Principles of Cultural Dynamics

Program JOINT Workshop 'Causality or Contingency: What Keeps Culture Going?', July 24/25, 2018:

July 24/25, 2018
JOINT Workshop:

Causality or Contingency:
What Keeps Culture Going?

List of Contributers:
Alexander Cook (ANU), Anne Eakin Moss (JHU), Iris Roebling-Grau (FUB), Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (FUB), Mary Sherman (Boston College), Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis), Kwok-kan Tam (CUHK)

This workshop is part of the Global Humanities Campus (GHC). The GHC takes place annually, and consists of an invitational two-week summer school, as well as of a two-day workshop, which is open to the academic public.

For particiaption in the Workshop, we kindly ask you to RSVP by July 20, 2018 to [email protected] /// Event held in English /// For further information, please refer to

Joint Workshop 2018 In contrast to the natural world, the cultural world is characterized by rapid change. In terms of genetics, our species seems to be more or less identical to what it has been during the last 100.000 or even 150.000 years. In terms of culture, there has not only been a tremendous evolution during th...

Global Humanities Distinguished Lecture with Doris Sommer (Harvard University):

The Work of Art in the World: A Case for Culture

Monday, June 18, 2018, 6:15 pm
Freie Universitaet Berlin
'Rostlaube', Seminarzentrum
Room L 115

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/principles-cultural-dynamics/calendar/GHDL-with-Doris-Sommer.html

Call for Applications addressed to MA and Phd students from Freie Universitaet Berlin.
10 positions for participation in the Global Humanities Campus 2018.
Deadline: June 15, 2018

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/principles-cultural-dynamics/news/CfA-GHC-2018.html

Volkswagenstiftung: Call for Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Dahlem Humanities Center, deadline for applications: September 11, 2018 Every year, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation offer fellowships at German universities and research institutes for postdoctoral researchers based in the U.S. Within this program, the Dahlem Humanities Center of Freie Universität Berlin (DHC) is one of 14 possible host in...

Calls for Applications! Principles of Cultural Dynamics network is pleased to invite applications for:
1. travel grants to attend the 2018 Global Humanities Campus (Freie Universität Berlin, July 23 – August 4)
2. fellowships for the exchange program with Freie Universität Berlin

Deadline: December 31, 2017

Please visit our website for more information on the programs and funding details:
http://rosenzweig.huji.ac.il/news/call-applications-global-humanities-campus-2018-workshop-and-summer-school

http://rosenzweig.huji.ac.il/news/call-applications-exchange-program-freie-universit%C3%A4t-berlin-principles-cultural

Call for Applications - Fellowships 2018 for FUB members

We are pleased to announce 5 Global Humanities Junior Fellowships for MA or PhD students and 5 Global Humanities Junior Research and Teaching Stays for PostDocs.

Fellows will be able to conduct research at one of the PCD network’s partner institutions:
- Harvard University, Mahindra Humanities Center
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Humanities
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Research Institute for the Humanities
- The Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center
- École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

Please find further information here: http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/principles-cultural-dynamics/news/CfA_MP_2018.html

July 25/26, 2017
JOINT Workshop:

Material Culture and Textual Culture: Different Dynamics or Different Conceptualizations?

List of Contributers:
Ping-chen Hsiung (CUHK), Martin Puchner (Harvard), Katie Sutton (ANU), Lena Marasinova (HSE Moskau), Maxine Craig (UC Davis), Caroline Turner (ANU), Gaia Gubbini (FUB)

This workshop is part of the Global Humanities Campus (GHC). The GHC takes place annually, and consists of an invitational two-week summer school, as well as of a two-day workshop, which is open to the academic public.

For particiaption in the Workshop, we kindly ask you to RSVP by July 21, 2017 to pcd -berlin.de /// Event held in English /// For further information, please refer to

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/principles-cultural-dynamics/events/Global-Humanities-Campus-2017/Joint-Workshop-2017/index.html

Global Humanities Distinguished Lecture with Mariano Siskind (Harvard University):

Losing Latin America and the World: Towards a Cosmopolitanism of Loss

Monday, July 10, 2017, 6:15 pm
Freie Universitaet Berlin
'Rostlaube', Room KL 32/123

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/principles-cultural-dynamics/calendar/GHDL-with-Mariano-Siskind.html

Global Humanities Distinguished Lecture with Ruth HaCohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):

Three Moments of Silence/Lament on the Death of God: Venice ~1500, Leipzig 1724, Berlin ~1900

Monday, July 3, 2017, 6:15 pm
Freie Universitaet Berlin
'Rostlaube', Room JK 31/122

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/principles-cultural-dynamics/calendar/GHDL-with-Ruth-HaCohen.html

Call for Applications addressed to MA and Phd students from Freie Universitaet Berlin.
10 positions for participation in the Global Humanities Campus 2017.
Deadline: May 30, 2017

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/principles-cultural-dynamics/news/CfA-GHC-2017.html

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/principles-cultural-dynamics/events/Global-Humanities-Campus-2017/index.html