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Call for Applications: Senior Fellowship 2025
The KU Research Center “Dialogical Cultures – Critical Reflection Spaces for Cultural Studies and Social Sciences” invites applications from experienced scholars in the humanities, cultural and social sciences for its Senior Fellowship 2025. The fellowship offers a 3–4-week research stay at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and access to an interdisciplinary research network.
Applications (PDF, max. 20 MB) by April 30, 2025 to: forschungskolleg-dialogkulturen@ku.de
Further information can be found here.
Fellows at the KU CAS Dialogical Cultures in the winter term 2024/25
We are looking forward to welcoming the following fellows at the KU CAS Dialogical Cultures this winter term:
Dalila Muñoz Lira, 1.10.-31.12.2024
Dr. David Hünlich, 1.10.-31.12.2024
Prof. Dr. Annette Haug, 24.11.-30.11.2024
Prof. Dr. Dirk Uffelmann, 1.12.-31.12.2024
Dr. des. Khadija Benthami, 1.12.2024-30.5.2025
Learn more about our current and past fellows here.
Workshop: "Postcolonial Border Spaces in South America"
Date: November 20-22, 2024
Location: Sollnau 30A 85072 Eichstätt , Raum S30a-109
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Organizers:
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Fischer
- Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kürschner
- Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander
This workshop aims to provide a space for interdisciplinary exchange on practices, memory constructions, and affiliations in selected border regions of South America since independence. The focus will be on contact zones that have been and continue to be reconstituted as a result of colonization, settlement, economic exploitation, progressive missionary activity, state-controlled expansion processes, as well as resulting local resistance.
The concept of "doing frontiers" through action, speech, memory, thought, and feeling is central to this workshop. It is based on an open concept of the frontier that seeks to capture the emergence, transformation, and disappearance of social formations, their order forms, customs, representations, attributions of meaning, and memories under conditions of cultural contact.
The workshop will bring together selected researchers from the fields of history, literature, art and media studies, linguistics, communication studies, geography, and anthropology from Europe and Latin America. Through concrete case studies, we will explore the practices of (self-)affirmation and negotiation that different actors use to locate themselves or are located in certain border spaces. The goal is to integrate Latin America more strongly into the current research discourses of Border and Frontier Studies and, at the same time, contribute to a deeper understanding of the dynamics of South American border regions.
You are invited to join the important discussions at this interdisciplinary dialogue.
Author Workshop „Cybersecurity and Society“ 28./29.11. 2024 KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Contact Persons:
Dr. Sezgin Sönmez, TU Berlin (sezgin.soenmez(at)tu-berlin.de)
Dr. Basil Wiesse, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (basil.wiesse(at)ku.de)
Surrounding the supposed and actual ‚digitization‘ of contemporary society are numerous discourses in technology and media studies as well as, among others, sociologies of knowledge, consumption, and youth. It is striking that cyberattacks and cybersecurity do not play a large, if any, role in these discussions. According to the World Economic Forum, cyberattacks are continuously increasing in number and intensity, creating a situation of technological instability and uncertainty (World Economic Forum 2024). A networking meeting in the form of an author workshop, sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies „Dialogical Cultures“, seeks to initiate a debate centering cybersecurity and cyberattacks at the core of analyses sensitive to digitization processes. Investigating the relationship between cyberattacks and cybersecurity leads to fundamental implications revolving the dynamics of digital infrastructures, particularly their constitutive relevance for contemporary practices of communication and dialogicity. The contributions to the workshop will be developed into an edited volume to be released 2025/2026.
Fellows at the KU CAS Dialogical Cultures in the winter term 2022/23
We are looking forward to welcoming the following fellows at the KU CAS Dialogical Cultures this winter term:
Prof. Julie Cupples (Human Geography, Edinburgh, UK), Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow, “Creole Connections,” “Ixchel” and “Transmedia Geographies”
Prof. Dr. Annette Haug (Classical Archeology CAU Kiel), Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow, “Talking with, about, and in the Presence of the Gods: Graffiti in Pompeii”
Learn more about our current and past fellows here.
Inaugural Conference of the KU CAS Dialogical Cultures "The Public Sphere in Agony"
We are happy to report that the inaugural conference of the KU CAS Dialogical Cultures took place from June 23-25, 2022 with strong international participation, both digitially and in person.
For more information, please visit our conference-page.
To view a recording of the opening day including both keynote lectures (with friendly support by the team of "Mensch in Bewegung"), please visit our video-page or the video on our playlist of the KU youtube channel, which now features all videos of KU CAS events (except for the conference opening, these include only German-speaking events at the moment).
The video of the opening day contains these keynote-lectures:
Bonnie H. Honig, Brown University
"Toward a Democratic Theory of CONTAGION (or: the 1990’s Revisited)"
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, New School for Social Research, NYC, per Zoom
"The Public Sphere Inside Out"
Fellows at the KU CAS Dialogical Cultures in the summer 2022
The KU CAS Dialogical Cultures is looking forward to welcome the following fellows with their exciting projects in the coming months in Eichstätt:
Dr. Julius M. Rogenhofer (Cambridge, UK/KU Leuven, Belgien), Dialogical Cultures Junior Fellow,
"The Politics of Ordinary Objects"
Prof. Christopher Breu (Illinois State University, USA), Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow,
"In Defense of Sex"
Prof. Dr. Sven Günther (NENU, Changchun, China), Dialogical Cultures Senior Fellow,
"Augustus in Saigon: Dialogues between Western Antiquity, Colonial Past, and Post-Colonial Society in Vietnam"
Dr. Renée Ridgway (Copenhagen Business School, DK/Leuphana, Lüneburg), Digital Cultures Research Fellow,
'Conversational agents as the future of search: exploring dialogical care through the digital'
We are looking forward to the opportunity of exchange and debate with our future guests at the KU CAS!