GRK 625:  Institutional Orders, Writing and Symbols

• Subject Area: History
• Term: from 2000 to 2009
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273097

The European research training group is occupied with the analysis of institutional orders. The main focus is on the media, the communicative processes and the historical embeddedness of such orders. According to the method of institutional analysis the Kolleg is based upon, we distinguish a symbolic and an instrumental dimension of the media, in which cultural formations are always objectified. The complex stabilizations achieved by such media - especially the medium of writing, but also the symbolic systems of the human body or the media of architecture and pictures - can thus be deciphered in a historically differentiated and an analytically innovative way. At the same time, the faculty cooperation between the Technical University of Dresden and the Ecole pratique des hautes études (Paris) creates a fruitful synthesis of perspectives and traditions in Cultural Studies in France and Germany. The curriculum is designed to integrate the different types of programs and the education of both parts of the research training group and should lead to a binational diploma ("thèse co-tutelle"). The research training group is also closely connected to the collaborative research centre 537 "Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit" concerning persons, method, and theory.

• DFG Programme: International Research Training Groups
• International Connection: France
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• IRTG-Partner Institution: École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Martin Jehne; Professorin Dr. Beate Kellner; Professor Dr. Bruno Klein; Professor Dr. Hermann Kokenge (†); Professorin Dr. Barbara Marx; Professor Dr. Gert Melville; Professor Dr. Fritz-Heiner Mutschler; Professor Dr. Jürgen Müller; Professor Dr. Werner Patzelt; Professor Dr. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg; Professor Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff; Professor Dr. Hans Vorländer
• Cooperation Partners: Frédéric Barbier; Professorin Dr. Marie-Francoise Courel; Dejanirah Couto; Jean-Louis Ferrary; Professorin Dr. Sabine Frommel; Professor Dr. Michel Hochmann; Professor Dr. Jacques Le Rider; Jean-Michel Leniaud; Guy-Michel Leproux; Jean-Pierre Machelon; Jean-Pierre Mahé; Francois Monnier; Michel Pastoureau; Professor Dr. Francois Queyrel