Sommerschule
Literaturwissenschaft in Marbach (Wisconsin)
Trans-Atlantic
Summer Institute (Minnesota)
Sommerschule
Literaturwissenschaft in Marbach (SOLIMA)
The Sommerschule in Marbach is a biennial program of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, the University of Stuttgart, and the University of Wisconsin/University of Minnesota. Designed for doctoral students in the field of German literature, it provides participants a unique opportunity to study intensively for three weeks with ten faculty members from various disciplines and countries. Twenty full fellowships are available every other year.
"Literatur denken! Theorie-Experimente 1945-1989"
Marbach, Germany, from 15 July through 3 August 2007
"Das Vertrauen in Theorien ist geschwunden“, schrieb Rem Koolhaas 2006. Was für die Debatten im öffentlichen Raum gilt, lässt sich in modifizierter Form auch von gegenwärtigen Tendenzen in der Literatur und der Literaturwissenschaft sagen: Literaturtheorie und literarische Theorie-Experimente, wie sie die Nachkriegszeit bestimmt haben, sind sich selbst historisch geworden. In Nachlässen von literarischen Autoren und Wissenschaftlern ist die Hochkonjunktur der theoretischen Experimente reichhaltig dokumentiert. Mit welchen Ansprüchen sind Theorieliteratur und Literaturtheorie angetreten? Welche Versprechen haben sie eingelöst, an welchen Problemstellungen sind sie gescheitert? In welcher veränderten Form haben Literaturtheorie und Theorieliteratur eine Zukunft?"
For more information on the program, please contact Prof. Dr. Christoph Koenig.
For more information on this year's Sommerschule, see the following website: Sommerschule
Literaturwissenschaft in Marbach
Trans-Atlantic
Summer Institute (TASI)
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Future of Multiculturalism in Europe and North America
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), in cooperation with the TIRES consortium (Transnationalism, International Migration, Race, Ethnocentrism, and the State) at the Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), and Florida International University.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2007
Topic
"Immigration, Citizenship and the Future of Multiculturalism in Europe and North America" is the topic of the Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute 2007. For the past half century the immigration of culturally and ethnically different groups has been transforming economies, societies and polities on both sides of the Atlantic. For example, Germany has experienced a transition from an ethnically homogenous to a multi-ethnic society, and the cultural diversity of the United States has dramatically increased. In the wake of these transformations, questions of immigration, ethnic and race relations, and the politics of citizenship and multiculturalism have come to the fore in public life, in particular since 9/11. We have seen a rise in xenophobia (and Islamophobia), the proliferation of racially motivated violence, and a retreat from rights and the recognition of cultural difference. Yet we have also witnessed greater efforts to foster the integration of immigrants, civic activism promoting and demanding immigrants' rights and a politics of recognition, and the proliferation of hybrid/multiple identities.
In TASI 2007, we will examine from multiple disciplinary perspectives how these processes have played themselves out at the national and local scales in different EU countries and the United States—from the perspectives of both immigrants and receiving societies and states. What is the explanatory power of existing theoretical models for understanding immigrant incorporation in multi-cultural societies and polities? What do they suggest about the potential and the limits of multiculturalism and the facilitation of multicultural coexistence in Western democracies?
Faculty
Helga Leitner is a Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Gastarbeiter in der städtischen Gesellschaft (Campus Verlag, 1983). Her most recent publications include "Transnationalism and migrants' imaginings of citizenship" (Environment and Planning A 2006, 38, 9), and a special issue of Environment and Planning A 2006 (co-edited with Patricia Ehrkamp) titled Rethinking Immigration and Citizenship: New Spaces of Migrant Transnationalism and Belonging.
Sarah J. Mahler is Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies at Florida International University in Miami. She is the author of American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins (Princeton, 1995) and Salvadorans in Suburbia: Symbiosis or Conflict (Allyn & Bacon, 1996). Her research and publications focus on Latin American and Caribbean migration to the United States with special emphasis on the importance of gender.
Michael Minkenberg is Vice President for International Relations and Professor of Political Science at Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. His publications include Die neue radikale Rechte im Vergleich. USA, Frankreich, Deutschland (Opladen, 1998), Politik und Religion. PVS Special Issue 33/2002 (co-edited with U. Willems) and, most recently, "Democracy and religion—theoretical and empirical observations on the relationship between Christianity, Islam and liberal democracy" in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 1/2007 (forthcoming).
Fellowship Information & Application Materials
The Institute is intended for graduate-level students working toward a Ph.D. or other terminal degree. The language of instruction is English. Competency in English and one other European language is required. Preference will be given to students who have already defined a dissertation topic.
Pending final budget approval, all fellows will receive a fellowship to cover most expenses:
- 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
Fellowships for North American graduate students will also provide up to $350 in support of round-trip airfare to Minneapolis from within North America.
All North American applications for admission to the Institute must be postmarked by March 15, 2007. German students, please contact Prof. Dr. Michael Minkenberg by mail (address below; if you prefer email contact, please email your inquiries to Prof. Leitner). Decisions will be made by April 15, 2007.
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 Helga Leitner
Center for German & European Studies
University of Minnesota
214 Social Science Building
267— 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455
European students please contact:
Professor Dr. Michael Minkenberg
Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft
Europa-Universität Viadrina
Postfach 1786
15207 Frankfurt (Oder)
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
