International Summer Academy at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Media philology investigates how certain media forms and genres are produced and maintained: What is their specific materiality? Which institutions are they associated with? How are they connected to individuals and techniques? The following research topics will be discussed this year in Weimar: Postcards, letters and social media meet typewriter, camera and other extensions of the human body. The literary contexts range from Johann Gottfried Schnabel’s fantastic »Insel Felsenburg« to Adalbert Stifter’s Bavarian Forest, to Polish poet Bruno Schulz’s Galicia, Kafka’s »The Bridge«, Nabokov’s index cards, and Stefanie Sargnagel’s Facebook profile.

Presentations will be held by Ph.D. candidates within the context of Dr. Héctor Canal’s archive-based introduction, the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv Weimar, and two keynote lectures: Prof Dr. Nicola Behrmann of Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA) will be focussing the epistemology of Walter Benjamin’s art for children, and Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be holding a media-philosophical evening lecture to wrap up the second day of the event.

This year’s Summer Academy is organised by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s »Archiv- und Literaturforschung« Department, led by Prof. Dr. Jörg Paulus. In addition to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Erfurt, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA), Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the University of Vienna are also participating in the event. Two Thuringian institutions dedicated to supporting young scientists will also be represented at this year’s Summer Academy: the University of Erfurt’s »Nachwuchskolleg Texte. Zeichen. Medien.« and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s Graduiertenkolleg Media Anthropology.

The 2023 Summer Academy’s supervising researchers are: Prof. Dr. Nicola Behrmann (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA), Prof. Dr. Nathalie Binczek (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Prof. Dr. Michael Cuntz (University of Erfurt), Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Dr. Rupert Gaderer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Prof. Dr. Lisa Gotto (University of Vienna), Dr. Moritz Hiller (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Prof. Jadwiga Kita-Huber (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Prof. Dr. Jörg Paulus (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) and Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schmidt (University of Erfurt).

The »Media Philology« Summer Academy was founded in 2018 by Prof. Dr. Friedrich Balke and Dr. Rupert Gaderer as part of a media philology research project and was first held at the Ruhr University Bochum. Since then, the Academy has taken place each year in Bochum and at other partner research institutions.

Please register by 21 August 2023 by e-mail to: simona.noreik[at]uni-weimar.de   

»Media Philology 2023« Summer Academy
28 to 30 August 2023
Petersen-Bibliothek of the Goethe- und Schiller-Archivs
Jenaer Straße 1, 99425 Weimar

Further information on the »Media Philology 2023« Summer Academy can be found at: https://www.uni-weimar.de/index.php?id=69822 

The event programme can be found here.

For questions, please contact Simona Noreik, scientific employee in the »Archiv- und Literaturforschung« Department at the Faculty of Media (e-mail: simona.noreik[at]uni-weimar.de).