Watch what guest lecturer Stefan Willer, Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL), says about the Winter School.

Although I had to leave earlier it was with many new inspirations that transformed and thus enriched my knowledge. The Bernese Winter School was a wonderful experience of the ex-change and the trans-lation of ideas and thoughts and concepts. In this context I would like to cite Jean Paul (1796):

“Fremde Idee sind die Insekten, die den Samenstaub von einem guten Gedanken in uns zu anderen tragen und dadurch befruchten.”

“Foreign ideas are the insects that transport the seeds of a good thought in ourselves to others thus fecundating them.” (my transl.)

Looking forward to continue with this exciting exchange!

First of all: I do not think that we really leave the WinterSchool, we are just travelling home. With this blog, and the discussed, interconnected and continuing ideas we will certainly stay in touch (formulating a futurological statement).

After this exciting week I actually feel like a sponge: Filled with thougts on different topics, for example Apocaphilia, the professionalization of musicology, the Belarusian identity and its connection to the language, authorship in Role-Playing Games, mathematics and its interrelation to literature, mathematical modelling, ethics in the early Middle Ages in Baghdad, the relasticity of culture, the discourse on energy in the 19th and 20th century, constructions of whiteness in literary texts, the paintings of southeast-asian tumor patients, the discourse on modern dance, the concept of pygmies and its connection to differánce,  philosophical aspects in arabic magazines, or Animal studies and film – to name just a few.

I am very grateful for this exciting week with its many ideas, lecture sessions, and workshops and I now just want to say:

Safe journey home and see you again soon!

Lynn Badia, PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States, talks about her Winter School experience.

Today’s guest Beno Baumberger, a representative of the Winter School’s supporter Stiftung Mercator Schweiz, summarizes his impressions of the ongoing discussions at Schloss Münchenwiler.

Watch Joakim Juhl from the Technical University of Denmark answering the question how his research project benefits from the Winter School’s discussions.

Watch David Jara, a member of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Humanities ad Social Sciences (HGGS), talking about how he benefits from participating in the Winter School.

Watch what guest lecturer Christiane Schildknecht, professor for philosophy of mind, language and science at the University of Lucerne says about the Winter School.