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.

Here is an essay by Adrian Miles dealing with some central issues concerning the possibilities of academic hypertext writing. While it might be somewhat outdated (2001), it still gives an idea of some of the “dangers” and advantages of the media.

Dear All

To explore the possibility of a single-authored or joint publication in today’s workshop, please find below a list of journals and book series for which I either act as the General Editor (EP), an editorial board member (CP, W&T) or an affiliate happy to establish ‘first contact’ or mediate on your behalf.

@you and world: If you are the editor of any other journal or book series that you’d like to advertise as a possible forum for the participants of this and future Winter School, please add your title/link as a  comment or separate post. We’d particularly welcome online/open access possibilities, even ‘academic hypertext’ (see post David Jara above) Read more

Dear guest lecturers, dear participants at the first Bernese Winter School,

First of all, allow me to welcome you to Schloss Münchenwiler and to thank you for making the journey, in some cases from as far afield as Scotland, Belarus and the USA.

The Winter School is being organised by the Graduate School (GS@IASH) of the Philosophical-Historical Faculty, University of Berne, with the principal aim of offering a forum of exchange and critical debate to graduate students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Sponsored by the Stiftung Mercator Schweiz, the Winter School will take place in four consecutive years, focusing in turn on ‘transformations of knowledge’, ‘achronies in (global) processes of development’, ‘symbolic and aesthetic dimensions of change’, and the ‘worldliness of the humanities’. Read more

The European Meeting of the Society for Science, Literature and the Arts takes place in London, 21-23 June 2012. This year’s conference is dedicated to the theme of “sound” broadly construed:
http://www.exhibitionroad.com/supersonix