Interdisciplinary center for research into the European Enlightenment
| Interdisciplinary center for research into the European Enlightenment | |
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 Interdisciplinary center for research into the European Enlightenment |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg |
| Consist: | since 1993 |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Corporation under public law |
| Facility location: | Halle (Saale) |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Humanities |
| Areas of expertise: | History, German, English, Romance studies, philosophy, theology, musicology |
| Management: | Daniel Fulda |
| Homepage: | www.izea.uni-halle.de |
The Interdisciplinary Center for Research on the European Enlightenment (IZEA) in Halle (Saale) is a central scientific institution of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .
Foundation and organization
In 1987 Ulrich Ricken, a Romanist from Halle, took the initiative to set up an "International Research Center on the European Enlightenment" based on the model of the Wolfenbüttel Herzog-August-Bibliothek . After the fall of the Wall, the Interdisciplinary Center for Research into the European Enlightenment (IZEA) was founded in 1990 as the central scientific institution of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and constituted in its current form in 1993. The IZEA is managed by the Managing Director (currently Daniel Fulda) in agreement with a board of directors made up of professors from different disciplines ( English , Protestant theology , German , history , musicology , Eastern European history , philosophy , religious studies , Romance studies ). An international advisory board supports and accompanies the work of the center. Financing is provided by the MLU Halle-Wittenberg as well as third-party funds. The IZEA is based in the Red School, built in 1896, which used to house the secondary girls' school of the Francke Foundations . The building is also home to the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Modern Written Culture and European Knowledge Transfer and the Immanuel Kant Forum.
tasks
One of the central tasks of the IZEA is research into the European cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment . The IZEA pursues these tasks
- through individual research and interdisciplinary joint projects
- by promoting young academics in the form of grants
- by organizing meetings, workshops and lecture series
- through scientific publication series in which the fundamentals and current research questions of the Enlightenment period are discussed (Hallesche Schriften zur Europäische Aufkliftung and Kleine Schriften des IZEA)
- through cooperation with other scientific and cultural institutions at home and abroad that pursue similar goals
- through the transfer of knowledge to society
Research program
As a research institution for cultural and intellectual history, the IZEA researches the foundations of modern Western societies through the ideas and cultural patterns developed in the 18th century . The IZEA's research program was last updated and expanded in 2015. It is divided into four research areas with a total of seven research fields. The program includes research and editing projects on the university , social and communication history of the 18th century, on the fields of anthropology , aesthetics , culture and knowledge transfer , scholarly culture and literary forms of representation, on the development of cultural patterns, on enlightenment in global networks and on the garden kingdom Dessau-Wörlitz .
Library
The Library of IZEA is a branch library of the University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt (ULB) and housed in the former auditorium of the Red School. In the open access library, research and source literature of the European Enlightenment are gathered, with approx. 18,000 volumes of source literature from the ULB's magazines being put on display . The library currently has a total of around 43,000 volumes, including source editions, bibliographies , manuals and research literature on the European Enlightenment. A special focus is the history of science and learning . The entire holdings of the branch library are recorded in the ULB's OPAC and in the joint library network (GBV) .