Visiting scientists
Visiting scientists
Dr Mikael Alm
Institute connection
About the person
Senior Lecturer in history, Programme Director of the master programme Early Modern Studies, Research Director of the node Early Modern Cultural History. Liaison Officer for the Matariki Humanities Network. Researching on political and social culture during the age of revolutions. Presently working on the project "Making a Difference: Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Early Modern Europe".
In his research, Mikael Alm has focused on questions of power, hierarchies, and the ways in which social and political relationships are expressed, shaped and legitimised. The main focal point has been on the political and social culture of late 18th and early 19th century. He is currently working with a project on sartorial practices for social differentiation in eighteenth century Sweden. Throughout his work runs an interest in empirical sources, schools of theory and methodologial solutions. The theoretical interest has primarily been focused on the field of cultural history and analytical concepts such as culture, languages and discourse. Methodologically, Alm has, alongside traditionally historical text-sources, worked extensively with non-written sources (such as medals, monuments, dress, ceremonies et cetera) through iconographic, ritual and spatial analysis.
Events
International workshop on the history of the early modern period for young researchers from the University of Oldenburg(Prof. Dr Dagmar Freist) and Uppsala University (Dr Mikael Alm). [more]
Contact
- Dr Mikael Alm
Uppsala universitet
Historiska institutionen
Box 628
751 26 Uppsala - Email:
Prof Dr Carlo Chiurco
Institute affiliation
About the person
- 2011 - present: Assistant Professor at the DHS, University of Verona
- 2008 - 2011: Appointed Professor of History of medieval philosophy at the University of Verona
- 2007 - 2010: Three-year post-doctoral scholarship at the University of Verona (Project Title: Metaphysics and Violence)
- 2000 - 2004: Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Venice (Thesis Title: Alano di Lilla. Dalla metafisica alla prassi)
- 1995: Degree in Philosophy, University of Venice (Thesis Title: 'Al confine tra patria e via'. Simbolo e teofania in San Bonaventura)
Events
Carlo Chiurco visited the Carl von Ossietzky-University as a guest researcher in connection with the FLiF(Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus)-program for the internationalisation of research-oriented teaching.
Workshop "Owning: A most Human Passion": Owning has always been looked at with great suspicion by philosophy and religion alike, tolerated as a necessary concession to be made to human finite-ness rather than a constitutive feature of the humana natura. Objects in turn were seen as the very opposite of the human. Plato was the first to criticise the seemingly intrinsic greed embedded within the phenomenon of possessing objects. His critique resonated through centuries until the modern age, but with and after the Renaissance the rise of merchant bourgeoisie and the spreading of the phenomenon of collecting showed that the issue of owning could not be addressed only in terms of suspicion towards the sacra auri fames, as it was in Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham. In time, and especially with the explosion of mass consumerism in the second half of the 20th century, owning started to pose another sort of danger, that of de-humanisation (man becomes an object, a thing), as in Heidegger. But are objects condemned to perpetual inhumanity, and is such pseudo-humanistic paradigm really impossible to overcome? The workshop will address these issues:
a) The ethical issue: are ethical condemnations of, or suspicions about, owning fully or partially justifiable?
b) The ontological issue: is the ontological issue sensible?, i.e. does owning actually affect in a negative way the humanity of the human? What about the relation between owning objects and the satisfaction of human desire?
c) The historical issue: Owning as one of the engines of history and its power of pushing change through the power of desire.
Contact
- Prof. Dr Carlo Chiurco
Department of Human Sciences
University of Verona, Italy
Via San Francesco 22
Verona I-37129, Italy - Email: carlo.chiurco@univr.it
University Professor Dr Gerhard Langer
Institute connection
About the person
- since September 2010 Professorship for History, Religion and Literature of Judaism in Rabbinic Times (70-1000 AD) at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna
- 2004-2010 Head of the interdisciplinary and interfaculty "Centre for Jewish Cultural History" at the University of Salzburg
- 2001-2002 Deputy Professor at the Oriental Seminar at the University of Freiburg i. Br.
- 2000-2001 Deputy Professor at the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research at the University of Lucerne
- 1999-2000 Lecturer at Portland University (Oregon) with a branch in Salzburg
- 1996 Habilitation ("'By your blood live!' Ez 16 in the rabbinic reception")
- From 1993 Head of the Department of Jewish Studies in Salzburg
- 1993-2001 President of the Coordination Committee for Christian-Jewish Co-operation in Austria
- 1988 Dr theol. ("Chosen by God - Jerusalem. The reception of Deuteronomy 12 in early Judaism"), 1990 Mag. phil. (Jewish Studies, Old Semitic Philology)
- from 1984 Assistant Professor at the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies, later Department of Biblical Studies and Church History
- 1983-1984 Teaching position
- 1978-1983 Studies of Catholic theology, ancient Semitic philology and Jewish studies in Salzburg and Vienna, 1983 Mag. theol.
- Born 1960 in Schwarzach i. Pongau/Salzburg
- Source: Media portal of the University of Vienna
Events
- Rabbinic Judaism
Contact
- Prof. Dr Gerhard Langer
University of Vienna
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna - Email:
Prof Dr Stefano Magnani
Institute connection
Events
- As part of the Erasmus teaching exchange programme, Stefano Magnani gave the lecture "Rome and the Germanic tribes".
Contact
- Stefano Magnani
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale
Vicolo Florio 2/b
33100 Udine
Università degli Studi di Udine
Italy - Phone: +39 432 556638
- Fax: +39 432 556649
- Email:
Prof Dr Benjamin Marschke
Institute connection
About the person
Benjamin Marschke (PhD UCLA) is a Professor of History at Humboldt State University, in Arcata, California. Marschke has held fellowships from the DAAD, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and the Max Planck Institute of History. Marschke is the author of Absolutely Pietist: Patronage, Factionalism, and State-Building in the Early Eighteenth-Century Prussian Army Chaplaincy (2005), a co-editor of The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered (2010), a co-author of Experiencing the Thirty Years War, with Hans Medick (2013), a co-editor of Kinship, Community, and Self: Essays in Honour of David Warren Sabean (2015), and a co-editor of Francke und seine Könige (forthcoming 2016), and Pietismus und Ökonomie (forthcoming 2016). Marschke's research focus has been Halle Pietists at the Prussian court and the relationship of Halle Pietism and the Prussian monarchy in the eighteenth century. In addition to the aforementioned edited volumes, he is currently working on changes in political ceremony, gender/sexuality, luxury/money, and intellectual/academic culture in the early eighteenth century, focusing on King Frederick William I of Prussia (1713-1740).
Events
- Benjamin Marschke was a DFG-funded interim professorship for Prof Dagmar Freist at the Chair of Early Modern History in the summer semester of 2016. During this time, he taught the following courses:
- Seminar: Pietism, Enlightenment and Education
- Seminar: Education and Pietism in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
- Tutorial: Early Modern Period
- Colloquium: History of the Early Modern Period
Contact
- Benjamin Marschke, Ph.D.
Professor
History Department
Humboldt State University
1 Harpst Street, Arcata, CA 95521
United States - Email:
Dr Angela McShane
Institute connection
About the person
- 2014 - present: Acting Head of Postgraduate Studies, Victoria and Albert Museum / Royal College of Art Postgraduate Programmes in History of Design and Material Culture
- 2013 - present: Head of Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Victoria and Albert Museum / Royal College of Art Postgraduate Programmes in History of Design and Material Culture
- 2006 - 2013: Tutor in Graduate Studies (post 1600), Victoria and Albert Museum / Royal College of Art Postgraduate Programmes in History of Design and Material Culture
- 2005: PhD History, University of Warwick (Thesis Title: 'Rime and Reason': The Political World of the Broadside Ballad, 1640-1689)
- 2000: Post-Graduate Certificate of Counselling, University of Warwick
- 1982: Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, University of Leicester
- 1980: B.A. Hons History, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Events
Angela McShane was a visiting researcher at the University of Oldenburg in November 2016 as part of the FLiF(Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus) programme for the internationalisation of research-oriented teaching.
As part of the seminars "Was darf man mit Geschichte machen? Staged history in science, exhibitions, theatre and consumption" by Dr Jessica Cronshagen, "Between Oldenburg and St. Croix. Herrschaftspraxis und regionale Kommunikationsräume der dänisch-oldenburgischen Personalunion - Ausstellungsprojekt" by Prof. Dr Dagmar Freist and "Ausstellungsprojekt Herrschaft als Kommunikationsraum - die Grafschaft Oldenburg in Personalunion mit Dänemark 1667-1774" by Dr Ruth Schilling, Dr Angela McShane was invited to a two-day workshop:
Excursion to the Bremerhaven Maritime Museum (24. 11. 2016, 15-19 h)
Workshop "Exhibition conception and exhibition ethics" at the Villa GeistReich (25. 11. 2016, 09-14 h)
The workshop in Oldenburg begins with a visit to the Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven on 24 November 2016, where various approaches to staging history will be discussed on the basis of a "workshop tour" through exhibitions currently being designed. The main focus will be on the question of how "strenuous and challenging" exhibitions can and should be. On Friday 25 November, Angela McShane will provide insights into her work at the Victoria&Albert Museum in London. Here, students will have the opportunity to gain insights into the conception of exhibitions and to deal with questions of exhibition ethics.
Contact
- Dr Angela McShane
Research Department
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London, SW7 2RL
Great Britain - Email:
Prof Dr Benjamin Marschke
Institute connection
About the person
Benjamin Marschke (PhD UCLA) is a Professor of History at Humboldt State University, in Arcata, California. Marschke has held fellowships from the DAAD, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and the Max Planck Institute of History. Marschke is the author of Absolutely Pietist: Patronage, Factionalism, and State-Building in the Early Eighteenth-Century Prussian Army Chaplaincy (2005), a co-editor of The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered (2010), a co-author of Experiencing the Thirty Years War, with Hans Medick (2013), a co-editor of Kinship, Community, and Self: Essays in Honour of David Warren Sabean (2015), and a co-editor of Francke und seine Könige (forthcoming 2016), and Pietismus und Ökonomie (forthcoming 2016). Marschke's research focus has been Halle Pietists at the Prussian court and the relationship of Halle Pietism and the Prussian monarchy in the eighteenth century. In addition to the aforementioned edited volumes, he is currently working on changes in political ceremony, gender/sexuality, luxury/money, and intellectual/academic culture in the early eighteenth century, focusing on King Frederick William I of Prussia (1713-1740).
Events
In the summer semester 2014, Benjamin Marschke gave a block seminar as part of the FLiF(Forschungsbasiertes Lernen im Fokus) programme, during which an online exhibition on the topic of visitation records was prepared. He was also a guest lecturer in other early modern seminars.
Contact
- Benjamin Marschke, Ph.D.
Professor
History Department
Humboldt State University
1 Harpst Street, Arcata, CA 95521
United States - Email:
Prof Dr Andreas Schmidt-Colinet
Institute affiliation
Personal details
- 2000-2010Contract professorin Vienna
- 1992-1996 Visiting professorships in Vienna, Paris, Besoncon, Warsaw, Mainz, Neuchâtel, among others
- 1984-1992 Senior assistant at the Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Bern: further management of the Palmyra project; preparation of the habilitation thesis "Studien zur Palmyrenischen Grabarchitektur und ihrer Ausstattung", habilitation in June 1990 (venia legendi for Classical Archaeology).
- 1980-1984 Scientific officer at the Damascus Station of the DAI; from 1981 head of the Institute's Palmyra Project.
- 1975/76 Lecturer at Portland University (Oregon) with a branch in Salzburg
- 1975-1980 Assistant at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Frankfurt/Main
- 1974 Doctorate in the subject of Classical Archaeology in Cologne with a dissertation supervised by H. Kähler on "Antike Stützfiguren".
- 1967-1974 Studied Classical Archaeology, Prehistory and Early History, Ancient History; also History, History of Law, German Studies, Philosophy, Art History
- Born 1945 in Gronau/Hanover; married; 3 children
- Source: Directory of alumni of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna
Events in
- Palmyra