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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Starting in October, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) will be joined by a new cohort of international guests. The fellows of the fifth cohort will be in Essen from October 2022 until the end of March 2023. To encourage collaborations between the fellows and members of the UA Ruhr universities, we would appreciate the circulation of this press release to your networks. For any contact requests or further information, please contact Dr Ricarda Menn (ricarda.menn@kwi-nrw.de).
Dr. Tim Altenhof is an architect and architectural theorist. He studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar, the University of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After three years of practical work, most recently in Zaha Hadid’s office in Hamburg, he commenced his doctoral studies at Yale in 2012, where his dissertation was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize in 2018. An excerpt of this work, which was published in English and Italian under the title “The House-As-Chimney: Erich Mendelsohn’s Breathing Space at Luckenwalde”, won the Bruno Zevi Prize 2018. Since fall 2020 he has been a research assistant at the University of Innsbruck.
Dr. des Kris Decker / Has a background in Science Studies / Conducts fieldwork in the borderlands of science and the arts / Currently running the project Academized Artists (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) at Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland / Did a dissertation on the day-to-day work of climate scientists / While at KWI, will delve into materials from activism and the arts to study the public life of climate issues / Interested in ways of writing that cut across scholarly genres (but how to do that?) / Recently published: Machines under Pressure (Vexer, 2022).
Dr. des L. Sasha Gora is a cultural historian and writer with a focus on food history and contemporary art. In 2020 she received a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Rachel Carson Center on the subject of Indigenous restaurants in Canada. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Gora returned to the Rachel Carson Center as its editorial director and as a lecturer. Her research project “Off the Menu” zooms in on human relationships to seafood and studies restaurants as venues for cultural and environmental negotiation. As a KWI international fellow, she will work on her second book project about the culinary lives of codfish and their connections to environmental change.
Dr. Alexandra Irimia holds a PhD in Philology from the University of Bucharest, where she had previously studied Comparative Literature, French, and Political Science. In 2020, she defended her doctoral thesis on figural voids and empty signifiers in literature, cinema, and contemporary arts, at the Centre of Excellence in Image Studies, Bucharest. In 2017, she enrolled in a second doctoral program in Comparative Literature at Western University, in Canada, where she designed and taught a Law and Literature course, worked as a teaching assistant, and began research on bureaucratic fiction. Her project investigates representations of officialdom and the portrayal of clerks in literary and cinematic narratives on bureaucratic themes (1950-2000).
Dr. Sandra Janßen is a researcher in comparative literature and in the history of science. She is an Annemarie Schimmel Fellow at the University of Erfurt and has previously taught German and comparative literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Geneva and most recently as a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna. Her research is concerned with the history of subjectivity as it is constituted by the convergence of different fields of knowledge. As Thyssen@KWI Fellow, Sandra Janßen will be finishing a book project that constellates psychology, political theory, and literature from the 1930s and 1940s around the figure of a ‘totalitarian subject.’
Dr. Verena Kick is Assistant Professor of German at Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2019. Her scholarship encompasses 20th century German modernism, film, and Digital Humanities. During her time at the KWI, she will focus on her book project, Weimar Germany’s Counter Publics – Workers, Soldiers, and Women in Weimar Photobooks, which showcases how the genre of the photobook casts certain social groups as counter publics.
Dr. Marissa Petrou is Assistant Professor of History, Thelma and Jamie Guilbeau Endowed Professor of History and Director of the Guilbeau Center for Public History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Before arriving in Louisiana, Marissa was Faculty Fellow in Museum Studies at New York University. Marissa received her PhD from UCLA, with a focus on visual culture in the history of science, medicine, & technology. At KWI, Marissa will work on her book project, Collecting Asia-Pacific: Museums, “Race,” and the Anthropological Sciences in Imperial Germany.
Detailed information about the researchers and their research interests, pictures, and CVs can be found in the attachment to this email and on the KWI homepage.
ABOUT KWI INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS
KWI International Fellowships are awarded for six months to excellent researchers from the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences. The Thyssen@KWI Fellowship, financed by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, is integrated into the international fellowship programme and reaches out to excellent researchers of all nationalities. Both fellowship programmes were established in 2020. The next call for applications will follow shortly.
FURTHER INFORMATION
KWI International Fellowship Programmes
Ricarda Menn, ricard.menn@kwi-nrw.de
https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/kwi-international-fellowship-programmes/fell... Fellows & Projects
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