Publication Date
January 2020
Publisher
München: De Gruyter Verlag
Language
English
Type
Book Chapter
Edited Volume
Futures of the Study of Culture, Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges
Editors
Doris Machmann- Medick, Jens Kugele, Angsbar Nünning
Pages
pp. 199–214
Additional Information
Abstract
How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world.
The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural research, addressing the crucial concerns of the cultural and social worlds themselves. The contributions thereby utilize contact zones within a wide range of disciplines such as cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural history, literary studies, the history of science and bioethics as well as the environmental and medical humanities.
Examining emerging inter- and transdisciplinary points of reference, the volume invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to take part in a conversation about theories, methods, and practices for the future study of culture.
Biographical Note
Prof. Dr. Dirk van Laak (SFB 1199 & Leipzig University)
Prof. Dr. Dirk van Laak has been full professor of the history of the 19th to 21st centuries in Leipzig since 2016. He studied at the Gesamthochschule Essen from 1982 to 1989 and received his doctorate from the Fernuniversität Hagen in 1992. From 1993 to 2007 he was an assistant in Jena and held visiting and substitute professorships in Chicago (1995/96), Tübingen (2002/03) and Freiburg (2003/04). From 2007 to 2016 he was full professor of contemporary history in Gießen. His research focuses on German, European and globalization history, the history of intellectuals and infrastructure, the history of literature and historiography.