch den Titel und eine kurze Anmerkung des Beitrags in Ihrer Muttersprache anhängen.

Die Konferenzsprachen für Vorträge und Diskussionen sind Englisch und Deutsch.

 


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news-11897 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:57:19 +0100 Call for Papers: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries (extended) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-historicizing-the-refugee-experience-17th-21st-centuries-extended.html Bewerbungsschluss: 21.11.2023 03.06.2024 - 06.06.2024

Fourth Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies in Tübingen | Organized by University of Tübingen (UT), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA), in cooperation with the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

Call for Papers

The University of Tübingen (UT), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA), in cooperation with the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), are pleased to announce the fourth International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Tübingen, July 3–6, 2024.

The purpose of this seminar is to promote the historical study of refugees, who are too often regarded as a phenomenon of recent times. By viewing the problem of refugees from a historical perspective, the seminar seeks to complicate and contextualize our understanding of peoples who have fled political or religious conflicts, persecution, and violence. By bringing together 14 advanced PhD students and early postdocs from different parts of the world whose individual research projects examine refugees in different times and places, we intend to give a sense of purpose to this emerging field of study and demonstrate the value of viewing the plight of refugees from a historical perspective.

We invite contributions from recent PhDs, as well as young scholars in the final stages of their dissertations. In addition to historians, we also encourage applications from researchers working in the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, ethnic and area studies [provided they incorporate some historical perspective]. Possible contributions include:

  • Studies of refugee movements and exile diasporas in various periods and places;
  • Studies of the ethnic, gendered, racial, religious, and other characteristics of refugee groups and how they impact on reception policies and processes;
  • Studies of reception and aid policies, and on the repercussions of refugees on host states and societies;
  • Studies of the changing inter-state framework of refugee movements, such as international or inter-imperial cooperation, the role of international governmental or non-governmental actors, humanitarian organizations, etc.;
  • Studies of the infrastructures of exile (camps, networks, economies, regulations)

Studies of the conceptual history of refugees and exile (legal history, administrative practice, cultural history, etc.)

Papers will be pre-circulated five weeks before the seminar to allow maximum time for peers and invited senior scholars to engage in discussions on the state of the field. The workshop language will be English. The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation. The seminar is hosted by Jan C. Jansen (UT), Dane Kennedy (George Washington University) and Simone Lässig (GHI). The participants will be joined by a group of leading senior scholars in the field of refugee history, including Delphine Diaz (University of Reims-Institut universitaire de France), Ilana Feldman (George Washington University), Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester) and Susanne Lachenicht (University of Bayreuth).

The seminar is supported by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, the University of Tübingen, the ERC project “Atlantic Exiles”, the German Historical Institute, and the KHK/GCR21. For more information on the seminar and its previous cohorts, visit its website at https://rhs.hypotheses.org

Please submit a brief CV (max. 2 pages) and a proposal of no more than 750 words in English in one PDF by November 21, 2023 (extended) October 31, 2023 to  refugee-history(at)histsem.uni-tuebingen.de. Please contact us under the same email address if you have any questions. Successful applicants will be notified in December 2023.

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news-11884 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:48:56 +0100 Call for Papers: Wings of Globalization? New Approaches to the History of Commercial Aviation, 1920s–2020s https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-wings-of-globalization-new-approaches-to-the-history-of-commercial-aviation-1920s-20.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.12.2023 International Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Conveners: Andreas Greiner (GHI Washington) and Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)

In cooperation with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

The 2020s mark the centennial of commercial aviation. One hundred years ago, pioneering airlines such as SCADTA in Colombia and KLM in the Netherlands began to develop an intercontinental network of air routes. Lufthansa, Pan American Airways, and other companies followed suit. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight promoted civil aviation to a broader audience, however, flying remained prohibitively expensive for all but the elite. Still, it was in the early years of commercial operation that many of the structures and travel practices that are common today were established, including code sharing, in-flight meals, and restrictive bag policies. The aviation industry has proven itself to be an engine for globalization.

By the early 1940s, over 200,000 miles of air routes spanned the globe, interconnecting every continent except for Antarctica. After the Second World War, the jet age brought about new travel culture, speed, and a physical condition known as “jet lag”. As early as 1955, Americans preferred traveling domestically by airplanes rather than by railroads. Since then, the travel industry has seen the rise of mass tourism southbound from North America and Europe into warmer climates as well as the rise of low-cost carriers and a pan-European “easyJet generation”. Terrorism, debates on air travel’s impact on the environment and climate, and the grounding of the entire aviation industry during the COVID-19 pandemic have cumulatively exposed the numerous downsides and vulnerability of this global infrastructure system.

History writing has always had a keen interest in commercial aviation with the first official historical narratives of airlines and international agencies being published as early as the 1940s. Subsequent research has embedded negotiations for air rights and the extension of state-sponsored airlines in the study of international relations as well as in the broader histories of imperialism, the interwar period, the Cold War era, and growing globalization thereafter. Related to this interest in diplomacy and politics, academic writing has also always focused on the technological and economic aspects of civil aviation including the airplanes themselves. In addition, from the 1980s forward, scholars have increasingly devoted attention to the cultural implications of flight and a society’s “air-mindedness”, as initially discussed in Joseph J. Corn’s groundbreaking book The Winged Gospel (1983). More recently, human geographers have posed novel questions concerning the social production and consumption of flying as well as the interaction between human, machine, and environment. Academic efforts have at the same time shed a new light on airports, cabins, and the in-flight experience through the lens of postcolonial studies and by scrutinizing aspects of race, gender, and class.

Given these many methodological backgrounds, aviation history is a nascent field equipped with a multifaceted toolkit. It is able to combine analytical tools from science and technology studies with approaches from environmental, cultural, diplomatic, imperial history as well as gender studies and related disciplines. Currently there are numerous projects being pursued at universities across all continents. However, until now, these scholars have never had the opportunity to engage with one another.

This conference brings together scholars working in the various fields of aviation history, broadly defined. We invite scholars from different methodological and historical backgrounds to convene expertise and develop a common research agenda. The thematic range includes, but is not limited to, the following potential topics:

  • Economic, cultural, and (post)colonial perspectives on civil aviation
  • Aspects of maintenance, repair, failure, and breakdown
  • Interconnectivity and conflicts with other infrastructure systems, such as railroads
  • Passenger and cabin crew experiences
  • Automation and the human factor
  • International rivalries and aviation
  • Technological aspects of aviation (aerial photography etc.)
  • Cultural dimensions of aviation (music, art, film etc.)
     

The event is jointly organized by the German Historical Institute and the Institute for Latin American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The conference will take place from October 31 to November 2, 2024 and will be hosted by the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C.

Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) in English via the GHI online platform by December 15, 2023.

Decisions of acceptance will be announced by January 8, 2024. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel is available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.

Please contact Nicola Hofstetter (hofstetter-phelps(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online or if you have other questions related to the event.

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news-11882 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:08:01 +0100 Call for Papers: Diskussionsrunde zum Thema Frankreich­forschung für Doktorand:innen, Deutscher Kongress für Kunstgeschichte, Erlangen, 13.–17. März 2024 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-diskussionsrunde-zum-thema-frankreichforschung-fuer-doktorandinnen-deutscher-kongres.html Bewerbungsschluss: 07.01.2024 Diskussionsrunde zum Thema Frankreich­forschung für Doktorand:innen, Deutscher Kongress für Kunstgeschichte, Erlangen, 13.–17. März 2024

Das Deutsche Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris (DFK Paris) schreibt erstmalig 10 Reisestipendien für Doktorand:innen zum Deutschen Kongress für Kunst­geschichte 2024 in Erlangen aus, die sich dem Bereich der Frankreich­forschung zugehörig fühlen und die aktuelle Fragen zum Thema gemeinsam diskutieren möchten.

Auf dem Deutschen Kongress für Kunstgeschichte, der vom 13. bis zum 17. März 2024 in Erlangen stattfinden wird, richtet das DFK Paris in Kooperation mit dem Postdoc-Forum Frankreich­forschung ein Fachforum zum Thema Frankreich­forschung aus. Dort soll gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Status­gruppen des Fachs und in größtmöglicher Breite und Vielfalt die Frage diskutiert werden: Was ist Frankreich­forschung heute?

Wie jedes Forschungs­feld, das sich über einen geografischen bzw. nationalen Zuschnitt definiert, ist auch das Feld der Frankreich­forschung zum Objekt einer kritischen Revision geworden. Worauf bezieht sich das Präfix »Frankreich« der Frankreich­forschung – auf ihre Gegen­stände, ihre Archiv‑ und Museums­bestände oder auf eine methodische Ausrichtung? Wie verhält sich Frankreich­forschung zu den Heraus­forderungen einer trans­kulturellen Kunstgeschichts­schreibung? Welcher heuristische oder historische Wert macht es sinnvoll, weiterhin von Frankreich­forschung zu sprechen? Wir wollen fragen, auf welche Weise das Konzept der Frankreich­forschung ein Knoten­punkt für das gemeinsame Nachdenken über aktuelle Heraus­forderungen im Fach Kunst­geschichte sein kann.

Auf dem Kongress selbst ist eine zweiteilige Veranstaltung vorgesehen. Am Beginn steht eine Podiumsdiskussion mit pointierten Statements von Vertreter:innen unter­schiedlicher Status­gruppen und Arbeits­bereiche (Doktorand:innen, Postdoktorand:innen, Professor:innen, Kurator:innen). Den zweiten Teil der Veranstaltung bildet ein offenes Gespräch unter allen Anwesenden (Podium und Publikum). 

Um die Diskussion jedoch möglichst nachhaltig zu gestalten und der Gruppe der zu einem Thema mit Frankreich­bezug forschenden Doktorand:innen eine gut hörbare Stimme auf dem Fachforum zu verleihen, soll sich bereits im Vorfeld eine Gruppe von zehn Doktorand:innen konstituieren, die ihre Fragen und Vorschläge zum Thema der Frankreichforschung zusammenträgt und diskutiert. Geplant sind hierzu Treffen per Zoom im Vorfeld des Kongresses (gemeinsam mit der Leitung des Frankreichforums und autonom), die dem gemeinsamen Austausch dienen sollen. Die Gruppe selbst kann dann aus ihren eigenen Reihen zwei Personen bestimmen, die auf dem Podium in Erlangen jeweils mit einem fünfminütigen Statement zur Frage »Was ist Frankreichforschung heute?« vertreten sein werden. Die gesamte Gruppe ist aufgefordert, sich intensiv an der anschließenden offenen Diskussion zu beteiligen.

Haben Sie eine dezidierte Haltung zum Thema Frankreichforschung? Oder drängende Fragen, die sich aus Ihrer Arbeit heraus ergeben und die Sie gerne mit anderen diskutieren möchten? Dann bewerben Sie sich für die Diskussionsrunde Frankreichforschung. 

Bitte senden Sie hierzu bis zum 7. Januar 2024 einen kurzen Text (max. 500 Wörter) an stipendien(at)dfk-paris.org, der 1. Ihr Dissertationsthema und 2. Ihren Ansatz und Ihre Fragen zum Thema »Frankreichforschung heute« pointiert darstellt, und fügen drei bis fünf Sätze zu Ihrer Biografie hinzu (Studien‑ und Promotionsort etc.). Wir werden Sie noch im Januar benachrichtigen, ob Sie für die Diskussionsrunde ausgewählt wurden. 

Das Stipendium umfasst die Erstattung der Fahrtkosten (bis max. 250€) zum Kongress nach Erlangen, zwei Übernachtungen (bis max. 100€/Nacht) vor Ort und die Kongressgebühren.

Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche Bewerbungen. Bei Rückfragen schreiben Sie gerne an die stellvertretende Direktorin des DFK Paris, Léa Kuhn, unter lkuhn(at)dfk-paris.org

Organisation und Leitung des Fachforums Frankreichforschung: 
Peter Geimer / Léa Kuhn (DFK Paris) 
in Kooperation mit Elisabeth Fritz / Lisa Hecht / Thomas Moser (Postdoc-Forum Frankreichforschung)

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news-11853 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:24:02 +0200 Call for Papers: Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices. Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme between Collaboration and Exploitation (DHI Washington) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-exploring-epistemic-virtues-and-vices-data-infrastructures-and-episteme-between-coll.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01.12.2023 The Sixth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, a collaboration between the GHI, C2DH, RRCHNM, and the DIJ, will revolve around the concept of “epistemic virtues.” Epistemic virtues refer to the skills and attitudes that certain discourse communities consider exemplary, if not obligatory, for the production, transmission, or acquisition of knowledge in a specific field. In the normative tradition of philosophy of science, epistemic values and virtues refer to ideal-typical definitions of what makes “good science” and how scientific evidence and arguments can be legitimated. Epistemic values such as “objectivity,” “truthfulness,” “impartiality,” “reproducibility,” or “accuracy” have been central to the invention of modern science. In addition to this normative tradition, sociologists and anthropologists of knowledge have emphasized the phenomenological dimension of doing science. To them, epistemic norms or values are internalized by scientists through the learning and perfection of scientific practices. Knowledge production in this sense is always situational, embedded in its own historicity and spatial rootedness. These practices make and define the “scientific self” of different epistemic communities.

Digital knowledge practices in the field of humanities are currently characterized by a hybridity between analog epistemic traditions and new digital “interferences,” mingling qualitative and quantitative approaches, “close” and “distant” reading of sources as data. This type of research is characterized by a workflow that seems more experimental, uncertain, and collaborative than in the past. Where different disciplinary cultures or communities of practice meet, knowledge production is characterized by the crucial role of go-betweens, by partially diverging interests, and often by unchecked power differentials. We hold that it is especially in these situations of creative uncertainty that epistemic virtues can provide orientation. These virtues mold the scientific self and are labeled “epistemic” because of their perceived relevance to the pursuit of hermeneutics, helping to connect past and present knowledge practices. Based on the hypothesis that “the digital” has produced new epistemic values and virtues to characterize the production, dissemination, and access to knowledge worldwide – such as “sharing,” “collaboration,” “participation,” “transparency,” “openness,” “sustainability,” “traceability,” or “FAIRness” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) – this conference aims at:

  1. describing and analyzing concrete manifestations of such new values or virtues in digital humanities / history research or teaching practices;
  2. promoting critical reflection on the importance and role of such norms, values, and virtues in our contemporary political economy of digital knowledge production;
  3. arguing for an ethical consideration of DH infrastructures, tools, data, and publication platforms by exploring the concepts of epistemic inequalities and injustice.
     

In the past years, several scholars have criticized the DH community for overdoing the rhetoric of newness and overstating the revolutionary potential of digital technologies for the production, dissemination and appropriation of information or knowledge. Scholars like Amanda Fricker, Monica Berger, Walter D. Mignolo, Michael Gordin, or Alan Liu have instead highlighted the epistemic inequalities inscribed into large digital knowledge infrastructures, questioned the universalist assumptions underpinning the epistemic spaces of knowledge productions in the Western world. They have criticized the “Scientific Babel” of English language dominance and problematized the focus on predatory publishing and the platform capitalism of open access publishing. These critiques underscore the perpetuation of epistemic colonialism through index- and citation-regimes that systematically disfavor the discoverability, visibility, and therefore recognition of scholarship from the Global South.

The conference thus aims at going beyond the philosophical discussion of the hermeneutic dimension of epistemic values and virtues by enlarging the scope to the political and ethical dimensions of knowledge production, dissemination, and critical appropriation in the digital knowledge economy.

For the three-day conference, we invite you to submit proposals by December 1, 2023, for

  1. 20-minute individual presentations;
  2. Whole panel sessions of max. 3 presentations (possibly with commentary);
  3. Half-day workshops for (hands-on) presentations of projects, tools, or skills.
     

Possible conference topics include (but are by no means limited to):

  • Best practices of “applications” (or making explicit) of epistemic values / virtues in DH research and / or inscription of such values into the design of digital tools & infrastructures;
  • Data colonialism, the digital divide between “northern uploaders” and “southern downloaders,” and emerging power asymmetries inside the Global South;
  • Linguistic exclusions (linguistic prejudices of search algorithms, dominance of English language in ranking & citation indexes; colonized ontologies, etc.);
  • Critical infrastructures as socio-technical systems and “infrastructural inequalities” in terms of access, ownership, and sustainability;
  • Situated knowledge practices in DH in the Global South and indigenous “epistemic spaces” of knowledge production and sharing; 
  • Hybridity and messiness of data and knowledge practices and their impact on transparency, traceability, and accountability of research outputs;
  • Political economy of the Web / Internet as place of “digital sovereignty” and impact of platform capitalism on research topics and practices;
  • Questions of inequality and gender equity in digital labor and the growing impact of AI on job market and labor profiles;
  • New forms and formats of collaborative practices and interactional expertise in digital history & humanities reflecting ideas of “shared authority” and collective authorship;
  • Changes or adjustments regarding cultures of academic reputation and career paths in the (Digital) Humanities.
     

Although we favor in-person attendance of participants / presenters, facilities for hybrid participation will be provided, also aiming at making the event as inclusive as possible.

Please send a short CV and paper abstract of no more than 500 words by December 1st, 2023 to dh2024(at)uni.lu Participants accepted to the conference will receive an individually calculated lump sum to support travel expenses and accommodation costs (for one presenter per paper or workshop). For further information regarding the event’s format and conceptualization, please contact Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers (andreas.fickers(at)uni.lu). For practical questions (travel, accommodation) please contact Brigitte Melchior (Brigitte.melchior(at)uni.lu).

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news-11852 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:09:47 +0200 Call for Papers: Dark Networks. Imaginaries of Shady Connections and the Global Underworld from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (DHI Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-dark-networks-imaginaries-of-shady-connections-and-the-global-underworld-from-the-ni.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01.12.2023 Organised by:

We invite proposals for an international conference on the imaginary of 'dark networks' from the nineteenth century to the present that will take place at the German Historical Institute in Paris (DHI Paris) from 20 to 22 November 2024.

Modern imaginations of an interconnected world often have a 'dark' side. In the nineteenth century there was an explosion in enthusiasm for the opportunities offered by new forms of international communication, trade, and travel, the emergence of cosmopolitan ideals, or the urge for international cooperation. Yet contemporaries also imagined a dangerous milieu of vice and crime generated by illicit flows and populated by a dubious cast of shady characters. Anxieties over espionage, conspiracies and secret plots became a widespread cultural pattern. Since then, a sinister mythology has never ceased to captivate the modern imaginary: that beneath the real world lies a connected underworld made up of clandestine threads and movements that transcend borders and stretch across continents and oceans.

Contemporaries from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries commented on these 'dark networks' in various forms. Conspiracy theories, sensationalist media reports, popular fictional narratives such as novels or television shows, or reports and policy papers issued by international organisations, such as the League of Nations, claimed to offer insights into the global 'underworld'. The stories and images they produced were characterised by a series of stereotyped contrasts between high and low, transparency and secrecy, morality and vice, or day and night. They also mostly shared three typical components:

  • 'Dark networks' consisted of specific figures such as drug traffickers, prostitutes, clandestine migrants, spies, vagabonds, freemasons, or anarchists. These figures were imagined to be well-connected and multilingual, transcending clear social and sometimes sexual categories. They also tended to be racialized and were often depicted in antisemitic terms. Portrayals focussed on profit-driven criminal operations beyond the reach of state control. The characters of the interconnected underworld were suspicious at best and a severe threat to the social order and political stability at worst.
  • 'Dark networks' were also defined by specific spaces that denizens of the underworld moved through or resided in. These included typical liminal zones such as ports, borderlands, railway stations, or hotel lobbies, but also infrastructures like steamships, aeroplanes, or even tunnels. The result was an imagined topography 'below the surface', a burgeoning multiplicity of sinister connections and movements in the shadows of the modern world.
  • Finally, 'dark networks' were perceived as crucial to enabling the circulation of specific goods like drugs, weapons, counterfeit money, reptiles, women, secret knowledge, or revolutionary pamphlets and ideas. Such goods had in common that they appeared contagious and harmful in case of unhindered circulation. They were therefore often imagined with particular features that enabled them to move under the radar or be smuggled across borders: for instance, they were encrypted, disguised, or hidden in secret compartments.

Most questions about images and stories of 'dark networks', however, still remain to be asked: By whom were they produced and what political and moral purposes did they serve? Which values, political systems, and (global) orders of property, race, or gender were they supposed to undermine? What explains their increasing or decreasing relevance for different societies between the nineteenth century and the present? And what does the idea of 'other' powerful, hidden, and dangerous networks tell us about global modernity in general?

The planned conference will explore the modern and recent history of images and narratives of 'dark networks'. It takes seriously the call to move beyond simplistic success stories of globalisation and contributes to the growing interest of scholars in its 'deviant' sides. To this purpose, it draws on existing scholarship on social imaginaries of crime, deviance, conspiracy, and espionage, and adds a transnational dimension to it. We would like to bring together contributions on different types of 'dark networks' discourses in order to interrogate their significance for understanding the ambivalences of global modernity and the construction and contestation of its social and political norms. In a chronology that spans the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, we are interested in discussing continuities and change in a transnational, long-term perspective. Proposals could, for instance, address topics and questions in one or several of the following areas of research:

1) Deviant globalisation. How can the investigation of imaginaries of 'dark networks' be used to tell 'another' history of global modernity? How did they interact with positive interpretations of transnational connections emphasising cooperation, communication, or civilisation? Could particular connections move from one side of the spectrum of light and dark globalization to the other depending on historical conjunctures? And how can stereotyped representations of shady connections be put in relation to the living conditions of actual marginalised people on the move?

2) Media spectacle and moral panics. How were images and narratives of shady connections used in crime fiction or spy films to captivate the attention of a wider audience? What was their role when investigative journalists created scandals and moral panics – and how did they spread across borders? Which psychological desires do representations of the global underworld reveal, and how was this 'other' exploited for political purposes both on national and on international scale?

3) Mystery, suspicion and 'truth'. Which particular mode of knowledge production does the search for hidden traces of sinister connections beyond official 'reality' reveal? Through what practical operations (some themselves transnational) were these alternative 'truths' of 'dark networks' produced? How can images and narratives of the transnational 'underworld' serve to better understand the production of the plausible, the credible and the verifiable in specific historical contexts?

4) Policing and regulation. How were representations of the global underworld used by representatives of states, empires and NGOs to introduce coercive measures – e.g. in the form of transnational police cooperation, border control, counter-espionage legislation, or moral reform campaigns? And which forms of gender, race and class discrimination were reinforced or produced based on images of sinister interconnections?

Modalities

We welcome contributions in English or French from disciplines such as history, sociology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy or criminology that focus on imaginaries of shady connectivity from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. Each proposal should include a tentative title, a short CV and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Please send these documents in one PDF file to sarah.frenking(at)uni-erfurt.de and cstreb(at)dhi-paris.fr by 1st December 2023. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for active participants, subject to funding approval. The conference is planned as an on-site event.

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news-11841 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:57:03 +0200 Call for Papers: The Vatican and the Local Roman and Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Europe as an Intermediary in the Cold War (DHI Warschau) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-the-vatican-and-the-local-roman-and-greek-catholic-church-in-eastern-europe-as-an-in.html Bewerbungsschluss: 20.11.2023 Connecting Catholics in a Divided World: The Vatican and the Local Roman and Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Europe as an Intermediary in the Cold War (1945–1978)

Collegium Carolinum Munich, 3rd and 4th May 2024

Marion Dotter (Collegium Carolinum, Munich)
Julian Sandhagen (GHI Rome)
Viktoriia Serhiienko (GHI Warsaw)

World War II ended for Pope Pius XII with an ambivalent result: the Holy See was widely regarded as a reinvigorated institution of peaceful reconstruction, but the pontifex was confronted with the fact that communism, with its repressive church policy, had penetrated far into the Catholic heart of Europe. Former strongholds of the Catholic faith like Poland, Slovakia and Croatia were now governed by atheist ideologues who regarded the Catholic Church with suspicion or outright contempt. Nearly everywhere in East-Central and Southeastern Europe, the Church subsequently came under immense pressure and faced tough questions on how to deal with these new regimes.

With the opening of the archival records of the pontificate of Pius XII in 2020, a plethora of sources became available to researchers that offer insights into the ways the Vatican tried to navigate these new political realities. The Vatican, as the centre of Catholic life, was, however, defined by a distinctive tripartition: On the one hand, it stood as a significant state actor, wielding the unique status of the Holy See as a sovereign entity, while on the other hand, it operated as an influential non-governmental organization with a transnational network of a local clergy, religious orders, and welfare organizations that transcended political borders. Finally, the Catholic Church was not only a political actor that operated on different levels, but also a spiritual one with goals and priorities that transcend a secular political understanding.

However, the Vatican`s grip on the global multifaceted network of Catholic faith was fragile at best and therefore constantly renegotiated between different actors: The national churches, religious orders and papal envoys all had their own ideas on which strategies had to be employed against communism. This workshop therefore aims to explore how the Church's identity as a sovereign state, a non-governmental and a spiritual actor shaped its responses to communist regimes and how these dimensions coalesced to define its position not only in the context of Eastern European history but also more broadly in the context of the Cold War.

A valuable aspect of this workshop is furthermore – besides the focus on the Roman Catholic Church – a critical look at the relationship between the Vatican and Greek Catholics, who, unlike Roman Catholics, were in a completely different legal position in the postwar period. The formal liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the L’viv Council in 1946 opened a series of liquidation councils of Greek Catholic churches in Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland (the latter was not officially banned but ceased to exist). The Vatican’s long-standing problems in understanding the unique position of the Greek Catholic churches on the cultural borders of two traditions - Catholic and Orthodox - not least due to its lack of interest in Eastern Europe (but not in Russia), were multiplied after World War II by the difficulty of understanding the complex, often tragic, life circumstances of its priests and faithful behind the Iron Curtain and the limited ability of the Holy See to influence the situation.

Because of this complexity with Roman and Greek Catholics trying to survive under communist rule and the Holy See struggling for political and diplomatic influence in the East of Europe, we encourage submissions that adopt a research perspective, which evades a top-to-bottom approach, but rather aims to comprehensively examine the diverse actors within the Catholic Church's complex tapestry during the communist era in Eastern Europe. By embracing a multi-dimensional lens, we seek to show the interactions and contributions of various stakeholders within the Church. We are therefore particularly interested in exploring the entanglements, cooperation, and conflicts among various Catholic entities transcending regions, borders, and levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. These interactions illustrate the interconnectedness of numerous Catholic representatives and organizations, extending even beyond the iron curtain. Our approach embraces a comprehensive definition of historical actors, encompassing institutions such as the Secretary of State, the Pontificia Commissione di Assistenza, and Catholic Action, as well as individuals like bishops, nuncios, and laypersons. This inclusive perspective allows us to view the Church as a pluralist entity, responding to the challenges of the Cold War in East Central and South Eastern Europe through a wide array of initiatives, including social, political, and theological measures.

While our primary emphasis remains on the postwar era spanning from 1945 to 1958, leveraging the recently accessible documents within the Vatican Archives, the aforementioned transformations persevered beyond the passing of Pope Pius XII in 1958. Consequently, we are also looking for scholarly submissions that expand upon this viewpoint, looking at dynamics in the 1960s and 1970s.

The workshop will take place as part of the project “The Global Pontificate of Pius XII

Catholicism in a Divided World, 1945–1958” (for more information visit our Website: piusxii.hypotheses.org) at the Collegium Carolinum in Munich from 3rd to 4th May. We also encourage young scholars (doctoral students and postdocs) to apply for the workshop.

Travel and accommodation costs for the speakers will be covered by the organizers.

The deadline for submitting abstracts (approx. 300 words) together with a CV is 20 November 2023. Please submit your abstract to: catholicsincoldwar(at)gmail.com.

Publication of the revised papers in a peer-reviewed book publication is planned. Optionally, potential participants can therefore also submit a writing sample in English (of an article, a book chapter, etc., even if it is unpublished at the moment). This will make it easier for the organizers to select the most relevant applications.

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news-11840 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:51:40 +0200 Call for Papers: Silenced Church The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Between the Soviet Authorities and the Vatican (1944–1978) (DHI Warschau) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-silenced-church-the-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-between-the-soviet-authorities-a.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31.12.2023 Silenced Church. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Between the Soviet Authorities and the Vatican (1944–1978)

International Conference
German Historical Institute Warsaw, 15th – 16th February 2024
Organizers: Miloš Řezník, Viktoriia Serhiienko

After the Second World War the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church found itself in a situation where its leadership had to deal with the Soviet authorities on its own. After the liquidation “councils”, starting with the L’viv Council in 1946 and ending with the Council of Prešov in 1950, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church strived to survive in underground. At the same time, it became a hostage to attempts of establishing a political dialogue between Moscow and the Vatican, as well as to the search for ecumenical dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church. How all those projects affected the situation in western Ukraine on the ground? How the Vatican policies developed and how those developments influenced the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church?

In addition to the triangle: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church – the Soviet authorities – the Vatican, our conference aims to reveal and analyze the influence of such actors as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian nationalist underground, the Roman Catholic bishops, primarily of those countries where Greek Catholics lived, the Ukrainian diaspora, etc. The main focus is put on Ukraine, but a transregional approach is especially welcome in papers that would examine similar church-state relations in Central and Eastern Europe of that time.

A non-exclusive list of issues that are expected to be in the focus of the discussion can be summarized as follows:

  • the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as an object and subject of international and domestic politics;
  • common and distinctive features in postwar church-state relations in Central and Eastern Europe;
  • conflict lines, as well as the space for interaction between Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic bishops, priests, and believers;
  • polysemantic meaning of the Orthodox choice for the former Greek Catholics;
  • continuity of local traditions in the face of changing institutional subordination.

The conference will take place at the German Historical Institute Warsaw from 15th to 16th February 2024. We encourage young scholars (doctoral students and postdocs) to apply.

The event will be held in English. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for participants with accepted contributions. There are no participation fees.

Please send your applications in English (approx. 300 words) together with a short CV to konferencja(at)dhi.waw.pl by 31 December 2023, indicating the title of the conference.

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news-11805 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:38:04 +0200 Call for Papers: Crossings: Non-Privileged Migration and Mobility Control in the Age of Global Empires (c.1850-1914) (DHI London) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-crossings-non-privileged-migration-and-mobility-control-in-the-age-of-global-empires-1.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2023 Conference to be held at the German Historical Institute London, April 25-26, 2024

Convenors: Felix Brahm (University of Münster), Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL), Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool)

AHRC-DFG-Project “Romani Migration Between Germany and Britain (1880s-1914): Spaces of Informal Business, Media Spectacle, and Racial Policing

The time period between 1850 and 1914 is often referred to as the age of mass migration, with more than 30 million Europeans immigrating to the United States alone. However, as previous scholarship has shown, this was by no means an age of free movement. While overseas shipping routes expanded and prices in passenger transport fell, the period also saw increasing state interventions and the establishing of migration regimes that distinguished between “desirable” and “undesirable” immigrant groups. Although non-elite in social composition, the mass migration of the time was overwhelmingly a privileged “white” migration in the age of global empires.

This is clear when we focus on groups whose transnational mobility was restricted or who were threatened with deportation. But neither state intervention nor societal hostility completely prevented groups labelled as “undesirable” from migrating – in flight from persecution and conflict or in search of opportunities to live and earn in another country. While adopting strategies of survival in the host countries, these groups of “undesired” immigrants often faced huge public responses, followed by new legislation and deportations, resulting in subsequent odysseys. This can be seen, for example, in colonial migration to Europe or in the Romani migration to the UK. Other groups remained under the radar, or only came into focus later, such as the Cape Verdean immigrants to the US.

This conference brings together research on non-privileged migration from the 1850s to the First World War. We invite contributions that explore transnational mobility and its restriction, emerging migration, citizenship and border regimes, economic strategies in “hostile environments” and the reconstruction, visualisation and memorialisation of migrants’ itineraries and experiences, including digital methods. We are especially interested in perspectives that combine (trans-)local with global and imperial perspectives. Contributions from all relevant disciplines are welcome.

Key questions include:

- How does a focus on non-privileged groups sharpen our understanding of transnational mobility and migration regimes in the age of global empires? Who became “undesirable” migrants, and what categories of social difference and their intersection took effect?

- What state interventions and policing practices were adopted? How did these differ between countries and empires, and what levels of international or transimperial cooperation were established? How did metropolitan and imperial migration regimes inform each other?

- What role did the media play in public responses to migration, and in how far were migrants and supporting groups able to use the media in their behalf?

- How did groups of migrants circumvent mobility restrictions, and what economic strategies did they adopt in the host countries, or post deportation? What was the role of private migration agents?

- With what methods can we reconstruct, make visible, and memorialise migrants’ itineraries and experiences?

The conference will be held at the German Historical Institute London (GHIL). It is co-financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the GHIL. We anticipate being able to reimburse standard travel expenses and the cost of accommodation for the duration of the conference. Papers from scholars at any stage of their career, drawing on developments in any world areas in the period roughly between 1850 and 1914 are invited. Abstracts of about 300 words and a short CV should be sent both to Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft (felix.brahm(at)uni-muenster.de, dan85(at)liverpool.ac.uk) by 15.11.2023.

GHIL admin contact: Julian Triandafyllou (j.triandafyllou(at)ghil.ac.uk)

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news-11804 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:31:21 +0200 Call for Papers: Medieval Germany Workshop (DHI London) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-medieval-germany-workshop.html Bewerbungsschluss: 20.12.2023 12 April 2024

Organised by the German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the German Historical Institute Washington and the German History Society, to be held in London.

This one-day workshop on the history of medieval Germany (broadly defined) will provide an opportunity for researchers in the field from the UK, continental Europe, and the USA to meet in a relaxed and friendly setting and to learn more about each other’s work. Proposals for short papers of 10–15 minutes are invited from researchers at all career stages with an interest in any aspect of the history of medieval Germany. Participants are encouraged to concentrate on presenting work in progress, highlighting research questions and approaches, and pointing to yet unresolved challenges of their projects. Presentations will be followed by a discussion.

Attendance is free, which includes lunch, but costs for travel and accommodation cannot be reimbursed. Doctoral students from North America (USA and Canada) who wish to present at the workshop, however, can apply for two travel grants provided by the German Historical Institute Washington. Please express your interest in this grant in your application. Support for postgraduate and early career researchers from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland is available on a competitive basis, subject to eligibility requirements: postgraduate members of the German History Society currently registered for a higher degree at a university in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, and those who have completed a PhD within two years of the deadline for application but who have no other institutional sources of funding may apply for up to £150 for travel and accommodation. Please see the GHS website for further information and application deadlines.

Please send your proposal, which must include a title, an abstract of c.200 words, and a biographical note of no more than c.100 words, to Marcus Meer: m.meer(at)ghil.ac.uk. Questions about all aspects of the workshop can also be sent to Len Scales: l.e.scales(at)durham.ac.uk Students and researchers interested in medieval German history are also very welcome to attend and listen to the presentations. There is no charge for attendance, but pre-booking is essential. If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Julian Triandafyllou: j.triandafyllou(at)ghil.ac.uk The deadline for proposal submissions is 20 December 2023

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news-11794 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:00:11 +0200 Call for Papers: Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present (DHI Washington) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-archives-inof-transit-historical-perspectives-from-the-1930s-to-the-present-dhi-was.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.09.2023 JUN 28, 2024 - JUN 29, 2024

Workshop at University of Southern California, Los Angeles | Conveners: Einstein Papers Project / California Institute of Technology (Jennifer Rodgers); German Historical Institute Washington and its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley (Simone Lässig, Anna-Carolin Augustin, Swen Steinberg); Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London (Dan Stone); Queen Mary, University of London (Jane Freeland); Wiener Holocaust Library, London (Toby Simpson, Christine Schmidt) as part of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP); USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (Wolf Gruner)

This workshop will explore new ways of thinking about archives, archival records, and other artifacts historians might use as primary sources to gain deeper insight into the history of migrants in transit and the knowledge they possessed, produced, transmitted, or lost. With a starting point in the history of Jewish migration from National Socialist-occupied areas, the workshop broadens out to investigate the experiences of refugees and migrants fleeing genocide, armed conflict, and persecution throughout the twentieth century. Specifically, we use the idea of “lost knowledge” (Steinberg/Strobl) to ask how migrants who leave their homes try to convey both the sense of loss and the disorientation that accompany the navigation of new lived realities—from the geographical to the socio-cultural, political, and beyond—in correspondence or other materials that capture any aspect of their flight and migration. More particularly, this workshop examines how migrants craft their words depending on who they are writing to and when. How do their letters, photographs, and other artifacts communicate their experiences both to their contemporary and future generations? How can we reframe personal documentation, visual (re)sources, artifacts, and other material culture of migrants as sites of knowledge production? What role do archives play in allowing us to ask and address these questions? And what happens to the “archive” in contexts of transoceanic forced migration, such as the Holocaust? How does migration challenge concepts of archival materiality and fixity and, further, how have the “material turn” and the new interest in soundscapes and the digital age not only complicated but also enhanced our research?

In this workshop, we will initiate discussions around these topics and others that bring together a transnational history of the Holocaust with studies of migrant knowledge in different contexts, including contemporary conflicts and migration. The convenors invite submissions from a variety of researchers, including not only historians but also archivists, librarians, heritage practitioners, digital humanists, and museum professionals. We are particularly interested in an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and knowledge between fields, including practice-based community archives, to understand continuities and ruptures between historical frameworks and present-day practices. We welcome paper proposals that address the following themes, but we remain explicitly open to further related suggestions:

  • Gender and Generation: What role do gender and generation play in migrant knowledge and its preservation in archives? In what ways do these affect a migrant’s ability to speak? When and to whom do they speak? What role does generational trauma play in the recording of experiences, as well as in later generations’ understanding of migrant experiences? How do different stages of migration and especially transit intersect with age, gender, and other characteristics? How do these factors influence the ways in which experiences are recorded?
  • Practices: How do professionals such as scholars and researchers, medical personnel, or social workers impact the conservation of migrant voices? What tools are necessary to approach refugees and other migrants in transit? How can professionals help migrants document their experiences, and how can practitioners justify their participation in the formation of migrant knowledge and/ or knowledge networks? 
  • Institutions: What strategies of collecting and discarding do individuals, institutions, and organizations use? What role does funding play in the ability to store migrant knowledge in perpetuity? What forms of representation exist beyond the institution (collaboration, digital humanities)?
  • Agency: How do migrants, particularly in transit, claim agency and empowerment, and how do these support their self-preservation?
  • Materiality: How do migrants record their experiences—in texts, objects, or sounds? How are historical narratives determined by the materiality of migrant experiences and knowledge?
  • Memory: When and why do various groups of people (and which ones) become interested in people in transit? How does the so-called post-memory age affect the ways in which younger generations access archives and artifacts in/of transit and thus understand not only the history itself, but, more importantly, their ancestors’ experiences of persecution and migration as well as rescue and relief? How have the digital age and AI complicated the “archive in transit” and, in turn, personal historical narratives as sites of memory?

This conference will be an in-person only event. Please upload a brief CV and a paper proposal of no more than 400 words by September 15, 2023, in a single PDF document to our conference platform. Participants will be notified by the end of October 2023 at the latest. The papers will be pre-circulated on a secure website, and participants will present them only in summary form at the conference. The conveners plan to disseminate results of the workshop via open access sources such as the Migrant Knowledge blog and/or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal/edited volume.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel may be available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.

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news-11788 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:16:31 +0200 Call for Papers: Quo Vadis Wissensräume (digital) ergründen (DHI Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-quo-vadis-wissensraeume-digital-ergruenden.html Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2024 Zahlreiche Dissertationsprojekte zur Geschichte Europas vom 5. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert zeugen von der Aktualität neuer Zugänge aus der Wissensgeschichte und den Digital Humanities. Das Online-Seminar Quo vadis öffnet einen deutsch-französischen Diskussionsraum für Doktoranden und Doktorandinnen wie für fortgeschrittene Masterstudierende, deren Projekte Methoden und Theorien dieser Forschungszweige als analytische Zugänge anwenden. Ziel ist es, junge Nachwuchswissenschaftler und Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen miteinander in Kontakt zu bringen: Sie stellen ihre Projekte sowie einen Schlüsseltext für ihre Untersuchung vor. Diese Texte werden den Teilnehmenden vorab zugesandt. Das Online-Seminar beschränkt sich nicht auf die historische Mediävistik, sondern profitiert von interdisziplinären Zugängen u. a. aus der Digital History, Romanistik, Germanistik und Soziologie.

Wir suchen junge Forschende mit einem Projekt zur Geschichte Europas vom 5. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert, die einen wissensgeschichtlichen Zugang oder Methoden der Digital Humanities nutzen, um ihre Quellen nach deren Gebrauchskontexten zu befragen. Zahlreiche Projekte zeugen vom aktuellen Interesse an den zeitgenössischen Bedingungen von Wissensproduktion und -vermittlung. Damit machen sie unbekannte Orte und Räume ausfindig, weil diese die Geltung von Wissen bestimmen. So wird die Bischofsaula zum Hörsaal, das Kloster zum Innovationslabor und die königliche Kanzlei zum Ordnungsstifter: Es werden Wissensräume geschaffen, die es zu ergründen gilt. Auf Grundlage einer ausgewählten wissenschaftlichen Publikation soll die im Projekt angewandte Methode oder verfolgte Theorie vorgestellt werden, um damit einhergehende Probleme im konkreten Arbeiten gemeinsam zu diskutieren und Lösungen zu finden.

Die Arbeitssprachen sind Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch. Die Organisatorinnen moderieren und jede und jeder kann in der Sprache seiner Wahl referieren und diskutieren. Sie bewerben sich für den Turnus des Seminars, der von April bis Ende Juli 2024 laufen wird.

Die Bewerbung sollte neben einem Abstract des Forschungsprojektes (max. 3 000 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen) auch einen wissenschaftlichen Aufsatz vorschlagen, den alle Teilnehmenden vorbereitend auf die Sitzung lesen werden. Ein kurzer akademischer Lebenslauf ist erwünscht. Bewerbungen richten Sie bitte in einer PDF-Datei bis zum 31. Januar 2024 an folgende Adresse: quovadis(at)geschichte.uni-freiburg.de. Wir melden uns bei Ihnen bis spätestens 24. Februar 2024.

Wir laden alle Interessierten herzlich zu den Online-Sitzungen im Winter 2023/2024 ein! Unser Programm finden Sie zeitnah auf unserer Homepage: https://mittelalter2.geschichte.uni-freiburg.de/kolloquien/quo-vadis. Das Online-Seminar »Quo vadis. Wissensräume (digital) ergründen« wird von Maria-Elena Kammerlander (Universität Freiburg) und Pauline Spychala (DHI Paris) organisiert.


Quo vadis findet in Kooperation mit der Gesellschaft für Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, dem Trier Center for Digital Humanities, dem Centre de recherche en histoire européenne comparée der Université Paris-Est Créteil (EA 4392) sowie dem Centre Lucien Febvre der Université de Franche-Comté (EA 2273) statt.

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news-11776 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:02:46 +0200 Call for Papers: Forschungsseminar der Abteilung Neuere und Neueste Geschichte - Atelier zur internationalen Geschichte: Geschichte schreiben jenseits nationalen Rahmens (DHI Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-forschungsseminar-der-abteilung-neuere-und-neueste-geschichte-atelier-zur-internatio.html Bewerbungsschluss: 20.09.2023 Die Abteilung Neuere und Neueste Geschichte des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris (DHIP) widmet ihr Forschungsseminar dem Austausch zwischen Forscherinnen und Forschern, die ein Forschungsprojekt mit »internationaler« Dimension durchführen. Das Seminar bietet die Möglichkeit, neue Perspektiven vorzustellen und die methodologischen Herausforderungen der Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen zu diskutieren.

Das Seminar befasst sich mit der Untersuchung internationaler Dynamiken sowie des internationalen Austauschs und lässt Raum für die unterschiedlichsten Ansätze zur Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, solange die internationale Dimension im vorgeschlagenen Projekt zentral ist. Im Rahmen des Seminars können verschiedene Themen in Betracht gezogen werden: zwischenstaatliche Beziehungen, transnationale Beziehungen, die Berücksichtigung internationaler Phänomene, internationale Organisationen, Orte der internationalen Beziehungen, etc. Dabei können Friedens-, Konflikt-, Übergangs- und Kalter-Kriegs-Perioden sowie Globalisierungs- und Europäisierungsphänomene Kontexte sein, aber auch als Themen selbst im Zentrum der vorgeschlagenen Studien stehen.

In methodischer Hinsicht ist kein Ansatz ausgeschlossen. Die Beiträge können sich zum Beispiel mit Konvergenzen und Divergenzen, Kooperationen und Rivalitäten, kulturellen Praktiken und Transfers, Netzwerken, Emotionen, Gender usw. befassen. Es gibt keine Einschränkungen hinsichtlich der Art der untersuchten Akteure: Die Vorschläge können sich auf Diplomaten, Politiker, Wirtschaftsvertreter, Gewerkschaften, Künstler (in den Bereichen Film, Malerei, Literatur usw.), Touristen, Experten usw. beziehen.

Ziel ist es, gemeinsam über die spezifischen Herausforderungen von Forschungsprojekten nachzudenken, welche die Analyse über den nationalen Rahmen hinaustragen. Wie kann man das Handeln von Akteuren jenseits des Rahmens der Nation betrachten? Zwar ist die Nation in der Regel ein Referenz- und Sozialisationsrahmen, der die Akteure tief prägt, doch auch wenn sie nicht in der Diplomatie tätig sind, kommen diese in vielerlei Hinsicht mit Prozessen und Einflüssen in Berührung, die über den nationalen Rahmen hinausgehen.

Sofern eine historische Dimension stark präsent ist, sind Vorschläge von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus anderen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften willkommen. Vorschläge von Forscherinnen und Forschern, die am Anfang eines Forschungsprojekts stehen, werden gerne entgegengenommen.

Die Forscherinnen und Forscher sind dazu aufgerufen, ihre Lösungen für die besonderen Herausforderungen international angelegter Studien zu präsentieren, die ja per definitionem dazu führen, dass eine Geschichte geschrieben wird, die in verschiedenen historischen Kontexten verankert ist. In Verbindung mit dem Thema der vorgeschlagenen Studien können etwa Antworten auf folgende Fragen in den Beiträgen hervorgehoben werden: Wie geht man an die Periodisierung heran? Wie kann eine Methodik entwickelt werden, die an die unterschiedlichen Profile der Akteure angepasst ist und es ermöglicht, den Transfer von Wissen oder Praktiken zu erfassen? Wie kann man die Zirkulation von Ideen und die Intensität von Kontakten ermitteln? Wie können die Beziehungen zwischen Staaten, Nationen und Gesellschaften in ein neues Licht gesetzt werden?

Für das akademische Jahr 2023–2024 planen wir etwa 8 Sitzungen, die in der Regel am Mittwochnachmittag stattfinden. Die Sprachen des Seminars sind Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch (die Sprachkenntnisse werden im Bewerbungsprozess abgefragt). Jede der Seminarsitzungen wird um zwei thematisch oder methodisch zusammenhängende Vorträge herum aufgebaut sein. Je nach den Möglichkeiten der Panelisten werden die Sitzungen entweder in hybrider Form oder vollständig online abgehalten.

Die ausgewählten Referentinnen und Referenten werden aufgefordert, die methodologischen Herausforderungen ihres Forschungsthemas in einem mündlichen Vortrag von maximal 15–20 Minuten zu präsentieren.

Beitragsvorschläge (maximal 220 Wörter) sind durch Ausfüllen des folgenden Formulars bis zum 20. September 2023 einzureichen: https://framaforms.org/latelier-de-linternational-1688132268. Das Programm für das Akademische Jahr 2023–2024 wird im Oktober 2023 bekannt gegeben.

Organisationskomitee des Seminars: Abteilung Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (Alexandre Bibert, Axel Dröber, Jürgen Finger, Mareike König, Eleonora Marchioni, Corentin Marion, Christoph Streb).
Koordination: Alexandre Bibert (abibert(at)dhi-paris.fr)

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news-11769 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:15:27 +0200 Call for Papers: Crossings: Non-Privileged Migration and Mobility Control in the Age of Global Empires (c. 1850-1914) (DHI London) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-crossings-non-privileged-migration-and-mobility-control-in-the-age-of-global-empires.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2023 CONFERENCE

25-26 April 2024

Convenors: Felix Brahm (University of Münster), Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL), Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool)

Venue: German Historial Institute London

AHRC-DFG-Project “Romani Migration Between Germany and Britain (1880s-1914): Spaces of Informal Business, Media Spectacle, and Racial Policing

The time period between 1850 and 1914 is often referred to as the age of mass migration, with more than 30 million Europeans immigrating to the United States alone. However, as previous scholarship has shown, this was by no means an age of free movement. While overseas shipping routes expanded and prices in passenger transport fell, the period also saw increasing state interventions and the establishing of migration regimes that distinguished between “desirable” and “undesirable” immigrant groups. Although non-elite in social composition, the mass migration of the time was overwhelmingly a privileged “white” migration in the age of global empires.

This is clear when we focus on groups whose transnational mobility was restricted or who were threatened with deportation. But neither state intervention nor societal hostility completely prevented groups labelled as “undesirable” from migrating – in flight from persecution and conflict or in search of opportunities to live and earn in another country. While adopting strategies of survival in the host countries, these groups of “undesired” immigrants often faced huge public responses, followed by new legislation and deportations, resulting in subsequent odysseys. This can be seen, for example, in colonial migration to Europe or in the Romani migration to the UK. Other groups remained under the radar, or only came into focus later, such as the Cape Verdean immigrants to the US.

This conference brings together research on non-privileged migration from the 1850s to the First World War. We invite contributions that explore transnational mobility and its restriction, emerging migration, citizenship and border regimes, economic strategies in “hostile environments” and the reconstruction, visualisation and memorialisation of migrants’ itineraries and experiences, including digital methods. We are especially interested in perspectives that combine (trans-)local with global and imperial perspectives. Contributions from all relevant disciplines are welcome.

Key questions include:

  • How does a focus on non-privileged groups sharpen our understanding of transnational mobility and migration regimes in the age of global empires? Who became “undesirable” migrants, and what categories of social difference and their intersection took effect?

  • What state interventions and policing practices were adopted? How did these differ between countries and empires, and what levels of international or transimperial cooperation were established? How did metropolitan and imperial migration regimes inform each other?

  • What role did the media play in public responses to migration, and in how far were migrants and supporting groups able to use the media in their behalf?

  • How did groups of migrants circumvent mobility restrictions, and what economic strategies did they adopt in the host countries, or post deportation? What was the role of private migration agents?

  • With what methods can we reconstruct, make visible, and memorialise migrants’ itineraries and experiences?

The conference will be held at the German Historical Institute London (GHIL). It is co-financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the GHIL. We anticipate being able to reimburse standard travel expenses and the cost of accommodation for the duration of the conference. Papers from scholars at any stage of their career, drawing on developments in any world areas in the period roughly between 1850 and 1914 are invited. Abstracts of about 300 words and a short CV should be sent both to Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft (felix.brahm(at)uni-muenster.dedan85(at)liverpool.ac.uk) by 15.11.2023.

GHIL admin contact: Julian Triandafyllou (j.triandafyllou(at)ghil.ac.uk)

Call for Papers (PDF file)

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news-11764 Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:48:18 +0200 Call for Papers: Nationalism and Tourism - Conference 2024 (DHI Warschau) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-nationalism-and-tourism-conference-2024-dhi-warschau.html Bewerbungsschluss: 05.10.2023 Tourism as a social and cultural phenomenon since the nineteenth century has not only been a recreational practice or the opportunity to see unseen places, but also a tool for the realization of political interests.

Due to industrialization and the development of railroad networks in Europe in the nineteenth century, travel became faster and more frequent. Travel became cheaper and more comfortable and allowed a much larger segment of the population to participate in leisure activities.

Between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, European tourism grew into a key component of private leisure, without which many people could not imagine their daily lives. Tourism allowed people to enjoy their free time whilst simultaneously improving their acquaintance with their hometown, their surrounding country, their homeland, and places they only knew about from stories and books. Travel became an activity that encouraged further education and recreation. Moreover, getting to know the unknown made it possible to appreciate everyday details better and the value of each day. Spending the “right” amount of time on a short or long trip gave a possibility to better appreciate everyday rituals and could inspire visits to exotic lands. The “foreign gaze” made local populations experience their homeland as it must look to visiting tourists.

In addition, tourism in the last two centuries made it necessary to find the best way to create self-representations for countries, which could show their national exclusivity and importance; and it nationalized rusticity and local colour. Tourism stimulated national self-positioning both externally and domestically, encouraging and constantly offering to get to know one’s own country first and to spend holidays in it.

After the First World War, a new branch of tourism began to flourish: in countries which had lost their territories after the war, tours to lost places and borderlands became a special form of “heritage tourism”. The development of mass tourism since the mid-20th century (following the expansion of automobile and air travel) shows suggestive similarities as well as differences between totalitarian and open societies. Beginning in the 1970s, several waves of domestic/local tourism occurred in Eastern Europe, with a peak after the 1990s. And more recently a growing resistance against burdensome “hypertourism” has gathered impetus in cities from Tallinn to Barcelona.

Tourism remains a practice that can be used for the representation of a city, country, or a place from a desired political perspective.

Topics that could be addressed at the conference:

  • Tourism as a factor in the construction of the concept of national identity.
  • Tourism as a phenomenon of private leisure.
  • Tourism architecture. Creation of the resort lifestyle.
  • Tourism and politics. What and why to see?
  • Tourism in times of change (e.g. war).

Deadline: Please send your abstract (300-500 words) before 6 October 2023 to bataityte(at)dhi.lt  

The organizers of the conference strive to cover the costs of the speakers that will present at the conference. We will keep you updated, so watch this space! 

The 2024 conference, held on 15-16 May in Vilnius, will further explore the intricate relationship between tourism, leisure and nationalism. It is organized by NISE, the German Historical Institute and the Lithuanian Institute of History, with the support of ADVN.

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news-11758 Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:41:30 +0200 Call for Papers: Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons (DHI Washington) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-applications-making-a-world-of-many-worlds-identities-activisms-and-comparisons-mwd-dhi-was.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01.10.2023 JUL 14, 2024 - JUL 18, 2024

Summer School | Pacific Office, Berkeley | organized by The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS), the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) at UC Berkeley, and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 “Practices of Comparing” at Bielefeld University

The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS), the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) at UC Berkeley, and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 “Practices of Comparing” at Bielefeld University invite doctoral students with an interest in history, literary studies, geographies, environmental humanities, sociology, political science, anthropology, ethnic studies, economics, or legal studies, to apply to attend an international summer school that will be convened from July 14–18, 2024, at the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (Berkeley, United States) on the theme of “Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons.”


Rationale

Latin America has long served as a breeding ground for new visions of the world. Colonization, the expansion of capitalism, and religious imperialism prompted both local views of an emerging global order and the, often violent, suppression and adaptation of indigenous cosmologies. Slavery and exploitation incited discussions about the nature of humanity, freedom, and citizenship, shaping diametrically distinct visions of colonizers and those who sought to escape the burdens of exclusion and exploitation. Struggles against capitalist, extractivist, patriarchal, and xenophobic regimes of the past century inspired counter world designs, new visions of the relationship between human beings and nature, and demands for a world in which many worlds fit. In our own era of multiple crises, such imaginings of new futures and discussions about the tension between universalities and pluriverses are at the center of many conflicts. 

With Latin America as an important example, the summer school “Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons” will examine such processes of world-making all over the world from the early modern, colonial period to our present age, comparing not only between different world regions but examining the exchanges between them as well. We intend to explore the political, socio-economic, and cultural relevance of these processes through three thematic lenses: identities, activisms, and comparisons. Experts in each of these respective fields will provide short lectures and lead discussions of assigned theoretical and empirical readings. Participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their own work. We are particularly interested in exploring the following sets of questions, which might well overlap empirically:

 

  1. Identities

    Identity-making and world-making are two intimately related processes. Individual notions of the self shape people’s visions of their place in the world. Collective identities, in turn, often are crafted in interaction with new legal practices or regimes of knowledge being envisioned and implemented. On the one hand we are interested in the interactions between dominant narratives about how the world is or should be organized – e.g., modernity, nationalism, racial scientism, neoliberalism – and the situated practices, discourses, and narratives that shaped identities in specific spaces. On the other hand, we want to focus on those groups who were excluded or marginalized by those socio-economic, racial, or migratory regimes. What counter narratives about citizenship, culture, race, or the economy did these groups produce? What was the role of international solidarity and transnational interactions in the shaping of alternative world visions and corresponding identities? Through what every-day, political, mediatic, or artistic practices were these designs of the world envisioned and lived out within specific communities?
     
  2. Activism

    Activism plays an important role in the remaking of worlds. We will explore the potential and limits of change of political, social, and cultural activism. We wish to discuss how past and present social movements – laborer, women, Jewish, Indigenous, Afro, queer – have been involved in the reimagining of worlds. What has been the role of art, literature, science, and other forms of knowledge in this process? How have they been interacting? How has ontological politics been used for promoting these movements’ agendas? We are interested, too, in discussing the limits of such activism. What pushback do projects of counter world-making provoke? How do dominant actors appropriate activists’ narratives and vocabularies? How have calls for the making of a different, better world served in the pursuit of either individual advancement or the reinforcement of existing orders? Finally, we aim to reflect on the relationship between science and activism. How can academic discourses contribute to an activist remaking of the world? How are calls for the acceptance of the pluriverse – an ontological plurality, that is – impacting the knowledge and stories academics produce?
     
  3. Comparisons

    Practices of comparing are key world-making tools. They shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. We ask how actors use comparisons to grapple with crises, exclusion, violence, and inequality. Which comparisons individuals or collectives use to create, shape, or reshape their own visions of the global order, local cosmologies, or diasporic worlds? This approach focuses on the question of what actors do when they compare and how practices of comparing used by historical and contemporary actors contribute to preserving or remaking existing worlds. How did the choice of criteria for comparison shape and change what or who was compared? We assume that comparisons contribute to naturalizing social, religious, or racial differences, but likewise may help to unsettle firm believes and convictions.


Application and Procedure

Travel (economy), accommodations, and most meals will be covered. The program targets doctoral students engaging in projects related to the aforementioned themes and questions, particularly from a comparative perspective. The discussion will take place in various formats, including project presentations, thematic workshops, scholars in conversation, and keynote lectures. The working language is English. The application should likewise be in English and consist of:

  • a curriculum vitae (2 pages max.)
  • an outline of the current project (600 words)
  • a motivation letter that describes the relevance of one’s own research to the summer school’s topic (2 pages max.)
  • two relevant suggested readings (please provide bibliographical data only, no copies of the suggested readings)
  • the names of two university faculty members who can serve as referees (no letters of recommendation required).


Please upload all documents to the online portal by October 1, 2023.

Please contact Heike Friedman (friedman(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online. For other questions related to the event contact Nino Vallen (vallen(at)ghi-dc.org) or Cornelia Aust (cornelia.aust(at)uni-bielefeld.de).

Applicants will be notified whether they have been selected in December 2023. Successful applicants will be asked to submit the draft of a research paper or draft chapter of their PhD (6,000 words max.) by June 15, 2024.

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news-11754 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:54:00 +0200 Call for Papers: Fugitive Histories and Migrant Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean (DHI Washington) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-fugitive-histories-and-migrant-knowledge-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.10.2023 MAY 20, 2024 - MAY 21, 2024

Workshop at the University of California, Irvine | Conveners: Kevan Antonio Aguilar (University of California, Irvine), Amy Kerner (University of California, Berkeley & GHI Washington | Pacific Office), Fabio Santos (University of California, Berkeley & GHI Washington | Pacific Office), and Chelsea Schields (University of California, Irvine)

In recent years, scholars of migration and exile have challenged standard integration and assimilation paradigms that (mis)represent migration as a one-way street. Postcolonial and decolonial approaches have opened fruitful conceptual and theoretical notions such as entangled (im)mobilities, migrant knowledge, connected histories and sociologies, and multidirectional memories, which together spotlight varied movements and influences beyond those of hegemonic groups. This workshop aims to bring together empirically rich contributions informed by these new approaches. Regionally focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, the workshop is inclusive of other spaces entangled with the region through histories of migration and mobility.

Latin America and the Caribbean constitute a world region closely intertwined with, and shaped by, the history of migration and (im)mobility. Major episodes have encompassed imperial and colonial settlements and displacements – including the forced transfer of millions of enslaved African-born people; population movements of the post-independence wars and state-building eras; mass migrations from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to the region at the turn of the twentieth century; and, more recently, political and labor migrations within and out of the region during and after the Cold War.

Exceeding hegemonic archives and nationalist ideologies, “fugitive histories” refer to the lived histories of those who have fled but left few sources, as well as to new, polyphonic historiographies of migration and mobility. Examples include cartographic knowledge in the context of terrestrial and maritime marronage; Indigenous epistemologies resisting threats to decimation and assimilation; as well as subversive communication and political networks striving for social change, including struggles for abolitionist futures in (post-)slavery societies and for democratic futures in (post-)dictatorship societies, often spurred by exile groups. This workshop thus re-centers the fugitive knowledge – knowledge escaping the archive, or only elusively available within it – produced by mobile individuals and groups through their fleeting voices, testimonies, traces of mobility and immobility, solidarity networks, and multidirectional memory. 

We are calling for contributions that make sense of the fugitive forms of knowledge produced, transmitted, circulated, disrupted, lost, and retrieved by people on the move both past and present. Literally fugitive, the knowledge of marginalized and mobile groups can help overcome the epistemological limitations of conventional histories of migration and mobility. Questions we aim for the workshop to address include: How do histories of empire, colonialism, and authoritarianism continue to shape (im)mobilities into the present? Which groups of people have been marginalized by, left out of, or have resisted hegemonic narratives and scholarly debates? How can their fugitive knowledges be retrieved into an emerging, more inclusive theory and historiography of migration and mobility? Which insights do fugitive histories and migrant knowledge yield about shifting or persistent power relations and sociocultural (trans)formations in the spaces they crisscross and inhabit?

To discuss these and related questions, we invite an interdisciplinary and cross-generational group of scholars working on topics related to the theme. Applications from scholars in history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, geography, and political sciences, as well as interdisciplinary fields, such as area studies, memory studies, migration and mobility studies, ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, and gender studies, are most welcome.

Prior to the workshop, papers will be circulated to allow maximum time for all participants to prepare and engage in productive discussions. Please upload a brief CV (2-3 pages max.) and a proposal of no more than 600 words to our online portal by October 15, 2023. Proposals should indicate the contribution’s argument, methods, and sources, as well as its relevance to the workshop topic.

We plan to publish the papers in a special issue of a scholarly journal or in an edited volume with a well-regarded publisher.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel are available upon request.

Please contact Heike Friedman (friedman(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have problems submitting your information online. All other questions pertaining to the workshop and application process should be directed to Amy Kerner (amy_kerner(at)alumni.brown.edu) or Fabio Santos (fabio.santos(at)fu-berlin.de).

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news-11749 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:55:51 +0200 Call for Papers: Medieval Germany Workshop (DHI London) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-medieval-germany-workshop-dhi-london.html Bewerbungsschluss: 20.12.2023 Organizers: German Historical Institute London (GHI London), German Historical Institute Washington (GHI Washington) and German History Society

Venue: German Historial Institute, London

This one-day workshop on the history of medieval Germany (broadly defined) will provide an opportunity for researchers in the field from the UK, continental Europe, and the USA to meet in a relaxed and friendly setting and to learn more about each other’s work. Proposals for short papers of 10–15 minutes are invited from researchers at all career stages with an interest in any aspect of the history of medieval Germany. Participants are encouraged to concentrate on presenting work in progress, highlighting research questions and approaches, and pointing to yet unresolved challenges of their projects. Presentations will be followed by a discussion.

Attendance is free, which includes lunch, but costs for travel and accommodation cannot be reimbursed. Doctoral students from North America (USA and Canada) who wish to present at the workshop, however, can apply for two travel grants provided by the German Historical Institute Washington. Please express your interest in this grant in your application. Support for postgraduate and early career researchers from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland is available on a competitive basis, subject to eligibility requirements: postgraduate members of the German History Society currently registered for a higher degree at a university in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, and those who have completed a PhD within two years of the deadline for application but who have no other institutional sources of funding may apply for up to £150 for travel and accommodation. Please see the GHS website for further information and application deadlines.

Please send your proposal, which must include a title, an abstract of c.200 words, and a biographical note of no more than c.100 words, to Marcus Meer: m.meer(at)ghil.ac.uk. Questions about all aspects of the workshop can also be sent to Len Scales: l.e.scales(at)durham.ac.uk

Students and researchers interested in medieval German history are also very welcome to attend and listen to the presentations. There is no charge for attendance, but pre-booking is essential. If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Kim König: k.koenig(at)ghil.ac.uk

The deadline for proposal submissions is 20 December 2023.

Call for Papers (PDF file)

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news-11716 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:27:40 +0200 Call for Papers: Das Portrait im 18. Jahrhundert in Europa: Kunstwerk – soziale Praxis – Transfer (DFK Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-das-portrait-im-18-jahrhundert-in-europa-kunstwerk-soziale-praxis-transfer.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.09.2023 Internationales Kolloquium DFK Paris, 11.–12. März 2024

Konzept & Organisation:
Markus A. Castor (DFK Paris)
Martin Schieder (Universität Leipzig)
Marlen Schneider (Université Grenoble Alpes/LARHRA)


„Meine Kinder, ich warne euch: Das bin nicht ich. An einem Tage hatte ich hundert verschiedene Gesichter, je nach den Umständen, von denen ich betroffen war. Ich war heiter, traurig, verträumt, zärtlich, heftig, leidenschaftlich, enthusiastisch; aber nie war ich so, wie ihr mich hier seht.“

Mit diesen Worten empörte sich Denis Diderot über sein eigenes, von Louis Michel Van Loo gemaltes Portrait, das 1767 im Salon der Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ausgestellt wurde. Seine Kritik spiegelt die oft widersprüchlichen Herausforderungen der Portraitkunst im 18. Jahrhundert wider: Als Mittel sozialer Distinktion, als Gegenstand des Andenkens, oder als Ausdrucksträger von Gefühlen sollte das Portrait dazu dienen, sowohl die Persönlichkeit des Individuums als auch dessen Rang in der Gesellschaft zu erfassen. Mehr noch, zu den antagonistischen Prinzipien der Ähnlichkeit und der Idealisierung trat die Erwartung hinzu, dass das Portrait von hoher künstlerischer Qualität sein müsse, was ihm nach Diderot seine eigentliche Bedeutung  für künftige Generationen verleihe: „Das von einem Schmierfinken zusammengeschusterte Portrait stirbt mit der Person, dasjenige eines kunstfertigen Mannes bleibt für immer.“

Tatsächlich war die Portraitkunst im Zeitalter der Aufklärung in ganz Europa von einer außergewöhnlichen Vielfalt geprägt. In den Jahrzehnten zwischen dem Höhepunkt des Absolutismus und den politischen, sozialen und intellektuellen Umwälzungen der Revolutionszeit ist das Portrait von einem außergewöhnlichen künstlerischen Reichtum gekennzeichnet. Es wurde zum Spiegel einer sich wandelnden Gesellschaft, zum Ausdrucksmittel einer bis dahin unbekannten „Physiognomisierung“ der Öffentlichkeit (Willibald Sauerländer). Könige, der Adel der Hauptstadt und der Provinzen, wohlhabende Bürger, Künstler und Intellektuelle, Männer, Frauen und Kinder wurden mit einer bis dato ungekannten Variabilität dargestellt, je nach ihrem sozialen Status und je nach den Aufgaben und Funktionen des Portraits. Zwischen machtpolitischer Demonstration und Darstellung persönlicher Gefühlslagen, zwischen verschönernder Maskerade und wahrheitsgetreuer Ähnlichkeit schwankend, existierten zeitgleich die unterschiedlichsten Formen der Darstellung und waren einem ständigen Wandel unterworfen, der von einer Ausdifferenzierung des Geschmacks und der Moden begünstigt wurde. Ebenso trugen die Veränderungen auf dem Kunstmarkt sowie die allmähliche Etablierung öffentlicher Ausstellungen zur Vielfalt der Portraitkunst bei, institutionelle Kodifizierungen wichen außerakademischen Urteilen. Nicht zuletzt zeugt die mit der „niederen“ Gattung erblühende Porträtkritik von dem Spannungsfeld zwischen den gesellschaftlichen Funktionen der Bildnisse einerseits und einem künstlerisch-autonomen Anspruch andererseits – eine Polarisierung, die wesentlich zur Dynamik des Porträts beigetragen hat.

Eine eingehende Analyse dieser fundamentalen Veränderungen in der Portraitkunst des 18. Jahrhunderts gehört noch immer zu den Desideraten der Kunstgeschichte, obwohl in den letzten Jahren eine Reihe von Arbeiten erschienen ist, die sich anschickt, unsere Sicht zu ändern. Es geht darum, die zumeist monografischen Ansätze, die sich auf einen Künstler oder einen Portraittyp konzentrieren – etwa das königliche Portrait, das Künstlerbildnis oder das mythologische Portrait – zu erweitern und zu überwinden. Daher möchte das Kolloquium die Portraitkunst aus multiplen Perspektiven untersuchen und nach den sozialen, geistesgeschichtlichen, künstlerischen sowie materiellen Bedingungen der Bildgattung fragen. Dabei gilt es, deren Entwicklung in der Epoche der Aufklärung vom französischen Kontext ausgehend nachzuzeichnen und gleichzeitig den Blick auf eine europäische Perspektive zu öffnen. Welche Konzepte und Themen prägten die Debatten um das Portrait und wie war das Verhältnis zwischen Theorie und Praxis dieser Kunstgattung, die von den Literaten verpönt, vom Publikum aber außerordentlich geschätzt wurde? Wie veränderten sich Gebrauch und Funktionen von Portraits und welche Auswirkungen hatte dies auf die Produktion und die Materialität dieser Objekte? Mittels welcher Mechanismen und Netzwerke zirkulierten die in Paris entwickelten Portraitmodi in den verschiedenen europäischen Kunstzentren, wie etwa London, Madrid, Rom und Wien, aber auch Sankt-Petersburg oder Stockholm?

Ziel der Tagung soll es sein, diese unterschiedlichen Determinanten der Gattung in ihrer gegenseitigen Abhängigkeit zu beleuchten. So hat die thematische, aus den Konventionen des soziokulturellen Kontexts erklärbare Öffnung der Kunst, etwa für das Familienportrait, Miniaturen oder die Reflexion auf Moden und Körperbilder, Konsequenzen für die technische und materielle Gestaltung der Werke, die selbst wiederum von der Leistung des Handwerks, der Werkstattpraktiken und den ökonomischen Bedingungen abhängig war. Dem höfischen Transfer gesellten sich merkantile Aspekte und neue Medien des Vertriebs von Vorbildern und Modellen hinzu, welche internationale Trends befeuerten beziehungsweise mit lokalen Traditionen konkurrierten. Nur in der Analyse dieser Interdependenzen des 18. Jahrhunderts läßt sich die so komplexe Erfolgsgeschichte des Portraits verstehen.

Wir denken an Beiträge, die als Fallstudien, quantifizierende Analysen oder kontextbezogene Interpretationen die Aspekte von soziokulturellen Bedingungen, theoretischem Diskurs der Zeit, technischen und materiellen Innovationen sowie Transfer und Zirkulation des Portraits befragen. Vorschläge zu einem 25minütigen Beitrag in französischer, deutscher oder englischer Sprache (max. 800 Wörter) sowie einen kurzen CV erbitten wir bis zum 15. September 2023 als Mail an die Veranstalter.

Marlen Schneider: marlen.schneider(at)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Martin Schieder schieder(at)uni-leipzig.de
Markus A. Castor mcastor(at)dfk-paris.org

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news-11708 Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:22:26 +0200 Call for Papers: Les Secrets de la Peinture: Zu Praxis und Theorie von Malfarbe, Manier und Materialität in der Kunst des französischen 18. Jahrhunderts (DFK Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-les-secrets-de-la-peinture-zu-praxis-und-theorie-von-malfarbe-manier-und-materialita.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.09.2023 Internationales Kolloquium, 07.–08.12.2023, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris

Deborah Schlauch M.A. (Philipps-Universität Marburg / Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)
Marie Isabell Wetcholowsky M.A. (Universität Marburg)
Dr. Markus A. Castor (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris)

Si l’éloquence, et surtout la poésie, […], ces deux muses ont besoin des mots, des sons et des articulations qui conviennent le plus parfaitement à ce qu’elles veulent exprimer, combien plus la peinture, qui n’a pour elle qu’un instant, doit-elle avoir attention à choisir les couleurs générales et particulières qui concourent à la réussite de son entreprise ?

De l’harmonie et de la couleur,
comte de Caylus, Amateur

Im obenstehenden Zitat aus der Conférence, die der comte de Caylus im November 1747 an der Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture gehalten hatte, stellte der Amateur die Farbe als eine der wesentlichen Bedingung der Harmonie des Bildes heraus und ordnete sie doch zugleich dem Clair-Obscur unter. Zugleich evoziert er eine Korrelation von Farbe und Sprache, die weit mehr ist als Referenz auf den Paragone, der einst initial für die Gründung der Akademie war. Die Auseinandersetzung findet sich damit in einer Diskussion wieder, die zwischen naturwissenschaftlichen Implikationen (Isaac Newton), kunstpraktischen Belangen, technisch-chemischen Voraussetzungen und kunstgeschichtlichen Kriterien das Phänomen der Farben zu übersetzen versucht. Dabei verzichtet er mit seiner Favorisierung Correggios gegenüber Tizian und bei aller Antikenreferenz (Plinius) nicht darauf, auf Malfarbe und Materialität (Pigmente wie Orpin oder Bleu Outremer) der Werke ebenso einzugehen wie auf die „teintes“ und deren Proportionierung im Bild. Farbe wird zum Distinktionsmerkmal für den Connaisseur, dem von Schulen und Epochen, künstlerischer Manieren und sieht sich grundsätzlich mit einer Vielgestalt streitbarer Dispute, weit über die sogenannte Querelle du coloris hinaus, konfrontiert.

Die hier beispielhaft und in eloquenter Verschränkung vorliegenden Aspekte einer Diskussion zur Farbe wollen wir im Blick auf ihre Terminologien, ihren Sprachgebrauch und die Argumentationen nachvollziehen. Als Spracharbeit am Werk werden die ikonografisch, farbtheoretisch oder historisch anthropologisch interpretierbaren Diskurse, etwa bei Roger De Piles, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Louis-Bertrand Castel, Antoine Coypel, Comte de Caylus, Jacques Gautier d’Agoty oder Denis Diderot nur im Rückbezug auf ihre Gegenstände und deren materielle Verfasstheit verständlich.

Doch methodisch und kunsthistoriografisch verkompliziert sich die Sachlage. Man kann die Hinwendung zur Materialität, den sogenannten Material Turn in die Dialektik einschreiben, die nach den Jahrzehnten eines theoriebildenden Fokus der Kunstgeschichte eine Rückbesinnung auf die Werke als Artefakte und ihre materiell verstandene Ontologie bewirkt hat. Dies liegt auch an der, maßgeblich von Bruno Latour beförderten Erkenntnis, dass den oftmals solchen Turns inhärente Positionen ideologische Momente eingeschrieben sind. Die neuerliche Zuwendung zur Empirie bleibt jedoch selbst – oft mit metaphorischer Nomenklatur um die Begriffe von Anthropologie (Daniel Miller) und Archäologie – einem wiederum epistemologischen Konzept unterstellt. Im Kontext eines bildwissenschaftlichen Framings und mit der Nähe zur Praxeologie (practical turn) ändert sich bisweilen nur das Theoriedesign. Gefragt wird dabei etwa danach, wie Wissen in kulturell geschaffenen und verwendeten Objekten oder Dingen zum Ausdruck gelangt und darüber wirkt. Was lässt sich anhand der Artefakte über eine Gesellschaft, Kultur oder ihre Geschichte aussagen?

Vor dem Hintergrund solcher sprachbasierter Vereinnahmungen ist es die Absicht des Kolloquiums die Fragerichtung nach der „materiellen Kultur“ unter Berücksichtigung der Historizität von Sprache umzukehren, denn die Interpretationen des Materiellen finden unmittelbar mit dem Entstehen des so und nicht anders Gestalteten statt. Wie wirken Gesellschaft und Kultur auf die Gestaltung ihrer Objekte? Beiden Perspektiven kommt gleichwohl eine Berechtigung zu, ihre Gleichzeitigkeit und ihr Nebeneinander verweisen auf oft übersehene Tautologien, wie sie etwa von François Fénélon bis zu Immanuel Kants Antinomien der reinen Vernunft beschrieben worden sind.

Das Kolloquium versucht einen ersten Schritt zu einem Reset einer empirischen Perspektive im Blick auf die Malerei als spezifische materielle Überlieferung der bildenden Kunst am Beispiel der französischen Malerei des 18. Jahrhunderts. Wo sonst könnte man Erkenntnisse über die Konnotationen des Materiellen konzentrierter und reflektierter erwarten, wenn nicht in den Diskussionen des Jahrhunderts der Aufklärung am Vorabend einer Kunstgeschichte als Wissenschaft.

Was lässt also die Malerei als technisch-künstlerische Arbeit an berechtigten Aussagen über die kunstsoziologischen Bedingungen zu, und was sagt die theoretische Reflexion kunstkritischer Zeugnisse (Salons, Akademiekonferenzen, Traktate) über die Peinture der Bilder, das Fecit aus? Die dem Kanon aristokratischer Normen entsprechende Ausbildung des Connoisseurship, der Discours zur Künstler/-innenausbildung und einer erwachenden Kunstkritik, diesem steht die Praxis an Akademien und Ateliers gegenüber. In solcherlei Rückkopplungssystem, mit einer inkrementellen Vermehrung technischer Bildverfahren im Laufe des Jahrhunderts (Enkaustik, Pastell, farbige druckgrafische Verfahren) und einem sich verschiebenden Kunstmarkt entwickelt sich ein genauer Blick auf die Arbeit des Pinsels und eine die „handwerklichen“ Kapazitäten beschreibende Terminologie. Dies kommt nicht zuletzt in einer autorepräsentativen Malerei zum Ausdruck, welche die wesentliche Leistung der gemalten Produktion, häufig in Selbstporträts oder allegorischen Selbstdarstellungen, in den Fokus stellt.

Das Kolloquium will diesen Zusammenhängen in Einzelstudien und einer Konzentration auf die Werke unter drei wesentlichen Aspekten nachgehen:

  1.  Praxis des Bildes, Praxis des Wortes: beschreibende Analysen ausgewählter Beispiele als Methode (Ekphrasis der Farbe, Kennerschaft, Kunstgeschichte)

  2.  Theorie: Peinture zwischen Künstler/-innenreflexion und Kunstkritik (der akademische Diskurs und die Kunstkritik)

  3.  Mit Délicatesse und Sprezzatura: Nomenklaturen und die Poësis der Bildbeschreibung

Wir verstehen das Vorhaben als hermeneutische Positionierung und Klärung, wenn es um praktische und theoretische Implikationen zur materiellen Überlieferung der Kunst und deren Beschreibung geht. Die von der Kunstgeschichte akkumulierten Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten, die die Beobachtung materieller Herstellung ihrer Werke und deren Übersetzung betreffen, sieht sich einer schnellen Folge von Turns und neuen Fragestellungen gegenüber, die bisweilen von den Werken wegführen. Fragen wir nach der Sprache, die Stil, Manier, Technik und Pinselstrich zum Zeitpunkt der Entstehung zu fassen trachtet, dann macht eine hermeneutische Klärung weit vor Giovanni Morellis vergleichender Bildmedizin und einer Kategorisierung der Observanz a posteriori Sinn. Im 18. Jahrhundert formiert sich das Instrumentarium einer Protokunstgeschichte, die spezifisch sprachlich daherkommt. Gefragt wird nach diesem sprachbasierten Erkenntnisinstrumentarium, welches unter Einschluss des Blicks auf Malfarbe, Malmittel, Lasuren und Rezepte, auf gestische Arbeit und Manier, das Zusammen von Auge und Hand als Teil der Kunstgeschichte, zwischen Wissen um die Produktion ihrer Bildwerke und Gegenstand kunsttheoretischer Reflexion, erfahren lassen.

Themenvorschläge (max. 3000 Zeichen) zu jeweils 30-minütigen Vorträgen sind bis zum 15. September 2023 an folgende Mailadresse zu richten: kolloquium(at)dfk-paris.org
Vorträge können in deutscher, englischer oder französischer Sprache gehalten werden.

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news-11695 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:12:13 +0200 Call for Articles: Band 104 der Zeitschrift Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken (DHI Rom) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-articles-fuer-band-104-der-zeitschrift-quellen-und-forschungen-aus-italienischen-archiven-u.html Bewerbungsschluss: Januar 2024 Das Jahrbuch widmet sich der italienischen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte sowie der Geschichte der deutsch-italienischen Beziehungen in transregionalen bzw. transnationalen Zusammenhängen vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Publiziert werden Aufsätze (nach Peer Review) sowie Rezensionen, Forschungs- und Tagungsberichte, bevorzugt in deutscher und italienischer, vereinzelt auch in englischer Sprache. In der Rubrik "Forum" erscheinen Essays zu aktuellen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Fragen und Diskussionen. Autorinnen und Autoren von fachwissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen (5.–21. Jahrhundert) zum oben genannten Themenprofil oder ihre Verlage können Rezensionsexemplare an die Redaktion der Zeitschrift senden.

Hinweise für die Abgabe von Manuskripten
Deadline für Band 104 (2024): Januar 2024.
Umfang: max. 100 000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen)
Redaktionelle Richtlinien

Redaktion
Susanne Wesely wesely[at]dhi-roma.it

Editorial Board
Direktion und alle wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen des DHI Rom

Sie möchten in unserer Zeitschrift publizieren?
Anfragen bezüglich einer Publikation in der Zeitschrift "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken" können an die Redaktion gerichtet werden. Veröffentlicht werden Originalbeiträge, die hohen internationalen wissenschaftlichen Standards entsprechen und die Vorgaben geltender Autoren- und Urheberrechte einhalten.

Code of Conduct 

 

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news-11688 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:26:58 +0200 Call for Papers: Artistic Hubs in and of the Arab Region (OI Beirut) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-artistic-hubs-in-and-of-the-arab-region-oi-beirut.html Bewerbungsschluss: 16.07.2023 Beirut/Lebanon, 3-4 June 2024     (Part I)
Berlin/Germany, 25 June 2024     (Part II)
 

What makes a place an artistic hub? Besides a certain extent of freedom of expression that allows ideas to coexist, flourish and materialize – and some degree of public and/or private material support for cultural expression – it needs a sufficiently large number of artists, writers, and intellectuals who are open to exchange their ideas and engage in creative experimentation. Connected to this network of individuals is often an urgency or a vision, be it political or within the field of arts and literature itself. A cultural hub is a place that radiates and attracts others to become an integral part of it, as it carries the promise of fulfilment. In this conference, we would like to explore the notion of artistic hubs in and of the Arab region, looking at what makes cities draw artists and intellectuals from the region over a period of time – and what makes things shift or change.
 

The conference will be held in two parts.
 

In Part One, which will be held in Beirut on 3 and 4 June 2024, we look at how, why and when things have shifted within the region, and what role different cities have played over time. Beirut of the 1950s to mid-70s is often referred to as the Arab capital of culture, in its so-called “Golden Age” – a notion that is increasingly questioned. For whom was Beirut relevant during this time, and for whom not? Was Cairo “the place to be” before Beirut? What role did Baghdad play on a regional level? Has the Gulf succeeded in becoming a hub, and what are its pull factors? How can one conceive of a cultural capital under occupation, as in the case of Ramallah? Part One examines who different cultural hubs speak to, and which actors and initiatives are central in attracting artists and intellectuals. We will also look at the nexus of cultural hubs and cosmopolitanism, and to what extent the two are linked. By focusing on different players within the cultural field, such as art departments, galleries, biennials, festivals, public relations departments, and the role of the diaspora, this part aims to conceptualize the push and pull factors of cultural hubs in the Arab region.


We are interested in contributions that think about artistic hubs in the region, including but not limited to the following questions:
-    Case studies of cities within the region and to what extent, in what capacity and at which point in time they can be considered artistic hubs/capitals (Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Kuwait, Sharjah, Jeddah, etc.)
-    What are the driving forces (people/institutions/funding bodies/formal and informal spaces/networks, etc.) that draw artists from the Arab region to these places?
-    Can one dissociate an artistic hub from a larger cultural hub?
-    Is there one Arab cultural or artistic capital at a time, or can these exist in parallel?
-    What makes things shift?
-    What role does branding play?
-    What is a critical mass of artists and intellectuals that allows one to speak of a cultural capital or artistic hub? Who determines this, and how?
 

In Part Two, to be held in Berlin on 25 June 2024, we look at artistic hubs of the Arab region. At the centre, we approach the question of whether Berlin can be considered the new cultural and artistic capital of the Arab region. We will analyse whether the factors that crystallized during the first part on what makes a place a cultural hub in the region can be applied to a hub of the region, albeit outside of it, to understand the role of Berlin – and potentially other cities – within the art world of the Arab region today. We are interested in contributions that think about Berlin’s place as an artistic hub of the region, including but not limited to the following questions:
-    Can one speak of Berlin as the artistic capital of the Arab region?
-    What are the driving forces (people/institutions/funding bodies/formal and informal spaces/networks, etc.) that draw artists from the Arab region (and the diaspora) to Berlin?
-    In what temporality does it make sense to speak of Berlin as an artistic hub or an artistic capital of the Arab region?
-    If we assume that Berlin is the new artistic capital of the Arab region, what consequences does this have?
-    What is a critical mass of artists and intellectuals that allows one to speak of a cultural capital or artistic hub? Who determines this, and how?
 

The conferences in Beirut and Berlin are planned as two separate events with different participants. Please submit your abstract (300 words) and short bio (100 words) for one of the two parts by 16 July 2023 to Nadia von Maltzahn at lawha(at)orient-institut.org.  

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news-11685 Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:38:52 +0200 Call for Papers: Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present (DHI Washington) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-archives-inof-transit-historical-perspectives-from-the-1930s-to-the-present-dhi-wash.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01.09.2023 JUN 28, 2024 - JUN 29, 2024

Workshop at University of Southern California, Los Angeles | Conveners: Einstein Papers Project / California Institute of Technology (Jennifer Rodgers); German Historical Institute Washington and its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley (Simone Lässig, Anna-Carolin Augustin, Swen Steinberg); Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London (Dan Stone); Queen Mary, University of London (Jane Freeland); Wiener Holocaust Library, London (Toby Simpson, Christine Schmidt) as part of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP); USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (Wolf Gruner)

This workshop will explore new ways of thinking about archives, archival records, and other artifacts historians might use as primary sources to gain deeper insight into the history of migrants in transit and the knowledge they possessed, produced, transmitted, or lost. With a starting point in the history of Jewish migration from National Socialist-occupied areas, the workshop broadens out to investigate the experiences of refugees and migrants fleeing genocide, armed conflict, and persecution throughout the twentieth century. Specifically, we use the idea of “lost knowledge” (Steinberg/Strobl) to ask how migrants who leave their homes try to convey both the sense of loss and the disorientation that accompany the navigation of new lived realities—from the geographical to the socio-cultural, political, and beyond—in correspondence or other materials that capture any aspect of their flight and migration. More particularly, this workshop examines how migrants craft their words depending on who they are writing to and when. How do their letters, photographs, and other artifacts communicate their experiences both to their contemporary and future generations? How can we reframe personal documentation, visual (re)sources, artifacts, and other material culture of migrants as sites of knowledge production? What role do archives play in allowing us to ask and address these questions? And what happens to the “archive” in contexts of transoceanic forced migration, such as the Holocaust? How does migration challenge concepts of archival materiality and fixity and, further, how have the “material turn” and the new interest in soundscapes and the digital age not only complicated but also enhanced our research?

In this workshop, we will initiate discussions around these topics and others that bring together a transnational history of the Holocaust with studies of migrant knowledge in different contexts, including contemporary conflicts and migration. The convenors invite submissions from a variety of researchers, including not only historians but also archivists, librarians, heritage practitioners, digital humanists, and museum professionals. We are particularly interested in an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and knowledge between fields, including practice-based community archives, to understand continuities and ruptures between historical frameworks and present-day practices. We welcome paper proposals that address the following themes, but we remain explicitly open to further related suggestions:

  • Gender and Generation: What role do gender and generation play in migrant knowledge and its preservation in archives? In what ways do these affect a migrant’s ability to speak? When and to whom do they speak? What role does generational trauma play in the recording of experiences, as well as in later generations’ understanding of migrant experiences? How do different stages of migration and especially transit intersect with age, gender, and other characteristics? How do these factors influence the ways in which experiences are recorded?
  • Practices: How do professionals such as scholars and researchers, medical personnel, or social workers impact the conservation of migrant voices? What tools are necessary to approach refugees and other migrants in transit? How can professionals help migrants document their experiences, and how can practitioners justify their participation in the formation of migrant knowledge and/ or knowledge networks? 
  • Institutions: What strategies of collecting and discarding do individuals, institutions, and organizations use? What role does funding play in the ability to store migrant knowledge in perpetuity? What forms of representation exist beyond the institution (collaboration, digital humanities)?
  • Agency: How do migrants, particularly in transit, claim agency and empowerment, and how do these support their self-preservation?
  • Materiality: How do migrants record their experiences—in texts, objects, or sounds? How are historical narratives determined by the materiality of migrant experiences and knowledge?
  • Memory: When and why do various groups of people (and which ones) become interested in people in transit? How does the so-called post-memory age affect the ways in which younger generations access archives and artifacts in/of transit and thus understand not only the history itself, but, more importantly, their ancestors’ experiences of persecution and migration as well as rescue and relief? How have the digital age and AI complicated the “archive in transit” and, in turn, personal historical narratives as sites of memory?

This conference will be an in-person only event. Please upload a brief CV and a paper proposal of no more than 400 words by September 1, 2023, in a single PDF document to our conference platform . Participants will be notified by the end of October 2023 at the latest. The papers will be pre-circulated on a secure website, and participants will present them only in summary form at the conference. The conveners plan to disseminate results of the workshop via open access sources such as the Migrant Knowledge blog and/or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal/edited volume.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel may be available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.

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news-11668 Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:45:57 +0200 Call for Papers: Translation in Early Modern Diplomacies - Between Tradition and Innovation (DHI Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-translation-in-early-modern-diplomacies-between-tradition-and-innovation.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.09.2023 December 14–15, 2023

The early modern period was a time of burgeoning diplomatic activity on the European continent characterized by the spread of resident diplomacy and the appearance of peace congresses. Linguistic practices were changing dramatically as well, including Latin, German and Italian progressively overshadowed by French as a pan-European medium of diplomacy. All these developments had a considerable impact on translation in diplomacy, affecting its functioning and role in various ways: translation departments were formed or expanded and redesigned, and the need to train translators in order to increase efficiency of foreign policy began to be felt by major powers. This eventually resulted in the foundation of schools for would-be translators and diplomats, and the development of various practices such as the linguistic training of »giovanni de lingua« or »jeunes de langues«. These innovations allowed early modern diplomacy to cope, at least to a certain degree, with an important increase in diplomatic contacts which led to an ever-growing diplomatic correspondence. However, some of these initiatives, such as the foundation of specialized schools, have been short-lived and have not led to sustainable results. Living and working in a multilingual and multicultural environment, translators often were cultural brokers with hybrid cultural identities. We would like to adopt a transnational and interdisciplinary viewpoint and consider the subject on the basis of new primary sources in the broad context of the development of translation and the evolution of diplomacy in the early modern period.

The questions which are of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Traditions and innovations in the organization of diplomatic translation services;
  • State and non-state actors and the formation of policies regarding translation in diplomacy;
  • The role of translation in diplomats’ careers;
  • Early modern institutions and practices for training translators and interpreters;
  • (Hybrid) Identities of interpreters and translators and their role as cultural brokers;
  • Lack of translating personnel and attempts to bypass such difficulties;
  • Accuracy of translations and problems resulting from translators’ incompetence in diplomacy;
  • Distrust of translators and interpreters, translation and secrecy in diplomacy, translators as negotiators;
  • Translation in diplomatic relations with non-European powers;
  • The role of translators in the formation of diplomatic, political and juridical terminology in vernacular languages.

Organizing committee: Dr Vladislav Rjéoutski (DHIP), Prof. Dr Guido Braun (University of Upper Alsace).

Working languages: English and French (without translation).

We invite researchers to submit their proposals (an abstract of 500 words and a short biography) to the following address: VRjeoutski(at)dhi-paris.fr

Important dates:

  • Deadline for submission of proposals: September 15, 2023.
  • Notification of acceptance: September 25, 2023.

The organisers will cover travel costs and accommodation for one night. For any enquiries regarding the workshop, please contact: VRjeoutski(at)dhi-paris.fr

In cooperation with the German Historical Institute in Moscow, the University of Upper Alsace. In association with German Research Foundation (DFG)

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news-11667 Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:24:42 +0200 Call for Papers: Aktuelle Herausforderungen und Perspektiven der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte (DHI Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-aktuelle-herausforderungen-und-perspektiven-der-deutschen-kolonialgeschichte-dhi-par.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.07.2023 Tagung am Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris, 23. und 24 Mai 2024

Organisatoren und Organisatorinnen: Delphine Froment (Université de Lorraine, Nancy)Mathias Hack (Universität Leipzig)Robert Heinze (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris)Tobias Wagemann (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

In Kooperation mit der Univ. Leipzig und der Univ. Lorraine.

Am 14. August 2004 entschuldigte sich die deutsche Entwicklungsministerin Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul persönlich für den Genozid an den Herero und Nama zwischen 1904 und 1908 im heutigen Namibia. Obwohl es bis zu einer offiziellen Entschuldigung und Anerkennung des Genozids durch die Regierung Merkel und einer Milliardenhilfe an Stelle von Reparationen noch bis 2021 dauern sollte, stieß die Aktion von Wieczorek-Zeul einen Prozess der Aufarbeitung an, der bis heute andauert und die Sichtbarkeit des Themas in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit sowie die akademische Forschung und Diskussion wesentlich anregte. In den seither vergangenen fast zwanzig Jahren sind zahlreiche Publikationen erschienen, welche den deutschen Kolonialismus, seine Akteurinnen und Akteure, Institutionen und ideologischen Versatzstücke sowohl in den afrikanischen, asiatischen und ozeanischen Kolonien als auch in Deutschland selbst beleuchten.[1] Eine der Stoßrichtungen der frühen Forschung zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte war es, nach »strukturellen Verbindungen« zwischen dem Genozid an den Herero und Nama und dem Holocaust zu fragen. Die Erfahrungen des Genozids und anderer Kolonialkriege hätten in militärischen und administrativen Kreisen des Deutschen Kaiserreichs in einer Vorbildfunktion den Weg zum Holocaust geebnet.[2] Diese Darstellung von Kontinuität geriet in Kritik, die die strukturellen und ideellen Unterschiede zwischen den deutschen Kolonialverbrechen (insbesondere dem Genozid in Namibia) und dem Holocaust hervorhob. Nichtsdestotrotz lieferte die Diskussion weiteren Anschub für eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der Kolonialgeschichte, wobei immer stärker einzelne Kolonien oder spezifische kolonialen Kontexte, koloniale Akteurinnen und Akteure, wirtschaftliche Ausbeutung und koloniale Infrastrukturen ins Auge gefasst wurden.[3]   

Das bleibende Interesse an Themen der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte in den letzten zwanzig Jahren geht allerdings auch auf die Popularität transnationaler und globalgeschichtlicher Ansätze zurück. Jenseits von nationalen Untersuchungsrahmen untersuchen Historikerinnen und Historiker Personen, Waren- und Wissensströme sowohl innerhalb des deutschen Kolonialimperiums als auch in Konkurrenz zu und Kooperation mit anderen europäischen Imperien.[4] Zudem wurde auch zunehmend begonnen, die postkolonialen Ideologien zu hinterfragen, die sich in Deutschland nach dem Verlust seiner Kolonien 1919 durch den Versailler Vertrag entwickelten, sei es in der Zeit des Kolonialrevisionismus der Weimarer Republik, in den Gesellschaften der beiden deutschen Staaten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg oder in den ehemaligen deutschen Kolonien. Weitere Studien haben die Auswirkungen und den Einfluss des deutschen Kolonialismus auf die Entwicklung der ehemaligen Kolonien in Afrika, Asien und Ozeanien aufgezeigt.[5]

Von den vielen möglichen Themen und Fragestellungen möchten wir fünf Schwerpunkte in den Fokus stellen, die während der Tagung weiterentwickelt werden könnten:

Die chronologischen und geographischen Grenzen des deutschen Kolonialreiches: Viele Arbeiten betrachten den deutschen Kolonialismus über seinen formellen Zeitraum (meist zwischen 1884 und 1919) hinaus. Diesen Ansätzen folgend können Beiträge zu Aktivitäten und Reisen deutscher Akteur:innen in koloniale Territorien anderer europäischer Mächte in der Frühen Neuzeit sowie Praktiken, Diskurse und Repräsentation des deutschen Kolonialismus nach 1919 helfen, die traditionellen chronologischen und geographischen Grenzen des deutschen Kolonialismus hinterfragen. Verschiedene Beiträge haben zurecht darauf hingewiesen, dass sich die koloniale Herrschaft in einzelnen Kolonien und  ebenso in verschiedenen Regionen und Städten innerhalb Deutschlands sehr unterschiedlich auswirkte.[6] Wo und wann wurde das deutsche Kolonialreich etabliert? Welche Erinnerungskulturen und (Dis-)Kontinuitäten existierten nach 1919 und 1945? Wie beeinflusste der Kolonialismus verschiedene Kolonien und einzelnen Regionen/Städte in Deutschland?

Die transimperialen Dimensionen des deutschen Kolonialismus: Ein erneuertes Interesse an den transimperialen Verbindungen zwischen den verschiedenen kolonialen Imperien hat in den vergangenen Jahren dazu beigetragen, imperiale und koloniale Geschichte weiter zu entnationalisieren. Daher sollen unter diesem Oberbegriff Beiträge versammelt werden, welche die Interaktion deutscher kolonialer Akteurinnen und Akteure in den Territorien anderer Kolonialmächte in den Blick nehmen und so das Verständnis von imperialen Solidaritäten, Rivalitäten oder auch pragmatischen Kooperationen weiter ausbauen. In welcher Weise war das deutsche Kolonialreich unterschiedlich zu oder vergleichbar mit anderen europäischen Kolonialreichen? Wie interagierten, konkurrierten oder kooperierten deutsche koloniale Akteur/innen mit Akteur/innen anderer Kolonialmächte?

Handlungsmacht und Diversität indigener/lokaler Akteurinnen und Akteure unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft: Die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft setzte für die Erkundung, Erforschung, Eroberung und Ausbeutung der kolonialen Territorien auf eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Akteurinnen und Akteure.[7] Ebenso leisteten unterschiedliche Personen und Gruppen in organisierter oder spontaner Weise Widerstand gegen die Etablierung kolonialer Herrschaft.[8] In dieser Sektion stehen daher Beiträge im Fokus, die die Rolle indigener/lokaler intermediaries und Widerstandsgruppen untersuchen. Wie profitierten lokale Akteurinnen und Akteure von der Etablierung der deutschen Kolonialherrschaft? Wie leisteten sie Widerstand? Zu welchem Grad beeinflussten koloniale Rechts- und Ordnungspraktiken lokale Gesellschaften?

Wirtschaft und Arbeit: Rohstoffe und Waren wie Kokos, Kaffee oder Kautschuk waren essentiell für die europäischen Märkte um die Jahrhundertwende und wurden von deutschen Firmen aus den Kolonien ausgeführt und in globale Warenströme eingespeist.[9] Fallstudien über einzelne Unternehmen zeigen, durch welche Praktiken koloniale Ökonomien aufgebaut wurden und hinterfragen die Diffusion von europäischen Politiken der Arbeit vom Zentrum zur Peripherie.[10] Dagegen haben sie Praktiken des Widerstandes und Manipulation von lokalen Akteurinnen und Akteure hervor; ebenso werden die Verflechtungen von deutschem Imperialismus und Globalisierung ins Blickfeld gerückt.. Auf welche Weise wurden Modelle von Zwangsarbeit in den deutschen Kolonien etabliert und herausgefordert? Wie nahmen deutsche Firmen an der Formierung kolonialer und postkolonialer Ökonomien teil?

- »Deutschland postkolonial«: Die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist oft als Periode der kolonialen Amnesie sowohl in West- als auch in Ostdeutschland beschrieben worden, obwohl die koloniale Vergangenheit nie gänzlich aus akademischen oder öffentlichen Diskussionen verschwand. Verschiedene Erinnerungskulturen formierten sich innerhalb Deutschlands und koloniale Diskurse lebten in ökonomischen und internationalen Beziehungen, Entwicklungshilfe, Tourismus etc. weiter. Gleichzeitig erlebten die deutschen Gesellschaften die Dekolonisationsphase der 1950er und 1960er-Jahre aus der Perspektive von Außenstehenden. Die letzten zwanzig Jahren markieren schließlich eine Rückkehr und feste Etablierung verschiedener Debatten in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit über Kolonialismus – allen voran den Umgang mit dem Genozid an Herero und Nama sowie die Rückgabeforderungen der geraubten Kunstgüter aus den ethnologischen Museen. Fragen: In welcher Weise prägten koloniale und antikoloniale Diskurse die deutschen Gesellschaften in der Dekolonisationsära? Wie wurde deutscher Kolonialismus erinnert oder vergessen? 

Die Tagung soll uns die Möglichkeit bieten, aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte weiter auszubauen. Sie soll insbesondere diese Perspektiven und Themen einem frankophonen Publikum näher bringen und folgt damit einer Reihe von Konferenzen und Publikationen, die bereits einen Austausch über die Rezeption und Diskussion deutscher Kolonialgeschichte in Frankreich begonnen haben.[11] Die genannten Schwerpunkte sind dabei thematisch, chronologisch und geographisch bewusst breit angelegt und sollen sich nicht auf den Genozid an den Herero und Nama, der vor allem in Frankreich den Einstiegspunkt zu einer Beschäftigung mit der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte bietet, beschränkt sein. Über einen deutsch-französisch Rahmen hinaus soll die Tagung zusätzlich die Möglichkeit bieten, die Forschung zum deutschen Kolonialismus mit den neuesten Entwicklungen zur Geschichte von Kolonien und Imperien zu verbinden. 

Die Tagung findet am Donnerstag, 23. Mai und Freitag 24. Mai 2024 in Paris am Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris statt. Interessierte bitten wir um einen Abstract (samt Vortragstitel) ihres Vortrages von maximal 300 Wörtern (oder 2000 Zeichen) sowie eine kurze biographische Notiz oder einen Lebenslauf. Abstracts können auf Deutsch, Französisch oder Englisch eingereicht werden. Tagungssprache ist Englisch. Senden Sie ihre Unterlagen vor dem 15. Juli 2023 an die folgenden Adresse (german.colonialism(at)gmail.com). Diese Mailadresse kann auch für jegliche Anfragen bezüglich der Tagung genutzt werden.

Reise- und Unterbringungskosten für Tagungsteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer ohne institutionelle Förderung werden nach Maßgabe der noch verfügbaren Mittel übernehmen. Wir ermutigen insbesondere Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler und Forschende aus dem Globalen Süden sich zu bewerben. Eine Publikation auf Basis der Tagungsvorträge in einem peer-reviewed journal wird angestrebt.

Das wissenschaftliche Komitee zur Auswahl der Beiträge besteht aus: Hélène Blais (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), Antje Dietze (Universität Leipzig), Walter Nkwi Gam (Universiteit Leiden), Christine de Gemeaux (Université de Tours), Joël Glasman (Universität Bayreuth), Henry Kah (Universiteit Leiden), Yixu Lu (University of Sydney), Catherine Repussard (Université de Strasbourg) und Jakob Vogel (Science Po Paris).

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[1] Steinmetz, 2007; Conrad, 2008; Lu, 2016.
[2] Zimmerer, 2004; Madley, 2005.
[3] Van Laak, 2004; Kundrus, 2006 ; Gouaffo, 2007 ; Habermas, 2016.
[4] Conrad und Osterhammel, 2004; Azamede, 2010 ; Lindner, 2011; Lahti, 2021.
[5] Biwa, 2012 ; Shilling, 2014.
[6] Bauche, 2017 ; Bechhaus-Gerst und Zeller, 2018 ; Mark Thiesen et al., 2021.
[7] Glasman, 2014; Moyd, 2014; Muschalek, 2019; Froment, 2022.
[8] Nyada, 2014 ; Richter, 2014.
[9] Conrad, 2006; Todzi, 2023.
[10] Zimmerman, 2010; Oestermann, 2022.
[11] Repussard und Mombert, 2006; De Gemeaux, 2010; Repussard, 2015; Daheur und Scheele, 2017; de Gemeaux und Repussard, 2017; de Gemeaux, 2022.

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news-11654 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:44:29 +0200 Call for Papers: Music, Knowledge, and Global Migration, ca. 1700−1900 (DHI Washington) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-music-knowledge-and-global-migration-ca-17001900-dhi-washington.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01.10.2023 APR 14, 2024 - APR 16, 2024

Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley | Conveners: Tina Frühauf (Columbia University/The CUNY Graduate Center, New York), Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington), and Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley)

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were a critical period for migration, seeing an acceleration that peaked at the turn of the twentieth century. These two hundred years also saw a change in the profile of migrants, from the initial colonists or settlers driven by population growth, economic changes, political instability, war, and freedom of religion to those first and foremost fleeing persecution. Among the migrants were musicians, scholars, ethnographers, writers, and intellectuals who brought with them knowledge about music. This conference seeks to map a specific concept within this distinct time period: how music functions as a vehicle to carry and develop knowledge in migration, and how migration affects knowledge about and understanding of music on a global scale. Sources can include a variety of “musical objects,” including music scores, musical instruments, and records of music performances, as well as encyclopedias, scholarly literature, popular literature, travelogues, letters, translations, and more. As such the conference focuses on the global migration of knowledge through texts and people.

We are inviting scholars from all disciplines, whose work engages with music in both specific and broad ways, to contribute historiographical or ethnographical case studies and/or theoretical and methodological contributions that explore questions like the following:

  • How do music and knowledge correlate in specific migratory contexts?
  • What knowledge remains relevant for migrants and diasporic communities, and how is this articulated in music production (composition and performance) as well as within discourses about music?
  • How do the knowledge and practice of music reflect belonging?
  • How can the knowledge of music contest essentialist discourses of integration and assimilation?
  • What is the impact of the knowledge of music on the transmission and performance of music?
  • What role do place, class, sex, and ability play in the context of migration, music, and knowledge?
  • How do different media of transmission affect the dissemination of knowledge in migratory contexts?
     

We welcome proposals for papers and other types of presentations that engage with the conference theme. Individual paper presentations must be kept to 30 minutes (15-minute presentations, followed by 15-minute discussions).

Please submit a proposal through our online application portal before 1 October 2023. Proposals for whole panels are welcome. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the organizers. Subsidies for travel are available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not be able to attend the workshop otherwise, including junior scholars, and scholars from universities with limited resources. 

The conference will be held in English.

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news-11653 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:15:42 +0200 Call for Papers: Summer School, Pacific Office, Berkeley - Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons (DHI Washington) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-summer-school-pacific-office-berkeley-making-a-world-of-many-worlds-identities-activ.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01.10.2023 July 14–18, 2024

Organized by The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS), the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) at UC Berkeley, and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 “Practices of Comparing” at Bielefeld University

The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS), the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) at UC Berkeley, and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 “Practices of Comparing” at Bielefeld University invite doctoral students with an interest in history, literary studies, geographies, environmental humanities, sociology, political science, anthropology, ethnic studies, economics, or legal studies, to apply to attend an international summer school that will be convened from July 14–18, 2024, at the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (Berkeley, United States) on the theme of “Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons.”

Rationale

Latin America has long served as a breeding ground for new visions of the world. Colonization, the expansion of capitalism, and religious imperialism prompted both local views of an emerging global order and the, often violent, suppression and adaptation of indigenous cosmologies. Slavery and exploitation incited discussions about the nature of humanity, freedom, and citizenship, shaping diametrically distinct visions of colonizers and those who sought to escape the burdens of exclusion and exploitation. Struggles against capitalist, extractivist, patriarchal, and xenophobic regimes of the past century inspired counter world designs, new visions of the relationship between human beings and nature, and demands for a world in which many worlds fit. In our own era of multiple crises, such imaginings of new futures and discussions about the tension between universalities and pluriverses are at the center of many conflicts. 

With Latin America as an important example, the summer school “Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons” will examine such processes of world-making all over the world from the early modern, colonial period to our present age, comparing not only between different world regions but examining the exchanges between them as well. We intend to explore the political, socio-economic, and cultural relevance of these processes through three thematic lenses: identities, activisms, and comparisons. Experts in each of these respective fields will provide short lectures and lead discussions of assigned theoretical and empirical readings. Participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their own work. We are particularly interested in exploring the following sets of questions, which might well overlap empirically:

  1. Identities

    Identity-making and world-making are two intimately related processes. Individual notions of the self shape people’s visions of their place in the world. Collective identities, in turn, often are crafted in interaction with new legal practices or regimes of knowledge being envisioned and implemented. We will explore the interrelationship between these two processes. On the one hand we are interested in the interactions between dominant narratives about how the world is or should be organized – e.g., modernity, nationalism, racial scientism, neoliberalism – and the situated practices, discourses, and narratives that shaped identities in specific spaces. On the other hand, we want to focus on those groups who were excluded or marginalized by those socio-economic, racial, or migratory regimes. What counter narratives about citizenship, culture, race, or the economy did these groups produce? What was the role of international solidarity and transnational interactions in the shaping of alternative world visions and corresponding identities? Through what every-day, political, mediatic, or artistic practices were these designs of the world envisioned and lived out within specific communities?
     
  2. Activism

    Activism plays an important role in the remaking of worlds. We will explore the potential and limits of change of political, social, and cultural activism. We wish to discuss how past and present social movements – laborer, women, Jewish, Indigenous, Afro, queer – have been involved in the reimagining of worlds. What has been the role of art, literature, science, and other forms of knowledge in this process? How have they been interacting? How has ontological politics been used for promoting these movements’ agendas? We are interested, too, in discussing the limits of such activism. What pushback do projects of counter world-making provoke? How do dominant actors appropriate activists’ narratives and vocabularies? How have calls for the making of a different, better world served in the pursuit of either individual advancement or the reinforcement of existing orders? Finally, we aim to reflect on the relationship between science and activism. How can academic discourses contribute to an activist remaking of the world? How are calls for the acceptance of the pluriverse – an ontological plurality, that is – impacting the knowledge and stories academics produce?
     
  3. Comparisons

    Practices of comparing are key world-making tools. They shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. We ask how actors use comparisons to grapple with crises, exclusion, violence, and inequality. Which comparisons individuals or collectives use to create, shape, or reshape their own visions of the global order, local cosmologies, or diasporic worlds? This approach focuses on the question of what actors do when they compare and how practices of comparing used by historical and contemporary actors contribute to preserving or remaking existing worlds. How did the choice of criteria for comparison shape and change what or who was compared? We assume that comparisons contribute to naturalizing social, religious, or racial differences, but likewise may help to unsettle firm believes and convictions.


Application and Procedure

Travel (economy), accommodations, and most meals will be covered. The program targets doctoral students engaging in projects related to the aforementioned themes and questions, particularly from a comparative perspective. The discussion will take place in various formats, including project presentations, thematic workshops, scholars in conversation, and keynote lectures. The working language is English. The application should likewise be in English and consist of:

  • a curriculum vitae (2 pages max.)
  • an outline of the current project (600 words)
  • a motivation letter that describes the relevance of one’s own research to the summer school’s topic (2 pages max.)
  • two relevant suggested readings (please provide bibliographical data only, no copies of the suggested readings)
  • the names of two university faculty members who can serve as referees (no letters of recommendation required).


Please upload all documents to the online portal by October 1, 2023.

Please contact Heike Friedman (friedman(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online. For other questions related to the event contact Nino Vallen (vallen(at)ghi-dc.org) or Cornelia Aust (cornelia.aust(at)uni-bielefeld.de).

Applicants will be notified whether they have been selected in December 2023. Successful applicants will be asked to submit the draft of a research paper or draft chapter of their PhD (6,000 words max.) by June 15, 2024.

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news-11648 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:32:54 +0200 Call for Papers: Summer School: Service - Servility - Servitude (MWF Delhi) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-summer-school-service-servility-servitude.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.07.2023 3 - 6 December, 2023

Labour history has long been framed through the ‘free/unfree’ divide. Moreover, slavery as well as wage labour, indentured work and convict labour, as well as other labour relations, have traditionally been studied in isolation from each other. In the last decades, however, labour historians have highlighted the need to move beyond the ‘free/unfree’ divide (van der Linden and Brass, 1997; van der Linden 2008), expanded the range of labour relations under study, and insisted on the relevance of a processual perspective (De Vito, Schiel and van Rossum, 2020; Schiel and Heinsen, forthcoming). Especially the latter approach highlights the complex making of labour coercion, and offers the possibility to rethink key concepts, e.g. the ‘working class’, and periodisations in labour history.

Building on these new insights, the summer school foregrounds the potential of the concepts of ‘service’, ‘servility’ and ‘servitude’ to provide further entry points into this expanded labour history. At the same time, it seeks to uncover the historical importance of service and servile forms of labour that have been marginalized through discourses that focus on ‘free/ unfree’ labour, or have been addressed within isolated fields of research.

We think of labour regimes as diverse as family labour or domestic service, we look at shopworkers sharing work-spaces as well as close social ties in an Asian ‘bazaar’, we address inmates who worked in private households, or doing service as a punishment for certain crimes, workers in ‘informal’ backyard manufacturing units, farm hands living on the margins of agricultural households, or tributary and enslaved workers tied to service provision within the relationship to their ‘employers’ or polity. The triad of ‘service – servility – servitude’ operates as a structuring element particularly for types of work marked by high socio-spatial proximity with capital, one that provides an alternative facet for the inquiry into labour relations and enriches our understanding of the complexities of labour coercion. Thus, we are not only expanding the scope of current discourses on labour, but also the theoretical – more often than not binary – framework often applied. Using the triad ‘service – servility – servitude’ opens up new perspectives in the study of labour, and will consider overlooked histories.

We seek to bring together early-career and established scholars working in the field from across the world, specifically highlighting the implications of studies on and from the Global South towards our understanding of global modernities in labour regimes without restricting our inquiry by excluding the contexts of the Global North. The summer school is designed to allow PhD students not only to present their own work, but also to engage with theoretical and methodological questions in training groups organized and moderated by established scholars. Reading sessions of key texts from diverse regions, small reading groups and discussing writing methods will provide a space for students to openly discuss challenges faced during research and writing phases. Participants are encouraged to suggest or provide a paper or a source which inspired their research.

The summer school will be held at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói-Brazil. It is open to graduate students in history, sociology, anthropology, and archaeology, based in any part the world.

We welcome paper proposals:

• focusing on any geographical and chronological context;

• addressing different aspects of the triad ‘service – servility – servitude’;

• exploring aspects like race, gender, sexuality, and even an intersectionality perspective in connection to the applicants’ research themes.

Please submit your paper proposal (approx. 500 words), abstract, a short summary of you argument, current affiliation and short bio-note latest by 15 July, 2023 to: paulocruzterra(at)id.uff.br

Subject: Summer school: Service – Servility – Servitude

Candidates with PhD funding are expected to fund their trips. However, candidates without funding can apply in their application for support of their travel expenses.

You will be informed about the outcome of your application by 15 August 2023. Successful applicants will be expected to pre-circulate their papers among the participants by 30 October 2023.

For further information and queries, please contact: 

Paulo Cruz Terra - paulocruzterra(at)id.uff.br

Michaela Dimmers - dimmers(at)mwsindia.org

Organizers:

Paulo Cruz Terra, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói-Brazil

Christian G. De Vito, Bonn Center for Development and Slavery Studies, Bonn, Germany

Michaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi, India and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen, Germany

Sebastian Schwecke, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi, India

Nitin Varma, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany


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news-8538 Thu, 04 May 2023 16:09:01 +0200 Call for Papers: Tagung „Berge – Literatur – Kultur“, Klang, Geruch, Geschmack und Berührung der Berge (DHI Warschau) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-tagung-berge-literatur-kultur-klang-geruch-geschmack-und-beruehrung-der-berge.html Bewerbungsschluss: 20.06.2023 8.-10.11.2023 Willa Zameczek, ul. Konopnickiej 1, 57-320 Polanica Zdrój

Veranstalter:

Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschungsstelle für Studien der Bergproblematik am Institut für Polnische Philologie der Universität Wrocław

Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau (DHI Warschau)

Als das Leitthema der künftigen Überlegungen und Diskussionen während diesjähriger, bereits zehnter Auflage der zyklischen wissenschaftlichen Tagung aus der Reihe „Gebirge – Literatur – Kultur“ stehen gewählte Aspekte der sinnlichen Wahrnehmung von Bergen im Fokus: Es lehnt sich nicht nur an die den jüngsten Entwicklungen im Bereich der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit der Problematik der Sinne an, die ihre kognitive und epistemologische Rolle im Erkenntnisprozess analysieren, sondern auch an ihre Funktion als ‚Kanal für die Vermittlung kultureller Werte‘. Im Licht zahlreicher Studien aus dem Bereich der Kulturanthropologie hat die Sinneswahrnehmung ihre physische und psychologische Dimension, ist aber auch als eine kulturelle Handlung zu verstehen. Die ‚Anthropologie der Sinne‘ profilierte sich in der jüngsten Zeit als ein eigenständiges Fachgebiet. Die Aufmerksamkeit richtete sich auf die Beziehungen zwischen den Erfahrungen vom Sehen, Hören und Fühlen und den unterschiedlichen Formen des Diskurses sowie des künstlerischen Ausdrucks. Es scheint demnach, dass der sensorische Zugang im Rahmen von mountain studies, welche sich auf die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Mensch und Gebirge fokussieren, eine Chance gibt, die Forschungsperspektive um neue, bisher wenig berücksichtigte Aspekte zu erweitern. Während die visuelle Wahrnehmung und Visualisierung der Berge bereits mehrmals thematisiert wurde, bleibt die Problematik der Rolle von anderen Sinnen bei der Herausbildung von Repräsentationen der Gebirge ein breites wissenschaftliches Neuland. So wird sich das diesjährige Treffen der Funktion und Bedeutung der breit verstandenen Sinneswahrnehmung bei der Erfahrung des Gebirgsraumes zuwenden, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Klängen, Geschmäcken, Gerüchen und Berührungen. Die visuellen Perzeptionen und Repräsentationen sollen nicht ausgeklammert werden, sondern sie sollen mit Hinblick auf ihre Wechselwirkungen mit andern Sinneserfahrungen thematisiert werden, nicht zuletzt im Rahmen einer synästhetischen Korrelation.

Im Kontext der gegenwärtigen Studien zur Sinneswahrnehmung in Bezug auf mountain studies sollen folgende Themenbereiche und Fragestellungen diskutiert werden:

Auf welche Weise und in welchem Grad werden Gebirgsräume Gegenstand diskursiv, kulturell, künstlerisch vermittelten sinnlichen Wahrnehmung, wie drückt sich dieser Einfluss bei der Entstehung neuer, z.B. polysensorischer (synästhetischer) Erfahrungen aus? Welche Funktion hat er im epistemologischen, ästhetischen und emotionalen Bereich? Welche Rolle spielen dabei historischer und kultureller Kontext und individuelle Kondition? Im Zentrum unseres Interesses werden unterschiedliche Narrative stehen, u.a. Reiseberichte, Berichte der Bergsteiger, Kletterer, Anthropologen und Ethnologen, Naturforscher, Geographen usw., und zudem literarische, künstlerische sowie musikalische Repräsentationen.

Gibt es Zusammenhänge der Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Gebirgsraum einerseits und der Hierarchie der Sinne andererseits? Unter welchen Umständen oder in welchen Situationen finden eventuelle Hierarchieverschiebungen statt, welche Wahrnehmungskanäle sind dabei entscheidend?

Gibt es bestimmte Darstellungskonventionen der breit verstandenen Sinneswahrnehmung in der Kunst und Literatur? Welche Funktion haben Motive der akustischen, olfaktorischen Erfahrungen, wie auch der Geschmacks- und Berührungserfahrung, in Reise- und Expeditionsberichten, in den wissenschaftlichen Texten, Beschreibungen der Natur- und Kulturlandschaft, wie auch in allen weiteren literarischen und musikalischen Darstellungen, oder auch in den bildenden Künsten? Auf welche Weise wird sie semantisiert bzw. mythologisiert?

Inwieweit sind die sinnlichen Wahrnehmungen der Berge, von deren Klang, Geruch, Geschmack und Berührung, identitätsstiftend, und zwar sowohl für die in den Gebirgen lebende Bevölkerung als auch für Bergsteiger und andere ‚Bergmenschen‘?

Welche Sinne, außer dem Sehen, dominieren in der Auseinandersetzung mit den Bergen und mit dem breiten Spektrum der Gebirgsthematik? Gibt es hier Unterschiede, die historisch oder regional bedingt sind? Haben einzelne Regionen ‚ihre eigenen‘ Klänge, Geschmäcke, Berührungen? Gibt es historische Momente, die dazu beitragen, dass bestimmte Gerüche oder Klänge und Geräusche an symbolischer oder diskursiver Bedeutung gewinnen? Gibt es bestimmte Wahrnehmungsmodi der Klänge und Gerüche, können sie als ein Bestandteil eines diachronischen Prozesses angesehen werden?

Werden Sinne (neben dem Sehen) mit der Identität der Akteure – Einwohner, Kunstschaffenden, Autoren der Narrative – als Teil der Selbst- und Fremdzuschreibung verbunden? Ist die Art und Weise der Darstellung von Sinneserfahren mit der Verankerung im konkreten Raum verbunden? Welchen Einfluss hat hierfür das Geschlecht? Gibt’s es geschlechtsspezifische Modi in der Wahrnehmung und Beschreibung des Raumes auf? Kommt der Kindheit eine besondere Perspektive bei den entsprechenden kulturellen Repräsentationen bei? Wird im gesellschaftlichen, wissenschaftlichen, literarischen Diskurs den in den Gebirgsregionen ansässigen ethnischen oder sprachlichen Gruppen bestimmte Bedeutung bei der Entstehung der Klangkulisse der Berge zugeschrieben? Welche Rolle spielen hier nonverbale Kanäle der akustischen Kommunikation, in welcher Funktion tauchen Dialekte bzw. lokale musikalische Tradition auf? Wie, wann und im welchen Grade wird die Geruchs-, Geschmacks- und Klangproblematik zum Bestandteil der Marketingstrategien, mit denen für Gebirgsgegenden geworben wird?

Die diesjährige Tagung wird in der Pension „Willa Zameczek“ in Polanica-Zdrój (Bad Altheide) stattfinden. Tagungssprachen sind Polnisch, Deutsch und Tschechisch, für Simultanübersetzung wird gesorgt. Vorgesehen sind 25 Minuten für jeden Beitrag plus Diskussion.

Die Teilnahme an der Tagung ist für Referenten kostenlos. Unterkunft und Verpflegung sowie Reisekosten werden von den Veranstaltern getragen.

Beitragsvorschläge mit einem Abstract von max, 1800 Zeichen in einer der Tagungssprachen können bis zum 20.06.2023 an die folgende E-Mail-Adresse geschickt werden: ewa.grzeda(at)uwr.edu.pl

Über die Annahme des Beitrags werden die Veranstalter bis zum 10.07.2023 informieren.

Informationen zur Unterkunft sowie zu weiteren organisatorischen Fragen werden bis Ende August 2023 vermittelt.

Das endgültige Tagungsprogramm soll vor dem 30.09.2023 finalisiert werden.

Um das simultane Dolmetschen zu erleichtern, bitten wir die Referentinnen und Referenten, ihre Beiträge (Referat bzw. Präsentation) bis zum 20.10.2023 elektronisch einzusenden: ewa.grzeda@uwr.edu.pl

Programmkomitee der Tagung besteht aus:

Prof. Dr. Ewa Grzęda, Universität Wrocław

Dr. Anna Pigoń, Universität Wrocław

Prof. Dr. Miloš Řezník, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau

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news-8503 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:28:07 +0200 Call for papers: Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History (DHI Paris) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-euro-mediterranean-entanglements-in-medieval-history-dhi-paris.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01.06.2023 Online-Seminarreihe der Deutschen Historischen Institute in Paris und Rom

Veranstalter: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris (DHI Paris)/Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom (DHI Rom)
Ort: Online-Zoom
Datum: Akademisches Jahr 2023/2024
Seminarsprache: Englisch
Organisatorinnen: Dr. Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris), Dr. Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom)

Die Deutschen Historischen Institute Paris und Rom setzen im akademischen Jahr 2023/2024 die Online-Seminar-Reihe zum Thema »Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History« fort. Die Veranstaltungen finden im Zweimonatsrhythmus statt. Sie richten sich sowohl an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs als auch an etablierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aller mediävistischen Disziplinen. Ziel ist es, ein internationales und interdisziplinäres Forum zu schaffen, auf dem vielfältige Themen und methodische Ansätze vorgestellt und diskutiert werden können.
Wir laden interessierte Forscherinnen und Forscher herzlich ein, ihre laufenden oder vor Kurzem abgeschlossenen Arbeiten vor einem internationalen Publikum zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Bitte schicken Sie einen Abstract (1–2 Seiten) und kurzen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis) bis zum 1. Juni 2023 an asagasser@dhi-paris.fr und wolf@dhi-roma.it.

Themen
Der geographische Raum ist bewusst nicht klar umrissen und umfasst Europa sowie den Mittelmeerraum im weitesten Sinne. Einbezogen sind auch Verflechtungen zwischen dem euromediterranen Raum und anderen Weltregionen. Folgende Themenfelder stehen im Mittelpunkt:

  • Regional übergreifende, transkulturelle und interreligiöse Verflechtungen (Prozesse/Ergebnisse);

  • Grenz- und Kontakträume;

  • Soziale Netzwerke und interpersonelle Beziehungen;

  • Migration und Mobilität;

  • Transfer, Diffusion und Adaption bzw. Transformation von Ideen, Wissen und materiellen Objekten.

Seminarablauf
Im Mittelpunkt des Seminars steht der Austausch von Ideen. Unsere Referierenden beginnen mit einer 10- minütigen Keynote, in der sie ihre laufenden oder kürzlich abgeschlossenen Forschungsarbeiten vorstellen. Im Anschluss folgt ein 10-minütiger Kommentar eines Spezialisten. Dieser bildet die Grundlage für die anschließende 40-minütige Diskussion mit dem Online-Publikum.

Termine
Dienstags 17.00–18.00 Uhr (MEZ)

  • 26. September 2023

  • 21. November 2023

  • 30. Januar 2024

  • 26. März 2024

  • 28. Mai 2024

Kontakt für Fragen zum Forschungsseminar: Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris, asagasser(at)dhi-paris.fr) und Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom, wolf(at)dhi-roma.it).

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news-8490 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:49:10 +0200 Call for Papers: Shaping the Periphery, Enabling Movement – Infrastructure in the Caucasus from the Early 19th Century to the Late Soviet Period (MWS) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-shaping-the-periphery-enabling-movement-infrastructure-in-the-caucasus-from-the-earl.html Bewerbungsschluss: 01.05.2023 Organizers: Arpine Maniero (Collegium Carolinum e.V., Munich) and Helena Holzberger (Russia-Asia Studies, LMU, Munich

Location: Yerevan State University / Yerevan (Armenia)

Supported by: Max Weber Foundation, the Faculty of History of Yerevan State University and the American University of Armenia, Instigate CSJC

Date: 03.10.2023 – 06.10.2023

Deadline for Proposal: 01.05.2023

Infrastructure has played a crucial role in all empires as a way to access, administrate and control the peripheries, but also to integrate them. By developing infrastructure, the political center promised to supply material goods, security, and knowledge to these regions; at the same time, this infrastructure was also used to to project imperial military power. From the local perspective, building infrastructures, such as railroads or transportation routes, was essential to the functioning of a region, because they increased the movement of people and goods and made these flows more efficient. Infrastructure enabled peripheral regions to connect to the world and participate in a contemporaneous modernity, both culturally and global-economically.

Yet infrastructures are more than just an instrument of access and control. Following Brian Larkin, we understand infrastructures not only as forms of technical functioning but also as semiotic and aesthetic vehicles. They can shape subjects through mobilization of affect and desire and therefore have an additional political impact.

By examining the development of infrastructure in the greater region of North and South Caucasus, long a border zone between the Russian, Ottoman and Persian empires, we can increase our understanding of regional development, power relations, and intraregional interactions, as well as conflicts, violence, and peace processes. The consideration of a relatively long period makes it possible to elaborate long-term effects of infrastructural development like the formation of political, economic, social, and cultural spaces. Our focus is not only on specific construction projects and their implementation, but in a wider sense the overlapping and diverging visions of those in the center and local actors regarding how to shape the Caucasus economically and politically․

We ask the following: How have infrastructures created, shaped, structured, connected and changed the North and South Caucasus from the early modern era to the late Soviet period? To what extent has the construction, demolition, and reuse of infrastructures been influenced by the expansion and contraction of empires? How has the development of infrastructure challenged, altered, or destroyed existing notions of economic, political, national, and geographic spaces?

We invite proposals from scholars in the fields of history, geography, economic history, sociology, ethnology, anthropology, environmental history, and historical demography who focus on areas that were under Russian rule or interacted with them. Topics may relate (but are not limited) to the following fields:

I. Infrastructure and Migration

II. The construction and operation of infrastructure

III. Socio-Cultural and Anthropological infrastructure

IV. Trans-imperial / transnational infrastructure

V. Infrastructure connecting Sea and Land

VI. Infrastructure and environment

The conference contributions are intended to serve as the basis for a special issue of a peer reviewed journal to bring together and highlight new work in this area. An additional purpose of the conference is to strengthen the connections between Western scholars and their colleagues from the Caucasian countries. Scholars of the Russian Empire and USSR have often relied heavily on documentation held in the former center; however, Russia's attack on Ukraine has blocked access to the archives in both these countries. These events have reminded Western researchers of the importance of the archives in other post-Soviet countries and the new perspectives these materials offer. In the interests of decolonized scholarship, we see the conference as an opportunity to build future collaborations with local researchers.

Accomodation and travel expances up to a limited amount will be covered.

Deadline for submission of abstract (max. 500 words) and CV: 1 May 2023 to arpine.maniero[at]collegium-carolinum.de and h.holzberger[at]lmu.de

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news-8482 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:48:26 +0200 Call for Papers: The Politics and Poetics of Evidence. The Soviet Documentation of Nazi Crimes, the Myth of the Great Patriotic War, and their Legacies (DHI Warschau) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-the-politics-and-poetics-of-evidence-the-soviet-documentation-of-nazi-crimes-the-myt.html Bewerbungsschluss: 21.04.2023 Conference organized by Branch office Vilnius of the German Historical Institute Warsaw, Max Weber Foundation, in cooperation with the Lithuanian Institute of History

Archives generate knowledge, archives generate power. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union used documents to establish its official narrative of the Great Patriotic War and to bolster its political hegemony in East-Central Europe. These documents still have an impact, they are knowledge, do exist in the form of documentary editions and archival collections. Their traces can be found in the still popular novels and movies of that time. The conference, thus, wants to focus on the history of the creation and the exploitation of these source collections in the postwar and the post-Soviet period.

Already in 1941, the Soviet regime began to collect and compile evidence of Nazi crimes and the cruelty of the Nazi regime. Various institutions were involved in the process of collecting (and sorting) – from the NKVD to the state archives, from the “State Special Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes” to the institutes of the Academy of Sciences and local museums. These institutions gathered an immense number of documents, including captured written material (as well as photographs and film footage) from the Wehrmacht and local occupation authorities. After Germany’s surrender, the Soviet Military Administration systematically searched the archives of the ‘liberated’ territories for files that reflected the crimes of the Wehrmacht and the SS as well as the political structure of the Nazi regime. The burden of proof provided by the Soviet side was overwhelming at the Nuremberg Trials. What of the many “trophy documents” was not displayed at Nuremberg, became secret knowledge and some of it was used as a weapon in the Cold War. East-Central European states and societies, however, developed their specific reading of the Soviet struggle against the criminal Nazi regime, with changing balances between liberation or occupation narratives. The discussion continued after the collapse of the USSR and the opening of the archives. The narrative of a Soviet war of liberation in Europe is still convincing in today’s Russia, and not only there.

However, the conference organized on behalf of the Max Weber Foundation seeks not only to reconstruct the formation and instrumentalization of Soviet knowledge on Nazi crimes. It also aims to understand and to deconstruct the very poetics of the documentary evidence and the politics of its selection, which were deployed to convince the people inside and outside of the postwar USSR. Besides memory studies, research has addressed this powerful link between the documentation of war crimes and the poetics of evidence in a rather unsystematic way. If archives exercise power, if collections of written, photographic, and filmic materials create veracity by virtue of their authenticity, represent a form of ‘inner truth’, the question arises as to what role the archives of knowledge created under Soviet rule played in the constitution of postwar societies and the postwar order in Europe.

The conference aims to explore these questions. For this purpose, it wants to engage the different fields of historical research as well as cultural studies in dialogue: contemporary historical research on World War II and war crimes, research on postwar terror, Sovietization, and national movements in East-Central Europe, history of postwar justice, Cold War history, research on memory politics and memory studies, and literary and film history of the Soviet postwar period. The conference intends to link areas that make empirical use of the archives of knowledge generated in the context of the Second World war, without necessarily focusing on the history of their creation, exposing the narratives embedded in them, and deconstructing the aesthetics generated by them.

The conference encourages contributions that shed light on the history of the compilation of documents on Nazi crimes, their use and abuse: in criminal trials, in show trials, in the public sphere (at exhibitions, in publications, in the press), in education, in literature and in film, as well as in historiography and Cold War diplomacy. Contributions that explore how the ambiguity of the document collections was kept in check by the regime and how the polyphony of the documents was silenced will be highly welcome. In particular, the conference would be profiting from papers that reflect our perspective on the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century and the postwar period in Europe from a theoretical and epistemological point of view, thus contributing to a better understanding of their impact on our present.

The conference will be held in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius from October 12th to October 13th, 2023 (on-site only). As organizers, we plan to propose a selection of revised papers presented at the conference to an international peer-reviewed journal as a special issue.

Please, send an abstract of 300 to 500 words and a short CV by April 21th, 2023 to walter.sperling[at]mws-osteuras.de.

The conference will be able to offer a modest reimbursement for travel and accommodation to invited participants (presenters and discussants). Please contact us if you have any questions about the conference.

Dr. Walter Sperling, Max Weber Foundation
(walter.sperling[at]mws-osteuras.de),

Dr. Gintarė Malinauskaitė, Lithuanian Institute of History
(gintare.malinauskaite[at]istorija.lt).   

 

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news-8466 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:28:08 +0100 Call for Papers: Chinese Migration and the Imagination of Pacific Worlds (DHI Washington) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-chinese-migration-and-the-imagination-of-pacific-worlds.html Bewerbungsschluss: 15.05.2023 DEC 04, 2023 - DEC 07, 2023

International Workshop & Lecture Series, Berkeley & Stanford | Conveners: Sören Urbansky (Pacific Office Berkeley, GHI Washington) and Nino Vallen (Pacific Office Berkeley, GHI Washington)

In recent decades, politicians, academics, and journalists have predicted the dawn of a Pacific or Asia-Pacific century. Together with the rise of China as an economic and political superpower, they foresee the center of global politics moving from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Although the prospect of such a shift in the international order has waned somewhat because of deglobalization trends, the Pacific continues to play a significant role in debates about the future. Whether concerning discussions about U.S. responses to China’s growing influence in the region, the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or new developmental projects, what appears to be at stake is not the mere organization of interregional relationships but designs for the different worlds that people there inhabit.

Adopting a historical perspective, this workshop explores the role of the Pacific in the making of new worlds through the lens of Chinese migrants. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Chinese have immigrated in great numbers to Southeast Asia, the American West, the Russian Far East, Latin America, and other Pacific shores to chase fresh opportunities. These migratory movements had a profound impact on the making of the international order, conceptualizations of racial hierarchies, and notions of the nature of labor. At the same time, the interactions of Chinese indentured laborers, merchant elites, politicians, and intellectuals with local communities produced new and little-known worlds of their own.

We are calling for contributions that examine the role of Chinese migrants as both contributors to and subjects of these worldmaking processes. How did experiences with Chinese migration inspire new notions of global order and the (im)mobilities of human beings? Through what practices were racialized visions of the Chinese ingrained in cultures throughout the Pacific, profoundly shaping the ways in which people grasped the world? How did the Chinese themselves respond to these visions and, over time, envision their own role in the world and conceptualize views of race? What was the significance of the transpacific networks they built in this process? In what ways did interactions across the Pacific shape anti-imperial agendas? And what meaning did the presence of these migrants have for the world’s indigenous populations across the region?

As we deal with these questions, we seek to move beyond the view of the Pacific as the battleground over hegemony between the United States and China. Rather, we want to draw attention to an entirely different challenge: the necessity of producing new narratives that recognize the plurality of actors and various ways they inscribe themselves in the world.

This workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual lecture series “Global Challenges in the Asia-Pacific – Past & Present,” organized by the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington at the University of California Berkeley and by Stanford University. This event is generously funded by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.

The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation to Berkeley.

Please upload a brief CV and a proposal of no more than 500 words by May 15, 2023, to our online portal. Proposals should include a clearly formulated research question and a reflection on how answering this question contributes to historiographical debates about Chinese migration and/or worldmaking processes.

Those chosen to take part in the workshop will be asked to submit an 8,000-word paper by November 1, 2023, to offer a 15-minute presentation at the workshop, and to play an active role in the discussion. We will pursue publication of selected papers from the workshop in a special issue of a peer-reviewed academic journal.

Please contact Heike Friedman (friedman[@atghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submissions in May.

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news-8465 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:17:16 +0100 Call for Papers: Early Modern Statehood and Society in the Ukrainian Lands: Forms and Concepts (m/w/d) (DHI Warschau) https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/newsfeed/calls/single-news-jobs/detail/News/call-for-papers-early-modern-statehood-and-society-in-the-ukrainian-lands-forms-and-concepts.html Bewerbungsschluss: 30.04.2023 The annual conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission is organized in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Warsaw (GHI Warsaw).

The organizational committee of the conference includes Prof. Dr. Miloš Řezník (German Historical Institute Warsaw), Prof. Dr. Yvonne Kleinmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), and Dr. Volodymyr Sklokin (Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv).

Conference venue: Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, Pałac Karnickich, Aleje Ujazdowskie 39, PL-00-540 Warszawa
Format: hybrid (online and offline participation possible)
Languages: English and Ukrainian

The German-Ukrainian Historical Commission is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

For organizational questions please contact:duhk[at]lrz.uni-muenchen.de / +49 89 2180-3056 / www.duhk.org

The regions of today's Ukraine participated in various processes of state formation in the early modern period. The most important among them were the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, followed by the Kingdom of Poland within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; other polities involved Russia, the Crimean Khanate, the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire. In addition, there were political power structures that had their focus in Ukraine itself and correspondingly became focal points of modern Ukrainian political imaginary. A case in point is the Hetmanate during the second half of the seventeenth through the eighteenth century.

The conference will tecle the following topics: 

It aims to emphasize the roles that Ukrainian regions played in processes of cultural entanglements and early modern state formation in the various contexts which included Ukrainian lands between 1569 and 1795. We are interested in regional articulations of different traditions and understandings of political rule and their subsequent significance in the self- understanding of the elites.

It encourages further reflection on the concept of statehood, starting from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian and Ottoman empires through regional and local polities. How can we integrate early modern Ukraine into the broader spectrum of political formations visible in today's Ukraine?

It explores the procedural character of early modern statehood, and in particular of the Hetmanate, by highlighting such phenomena as its ability to centralize power, the emergence of a standing army, a professional bureaucracy, and the separation of the idea of the state from the person of the ruler. We will discuss the character of the Cossack polity as a state or an association of nobles in a comparative perspective.

It raises the question of society – or rather societies – as an analytical tool to understand early modern Ukraine. How did the different proto-state formations or other political entities, e.g. urban communities and Jewish self-administration, interact with each other and what forms and languages of communication did they use? How can we qualify these political entanglements?

We invite submissions that address the topics mentioned above and place the Ukrainian cases into a broader comparative context of early modern formation of political orders, institutions and societies in East-Central Europe and beyond. We encourage contributions with an emphasis on historical semantics and cultural entanglements.

While we mainly aim to initiate German-Ukrainian dialogue about these issues, contributions from other countries are very welcome as well. Accommodation will be provided and travel expenses refunded for conference speakers.

Please submit your proposals (500-800 words) and a short CV (one page maximum) in one PDF-file to Georgiy Konovaltsev (duhk[at]lrz.uni-muenchen.de) by April 30, 2023. Please state whether you are interested in participating in person in Warsaw or online.

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