Sommerschule
Literaturwissenschaft in Marbach (Wisconsin)
Trans-Atlantic
Summer Institute (Minnesota)
Sommerschule
Literaturwissenschaft in Marbach (SOLIMA)
"Lyrik.
Von einem Wort zum nächsten"
Marbach, Germany, from
15 July through 3 August 2005
Application
deadline: 30 March 2005
The Sommerschule Literaturwissenschaft
in Marbach (SOLIMA) is a collaborative project between the CGES UW-Madison,
the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach am Neckar, the University of
Stuttgart, and the DAAD with the goal of bringing twenty talented young
scholars together with prominent scholars from around the world.
The course of study lasts
three weeks. The first two weeks serve as instructional time. In the
third week under the supervision of individual instructors, participants
pursue their own research in the literary archives and in the library
of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, the largest depository of modern German
literature. A final colloquium occurs on the final two days of the program,
during which the participants present the progress on the projects.
The topic and primary focus
of the collaborative project is "Lyrik. Von einem Wort zum nächsten."
Our point of departure for the seminar on interpretation are poems in
the German language. In this way we follow the traditions of antiquity,
the European Middle Ages, and French modernism as well as into the present
– in both the production of lyrical poetry and the literary criticism.
(Participants will receive a detailed reading list by the middle of
May 2005).
In the afternoons, courses
on the techniques of scientific work will occur (finding sources, literary
criticism, poetry as an artifact).
During evening lectures,
the participants have the opportunity to hear leading scholars and authors
and to gain new insights. Guests will include Hans Magnus Enzensberger
and Lutz Seiler.
Two podium discussion are
geared toward scientific policy. They offer the participants the opportunity
to discuss experiences with culture and science in their own countries
– and also to practice in the medium of "podium discussion."
The summer school takes place
in the confines of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach. The University
of Stuttgart is the host for publc lectures.
The language of the seminar
is German.
FACULTY:
Klaus L.
Berghahn
Modern German Literature and Methods
Professor at the Center
for German and European Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Ulrich
von Bülow
Research Methods
Head of the Manuscript
Department in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach
Pierre
Judet de La Combe
Classical Philology, Critical Hermeneutics
Director of Research
at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (E. H.
E. S. S.) in Paris
Wolfram Groddeck
Modern German Literature, Rhetorics
Professor at the Universität
Basel
Christoph
König
Modern German Literature, History of Science
Head of the Unit on
Research on the History of Germanistik in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv
in Marbach and Professor at the Universität Stuttgart
Lothar Müller
Literary Criticism
Editor of the Süddeutsche
Zeitung
Norbert
Oellers
Editionsphilologie
Professor at the Universität
Bonn and editor of the Schiller-Nationalausgabe
Sandra Pott
Modern German Literature, Poetics, History of Knowledge
Instructor at the
Universität Hamburg
Horst
Thomé
Modern German Literature
Professor at the Universität
Stuttgart
Ulrich
Wyss
Medieval Studies, European Cultural History
Professor at the Universität
Frankfurt am Main
COST:
150 EUR participation fee. Travel to and from Marbach, accomodations
in the Collegienhaus or hotel in Marbach, and health insurance are covered
by the program.
For more information on how
to apply see the website: Sommerschule
Literaturwissenschaft in Marbach
Trans-Atlantic
Summer Institute (TASI)
"Mass Cultures and Mass Media in 20th-Century
Germany"
Berlin from July 13–28, 2005
Application
deadline: March 15, 2005
Presented by the Center for
German and European Studies, a consortium of the University of Minnesota
and the University of Wisconsin-Madison that is supported by the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Volkswagen Stiftung in cooperation
with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Zentrum für
Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam (ZZF).
Overview
The Trans-Atlantic Summer
Institutes provide a unique forum for graduate-level students in Germany
and North America to collaborate in the exploration of advanced topics
relating to Germany and its role in Europe. Each summer, twelve German
and twelve North American graduate-level students work intensively for
three weeks and explore in depth questions that will enrich their dissertations
in German Studies. The Summer Institutes also aim to make a major contribution
to the training of the next generation of experts on Germany and Europe.
They introduce German students to the American university and the larger
academic culture of the United States; North American students will
acquire a similar familiarity with the German setting. They therefore
foster the international discussions and collaborations that are fundamental
to the scholarly enterprise. As a student in the Summer Institute, you
will learn how to combine the best aspects of training in both countries—the
close attention to archival sources and their interpretation in Germany
with the broad trans-disciplinary readings that characterize North American
scholarship.
The Institute is a credit-bearing
seminar for graduate-level students in all fields; the 2005 Institute
will convene in Berlin.
Topic
"Mass Cultures and Mass
Media in 20th Century Germany" is the topic of the Trans-Atlantic
Summer Institute 2005. Mass cultures and mass media have fundamentally
altered the forms of life in the twentieth century. These shifts in
the cultural sphere are decisively linked to economic, technological,
and political history and offer a fruitful opening for an interdisciplinary
and transnational history of society in the modern era. Beginning in
the 1880s, a new public emerged through the standardization of consumer
goods and new forms of communication. The old markers of class distinctions
were challenged by the rise of mass newspapers and then the cinema,
gramophone, and radio, and by political parties that now had to compete
for votes in the public sphere. The increasing commercialization of
virtually all aspects of life and the new technologies of communication
challenged intellectuals and artists to grapple with the meaning of
modernity.
In TASI 2005, German developments
will stand at the center of our deliberations, but we will also compare
them with trends in the United States and other European countries.
We will explore the explanatory power of these themes for understanding
the great breaks and fissures of German history in the 20th Century.
Readings will include fundamental theoretical texts as well as histories
of consumer culture and the mass media. We will draw upon Anglo-American
cultural studies, social science perspectives, and recent German social
and cultural history.
Faculty
Martin Geyer
Professor of Modern History
at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich. Professor Geyer
is the author of Verkehrte Welt: Revolution, Inflation und Moderne.
München 1914-1924 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998) and editor
(with Manfred Berg) of Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion
and Participation in Modern America and Germany ( Cambridge, 2002).
He was formerly the Associate Director of the German Historical Institute
in Washington, D.C.
Thomas Lindenberger
Project Director at the Zentrum
für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam. He is the author of Volkspolizei:
Herrschaftspraxis und öffentliche Ordnung im SED-Staat, 1952-1968
(Böhlau, 2003), and Straßenpolitik: Zur Sozialgeschichte
der öffentlichen Ordnung in Berlin (J.H.W. Dietz, 1995). He teaches
at the Universität Potsdam.
Eric D. Weitz
Professor of History and
Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts
at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A Century of Genocide:
Utopias of Race and Nation (Princeton, 2003), and Creating German Communism,
1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State( Princeton, 1997).
Fellowship Information & Application Materials
The Institute is intended
for graduate-level students working toward a Ph.D. or other terminal
degree. The languages of instruction are German and English, so competency
in both is required. Preference will be given to students who have already
defined a dissertation topic.
All Fellows will receive
a fellowship to cover most expenses. Fellowships for North American
students will provide:
* Round trip airfare from
North America to Munich (up to $800)
* Housing and meal allowance for the duration of the Institute
* University of Minnesota tuitions and fees
* Access to library and archival materials and Internet resources
All North American applications
for admission to the Institute must be postmarked by March 15, 2005.
Decisions will be made by April 15, 2005.
A complete application consists
of 1) a letter of interest, 2) a two-page statement about the relevance
of this topic to the applicant’s research, or a two-page commentary
on the topic of the Institute, 3) a curriculum vitae, 4) an official
graduate transcript, and 5) one letter of recommendation. The letter
of interest should include information on the applicant’s scholarly
background, interests, and career goals. The statement should address
how the Institute topic fits into the applicant’s program of study,
and what the applicant hopes to gain through participation in the Institute.
Please send applications
to:
Professor Eric D. Weitz
Director, Center for German & European Studies
University of Minnesota
214 Social Science Building
267— 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455
German students please contact:
Professor Martin Geyer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Abteilung für Neueste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
