The LichTenberg-KoLLeg The LichTenberg-KoLLeg g e L L o K - g r e b n e T h c i L e h T its origin 1 its origin 1 and First Years 0 and First Years of Operation 2 2008-2011 - of Operation 8 0 2008-2011 0 2 s arn eo n t Yati its origiand Firsof Oper THE LICHTENBERG-KOLLEG Its Origin and First Years of Operation 2008-2011 Director‘s Introduction Director’s Introduction This report renders account of the activities and development of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg during the first three rounds of Fellows and Associates, as well as documenting the Kolleg’s preparatory phase, especially from October 1st, 2008, when its governing structures were taking shape. For readers with less time at their disposal, we precede the full report with a compact analysis of all our efforts and their impact, thereby making reference to the descriptions and statements subsequently presented in greater detail. In order to present as complete an account as possible, we assemble here almost all the available information, some of which you may already have encountered in our brochures, newsletters and on our homepage. A certain amount of repetition is inevitable because even those who read only single chapters should be able to gain thereby an overall impression. By providing this information, we seek to attract and hold inter- est in our activities. We strive to encourage participation in our events and to intensify the links of our Fellows and guests to colleagues from the Göttingen Research Campus. In part, the texts in this report appear both in English and Ger- man. However, wherever a translation seemed to us to be super- fluous since the text is generally comprehensible, and in view of the report’s considerable dimensions, either English or German is used. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all who have con- tributed to the successful work of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg – the Scientific Advisory Board, for its engaged and dynamic coopera- tion in selecting Fellows and Associates and its valuable advice in the choice of research topics as well as in strategic planning, members of the University administration, and the colleagues – for their support in making the Lichtenberg-Kolleg a home for international and interdisciplinary research. Special thanks go to all Fellows, Associates and guests of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg who have devoted their time and energy to promoting research and cooperation, who have excused deficits, and who have given ad- vice for improvements. And on a personal note, I would also like to thank all members of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg for giving their best throughout the course of our endeavours so far. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen 3 4 Content Content Director’s Introduction 3 2. Associates 47 Content 5 a. Complete List of Associates 2009 to 2012 47 b. Disciplines 50 I. Analysis 9 c. Career Status 51 d. Gender 52 1. Mission and Structure 9 2. Achievements and Challenges 9 VII. Fellows in Detail 55 1. Life and Work at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg 55 a. Time and Freedom for Research 9 2. Fellows in the Academic Year 2009/2010 55 b. Cross- and Interdisciplinary Interaction 10 c. Impact on Fellows and their Career 11 d. Impact on the Göttingen Research Campus 11 a. List in Alphabetical Order 55 e. Impact on Teaching 12 b. The respective Fellows 55 f. Impact for Promising Junior Academics 12 g.Transformative Experience in General 12 (1) Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. José V. Casanova 55 (2) Prof. Dr. Juliet Floyd 57 3. Perspectives 12 (3) Prof. Dr. Norma B. Goethe 60 (4) Prof. Dr. Akihiro Kanamori 63 II. Governance and Structure of the (5) Prof. Dr. Stefan Kaufmann 65 (6) Prof. Dr. Christian Kiening 68 Lichtenberg-Kolleg 13 (7) Prof. Dr. Dorothea Lüddeckens 71 1. Structure 13 (8) Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kurt Seelmann 73 (9) Prof. Dr. Patrice Veit 77 2. The Scientific Advisory Board (in alphabetical order) 13 3. Fellows in the Academic Year 2010/2011 80 3. The Lichtenberg-Kolleg Team 13 a. List in Alphabetical Order 80 a. Director and Deputy Directors 13 b. The respective Fellows 80 b. Academic Coordinators 16 c. Research assistant 17 (1) Dr. Camilla Adang 80 d. Administration 18 (2) Prof. Dr. Jóhann Páll Árnason 81 e. IT Assistants 18 (3) Prof. Dr. Nicholas Asher 83 f. Former employees 19 (4) Dr. Daliah Bawanypeck 85 (5) Susanne Brauer, PhD 90 III. Preparation until October 2009 21 (including Report of Dr. Rainer Egloff) (6) Prof. Dr. Devorah Dimant 93 (7) Julie Hunter, PhD 95 IV. Research Foci 23 (8) Dr. Fabienne Jourdan 96 (9) Prof. Dr. Johan Leemans 100 1. Original Ideas 23 (10) PD Dr. Alexandra von Lieven 102 2. Development 23 (11) Prof. Dr. Roy M. MacLeod 107 (12) Prof. Dr. Zlatko Pleše 110 3. New Research Foci 26 (13) Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria 112 (14) Prof. Dr. Radhika Singha 115 (15) Prof. Dr. Rudolf von Sinner 118 V. Selection of Fellows and Associates 27 (16) Prof. Dr. Emanuel Tov 122 (17) Prof. Dr. Charles Zika 125 VI. Overview and Statistics concerning 4. Fellows in the Academic Year 2011/2012 130 Fellows and Associates 29 1. Fellows 29 a. List in Alphabetical Order 130 b. The respective Fellows 130 a. Complete List of Fellows 2009 to 2012 29 b. Disciplines 36 (1) Dr. Márta Abrusán 130 c. Career-Status 37 (2) Prof. Dr. Shaheen Sardar Ali 131 d. Age 38 (3) Prof. Dr. Elke Brendel 131 e. Home University 40 (4) Prof. Dr. Antoine Cavigneaux 132 f. Nationality 42 (5) Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné 133 g. Gender 43 (6) Prof. Dr. Willi Goetschel 134 h. Accompanying Family Members 44 Content (7) Prof. Dr. Fritz Graf 134 (3) Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Heinrich Detering 194 (8) Prof. Dr. Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff 135 (4) Prof. Dr. Gunnar Duttge 195 (9) Prof. Dr. Mats G. Hansson 136 (5) Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt 195 (10) Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hehmeyer 136 (6) Prof. Dr. Ruth Florack 196 (11) Prof. Dr. Alessa Johns 137 (7) Prof. Dr. Andreas Grünschloß 197 (12) Prof. Dr. Sarah Iles Johnston 138 (8) Prof. Dr. Sebastian Günther 197 (13) Prof. Dr. Joep (Joseph Theodoor) Leerssen 139 (9) Prof. Dr. Karin Hoff 198 (14) Prof. Dr. Jason Mittell 140 (10) Prof. Dr. Anke Holler 199 (15) Prof. Dr. Dorothy Noyes 141 (11) Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter 200 (16) Prof. Dr. Per Øhrgaard 142 (12) Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld 200 (17) Dr. Roland Pfau 142 (13) Prof. Dr. Hedwig Röckelein 201 (18) Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack 143 (14) Prof. Dr. Markus Steinbach 201 (19) Prof. Dr. Ann Rigney 144 (20) Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer 145 IX. Activities 203 (21) Prof. Dr. Norbert Schappacher 146 (22) Prof. Dr. Christiane von Stutterheim 147 1. General 203 (23) Lalit Vachani 148 2. Colloquia 203 (24) Dr. Franciscus Wiggermann 149 (25) PD Dr. theol. Markus Zimmermann-Acklin 149 Colloquia October 2009 to December 2011 203 3. Workshops and Symposia 208 VIII. Associates in Detail 151 Overview Workshops 208 1. Chances and Expectations 151 2008 208 2. Academic Year 2009/2010 151 2009/2010 208 2010/2011 209 a. List in Alphabetical Order 151 2011/2012 210 b. The respective Associates 151 Workshops in Detail 2008 210 (1) Prof. Dr. Reiner Anselm 151 (cid:135) (2) Prof. Dr. Christine Axt-Piscalar 154 Säkularisierung und Säkularisate 210 (cid:135) (3) Prof. Dr. Udo Friedrich 157 Autonomie im Kontext 212 (cid:135) (4) Prof. Dr. Matthias Koenig 158 Changing Boundaries and Emerging Identities (5) Prof. Dr. Andrea Lauser 161 – Social Dynamics and Institutional Regulations (6) Prof. Dr. Volker Lipp 163 of Cultural Diversity in Comparative Perspective 214 (cid:135)(cid:3) (7) Prof. Dr. Felix Mühlhölzer 165 Kunst – Religion – Kunstreligion: Interdisziplinäre (8) Prof. Dr. Frank Rexroth 168 Forschungsperspektiven 217 (cid:135) (9) Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesemann 170 Kognitive Voraussetzungen des Verstehens 218 (cid:135) Der Traum der Vernunft und die Ungeheuer, die er 3. Academic Year 2010/2011 172 gebiert - Blicke auf die Vormoderne 220 (cid:135) Die Mathematik zwischen Natur- und a. List in Alphabetical Order 172 Geisteswissenschaften 221 b. The respective Associates 172 Workshops in Detail 2009/2010 224 (1) Prof. Dr. Christian Beyer 172 (cid:135) (2) Prof. Dr. Reinhard Feldmeier 175 Regulating Freedoms – Legal Incorporation (3) Prof. Dr. Peter Gemeinhardt 176 of Jews and Muslims in Europe 224 (cid:135) (4) Prof. Dr. Rainer Hirsch-Luipold 179 Populäre Serialität – Popular Seriality 225 (cid:135) (5) Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann 181 Darwin Among the Disciplines 226 (cid:135) (6) Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gregor Kratz 184 The Relation of Medical Practice, Medical (7) Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider 187 Knowledge, and Norms in Bioethics 228 (cid:135) (8) Prof. Dr. Annette Zgoll 191 Knowledge, Language and Memory 231 (cid:135) Celebrating difference, promoting division? 4. Academic Year 2011/2012 193 Religion, culture and conflict in Northern Ireland and former Yugoslavia 233 (cid:135) a. List in Alphabetical Order 193 Symposion: Logic and Set Theory: Philosophical b. The respective Associates 193 and Mathematical Perspectives 237 (cid:135) A Matter of Attitude: The Semantics of Attitude (1) Prof. Dr. Ravi Ahuja 193 Ascriptions from the Perspectives of Linguistics (2) Prof. Dr. Regina Bendix 193 and Philosophy 237 Content (cid:135) Das Sichtbare und das Verborgene - Diskurse Workshops in Detail 2011/2012 286 über „Rasse“ und Sexualität in der Moderne 239 (cid:135) (cid:135) Das ‚Akademische Museum‘: Universitäre Complex Sentences and Beyond in Sign and Sammlungen als Räume der Produktion, Spoken Languages 286 (cid:135) Repräsentation und Vermittlung von Wissen 241 A contested borderline: geopolitical rhetoric, (cid:135) Kollaborative Erzeugung digitaler Produkte political poetry and writings 287 (cid:135) und Leistungen 245 Political Affiliations and Identities (cid:135) Kirchlich-institutionelle Bindung als Thema in in Law and Society 288 (cid:135) Religionssoziologie und Theologie 247 Die Wirklichkeit der Geschichte 289 (cid:135) Epistemic Indefinites 252 (cid:135) Religious Diversity, Collective Identities, and 4. Public Lectures 291 States – European Configurations in Historical- Comparative Perspective 254 Overview 291 (cid:135) Spirits in Modern Asia 257 Public Lectures 2009 291 Public Lectures 2010 291 Workshops in Detail 2010/2011 261 Public Lectures 2011 291 Public Lectures in Detail 2009 292 (cid:135) Symposium on Amartya Sen’s new book Public Lectures in Detail 2010 295 „The Idea of Justice” 261 Public Lectures in Detail 2011 302 (cid:135)(cid:3) Islamic Law in Theory and Practice: Pakistan and England 262 5. Lichtenberg Fora 312 (cid:135)(cid:3) Religiöse Bücher, Grenzen und Identitäten / Livres, frontières et identités religieuses 262 6. Cultural Events 313 (cid:135) Besuch von Stipendiaten der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung 265 (a) Festivities 313 (cid:135) Die Wurzel allen Übels 266 (b) Exhibition „Ein Academiste muß erfinden“ 315 (cid:135) Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300–450 AD) History (c) Excursions 315 and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity 267 (d) Guided Tours 318 (cid:135) Das Imaginäre im Sozialen. Zur Sozialtheorie von (e) Concerts/Opera 318 Cornelius Castoriadis 268 (f) Movie evenings 319 (cid:135) Cooperation Meeting Leuven / Göttingen 269 (cid:135) Sind wir Bürger zweier Welten? Freiheit und X. List of Publications and Work moralische Verantwortung im transzendentalen in Progress 321 Idealismus 269 (cid:135) Mythische Vielfalt. Konzepte und Strata in antiken Quellen 271 (cid:135)(cid:3) Transpositional Hermeneutics in Antiquity 272 Annex (cid:135) Narrative and Law in the Patriarchal traditions: Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls 272 Ordnung des Lichtenberg-Kollegs 337 (cid:135) Die Verortung von Mythen und Ritualen in Unofficial English Translation 337 Hattusa 274 Amtliche Mitteilungen Nr. 41 342 (cid:135) Content, Context, and Conversation 275 Staying at Lichtenberg-Kolleg 347 (cid:135) Visions and Representations of Homeland in Der Aufenthalt am Lichtenberg-Kolleg 351 Modern Arabic Literature 277 A to Z Directory (Version 28. September 2011) 355 (cid:135) Der Geist und die Geister. Religiöse und A-Z Übersicht (Stand 28.09.2011) 365 theologische Herausforderungen in Brasilien und Deutschland 280 (cid:135) Between relational autonomy and trust. On the moral meaning of the family in reproductive medicine and obstetrics 281 (cid:135) Proper Names: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives 283 (cid:135) The Divine Father 284 (cid:135) Missionaries as actors of transformation and transfer. Extra-European contact zones and European spaces of resonance (1860-1940) 284 I. Analysis I Analysis 1. Mission and Structure reflection, reading and writing (see below VII. 2., 3., esp. (b)). We have succeeded in making the Fellows feel at home (see below VII. The Lichtenberg-Kolleg was established within the Excellence In- 2., 3. esp. (b)) and this notion of “Heimat” contributes considerab- itiative to strengthen the international visibility of the Göttingen ly to their sense of personal well-being, which is fundamental for Research Campus in the humanities and social sciences, and to efficient concentration and thinking. This is due to the individual initiate, facilitate and nurture innovative research in these fields. care we offer and to the organization of varying cultural events, The idea was, and remains, to give time and freedom for con- especially concerning regional history, arts, and communities (see centrated research in a congenial interdisciplinary space, thereby below IX. 7.). making Göttingen a meeting point for internationally establis- hed and emerging scholars. The intention is for colleagues on the Of course, there is always a temptation for Fellows, especially tho- Göttingen Research Campus to have the opportunity to coope- se who have come from far away, to accept invitations to lecture rate and collaborate with academics from around the globe. elsewhere during their stay at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg. This brings with it, on the one hand, the risk and burden of frequent travel- It would be possible to go about achieving these goals in diffe- ling and disruption of the quiet research times. On the other hand, rent ways. The University of Göttingen chose to invite Fellows however, these out-of-town lectures and reports on the research from outside Göttingen to conduct research at the Lichtenberg- done at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg enhance its visibility and raise the Kolleg for a period of up to ten months (see below IV., VI. 1., VII.) interest of other researchers and institutions on the Göttingen Re- and to facilitate cooperation with scholars from the Göttingen search Campus. Research Campus by granting them the status of Associates for a limited period of time (see below VIII., V. 2.). There are no perma- nent Fellows or Associates. The academic and administrative staff of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg is responsible for the institution’s operations. An international Scientific Advisory Board assists in and oversees the selection of Fellows and Associates as well as the development of the Lich- tenberg-Kolleg (see below II., V.). The Historic Observatory offers a wonderful locality for interac- tion, both in person and ‘virtually’. 2. Achievements and Challenges a. Time and Freedom for Research The academic and administrative staff of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg endeavours to relieve Fellows and Associates as far as possible of all organizational matters concerning individual research, collo- quia, collaborative meetings, workshops and conferences. In addi- tion, Fellows appreciate the support they receive in library, copy- ing and IT-services (see below VII. 2., 3., 4. esp. (b)) and the offer of help in the search for, and financing of, research assistants. After some initial difficulties, access to special libraries of University institutes has been improved (see below VII. 2., 3., 4. esp. (b)). The assistance given in arranging meetings, planning and orga- nizing workshops, and easing all administrative tasks concerning immigration, moving, housing and finances, is regarded as a great relief. The Welcome Centre of the University assists in questions concerning schooling, dual careers, language courses and other day-to-day affairs. Thus, Fellows may proceed with their research almost immediately after arrival. Our Fellows have taken advantage of these services and value highly the time and space they gain for concentration, 9