YECREA co-organized young scholars workshop: Writing the Past beyond Boundaries?

Submitted by Schwarzenegger on Thu, 01/04/2010 - 08:52.
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On June 3rd the Center for Research on Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam/Berlin will be the venue of a Young Scholars workshop co-organized by YECREA and the young scholars Network of DGPuK's Communication History Section. 

 
The organizers Dr. Maria Löblich and Susann Trabert from the Young Scholars Communication History Network, Thomas Großmann from the ZZF and Christian Schwarzenegger, YECREA Representative in the Communication History Section will welcome 20 Phd-Students hailing from Universities in the United Kingdom, Ireland,the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland and the USA as well as workshop-mentors such as Marcel Broersma (University of Groningen), Andreas Hepp (University Bremen), Cathy Johnson (Royal Holloway University of London) and Sonja de Leeuw (University Utrecht ).

Taking the title of the workshop literally, discussion-groups will focus on questions like how to actually write the past beyond boundaries methodologically and based on and sustained by which sources. What could boundaries mean besides of political borders and where can they be drawn? How can communication and media history be understood beyond the context of nation and culture? Are there alternatives to thinking of spaces as containers? Transnational and comparative approaches in Communication History will be confronted to productively raise new questions and to find new or complementary answers to existing research issues.

The workshop schedule and the titles of the mentor's keynote statements will we added shortly.
The workshop takes place on the day before the inaugural conference of the ECREA Communication History Section and the farewell drinks of the conference will be combined with  the get together of the conference.

For all requests please contact:

Christian Schwarzenegger, M.A.
RWTH Aachen University
Institute of Language and Communication Studies
Theaterplatz 14
52062 Aachen
Germany
Phone: ++49-(0)241-8096451
Email: c.schwarzenegger@isk-rwth.aachen.de