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Die ‚noethische‘ Funktion von Wissenschaftssprache und -mustern bei Ulrike Draesner
No full textUlrike Draesner, in her multifaceted activity as a scholar, translator, essayist, but above all author of poetry
and prose, develops a discourse on the body, landscapes and memory that is always polyphonic and cross-
linguistic. Memory travels through unexpected connections between areas of knowledge and experience,
capable of linking organic and inorganic nature, ancient world memory, individual and collective historical
memory and post-memory, theory of knowledge and ethics of living together among people, between
humans and things, between human kind and nature.
In my contribution I will be trying, through case-studies, to highlight the poetic, ethical, creative, therefore
po(i)ethical role played by scientific languages and lexika in Ulrike Draesner's writing.
As a “poeta docta”, Draesner is an artist and not as a scientist or philosopher. The aggregations of sense and
memory do not only travel on the logic of images and themes, but also on the surprising intersections
between sense and sound, as well as between different languages
TRAUM: Transforming Author Museums, 2019
No full textWhat roles have author museums as creators of cultural identity? What kind of representations do they use to communicate knowledge about literature and its authors? How are real and literary spaces, texts and objects interlinked? Author museums are in the public imagination often associated with an old-fashioned cult of the author, they are being transformed into interactive spaces in line with changing understandings of literature, developments in exhibition practices and larger processes of democratization. This interdisciplinary project aimed to provide analyses of museums as cultural texts and performative spaces of memory and production. In the past years, the alleged crisis of the humanities has been a recurring topic of debate. While criticism has been levelled at the humanities for lack of relevance, informal polls made in various countries across Europe asking for the most important personality in national history have consistently placed artists on the top, often writers, and in the case of Norway, Henrik Ibsen. There is a paradoxical relationship between the discourse of the uselessness of humanities and the actual interest in and identification with some of its actors. The project aimed to investigate how and why (certain) writers and literature have been turned into cultural heritage, helped by the display of auratic places such as their homes in combination with the aestheticization of personal "relics" within specific cultural-political contexts. Combining humanities, social sciences and artistic perspectives, it will critically reflect on existing and historical exhibition strategies and consider alternative and innovative ways of displaying literature, focusing on the potentials of author museums and other literary museums and centres as sites of cultural production and literary creativity. On a meta-level the project aimed to contribute to a better understanding of how to communicate the relevance of humanities to the public. The project is part of the NFR project “TRAUM-Transforming Author Museums (251225)”. The focus of the sub-project is on exhibitions in author homes. The analysis includes the role of archival material in exhibitions (published article by Ulrike Spring), communication processes in literary museums and the author's role as ghost in author homes (articles in preparation by Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski). For further information about ”TRAUM: Transforming Author Museums, 2019”, please contact the principal investigator
Psychometric properties of the parent strengths and difficulties questionnaire in the general population of German children and adolescents: results of the BELLA study
No full textBackground The strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief screening instrument that addresses negative and positive behavioural attributes of children and adolescents in the age range of 4 16 years and can be completed by parents, teachers, and as a self-report. Furthermore, the impact supplement of the extended SDQ surveys for perceived problems, impact, and burden. Objective This paper aims to examine the psychometric properties of the parent form and to investigate differences in the SDQ scores for sociodemographic and socioeconomic subgroups. Patterns of association with other measures of mental health and descriptive comparison with the first normative sample are also reported. Methods Within the BELLA study module of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS), a total of 2,406 children and adolescents aged 7-16 years as well as their parents answered the items of the SDQ and the additional impact supplement. The internal consistency of scale responses was assessed via Cronbach's alpha (alpha). Likert scale assumptions of sufficient and similar item-total correlation and item variance were investigated. The factorial validity of the SDQ measurement model was tested by means of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Mean score differences between males and females, age groups (7-10 years vs. 11-16 years), and socioeconomic status groups (Winkler index) were examined via ANOVA. Results Factor analysis provided an exact replication of the original five-factor SDQ subscale structure. All subscales were sufficiently homogeneous. The mean total difficulties and SDQ subscale scores of the BELLA sample did not differ from the first German normative data. Younger children were more impaired on various SDQ scales than older children, girls were more emotionally affected, and boys showed more externalising problems. Conclusions The present study confirmed the validity and reliability of the parent-reported SDQ scale structure. The SDQ was found to be a valid and helpful questionnaire for use in the framework of an epidemiological survey
HEREDITY PRODUCED: AT THE CROSSROADS OF BIOLOGY, POLITICS, AND CULTURE, 1500-1870
No full textPreface -- Introduction -- 1. Heredity: the formation of an epistemic space / Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger -- I. Heredity in the legal context -- 2. From clan to kindred: kinship and the circulation of property in premodern and modern Europe / David Warren Sabean -- 3. Resemblance, paternity, and imagination in early modern courts / Silvia De Renzi -- 4. Continuity and death: literature and the law of succession in the nineteenth century / Ulrike Vedder -- II. Heredity and medicine -- 5. The medical origins of heredity / Carlos López-Beltrán -- 6. Erasmus Darwin and the "noble" disease (gout): conceptualizing heredity and disease in enlightenment England / Philip K. Wilson -- 7. Degeneration and "alienism" in early nineteenth-century France / Laure Cartron -- III. Natural history, breeding, and hybridization -- 8. Figures of inheritance, 1650-1850 / Staffan Müller-Wille -- 9. Duchesne's strawberries: between growers' practices and academic knowledge / Marc J. Ratcliff -- 10. The sheep breeders' view of heredity before and after 1800 / Roger J. Wood -- IV. Theories of generation and evolution -- 11. Speculation and experiment in enlightenment life sciences / Mary Terrall -- 12. Kant on heredity and adaptation / Peter McLaughlin -- 13. The delayed linkage of heredity with the cell theory / François Duchesneau -- 14. On the shoulders of generations: the new epistemology of heredity in the nineteenth century / Ohad S. Parnes -- V. Anthropology -- 15. Las castas: interracial crossing and social structure, 1770-1835 / Renato G. Mazzolini -- 16. Acquired character: the hereditary material of the "self-made man" / Paul White -- 17. "Victor, l'enfant de la forêt": experiments on heredity in savage children / Nicolas Pethes -- 18. Sui generis: heredity and heritage of genius at the turn of the eighteenth century / Stefan Willer -- Epilogue -- 19. The heredity of poetics / Helmut Müller-Sievers -- List of contributors -- Inde
Images and stories from the borderlands
No full textMy paper introduces geo-political and symbolic dynamics of 21st century Europe through three conceptual prisms: those of borders or border communities, networks, and neighbourhoods. Each of these can be seen as both descriptive lenses for capturing specific phenomenon of social interaction in geographical spaces as well as metaphors for imagining human encounters across visible or invisible divisions, such as for example nationhood, ethnicity, race, religion or gender. In the first part, my paper analyses the implications for each of these imaginaries for theoretical and empirical research. In the second part I will show with different examples how these conceptual frames affected my own fieldwork practices in a series of European research projects during the last decade: European Border Discourse, 2000-2003; Changing City Spaces 2002-2005, Sefone 2007-2010 and TNMundi 2006-2010. Examples will include a rich, multi-layered spectrum of every-day life narratives as well as examples of artistic productions. A version of this paper with the text of interviews in both German and English throughout is available on request from the author
Author Correction: A shared neural basis underlying psychiatric comorbidity
No full textCorrection to: Nature Medicine. Published online 24 April 2023. In the version of this article initially published, the STRATIFY data also included cohort data from the ESTRA consortium, though this was not acknowledged in the author list and the section in Methods on the Stratify dataset. The Methods are now updated, and the author list is amended to combine the STRATIFY and ESTRA consortium names and to include the following authors: Marina Bobou, M. John Broulidakis, Betteke Maria van Noort, Zuo Zhang, Lauren Robinson, Nilakshi Vaidya, Jeanne Winterer, Yuning Zhang, Sinead King, Hervé Lemaître, Ulrike Schmidt, Julia Sinclair, Argyris Stringaris and Sylvane Desrivières. The STRATIFY and ESTRA consortia are now combined to list Marina Bobou, M. John Broulidakis, Betteke Maria van Noort, Zuo Zhang, Lauren Robinson, Nilakshi Vaidya, Jeanne Winterer, Yuning Zhang, Sinead King, Gareth J. Barker, Arun L. W. Bokde, Hervé Lemaître, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Ulrike Schmidt, Julia Sinclair, Argyris Stringaris, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Sylvane Desrivières and Gunter Schumann as members, and the IMAGEN consortium is updated to also include Sylvane Desrivières. Affiliations, author contributions and acknowledgements have been updated to reflect the new authorship, and all changes have been made in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
A intertextualidade e a dramatização da história em Ulrike Maria Stuart, de Elfride Jelinek
No full textEste trabalho propõe-se a analisar a peça Ulrike Maria Stuart, da escritora austríaca Elfriede Jelinek, e discutir como se dão as relações intertextuais apresentadas por esta, bem como o processo de dramatização de relevantes processos históricos no contexto da Europa Ocidental, mais especificamente na Alemanha contemporânea. A peça, realizada segundo os parâmetros do teatro pós-dramático, apresenta a disputa entre Ulrike Meinhof, ex-jornalista de esquerda, e Gudrun Ensslin, estudante de literatura, pela liderança da Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), em português, Fração do Exército Vermelho, grupo de luta armada de extrema esquerda fundado na Alemanha Ocidental, em 1970. Este conflito central é construído com base no mote da clássica peça de Friedrich Schiller, Maria Stuart. Assim, Jelinek entrelaça estas referências, literárias e históricas, a partir da comparação entre o imaginário construído pela mídia alemã a respeito das líderes da RAF e as personagens da peça de Schiller, utilizando-se de recursos cênicos e mediais durante a montagem da peça. Outro aspecto discutido neste trabalho é a questão das relações de poder e da violência feminina, através da explanação do universo ficcional de Jelinek, e então como Ulrike Maria Stuart insere-se neste, e a construção da imagem das líderes da RAF pela mídia para melhor compreensão das referências intertextuais apresentadas ao longo do espetáculo.This study aims to examine the play Ulrike Maria Stuart, written by Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek, and discuss how the intertextual relations presented by this are given, as well as the dramatization of some historical processes, relevant in the context of Western Europe, specifically in contemporary Germany. The play, performed according to the paramethers of post-dramatic theater, presents the contest between Ulrike Meinhof, a former leftist journalist, and Gudrun Ensslin, a Literature student, for the leadership of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) – the Red Army Faction – an urban guerilla group founded in West Germany in 1970. This central conflict, in Jelinek‟s play, is built on the motto of Friedrich Schiller‟s Mary Stuart. Thus, Jelinek interweaves these literary and historical references from the comparison between the imaginary built by German media about the leaders of the RAF and the characters in Maria Stuart, using scenic and medial resources during the assembly of the part. Another aspect discussed in this work is the question of power relations and female violence, through the investigation of Jelinek‟s ficcional universe, and then as Ulrike Maria Stuart fits into this, and the building of the image of RAF leaders by the media as a way of better understand the intertextual references presented throughout the play
TRAUM - Transforming Author Museums, 2017
No full textPictures of two author museums in South Africa. The project involves an analysis of two South African historic homes that have been turned into museums for authors. The two South African museums are the Sol Plaatje museum in Kimberley and the Olive Schreiner House in Cradock. The main aim of the project is to examine current practices of author museums from contemporary and historical perspectives, with the aim of developing new interpretations of author museums as spaces of knowledge transfer and cultural production. The project aims to investigate how and why (certain) writers and literature have been turned into cultural heritage, helped by the display of auratic places such as their homes in combination with the aestheticization of personal 'relics' within specific cultural-political contexts
Le travail au Togo sous mandat de la France (1919-1941)
No full textIn this article the author analyzes the institutionalisation of remunerated labour in Togo under French mandat (1919 to 1941). After a description of the difficulties the French encountered to introduce this notion, the author gives details about tax labour, the material conditions of labour, the quantitative importance of the indigenous personnel and the salaries given during these years. This meticulous analysis of labour conditions contributes to retrace the process of introducing remunerated labour in Togo and its gradual acceptance by the social and cultural Systems of indigenous populations.In this article the author analyzes the institutionalisation of remunerated labour in Togo under French mandat (1919 to 1941). After a description of the difficulties the French encountered to introduce this notion, the author gives details about tax labour, the material conditions of labour, the quantitative importance of the indigenous personnel and the salaries given during these years. This meticulous analysis of labour conditions contributes to retrace the process of introducing remunerated labour in Togo and its gradual acceptance by the social and cultural Systems of indigenous populations.Schürkens Ulrike. Le travail au Togo sous mandat de la France (1919-1941). In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 79, n°295, 2e trimestre 1992. pp. 227-240
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