NCCR Guide 2013 - Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Topics
Historical Perspectives
In its second phase the
NCCR 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
NCCR 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 NCCR 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 NCCR
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
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