Culture and Narration
Research Area 2: Culture and Narration
Who we are:
The driving force and the life blood of the research area “Culture and Narration” are its Ph.D. students. At every meeting we discuss new developments in the intersection between the study of culture and narratives. Our primary purpose is to build networks which enable the dialogue with scholars from other institutions. To achieve this goal we launch projects like our cooperation with Ph.D. students from Graz, a conference about narrative genre in new media (which will be held in the first half of next year) and workshops with experts in the fields of culture and narration like Wolf Schmid or Katrin Dennerlein.
What we think:
Parallel to the academic framework of the GCSC, our conception of the study of culture and narrative is not limited to certain approaches or theories. Every object and topic needs a specific way of dealing with it and it is the responsibility of the scientist to choose an approach which will yield the most relevant and interesting insights. The effect of this syncretist groundwork is a plurality of approaches which are often interdisciplinary and use a wide range of different theories and methods. Concerning research in cultural and narratological fields our research area offers an inspiring diversity of opinion; instead of forcing an artificial consensus we celebrate our diversity which allows us to consider our research from different angles.
Contact:
If you are interested in joining us, please do not hesitate to contact our Research Area Speakers:Kristina.Rauschan@gcsc.uni-giessen.de and Claudia.Weber@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
Feel free to take part in one of our next meetings. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you there!
Upcoming
Our next meeting is on January 24, 2012, from 4-6pm in B25. We are delighted to welcome Doris Bachmann-Medick who gives an introduction on 'space' or, rather, the so-called 'spatial turn' in cultural theory. This will be followed by project presentations by three RA participants who will give us some ideas on how the concept of space can be used in order to approach literary texts. Hence, we aim to get insights into both the cultural and narratological understandings of space.
Events
2012:
- January 24th 2012: Research Area Meeting with Doris Bach-Medick on "The Spatial Turn in Cultural Studies: An Introduction" and project presentations
2011:
- June 8: Workshop "Possible Worlds Theory and Transmedial Narratology" with
Dr. Marie-Laure Ryan - May: Cooperative Workshop about autobiography with graduate students from the Life-Writing Kolleg in Mainz
- May 4-6: Conference about narrative genre in new media. Cooperative project of RA 2 and the LOEWE-Kulturtechniken sub-project “Narrative Kompetenzen und ihre Medialisierung”
- March: Workshop “Narratologie des Raumes” with Dr. Katrin Dennerlein from Julius-Maximilains-Universität Würzburg (cooperative project of RA 2 and “AG Konzepte und Funktionen des Raumes”)
2010:
- December 17-19: First meeting originating from our cooperation with the Ph.D. program “Kategorien und Typologien in den Kulturwissenschaften“ from Karl Franzens University in Graz
- January 28: Workshop "Erzählperspektive” with Prof. Wolf Schmid from the University of Hamburg
Participating scholars
- Ursula Arning
- Katja Barthel
- Katharina Bauer
- Floris Biskamp
- Mirjam Bitter
- Lale Dayioglu
- Dr. Kirsten Dickhaut
- Thomas Edeling
- Prof. Ute E. Eisen
- Dr. Hebatallah Fathy
- Dr. Julia Faisst
- Stephan Freißmann
- Vincent Fröhlich
- Martin Geilfus
- Christin Grunert
- Gero Guttzeit
- Daniel Holder
- Prof. Reinhard Ibler
- Rebecca Hagelmoser
- Jelena Löckner
- Melanie Knaup
- Sabrina Kusche
- Uwe Mayer
- Daniela Meinhardt
- Jonas Ivo Meyer
- Dr. Beatrice Michaelis
- Anna Mokrushina
- Reinhard Möller
- Angela Müller
- Prof. Ansgar Nünning
- Elena Petrova
- Prof. Ferdinand Prostmeier
- Kristina Rauschan (speaker)
- Prof. Dietmar Rieger
- Mario Rossdal
- Caroline Rothauge
- Christiane Struth
- Zeynep Tüfekcioglu
- Katja Urbatsch
- Robert Vogt
- Claudia Weber (speaker)
Communication and exchange
Our group "Culture & Narration" in Stud.Ip is online! It will faciliate the access to readings and will also function as an archive for the papers. Login at Stud.Ip (https://studip.uni-giessen.de/studip/) with your g-account and navigate to the group named "Culture & Narration". You require an additional password to sign in. Please ask the speakers of the Research Area to receive it.
