Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha

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Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (2013)

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (born February 22, 1951 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a Scottish sociologist and cultural scientist who works in Germany.

Life

After the sudden death of her father, Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha dropped out of school early in 1966 at the age of 15 in order to establish a family pension. A year later, she received a City & Guild Certificate as a hotel manager and was awarded a gold medal by the Oban Hotel Association. A subsequent trip as a backpacker through Europe took Robertson-von Trotha to Germany, where she financed herself with tutoring and casual work and learned the German language. At the same time, she self-didactically prepared for the Scottish Higher Level Examinations (Abitur), which she completed in 1972, after which she studied political science , sociology , philosophy and history in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe. With the support of a grant from the Peter Fuld Foundation, she finally received her doctorate in 1990 on the subject of “Ethnic Identity and Political Mobilization”.

Her habilitation took place in 2004 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Karlsruhe on the subject of "Dialectics of Globalization". In 2007 she was appointed associate professor by the rector of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), formerly University of Karlsruhe (TH).

She was a founding member (1989) and from 1990 to 2002 managing director of the Interfacultative Institute for Applied Cultural Studies at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). Since 2002 she has been the founding director of its successor institution, the ZAK | Center for Applied Cultural Studies and General Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) .

She is married to Klaus von Trotha , who was Minister for Science, Research and Art for the State of Baden-Württemberg from 1991 to 2001.

research

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha's fields of research and activity include the complexes of globalization and cultural change , multiculturalism and integration policy , cultural heritage, and the theory and practice of public science .

With the opening speeches of the Karlsruhe Talks in 1997 and 1998, Robertson-von Trotha introduced a new concept of public science (ÖW): It redesigned the classic task of science communication by aligning the communication of scientific processes and knowledge according to dialogue-based and transdisciplinary principles . It took inspiration from the tradition of the British PUS ( Public Understanding of Science ) initiative and the promotion of the understanding of scientific literacy developed in North America (in German roughly: 'basic scientific education'). As a result, Robertson-von Trotha related her concept to the PUSH memorandum of the non-profit GmbH Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD) founded in 1999 , an initiative of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, and in 2012 carried out the first of several analyzes by the ÖW " in the mirror of Web 2.0 culture ”. At the same time she established the ZAK | as founding director Center for Applied Cultural Studies and Studium Generale its program of public science in theory and practice also institutionally: In addition to research and teaching, this forms one of the three equal pillars on which the center is based.

Fields of activity

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha's diverse commitment is characterized in particular by a combination of theoretical (social and cultural science) with practical (socio-cultural and socio-political) fields of activity. One of her central concerns is the mediation between science and society, with a focus on international and intercultural relationships.

Conceptual activity

She developed her core concept, public science , within the framework of the Interfacultative Institute for Applied Cultural Studies (IAK), which she co-founded in 1989 and which at that time was “an institution that is unique in Germany”. The main aim was to raise public awareness of the importance of science and in this way to enable an exchange in the interests of civil society. The key conceptual terms include Scientific / Cultural Literacy and Scientist Citizen / Citizen Scientist . With this understanding of a public science , Robertson-vonTrotha, first as managing director of the IAK and then as founding director of the ZAK, conceived different and varied formats that on the one hand further elaborate the theoretical foundations of public science and on the other hand present possibilities for their practical implementation. After the Karlsruhe Talks , which have been held since 1997 and are referred to as the "flagship of public science", these are above all the further development of the Colloquium Fundamentale (since the winter semester 2002/2003), the Jean Monnet Keynote Lecture (since the summer semester 2008) , the city ​​talks (since 2015) and since the winter semester 2016/2017 the science talks and the World Science Café . She was also one of the first to sign the Charter for Public Communication Studies in 2019 .

Analogous to her integrative approach in the field of science communication, Robertson-von Trotha researches and engages in the field of socio-political integration. In her early publications in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she developed topics and theses on multiculturalism and integration that have become increasingly important for research and politics since the turn of the millennium. For example, in her dissertation from 1991, she describes in detail how ethnic identity can be instrumentalized to mobilize for various political goals, and the dangers involved. First of all, it is the sociologist and political scientist Alf Mintzel who has received Robertson von Trotha's work and recognizes a “central theorem” in it.

Accordingly, in 2001, in the function of a scientific advisor and co-author, she was significantly involved in the strategy paper Alliance for Integration of the City Council of Stuttgart, which was awarded the Cities for Peace Prize by UNESCO in 2004; In 2016, she conceived the World Science Café format , where refugees report on their scientific work, and she regularly publishes on the topic, for example in the practical guide of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Interkultur für alle from 2015 or 2017, the article "Conditions of success for (cultural) Integration projects with refugees ".

Curatorial and journalistic activity

In addition to the curatorial supervision of her own format concepts such as the Karlsruhe Talks , Robertson-von Trotha has been responsible for coordinating the German network of the Anna Lindh Foundation ( Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures ) since 2012 . She was also in charge of various research projects, including the DFG project “Public Science in Collaborative Research Centers” (2010–2012) and the interdisciplinary Center of Digital Tradition (CODIGT) (2011–2016).

She is also the editor of three series of publications: interdisciplinary cultural studies ( Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Baden-Baden), problem areas of applied cultural studies and cultural tradition - digital (KIT Scientific Publishing Karlsruhe).

Offices and memberships

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha holds several offices and is a member of various boards of trustees and committees: She has been a member of the German UNESCO Commission's Culture Committee since 2009 (meanwhile as Deputy Chair) and since 2013 she has been the Chair of the Scientific Initiative Group for Culture and Foreign Policy (WIKA) at the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) in Stuttgart / Berlin, of which she is also a member of the Research Advisory Board. Since 2014 she has also been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Anna Lindh Foundation. Since 2017 she has been a member of the Small Convention (Scientific Advisory Board) of the Schader Foundation , of which she has been the spokesperson since 2020.

In addition, she was a member and competence field spokesperson of the steering committee in the KIT focus “People and Technology”, and was involved as spokeswoman for the KIT competence field “Technology, Culture and Society” and in turn as the spokesperson for the KIT competence field “Cultural Heritage and Social Change”.

Furthermore, in 2009 she was appointed to the impromptu EU Focus Working Group on Science and Culture , and is also active as a reviewer for the EU and for the BMBF.

After all, since 1995 she has been a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Cultural Policy of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft eV, Bonn, a founding member of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft eV - KWG (2015) and a member of the integration research network of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Integration .

Institutional awards

The e-Installation project (at the ZAK) is selected as one of the 100 “Awarded Places 2015” by the “Germany - Land of Ideas” initiative.

The mentoring program Balu und Du (at the ZAK) is a regional winner of the HelferHerzen 2016 initiative.

The mentoring program Balu und Du (at the ZAK) receives the 1st prize of the 12th child-friendliness prize 2017 of the city of Karlsruhe.

The KIT and the accompanying course in sustainable development at the ZAK are recognized as a "learning location with distinction 2018/2019" as part of the "UNESCO World Action Program: Education for Sustainable Development".

Fonts

Monographs

  • Dialectic of globalization. Cultural leveling with simultaneous reinforcement of cultural difference , Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-86644-359-4 .
  • Ethnic Identity and Political Mobilization. The example of Scotland , Baden-Baden 1991, ISBN 978-3-7890-2540-2 .

Essays

  • (together with Muñoz Morcillo, Jesús): Public Science. From 'Scientific Literacy' to 'Participatory Culture' , in: Selke, Stefan; Treibel, Annette (ed.): Public social sciences. Basics, fields of application and new perspectives, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2018, pp. 43–60, ISBN 978-3-658-16710-3 .
  • Success conditions for (cultural) integration projects with refugees , in: LKJ Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Cultural education with refugee children and young people in Baden-Württemberg (AT), Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-058282-0 .
  • Public science in the mirror of Web 2.0 culture , in: dies./Jesús Muñoz Morcillo (Ed.): Public science and new media. The role of Web 2.0 culture in science communication, Karlsruhe 2012, pp. 19–35, ISBN 978-3-86644-844-5 .
  • Intercultural cultural work. Task and mandate , in: Ministry for Science, Research and Art (Ed.): Interkultur für alle. A practical guide for cultural work, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 82–91.
  • Right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe. Introductory remarks , in: dies. (Ed.): Right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe. Right outside - right 'center'? (= Interdisciplinary cultural studies, vol. 7), Karlsruhe 2011, pp. 11–18, ISBN 978-3-8329-5817-6 .
  • Europe: Insights from the Outside. An Introduction , in: dies. (Ed.): Europe: Insights from the Outside (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 5), Karlsruhe 2011, pp. 9-17, ISBN 978-3-8329-5583-0 .
  • Cultural Heritage: Dilemmas of Preservation in the Midst of Change , in: Oliver Parodi / Ignacio Ayestaran / Gerhard Banse (eds.) - Sustainable Development - Relationships to Culture, Knowledge and Ethics. (= Karlsruhe Studies Technology and Culture Vol. 3), Karlsruhe 2011, pp. 175–186, ISBN 978-3-86644-627-4 .
  • Cultural Heritage - Dilemmas of Preservation in Change , in: Oliver Parodi / Gerhard Banse / Axel Schaffer (eds.): Interplay: Culture and Sustainability. Approaches to a field of tension, Berlin 2010, pp. 263-274, ISBN 978-3-89404-585-2 .
  • Is death just death? Death and dying in contemporary society - a thematic outline . In: Schulmagazin 5-10, 11, 2009, 77th vol., Pp. 7-9, ISSN  0947-2746 .
  • Key qualifications revisited. An old topic in future contexts , in: this. (Ed.): Key qualifications for studies, work and society. (= Problem areas of applied cultural studies, vol. 14), Karlsruhe 2009, pp. 17–58, ISBN 978-3-86644-375-4 .
  • Public science - a necessary dialogue , in: Klaus, Joachim; Vogel, Helmut (ed.): Knowledge management and scientific training. Documentation of the annual conference of the German Society for Scientific Continuing Education and Distance Learning at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (= contributions 45), Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe 2006, pp. 7-20, ISBN 978-3-88272-129-4 .
  • Periscope: Intercultural competence in the patchwork society. European integration between individual identity and social consensus , in: Hünnekens, Ludger; Winzen, Matthias (Ed.): Dissimile. Prospections: Young European Art, Volume 2, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2003, pp. 25–32.
  • The internationalization debate. Reflections on the current university policy discourse , in: dies. (Ed.): Campus Internationale? Development and perspectives of foreign studies using the example of the University of Karlsruhe (= problem areas of applied cultural studies, double issue 2 / 98-1 / 99), Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe 1999, pp. 11–28, ISBN 3-9805595-4-8 .
  • Why applied cultural studies at a technical university? Orientation knowledge, key qualifications and cross-sectional competencies as central categories of a modern educational policy , in: Transfer. Journal of the Karlsruhe Economic Scientists Association, No. 18, Vol. 11, 1997, pp. 46–52.

Editing

  • Ianniello, Marco: Dialogue in Progress. Science. Culture. Society. Voices from 20 Karlsruhe talks , Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN 978-3-7315-0622-5 .
  • The intermediate company. Breaks between tradition and modernity? , Nomos Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-1065-2 .
  • Celebrity Culture. Stars in the media society (= interdisciplinary cultural studies, vol. 9), Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-6998-1 .
  • Organized crime. Dark Sides of Globalization (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 8), Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-5818-3 .
  • (together with Jesús Muñoz Morcillo): Public Science and New Media. The role of web 2.0 culture in science communication. , Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86644-844-5 .
  • (together with Robert Hauser): New legacy. Aspects, perspectives and consequences of digital transmission (Kulturelle Tradition - digital 1), Karlsruhe 2011, ISBN 978-3-86644-737-0 .
  • Right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe. Right outside - right 'center'? (= Interdisciplinary cultural studies, vol. 7), Karlsruhe 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-5817-6 .
  • 60 years of General Studies and 20 years of Applied Cultural Studies at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) , Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-86644-439-3 .
  • Death and dying in contemporary society. An interdisciplinary discussion (= cultural studies interdisciplinary, vol. 3), Baden-Baden 2008 The dialectic of globalization. Cultural leveling with simultaneous reinforcement of cultural difference, Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-3171-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weibel, Peter (2019): An intellectual of public science . In: lookKIT 2019/1, pp. 62–63.
  2. ^ Glaser, Hermann (Ed.) / Robertson, Caroline Y. (Red.) (1997): Problem areas of applied cultural studies. Aspects from Science and Practice, Vol. 1, Karlsruhe.
  3. ^ Robertson-Wensauer, Caroline Y. (1997): Karlsruhe Conversations 1997 STADT-ANSICHTEN - A foreword. In: Glaser, Hermann (Ed.): Problem areas of applied cultural studies. Aphorisms on cityscapes. Karlsruhe Talks 1997, Vol. 2. Karlsruhe, pp. 1–2.
  4. ^ Robertson-Wensauer, Caroline Y. (1998): Karlsruhe Talks 1998: (Ohn) Power of Politics - A Word of Greetings. In: Glaser, Hermann / dies. (Ed.): Problem areas of applied cultural studies. (Without) power of politics. Karlsruhe Talks 1998, Vol. 1. Karlsruhe, pp. 12-17.
  5. ↑ Robertson-Wensauer, CY (1999): Introduction. Why 'Applied Cultural Studies' at a technical university? In this. (Ed.): Interfacultative Institute for Applied Cultural Studies. University of Karlsruhe (TH). 1989-1999 Ten years of interdisciplinary work at the institute. Karlsruhe, pp. 19-23.
  6. ↑ Interfacultative Institute for Applied Cultural Studies at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) [= IAK] (1998): Public Science. In: iak newsletter, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 3-4.
  7. ↑ Alt, Peter-André (2017): When freedom becomes anarchy . In: Frankfurter Rundschau, December 27, 2017.
  8. ^ Robertson-von Trotha, CY (2007): 'Public Science' - A Necessary Dialogue. In: Klaus, J./Vogt, H. (Ed.): Knowledge management and scientific further education. Documentation of the annual conference of the German Society for Scientific Further Education and Distance Learning at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). Hamburg, pp. 7-20.
  9. ↑ Vergara Gomez, Silke (2011): Success factors of continuing education courses: an empirical analysis. Kassel Management Forum Volume 6. Kassel, pp. 31–32.
  10. ^ Robertson-von Trotha, CY (2012): Public Science in the Mirror of Web 2.0 Culture . In: dies./Jesús Muñoz Morcillo (ed.): Public Science and New Media. The role of web 2.0 culture in science communication. Karlsruhe, pp. 19-35.
  11. ^ Robertson-von Trotha, CY (together with Jesús Muñoz Morcillo) (2014): Public Science in Collaborative Research Centers: Inside Science . Extended final report of the DFG pilot project SFB 588 TP Ö. Reporting period from June 1, 2010 to December 30, 2013. In: EVA STAR, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
  12. ↑ Orgeldinger, Sibylle (2002): Center at the University promotes the dialogue between the sciences. Institute for cultural studies merges with Studium generale [sic]. In: Badische Latest News, July 16, 2002.
  13. ^ Rümmele, Klaus (2002): Schwer auf ZAK. In: UNIKATH, 33rd year, issue 4, pp. 40–41.
  14. ↑ Robertson-Wensauer, Caroline Y. (Ed.) (1999): IAK 1989-1999: Ten years of interdisciplinary institute work. Festschrift for the 10th anniversary of the IAK, Karlsruhe.
  15. ^ Robertson-von Trotha, CY (2012): Public Science in the Mirror of Web 2.0 Culture . In: dies./Jesús Muñoz Morcillo (ed.): Public Science and New Media. The role of web 2.0 culture in science communication. Karlsruhe.
  16. ↑ Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Ed.) / Ianniello, Marco (2017): Dialogue in Progress . Science. Culture. Society. Voices from 20 talks in Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe.
  17. ↑ Charter of Public Communication Studies
  18. ↑ See also Public Sociology
  19. ^ Robertson von Trotha, Caroline Y. (1991): Ethnic identity and political mobilization. The example of Scotland, 1991.
  20. ↑ See Mintzel, Alf (1997): Multicultural Societies in Europe and North America. Concepts, issues, analyzes, findings, p. 34: "One sentence in your [Robertson-von Trotha's] fundamental thoughts and arguments contains a central theorem according to which modern, highly complex societies are viewed as multicultural societies from a social science perspective." also Beyme, Klaus von (2012): Cultural Policy in Germany. From state funding to creative industries, p. 14.
  21. ↑ Alliance for Integration
  22. ^ Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (2015): Interkulturelle Kulturarbeit. Task and mandate , in: Ministry for Science, Research and Art (Ed.): Interkultur für alle. A practical guide for cultural work , Stuttgart, pp. 82–91.
  23. ↑ Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (2017): Success conditions for (cultural) integration projects with refugees, in: LKJ Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Cultural education with refugee children and young people in Baden-Württemberg (AT).
personal data
SURNAME Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robertson, Caroline Younger (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow