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Call for Applications Theme: Alterity Revisited Subtitle: A Closer Look at Transpositions of a Traveling Concept in the Humanities Type: Postgraduate Workshop Institution: Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Lucerne TransPositions Location: Lucerne (Switzerland) Date: 7.–8.12.2018 Deadline: 15.8.2018 __________________________________________________ Alterity is a concept discussed in all disciplines within the Humanities and often functions as a unifying concept in interdisciplinary research. As with so many concepts “transposed” from one context to another, it has widely differing denotations, connotations, and applications. In addition to discourses conceptualizing alterity, studies related to terms in each language linked to the overarching concept likewise consolidate the terminological and conceptual jungle (e.g. English: foreigner, alien, other, stranger; French: l’autre, l’étranger, l’étrange; or German: der Andere, das Andere, der Fremde, das Fremde). And of course the concept has had its – more or less directly linked and highly flourishing – conceptual avatars such as identity, hybridity, difference, inter- and transculturality, liminality etc. The present workshop has the aim of tracing and mapping the transpositions of the concept of alterity in an interdisciplinary context shaped by an almost uncontrollable methodological and theoretical eclecticism. Keynote speeches by the two invited professors, Christine Abbt (University of Lucerne) and Thomas Claviez (University of Bern), will frame the discussions of seminal texts theorizing alterity that will take place in the following two text sessions: Text Session I: “Democracy and Alterity” led by Christine Abbt Text Session II: “Alterity, Contingency, and the Difference of it All” led by Thomas Claviez The target group for attending the workshop is (post-)doctoral students from all disciplines within the Humanities (and Social Sciences) who are either directly working on alterity in their own research or have a keen interest in the concept. Members of the partner institutions of TransPositions will receive partial funding for their travels and accommodation (t.b.d. in relation to number of participants). For further information about the workshop, please have a look at the Call: https://www.unilu.ch/fileadmin/fakultaeten/ksf/institute/gsl/CfA_Alterity_Revisited_-_University_of_Lucerne.pdf You can now apply by sending a short CV and statement of motivation (300-500 words) to [email protected] by August 15th, 2018. This workshop takes place in the framework of the consortium TransPositions: http://blog.wbkolleg.unibe.ch/?page_id=5562 Website of the workshop: https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/institutes-departements-and-research-centres/graduate-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences-at-the-university-of-lucerne-gsl/events/workshop-alterity-revisited-a-closer-look-at-transpositions-of-a-traveling-concept-in-the-humanities-3659/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
