Projects
Projects FNS
Deixis and Joint Attention: Vision in Interaction (DeJA-VI)
2018 - 2022 (48 mois)
Applicant : Anja Stukenbrock
Other partners : Angeliki Balantani, Anika Kamilla Clausen, Stefanie Lazaro, Letizia Manco, Sonja Salerno, Nadine Schefer, Aline Siegenthaler
Persecuted Mediators - Mediators in Exile
2019 - 2022 (36 mois)
Applicant : Larisa Schippel (Universität Wien), Gerhard Budin (Universität Wien), Andreas F. Kelletat (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz - Germersheim), Irene Weber Henking (Université de Lausanne)
Other partners : Dieticker, Pino, Bäcker, Iris, Brandtner, Joana, Kremmel, Stefanie, Luicky, Vesna, Richter, Julia, Rozmyslowicz, Tomasz, Schippel, Larisa, Tashinskiy, Aleksey, Wloka, Bartholomäus
Translations, when published, exist as real or virtual objects. They can be bought, borrowed, read, exploited for further study, shelved or stored. As quotations or paraphrased sections, they may circulate through various discursive fields and thus shape our social life. This is also true for translations in exile in the context of Nazi tyranny. Their creators, however, the translators in exile, have, so far, remained anonymous in public and academic discourse: their names, biographies, work, the scope of agency, networks, translational strategies remain in the dark. The Exil:Trans project has been designed to take these translators out of the discursive shadows.
Luxury and Modernity: The Ambivalence of the Superfluos in Culture Conceptions in Literature and Aesthetics since the 18th Century
2018 - 2022 (48 mois)
Applicant : Christine Weder (UNIGE), Hans-Georg von Arburg (UNIL)
Other partners : Ruth Esther Signer, Maria Magnin, Raphael Johannes Müller, Peter Wittemann
The project's aim is to better unterstand the fundamental and ambivalent role of luxury in modern conceptions of culture since the 18th century. It analyzes its aesthetic representations in literature, art and theory by comparing them with economic, philosophical, anthropological and sociological discourses. The luxurious thereby shows itself as a relative and constantly renegotiable category which comprises the superfluous or the excessive and is associated to the unuseful, not necessary or immoderate materially as well as temporaly.
