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Felllows at the KU Center for Advanced Studies "Dialogical Cultures"

Current Fellows Winter 2023-24

Dr. Davide Bagnardi, Henriette Herz Junior Fellow

Classical Philology, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

Project: "Intellectual Mystics at Helfta in dialogue with the divinity: Mechtilde of Hackeborn’s Liber Specialis Gratiae”

Period of stay: September - December 2023

Find out more about Dr. Davide Bagnardi.

Website:

https://uniroma2.academia.edu/DavideBagnardi

Dr. Aura Piccioni, Henriette Herz Junior Fellow

Classical Archaeology , Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

Project: “Dialogues of Peoples, Dialogues of Art: Bronze Statues as Identity Carriers in Sicily"

Period of stay: Setpember - December 2023

Website:

https://xn--ku-eischsttt-pcb.academia.edu/AuraPiccioni

You can find out more about Dr. Aura Piccioni here.

Fellows Summer 2023

Dr. Erika Zerwes, Henriette Herz Junior Fellow

Art History

Project: "Between Latin America and Europe: The Institutionalisation of Photography"

Period of stay: May-July 2023

Find out more about Dr. Erika Zerwes

Website:

https://dfk-paris.org/en/person/erika-zerwes-2981.html

Dr. Špela Drnovšek Zorko, Henriette Herz Junior Fellow

Sociology, University of Warwick

Project: "Dialoguing 'postness': race, migration, and cultural encounters between postsocialist and postcolonial pasts" 

Period of stay: May - August 2023

Website:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/zorkosd/

You can find out more about Dr. Špela Drnovšek Zorko here.

Fellows Winter 2022/23

Prof. Julie Cupples, Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow

Personal Chair of Human Geography & Cultural Studies, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh

Projects: "Creole Connections," "Ixchel" and "Transmedia Geographies"

Period of Stay: tba

Webseite:

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/julie-cupples

Learn more about Prof. Cupples

Prof. Dr. Annette Haug, Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Lehrstuhlinhaberin und Leitung der Antikensammlung
Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 5, R. 15

Project: “Talking with, about, and in the presence of the Gods: Graffiti in Pompeii”

Period of Stay: October 2022

Website: https://www.klassarch.uni-kiel.de/de/personen/haug

Learn more about Prof. Haug

Fellows Summer 2022

Prof. Christopher Breu, Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow

English Department, Illinois State University, USA

Project: In Defense of Sex (A Theoretical Monograph)

Period of Stay: June 2022

Website: https://cas.illinoisstate.edu/faculty_staff/profile.php?ulid=cdbreu

Learn more about Prof. Breu

Prof. Dr. Sven Günther, Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow

Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Project:
Augustus in Saigon: Dialogues between Western Antiquity, Colonial Past, and Post-Colonial Society in Vietnam

Period of stay: July 2022

Learn more about Prof. Günther

Dr. Renée Ridgway, Digital Cultures Fellow

Copenhagen Business School, DK/Leuphana, Lüneburg

Project:
Conversational agents as the future of search: exploring dialogical care through the digital

Perod of stay: Mid May - Mid August 2022

Learn more about Dr. Ridgway

Dr. Julius Rogenhofer, Dialogical Cultures Junior Fellow

Sociology, Cambridge, UK/Center for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Belgien

Project: The Politics of Ordinary Objects

Period of stay: May - August 2022

Website: https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/julius-rogenhofer

Learn more about Dr. Rogenhofer

Fellows Winter 2021/22

Prof. Dr. Alexander Arweiler, Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow

Classical Philology, University of Münster

Project: Dialog mit der Antike als Paradigma kultureller Selbstverständigung im spätantiken Mittelmeerraum:
Das Beispiel des Rhetors Salvian und der Kunstprosa in Gallien ca. 470-500 n. Christus (Dialogue with Antiquity as a Paradigm of Cultural Self-Understanding in the Late Antique Mediterranean)

Period of stay: August - October 2021

Website Prof. Dr. Arweiler

Dr. Stephan Faust, Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow

Classical Archaeology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Project: Tod und Herrschaft. Die Sarkophage aus der Königsnekropole von Sidon und
verwandte Denkmäler (Death and Dominion. The Sarcophagi of the Royal Necropolis of Sidon and Related Monuments)

Period of stay: September - December 2021

Website Dr. Faust (in German)

Dr. Dominik Brabant, KU Dialogical Cultures Junior Fellow

Art History, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
 

Project: Verhandlungen des Alltäglichen: Dialogkulturen (in) der Genremalerei und die Entstehung des sozialanalytischen Sehens (1560–1800) (Negotiating the Everyday: Dialogical Cultures of Genre Painting and the Emergence of the Socio-Analytic Gaze (1560-1800))

Period of stay: winter term 2021/2022

Website Dr. Brabant (partly in English)

Dr. Alexander Scherr, Junior Research Fellow (period of stay to be determined)

Anglophone Literary, Cultural and Media Studies, JLU Giessen

Project: Dialogicity in the Contemporary Anglophone Essay

Period of stay to be determined

Website Dr. Scherr

Felllows Summer 2021

Dr. Sara Fascione, Dialogical Cultures Junior Fellow

Latin Literatur, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Project: Ideology of Power and Reception of Fronto in Symmachus’ Letters

Period of stay: Mai bis Juli 2021

Learn more about Dr. Fascione