We would like to give students and Phd candidates the opportunity to exchange views on the current relevance of researching the Middle Ages. Therefore, we invite students to present relevant bachelor’s, master’s and dissertation theses that are either still in progress or have already been completed. Of course, the workshop should also serve to discuss the contents, but this year the focus should be on the importance of one’s own work with regard to research and society. Especially in current debates, the humanities and cultural studies are repeatedly accused of being obsolete. We firmly disagree with this and invite you to give us your take on the matter. We are looking forward to hearing about your projects and their social contribution from all fields. Of course, we also invite all students who are at an earlier point in their studies and do not wish to present anything.

If you would like to talk about your project, please let us know by 6^th June 2022. For all others, who wish only to participate as active listeners, a simple e-mail is sufficient.

The workshop will take place on 17^th June 2022 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at UNIPARK 3.108.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Contact: linda.beutel@plus.ac.at

Der Beitrag “Medieva…WHAT?! The relevance of researching the Middle Ages ” – Workshop erschien zuerst auf IZMF - Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit.

The questions within a history of things cannot be reduced to what they looked like, manufactured, spread, used, and charged with meaning. Rather, it asks how they are connected to each other and to people. Because people gain information about the material world and move within it by recognizing references and forming references. And also the theoretical concepts of things, their concepts, their connections and (symbolic) meanings can only be related to the practices associated with them. Thus, in order to be able to answer questions about the relationship between people and material culture, things must become observable as objects in the constellations, configurations and scenarios in which they are in some way significant or acting components.

The lecture series is offered as an analogue lecture format until further notice, the maximum room occupancy of the lecture hall is 40 people. Access is made according to the order in which the students arrive. Once the maximum occupancy number has been reached, access is no longer possible. The lecture can be followed online via Webex (sound and PowerPoint presentation). The access data is provided on Blackboard.

If access to the university’s premises is restricted again due to Covid measures, there will be a switch to digital teaching only.

The lecture will take place on Mondays from 17.15 to 18.45 (from 05.10.2019).

The lecture series was converted to the online format. Registered students can access the Blackboard. Access for external listeners can be requested by email from linda.beutel@sbg.ac.at

The lecture programme can be found here.

Der Beitrag Lecture Series of the IZMF in the winter semester 2020/2021: Object Links – Things in Relationship erschien zuerst auf IZMF - Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit.