I’m happy and grateful to announce that the FAZIT-Stiftung has awarded me a generous grant towards the printing costs of my dissertation (to be published this fall).
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Grant FAZIT-Stiftung
Posted in Honors, Publications, tagged FAZIT-Stiftung, Linkedin, PhD, Publication on April 21, 2012| 1 Comment »
Dissertation Prize
Posted in Honors, tagged Dissertation, Linkedin, PhD, Prize, Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft on December 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
I’m honoured to announce that my dissertation “Zeichen des Verfalls. Semantische Studien zur Entstehung der Kulturkritik im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert” has been awarded the dissertation prize 2011 of the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft.
The prize will be presented by the Gesellschafts chairman, Ortwin Goldbeck, on February 24th, 2012 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld.
An account of the ceremony with a photo is to be found here.
Ph.D. Exam
Posted in Honors, tagged Cultural Criticism, Disputation, Linkedin, PhD on December 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Last week, on December 15th, I had my Ph.D. exam (‘Disputation’). After a short presentation, a wide range of questions was posed to me by my supervisors (Prof. Steinmetz of the University of Bielefeld and Prof. Den Boer of the University of Amsterdam) and the other members of the committee (Prof. Papenheim and Prof. Epple). Some of the issues we spoke about were:
– is cultural criticism political or unpolitical in nature?
– is cultural criticism mainly a transnational, Western-European discourse? What role is played by national or language specific differences?
– should the discourse of cultural criticism be interpreted as the linguistic form of a particular social group? How should its intperpretation as ‘instrument’ in the hands of language users be weighed against its semantical properties that may – at least in part unconsciously – influence the actors understanding of themselves and the world?
The results were very satisfying (summa cum laude).
Theo Jung 