Activities & News
This two-day workshop at the Research Centre for the Study of Culture (RCSC) explores new narrative endeavours into Europe’s many competing or conflicting as much as shared histories. Specifically, it foregrounds historically marginalized and peripheral accounts, which stand to complete acts of narrating and rethinking Europe in the face of current crises by adding more plural, polyvocal accounts of ‘other Europes’ and ‘other Europeans’.
You can find the detailed program
here
For more information, please contact
Prof. Dr. Jan Rupp
.
RCSC Workshop | Research Funding after the PhD: The DFG Grant Application (Eigene Stelle)
16.05.2023, 13:00-16:00 | GCSC (SR 109)
Dr. Alexander Scherr (postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English, JLU, and associated postdoc at GCSC) will hold a workshop on May 16th, with the aim to introduce the Eigene Stelle as a funding scheme for postdocs and to provide practical guidance for the application process. Attendees who are already working on a DFG application are welcome to join, as are postdocs and advanced PhD candidates who consider doing so as a future possibility. For more information, please contact
Prof. Dr. Jan Rupp (RCSC)
.
17.01.2023, 14:00-17:00
The
Eigene Stelle
–
a DFG grant
– is an attractive (albeit competitive) funding option for researchers after the PhD. It is attractive not only because it can serve to finance an individual position (for example, for a postdoctoral researcher) for at least 3 years. Its appeal is also due to the fact that successful funding applications are a major asset on the academic job market and increasingly important for researchers who consider a professorial career.
The workshop aims to introduce the
Eigene Stelle
as a funding scheme and provide practical guidance for the application process. Attendees who are already working on a DFG application are welcome to join, as are postdocs and advanced PhD candidates who consider doing so as a future possibility.
May 31, 2023, 15:30-17:30 | GCSC (MFR)
This semester’s RCSC Open Research Forum is coming up on May 31st, 3.30-5.30 p.m. Join us for a get-together and chat over coffee and tea in the GCSC’s entrance hall from 3.30 p.m. Starting from 4.00 p.m., presentations will include postmodernist fictions of the digital, vocabularies of migration, ritual landscapes at the Roman Empire’s edge, conflicting European histories, and future narratives. The RCSC Open Research Forum brings together researchers in the study of culture and offers a platform to discuss current projects and project ideas (working languages: German and English).
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Prof. Dr. Jan Alber |
"Reading Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital: Narrative, Cognition, and Technology in the Twenty-First Century" |
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Dr. Pinar Gümüş Mantu |
"Vocabularies of Migration" |
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Dr. Julia Koch |
"Britain to Black Sea: Ritual Landscapes at Roman Empire’s Edge – Exploring Strategies of Resilience" |
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Prof. Dr. Katharina Stornig |
"Narrating (Other) Europe(s): Polyvocal Connections across Europe’s Competing Histories" |
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Dr. Jens Kugele,
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"Bouncing Forward: Future Narratives, Scenarios and Transformations in the Study of Culture" |
02.02.2023, 16:00-18:00
The RCSC’s Open Research Forum seeks to bring together researchers in the study of culture, providing a platform to discuss current projects and project ideas (working languages: German and English). Our concluding event in the winter semester, on February 2nd, 2023, 4-6 p.m. will feature collaborative research projects on sleep knowledge, on climate knowledge as cultural practice, on mythical forests in digital times.
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Prof. Dr. Hannah Ahlheim, Prof. Dr. Nicole Zillien |
“Schlafwissen: Zur Wissensgenerierung in Schlaflabor und Sleep Tracking” |
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Prof. Dr. Annette Simonis, Dr. Corinna Dziudzia |
"Archiv vergessener Autorinnen und Autoren" |
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Prof. Dr. Jörn Ahrens |
“Climate Knowledge as Cultural Practice and its Transfer into Politics of Transformation” |
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Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen |
“Wald: Re-Mythisierung in Zeiten des Digitalen” |
30.11.2022, 16:00-18:00
The Research Centre for the Study of Culture (RCSC) carries on from a successful inaugural semester in the summer and continues its Open Research Forum on November 30th, 4-6 p.m. (c.t.). The event will feature presentations on a wide range of collaborative research projects, such as international cooperation on the Colombian peace process and labour migration from Greece to Germany, respectively, a conference project entitled “Memory, Affect and Narration” by the Research Areas “Cultural Memory Studies” and “Cultural Narratologies”, a research debate on ‘dangerous’ comedy and humour.
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Dr. Danae Gallo González |
“Dinámicas relaciones y prácticas de construcción de paz en la región del Pacífico colombiano: comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes víctimas del conflicto armado interno y la Comunidad Misionera Femenina de María Inmaculada y Santa Catalina de Sena” |
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Prof. Dr. Uwe Wirth |
“Gefährliche Komik? Zwischen reinem Spaß und Real-Satire” |
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Prof. Dr. Nicole Immig |
Griechische Arbeitsmigrationen in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1960-1982)” |
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Aleksandra Sadowska, Iryna Tarku, Robin Schmieder |
“Memory, Affect and Narration”, conference project RA “Cultural Memory Studies” and RA “Cultural Narratologies” |
13.07.2022, 16:00-18:00
Following its Opening Symposium in June, the RCSC invites you to its first Open Research Forum on July 13th, 4-6 p.m. (c.t.). The RCSC’s Open Research Forum seeks to bring together researchers in the study of culture, providing a platform to discuss current projects and project ideas (working languages: German and English). The first such event will feature a presentation by JLU’s AG Koloniales Erbe (Prof. Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer, Dr. Alissa Theiß), an event series pitch by the GCSC’s Emerging Topic Research Group "Migration and (De)coloniality" (Paola Solís, Isabella Kalte) and a project presentation "Moderne, Laboratorium und Archiv: Eine Revision der 'vergessenen' AutorInnen der Moderne" (Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen, Jana Keidel). Find the full programme here:
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Prof. Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer, Dr. Alissa Theiß |
AG Kololoniales Erbe |
| Paola Solís, Isabella Kalte | "Weaving Knowledge", event series project of the GCSC’s Emerging Topic Research Group "Migration and (De)coloniality" |
| Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen, Jana Keidel | "Moderne, Laboratorium und Archiv: Eine Revision der 'vergessenen' AutorInnen der Moderne" |
22.06.2022, 16:00-18:00
Building on a strong track record in the study of culture, the newly-devised Research Centre for the Study of Culture (RCSC) offers a space for creative thinking and work with a view to mobilizing collaborative research projects. The RCSC Opening Symposium will feature presentations and exchange around a range of current and prospective research initiatives.
As a new venture, the RCSC is an extension of the GCSC, building on the latter’s status as a research centre of national and international reknown. Now combined under one roof, the GCSC/RCSC simultaneously serves as a dynamic hub and interface for the area of potential “Culture–Conflict–Security (Focus: Eastern Europe)” within JLU’s research strategy “The Liebig Concept”.
As an inaugural event, the RCSC’s Opening Symposium will look to promote dialogue and engender further collaboration in the study of culture (working languages: English and German). Presentations will include “Konfliktgemeinschaften” ( “ Communities of Conflict ” , initiative for collaborative research centre) and “Formen guten Lebens. Literatur als Archiv, Kritik und Laboratorium” (“Forms of the Good Life: Literature as Archive, Critique and Laboratory”, projected research group).
We look forward to welcoming you!
Full programme available on the GGK/GCSC website
09.06.2022, 16:00-19:00
Most of you will have already noticed: the GGK/GCSC has moved at the turn of the year! Although the way from our previous building was not too far, the move means a quantum leap for us. Not only are all PhD students and staff under one roof for the first time; our new building also offers all kinds of new spatial possibilities for collaborative research and community interaction.
To explore these possibilities together with us and to really "warm up" our new house, we cordially invite you to the House-Warming Party, which will take place after the official inauguration ceremony, in which we will also take the opportunity for a short presentation of the newly established "Research Centre for the Study of Culture" (RCSC).