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Culture
Department of Culture
Office
Lansstraße 7-9 — Raum 323
14195 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 838-54240
E-mail: culture@jfki.fu-berlin.de
Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. to Noon
The office is closed from May 16 - 20.
Prof. Fluck's office hours are:
May 24, at 4 p.m.
May 31, at 4 p.m.
The next office hour after May 31 is in September.
Terra Foundation for American Art
Visiting Professorship at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
(2011-2012 and 2012-2013)
These three-month visiting professorships are focussed on the history of American art and visual culture. Visiting professors will offer specialized courses, seminars, and lectures to students and participate in the larger academic community throughout their stay. Two professorships are available for each academic year: 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. The stipend for a three-month professorship is $ 36,000, including travel and lodging. For more information, please contact Prof. Dr. Winfried Fluck: kultur@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Stipends:
- Winter semester 2011/12: Katherine Manthorne (CUNY)
- Summer semester 2012: Angela Miller (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Winter semester 2012/13: Vivian Green Fryd (Vanderbilt University)
- Summer semester 2013: Patricia Hills Summer (Boston University)
Thanks to the grant by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Kennedy Institute was able to host the following renowned art historians so far:
Winter Term 2009/10 Prof. Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland)
Summer Term 2010 Prof. David Lubin (Wake Forrest University)
Winter Term 2010/11 Prof. Alan Wallach (College of William and Mary)
Summer Term 2011 Dr. Jochen Wierich (Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville)
Terra Foundation for American Art Travel Grants 2011
Results of the selection process.
Cultural Studies is concerned with the history of American culture from Puritanism to the present. Seminars are organized in four different sections:
- intellectual history,
- the history of different media and cultural forms such as literature, film, photography, theater, popular music and American painting,
- ethnic and other subcultures, and
- theories and methods of American Studies and Cultural Studies.
In dealing with these topics, special emphasis is put on questions of cultural self-definition and contacts among different cultural groups within American society, including ethnic subcultures such as African-American, Native American, and Asian-American culture, as well as the role of gender in the formation of cultural identities. The broader context is that of the contribution of American culture to modernity, its ongoing process of cultural dehierarchization, cultural hybridization, pluralization, and individualization. Analyses of the „Americanization“ of modern culture, and, specifically of German culture, are part of this agenda as is the recent awareness of the transnational dimension of American culture.
