Research network
Completed
Cultural contact and conflict zones in Eastern Europe
DAAD Network
Duration
2013 - 2016
The network is part of the DAAD's strategies for promoting internationalization in higher education. It connects the HI and JLU Giessen with five universities in Eastern Europe, building on existing cooperation agreements and partnerships. In addition to the Herder Institute and the University of Giessen, the universities in Almaty (Kazakhstan), Minsk (Belarus), Łódź (Poland), Kazan (Russian Federation), and Cluj-Napoca (Romania) are also involved.
In these regions and urban centers, cultural plurality and the associated contact and conflict scenarios are of both scientific and political-cultural interest. The project will examine not only existing ethnic-linguistic, religious, or cultural contact and conflict zones, but also those that are perpetuated in memory and identity politics or in historical-literary reflection and thus have social relevance. All partners have in common that they have thematic focuses in the areas of regionalism and urbanism research, empire and nationalism research, multilingualism and language contact research. The four-year network is intended to create further synergy effects.
The research objectives are to establish a communication network for young scientists, to jointly reflect on methodological approaches and guiding theoretical concepts, and to jointly develop models and theories for describing contact and conflict scenarios.
An important instrument of networking is the promotion of mobility among young researchers and, at the same time, the expansion of a multilateral thematic network. Each year, there are mobility capacities to invite doctoral students and lecturers from partner universities to Marburg and Giessen and, at the same time, to send researchers from Central Hesse to Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Romania. In the longer term, a trinational degree program in linguistics, literature, and history will be established with partners in Eastern Europe for master's students, and an international graduate school for doctoral students will be established.
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