Mediality – Historical Perspectives <strong>NCCR</strong> Mediality Home Institution University of Zurich Start of the <strong>NCCR</strong> October 1, 2005 <strong>NCCR</strong> Management Director Kiening Christian, Prof. phone: + 41 (0)44 634 25 53 ckiening@access.uzh.ch Deputy Director Tröhler M. Prof. phone: +41 (0)44 634 35 22 m.troehler@fiwi.uzh.ch Deputy Director (Coordination) Stercken Martina, Prof. phone: + 41 (0)44 634 51 16 stercken@hist.uzh.ch Knowledge and Technology Transfer Thier Andreas, Prof. Education and Training Glauser Jürg, Prof. Advancement of Women Naumann Barbara, Prof. Address <strong>NCCR</strong> Mediality University of Zurich Rämistr. 42 8001 Zürich phone: + 41 (0)44 634 51 19 sekretariat@mediality.ch Web Address www.mediality.ch Research Interference Mythological Interference H: Glauser J. Diagrammatic structures H: Lutz E. C. Plastic Writing H: Glaser E., Rübekeil L. Urban Sounds H: Roeck B. Display Medial Metonymies H: Kiening Ch. Texts, Images, and Propaganda H: Zey C. Mapping Territories H: Stercken M. Literary Effects of Presence H: Schneider S. Dynamics of Cinematic Display H: Schweinitz J., Tröhler M. Instrumentalization Monarchic Enthronement and Consecration H: Thier A. Media of Order H: Teuscher S. Peculiarities of Charter Language H: Glessgen M. Mediality of Stained Glass Ensembles H: Kurmann B. Transference Figurations of the Chosen Ones H: Naumann B. Rhetoric of Transference H: Müller Nielaba D. Charismatic Figures H: Wagner K., Gamper M. The Artistic Transplant H: Stoichita V. Narrations of the Foreign Holy H: Schnyder M. Reception of Arabic Music H: Hinrichsen H.-J. Common Field Assistant Professor Sandl M. Senior Researchers Beil U. J., Nievergelt A. Permanent Cooperations Mediated Origins H: Aris M-A. (Munich) Medialising death H: Stoellger Ph. (Rostock) Iconology of the Textile H: Weddigen T. 88 | <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>2013</strong>
Topics Historical Perspectives In its second phase the <strong>NCCR</strong> focuses on the historicity of media and mediality. It investigates forms of communication, transfer, and perception before the era of mass-media dominance and modern teleologically and technologically oriented media discourses, whose historical reach goes no further back than the introduction of film, radio, or television. The aim of the <strong>NCCR</strong> is a historical mediology which particularly examines change in communication practices, new dynamics in medial forms, and reflection on the conditions of communication. Special moments and constellations will be analysed, in which the medial can be grasped and described, as well as longer periods of change. The task of the historical mediology already in progress is to develop patterns Heads of Individual Research Projects Beil Ulrich J., PD Gamper Michael, Prof. Glaser Elvira, Prof. Glauser Jürg, Prof. Glessgen Martin-Dietrich, Prof. Hinrichsen Hans-Joachim, Prof. Kiening Christian, Prof. Kurmann-Schwarz Brigitte, Prof. Lutz Eckart Conrad, Prof. Müller-Nielaba Daniel, Prof. Naumann Barbara, Prof. Nievergelt Andreas, PD of description that allow us to understand how mediality has formed cultural meaning. The question is not so much what media are, but rather, what in which situations and processes works as a medium, and what are the specific conditions that make the medial possible. Emphasis is put therefore not only on the images that media present of the world, but also on those images of the medial that shape our notions of what media are. The historicity and imagination of the medial, as well as the particular historical dynamics and logics of mediality will be brought to light. Organised into a general overall field (A.) and four issue-related fields (B. Interference, C. Ostentation, D. Instrumentalisation and E. Transference), texts, images, maps, sculptures, architecture, textiles, sounds and films will serve to develop different but related perspectives on medial peculiarities of the premodern period. The period between the 12th and the 15th centuries forms the focus of research in the second phase of the <strong>NCCR</strong> as it did in the first. At the same time, however, the borders of European-Christian cultural traditions will be brought into focus, perspectives on the early modern period will be opened, and selected aspects of modernity will provide a basis to observe those phases of modernity in which in literature, art, and science media discourses begin to take shape - discourses which in turn formed the idea of a premodern mediality. Participating fields of the <strong>NCCR</strong> are: German Literature and Linguistics, History, History of Art, Film Studies, Musicology, Scandinavian Studies, Romance Literature and Linguistics, and Law. Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich Deutsches Seminar, Universität Hannover Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich Romanisches Seminar, Universität Zürich Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Universität Zürich Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Universität Zürich Departement für Germanistik, Université de Fribourg Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich Third Party Cooperation Research Institutions • Art History and Music, University of Birmingham, School of Languages, Cultures, GB • Biblioteca Mario Gromo, Museo del Cinema di Torino, IT • Capaciteitsgroep Duitse en Scandinavische talen en culturen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL • Centre André Chastel, Corpus Vitrearum France, FR • Cinémathèque Luxembourg, Filmarchiv, LU • College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, History Department, US • Comparative Literature Department,Yale University, New Haven, US • CRH – GAHOM, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales EHESS, Paris, FR • Department of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, US • Department of English, Syddansk Universitet, Odense, NO • Department of Language and Culture, Linköping University, SE • Department of German, Princeton University, US • Department of Germanic Studies, New York University, US • Department of History, University of South Carolina, US • Department of Media, University of Copenhagen, DK • Department of Technology and Society Studies, University of Maastricht, NL • Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris, FR • Deutsches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, DE • Deutsches Seminar I, Albert- Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.Br, DE • Dept. of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, US • Department of Film History and Aesthetics, Université de Lausanne, CH • Department of German, University of California, Berkeley, US • Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, US • Department of History, Cornell University, US • Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, SE • Dipartimento delle Arti Visive, Università di Bologna, IT • Dipartimento di letterature moderne e scienze dei linguaggi, Universität Siena, IT • Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo, Università degli studi di Milano, IT • Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, FR • Emmy-Noether-Research Group “History of Listening”, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, DE • English Department,Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, US • Equipe d’accueil de Linguistique et Lexicographie Latine et Romane, Université de Paris, FR • EYE Nederlands Filmmuseum, Filmarchiv, NL • Fachbereich Geschichte und Soziologie, Universität Konstanz, DE • Fach Germanistik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, DE • Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Griechische und lateinische Philologie, Universität München, DE • Filmmuseum Wien, Filmarchiv, AT • Forschungszentrum für mittelalterliche Glasmalerei, Corpus Vitrearum Deutschland, DE • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>2013</strong> | 89