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CfA: KWI International Fellowships
We are pleased to announce the opening of applications for our ninth cohort of International Fellows at KWI. We invite qualified researchers to apply for a six-month stay, scheduled from 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2025. Applications must be submitted by 28 February 2024.
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CfA: Writing Workshop
Intensive work on one's texts is integral to the humanities and social sciences. Especially for doctoral students who are not part of structured programmes, opportunities for supportive exchange can be rare. KWI is once again offering a weekend writing workshop for PhD students. Applications are due by 19 February 2024.
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Blogbook 2023
In December, the Blogbook 2023 was published in 150 numbered copies. Available in German and English editions with different texts, the book assembles a selection from the KWI blog throughout 2023. The Blogbook features a cross-section of contributions authored by KWI staff and fellows from the 2023 cohorts. Covering areas such as literary studies, (art) history, and sociology, the printed volume provides an opportunity to revisit popular content. Copies are available upon request from the KWI press, subject to availability.
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New Blog Series “CLIMATE”
The new KWI blog series CLIMATE is dedicated to the emerging genre of climate crisis/climate change literature. Curated by Laura M. Reiling, the series examines the phenomenon of climate (crisis) writing, which seems omnipresent in research and feuilletons, in novels, narratives, poems, plays, and essays. In the coming months, contributions will address topics such as the artistic imagination of the circumpolar north, global weirding, climate grief, and the devastation of the Harz region.
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CULTURES OF THE CRYOSPHERE |
Stefan Höhne Receives ERC Grant |
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Along with an international team, KWI Senior Researcher Stefan Höhne has been awarded the Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project “Cultures of the Cryosphere: Infrastructures, Politics, and Futures of Artificial Cooling”. The grant, secured in collaboration with the UDE, supports the project with nearly 10 million euros over six years.
Through historical reconstruction, philosophical inquiry, and ethnographic studies, the project aims to investigate the impacts of artificial cold on modern societies, encouraging discussion on what a more fair and sustainable approach to this limited resource could look like. Stefan Höhne is the first cultural studies researcher in Europe to be honoured with an ERC Synergy Grant.
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Event Postponements
Please note: two events from our “More or Less|Mehr oder Weniger” series have been postponed. “Nähe und Distanz im Sachbuch”, a conversation with Steffen Mau and Ewald Frie (originally scheduled for 15 November) is rescheduled for 22 February 2024. The book presentation for “Welfare for Markets” with Anton Jäger (Catholic University of Leuven) and Daniel Zamora (Free University of Brussels), initially planned for 28 November 2023, will now take place on 18 January 2024.
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New DFG Project on Visual Languages of Influencers
A new DFG (German Research Foundation) project is launching at KWI with the title “Visual Languages of Influencers: A Visual Sociological Hermeneutic Exploration”, led by sociologist Hans-Georg Soeffner. Konstadinos Maras will explore the aesthetics of influencers, shaped by communalization processes and consolidation of social meanings. The three-year project scrutinizes influencers' YouTube videos and Instagram posts. Employing a sociological-hermeneutic approach, the goal is to uncover patterns in the visual landscape of digital influencer culture.
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German Photo Book Prize
The German Photo Book Prize was awarded in November 2023 during the “Internationales Festival Fotografischer Bilder” (International Festival of Photographic Images) in Regensburg. The prize honours the photo book in twelve categories. This year, Luxembourgish photographer Marc Schroeder received the gold medal for his volume “Order 7161” in the documentary-journalistic category. Art historian Anja Schürmann, who researches artistic photo books at KWI, was on the jury and held the laudatory speech at the Regensburg municipal gallery Leerer Beutel.
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Opening Meeting of the Comedy Network
In November, researchers gathered at KWI to establish a network for the exploration of humour. The international network brings together expertise from theater, film, art, and cultural studies, as well as philology, Judaic studies, and sociology. What unites the members is their understanding of humour as a complex and productive cultural technique. Under the name “Knowing Laughter: Cultural Techniques of Comedy”, the network has developed a collaborative work programme, featuring initial events set to take place during the winter semester of 2024/25.
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Conference on the History of Sinti & Roma |
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On 9 November 2023, KWI faciliated a significant contribution to Sinti and Roma memory building, as well as cultural and historical recognition. The international conference, organized by Dezso Mate (Academy in Exile@KWI), brought together researchers, human rights defenders, cultural representatives, and policy makers. KWI Director Julika Griem and Academy in Exile Director Kader Konuk welcomed participants from a wide range of institutions. In his closing remarks, Mate noted: “Academic and public antigypsyism has a profound impact on Romani memory and remembrance of the Holocaust. Sinti and Roma people throughout history were categorized by antigypsy labels in the social sciences and public discourses.” |
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“Darf’s ein bisschen mehr sein?”
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 IN THE MEDIA
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Stefan Höhne spoke to the local newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in detail about his new ERC research project “Cultures of the Cryosphere”.
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In the FAZ, Hanna Engelmeier offered her account of a conference on close reading at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) in September.
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Aiming for International Visibility: the programme “Campus und Karriere” (Deutschlandfunk) on the Research Alliance Ruhr and the College for Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Historian Tim Schanetzky in conversation with “Aktuelle Stunde” (WDR) about the oil crisis of 50 years ago.
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Colloquium
Our colloquium provides a platform to present and discuss ongoing as well as emerging research projects. In addition to addressing projects within KWI – including the work of our new fellows – it is open to guest lectures that tie in with the institute's research agenda. The last meeting of the current semester is on 31 January 2024.
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CineScience: Darf's ein bisschen mehr sein?
Die DDR der DEFA
09 Jan 2024, 20:00 (CET), Filmstudio Glückauf
Speaker: Ekkehard Knörer
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CineScience: Darf's ein bisschen mehr sein?
Autosoziobiografie und Film
16 Jan 2024, 20:00 (CET), Filmstudio Glückauf
Speaker: Elena Meilicke
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Book Presentation: Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income
18 Jan 2024, 18:00 (CET), KWI & Zoom
Speakers: Anton Jäger, Daniel Zamora
Moderator: Danilo Scholz
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Book Presentation: Materialfluss. Eine Geschichte der Logistik an den Orten ihren Stillstands
30 Jan 2024, 18:00 (CET), KWI & ZOOM
Speaker: Monika Dommann
Moderator: Danilo Scholz
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CineScience: Darf's ein bisschen mehr sein?
Prekarität und Klassenscham im Film
06 Feb 2024, 20:00 (CET), Filmstudio Glückauf
Speaker: Guido Kirsten
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Lecture: Mehr oder Weniger Autorschaft. Generativität und Kreativität
15 Feb 2024, 18:30 (CET), KWI
Speaker: Tatjana Noemi Tömmel
Moderator: Mona Leinung
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Lecture: How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature from Garden Cities to Climate Justice
20 Feb 2024, 18:00 (CET), KWI
Speaker: Hillary Angelo
Moderator: Stefan Höhne
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Discussion: Nähe und Distanz im Sachbuch
An Evening with Ewald Frie and Steffen Mau
22 Feb 2024, 18:30 (CET), KWI
Speakers: Ewald Frie, Steffen Mau
Moderator: Julika Griem
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Workshop: (Fehlendes) Fingerspitzengefühl
Soziologie und Poetologie von Takt und Taktlosigkeit
07–08 Mar 2024, KWI
Organizers: Niklas Barth, Regina Karl, Sophie Schweiger
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Discussion: (Fehlendes) Fingerspitzengefühl. Ein Abend über das richtige Maß
08 Mar 2024, 18:00 (CET), KWI & Zoom
Speakers: Marie Schmidt, Rebecca Ajnwojner, Moritz Riesewieck
Organizers: Niklas Barth, Regina Karl, Sophie Schweiger
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“Koloniale Nahmen, koloniale Gaben: Alexandre Kojève, Carl Schmitt und die europäische Nachkriegsordnung” by Danilo Scholz
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“Von der Paraphrase zur Interpretation. Beispielhafte Analyse eines Interviewausschnitts” by Jo Reichertz
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Vergangenheitskonstruktionen. Erinnerungspolitik im Zeichen von Ambiguitätstoleranz edited by Hans-Georg Soeffner, Esther Gardei, and Benno Zabel
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“From Nazism to Pro-Kurdish Activism: The International Society Kurdistan, Silvio van Rooy and the Struggle against Communism in the 1960s and 1970s” by Adnan Çelik and Joost Jongerden
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“‘eine riesige verflochtene Masse‘. Vegetabilische Mikroskopie und Symbiose in Barbara Schiblis Flechten” by Laura Reiling
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“Geistesarbeit als Moderationskunst” by Julika Griem
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