Call for Applications: Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute: Economy between Cultural Theory and Cultural History

At the center of this year’s Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute is an inquiry into the power of economic thought and the symbolic representations of economic transactions since the Renaissance.
How effective and suitable are the tools of cultural analysis in dissecting the economy? This is one of the central questions literature scholar Joseph Vogl (Humboldt University, Berlin) will address in his key-note lecture, a topic which will be discussed both with the younger participants of the summer institute and with established historians and social scientists who will also be invited to give their input.
Applications:
The Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute is open to doctoral students and postdocs in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany as well as abroad. An interest in interdisciplinary work is expected to create an atmosphere of productive intellectual exchange. Applicants with research topics resonating with the theme will profit most from participation.
For applicants from outside Göttingen with well documented need, it may be possible to offer financial support.
German and English are the languages of discussion at this year’s Summer Institute. The main lecture will be given in German; in the working groups with the invited seniors as well as with fellows of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg and the four organizers will be handled as fits the composition of groups.
Tuition: 100 €
The Summer Institute is supported by third-party funding. The program includes a reader, a welcome and a farewell dinner, lunches, as well as a thematically dovetailing excursion in the environs for all participants.

The following application materials are to be submitted electronically:

• Application letter detailing the reasons for desiring to participate
• 1-page exposé of the applicant’s doctoral or postdoctoral project
• Curriculum Vitae

Address: mhsi@gwdg.de

Deadline: July 15, 2014

Decisions will be mailed out in the first week of August.
Inquiries may be directed at Anna Maria Reinking mhsi@gwdg.de or Prof. Dr. Hartmut Bleumer hbleume@gwdg.de.
The Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute was initiated by Prof. Dr. Regina Bendix, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Bleumer, Prof. Dr. Rebekka Habermas and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knöbl in cooperation with the Lichtenberg-Kolleg - the Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study and supported by the VolkswagenStiftung.

Further Information: http://www.maurice-halbwachs-summer-institute.uni-goettingen.de