Historical and cultural research center Trier
| Historical and cultural research center Trier | |
|---|---|
| Carrier: | University of Trier, Department II |
| Type of research: | Theories in cultural studies, historical and cultural studies project work |
| Subjects: | History , art history , German Studies , Romance Languages , Chinese Studies , Japanese Studies , Media Studies , Gender Studies , English Studies |
| Basic funding: | State of Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Management: | Hilary Dannenberg |
| Homepage: | http://www.hkfz.uni-trier.de |
The Historical and Cultural Research Center (HKFZ) Trier is a scientific institution at the University of Trier . The center is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary . The current research topic of the HKFZ is "Spaces of Knowledge - Epistemology of Travel" and is dealt with in networked project groups at the University of Trier and in cooperation with cooperation partners from Germany and abroad.
history
The HKFZ was approved by the Ministry of Education, Science, Continuing Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate as part of the university funding program "Knowledge creates the future" and in summer 2005 as a joint research facility of the University of Trier and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz under the direction of Claudine Moulin (Trier) and Mechthild Dreyer (Mainz) founded. Since the summer of 2008, the locations have been funded independently as the "Historical and Cultural Studies Research Center (HKFZ) Trier" and "Research Focus on Historical Cultural Studies" as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate research initiative.
Orientation and research topic
The HKFZ bundles research activities with a historical orientation from different cultural studies disciplines and, in connection with the project work, deals with epistemological questions in cultural studies. The HKFZ has a reference library that includes around 440 basic cultural studies as well as relevant reference works and research literature.
Until the end of 2013, the focus was on the research topic Spaces of Knowledge - Places, Orders, Oscillations . This followed up on current research debates on the spatial turn in cultural studies. The term “knowledge space” is being expanded in particular through project plans that, based on a broader term, spatialized knowledge, raise questions of the formation, stabilization and / or dynamization of - per se not spatially structured - knowledge through ideas of space and spatialization. The scientific considerations are based on three key concepts: The concept of 'place' as a spatial concretization of knowledge stocks ( city , monastery , library , archive, etc.) as well as an imaginable quantity within the cultural memory of a specific group; the concept of 'order' as a real and / or imagined systematization of spaces and knowledge alike; as well as the term ' oscillation ' as a term used to describe processes of tradition and obliteration to which knowledge spaces can be subject.
Since the beginning of 2014, the “spaces of knowledge” have been sharpened to include the “epistemology of travel” question.
Publication series
The publication series Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies , opened in 2010, sees itself as a forum for historically oriented and interdisciplinary research in the field of cultural studies. In addition to compilations and conference proceedings, monographic studies and exhibition catalogs can be published within the series. The books are published by Verlag Dr. Ludwig Reichert, Wiesbaden.
Promotion of young talent
One of the main focuses of the HKFZ is the promotion of young scientists. Young scientists, both before and after their doctorate , are involved in the work of the center and thus networked in an interdisciplinary and international research environment. In addition to non-material support through the exchange within the association, excellent young talent projects are supported through start-up funding. The HKFZ also awards doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships every year.
Fellowship
The fellowship awarded by the HKFZ enables a guest scientist who works on the research topic of the HKFZ to stay longer at the University of Trier. The first fellowship was awarded in 2010 to the spatial scientist Stephan Günzel, the second to the cultural scientist Claudia Bruns. The historian Carsten Schapkow, the art historian Jürgen Müller and the art historian Kathryn M. Rudy received short fellowships of one or two months. Other guests at the HKFZ were Niels Werber , Winfried Fluck , Michaela Holdenried, Wolfgang Struck and Andrea Wulf .
Events
The HKFZ holds an annual conference as well as conferences on the individual projects and offers two series of lectures ("Historical-Cultural Studies Workshop Talks" and "Evening Lectures on Historical Cultural Studies").
organization
The HKFZ's executive board includes: Hilary Dannenberg (English studies), Gottfried Kerscher (art history), Ursula Lehmkuhl (history), Martin Przybilski (older German philology), Andreas Regelsberger (Japanese studies) and Christian Soffel (sinology). Hilary Dannenberg has been the managing director since October 2015. The HKFZ has brought together around 15 members under the common research topic since 2014. In addition, over 40 cooperation partners work together with the center.
Publications
- Christian Jörg / Michael Jucker (eds.): Specialization and professionalization. Organizers and forums of urban foreign policy during the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Wiesbaden 2010 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 1).
- Martin Przybilski (ed.): Studies on selected carnival games by Hans Folz. Structure - authorship - sources. With contributions by Theresia Biehl, Christoph Gerhardt and Stefan Hannes Greil. Wiesbaden 2011.
- Michael Embach / Ralf Plate / Martin Przybilski / Martin Schubert and Michael Trauth (eds.): Middle High German. Contributions to language, tradition and literature. FS Kurt Gärtner. Berlin, New York 2011.
- Rolf Bergmann / Claudine Moulin / Nikolaus Ruge: Old and Middle High German. Workbook on the grammar of the older German language levels and on the history of the German language. With the collaboration of Natalia Filatkina / Falko Klaes / Andrea Rapp. 8. rework. Edition Göttingen 2011 (UTB 3534).
- Natalia Filatkina / Birgit Ulrike Münch / Ane Kleine-Engel (eds.): Formula in text and image. Wiesbaden 2012 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 2).
- Michael Embach / Claudine Moulin / Andrea Rapp (eds.): The library of the Middle Ages as a dynamic process. Wiesbaden 2012 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 3).
- Natalia Filatkina / Martin Przybilski (eds.): Places - Orders - Oscillations. Creation of space through knowledge and the spatial structure of knowledge. Wiesbaden 2011 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 4).
- Stephan Günzel / Lars Nowak (eds.): KartenWissen: Territorial spaces between image and diagram. Wiesbaden 2012 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 5).
- Melanie Panse: Hans von Gersdorff's "Field Book of Wound Medicine". Production, presentation and reception of knowledge. Wiesbaden 2012 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 7).
- Gisela Drossbach / Gottfried Kerscher (eds.): Utilidad y decoro - Ceremonial and symbolic communication in the leges palatinae King Jacobs III. of Mallorca (1337). Wiesbaden 2013 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 6).
- Eva Johach / Diethard Sawicki (eds.): Transmission rooms. Mediality and space in the modern age. Wiesbaden 2013 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 8).
- Martin Przybilski / Nikolaus Ruge (eds.): Fictionality in the Arthurian novel of the 13th to 15th centuries. Romance and German perspectives. With the assistance of Leonie Butz and Hanna Häger. Wiesbaden 2013 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 9).
- Martin Przybilski and Ulrich Port (eds.): Change of location. Real, imagined and virtual knowledge spaces. Wiesbaden 2014 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 10).
- Martin Przybilski / Carsten Schapkow (eds.): Conversions in Spaces of Jewish History. Wiesbaden 2014 (Trier Contributions to Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 11).
- Sabine Philippi / Philipp Vanscheidt (eds.): Digital reconstructions of medieval libraries. Wiesbaden 2014 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 12).
- Irina Gradinari / Dorit Müller / Johannes Pause (eds.): Knowledge Space Film. Wiesbaden 2014 (Trier Contributions to Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 13).
- Jürgen Müller / Birgit Ulrike Münch (eds.): Genre painting. Wiesbaden 2014 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 14).
- Christian Jörg / Christoph Dartmann (eds.): Romzüge. Wiesbaden 2014 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 15).
- Katharina Hanuschkin: Intrigues - The power of possibilities in the Middle High German epic. Wiesbaden 2015 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 16).
- Irina Gradinari / Dorit Müller / Johannes Pause (eds.): Hidden - Lost - Lost. Travel and ignorance. Wiesbaden 2016 (Trier Contributions to the Historical Cultural Studies, Vol. 18).