The Lüneburg Summer School for Digital Cultures is now accepting applications for its week-long summer school. The Lüneburg Summer School provides advanced training in the study of media, their theory, aesthetics and history.
This year’s topic, “Challenging Methods”, reacts to the demands for a discussion of methods that recently have become prevalent in the context of media studies. Historically and institutionally, this field of research originated when scholars from a variety of fields started to confront their disciplines and specifically their methodologies with the questions of media epistemology. From those investigations of the hitherto overlooked media-‐theoretical presumptions and media practices of their original fields, a discourse emerged that was labeled media studies – “Medienwissenschaften”.
The Lüneburg Summer School for Digital Cultures will bring together a group of around 18 young international scholars with renowned faculty to investigate the status and challenge of methods in media studies. Connecting scholars from different fields, it aims to open up discussions in media studies, while at the same time offering the chance to investigate the specific mediality of methods in other fields.
Schedule: This year’s program will take place September 20-26, 2015 at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany.
The week long Summer School is structured as a series of shared seminars, keynote lectures and three streams taught in small groups. The first stream will investigate the promise of digital tools; the second stream will tackle the dimensions of a politics of methods; and the third stream will confront methods as cultural techniques.
To Apply: The Lüneburg Summer School on Digital Cultures invites applications from outstanding doctoral candidates, but also master students at the end of their exams, throughout the world in media studies and related fields such as film studies, literary studies, philosophy, art history, architecture, sociology, politics, the history of science and visual culture.
All application materials should be sent by email to florian.sprenger@leuphana.de and must be received by November 10, 2014. Applicants who have been admitted will be notified by the end of November.
The working language of the Summer School is English. Applications are accepted in English or German, and should be submitted electronically in PDF format and include the following:
- Letter of Intent indicating academic experience, interest in the Summer School’s annual topic and the selection of one of the three streams (max. 300 words)
- Curriculum Vitae (max. 2 pages)
- Abstract of a possible presentation at the Lüneburg Summer School for Digital Cultures. No more than 2000 words, double spaced, with standard margins
- Contact information (name, institutional address, email) of two potential references
We have a limited amount of need-‐based travel funding available. Please indicate in your application letter if you wish to apply for travel funding.
For further information on the DCRL and MECS please visit:
http://www.leuphana.de/zentren/mecs.html
http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/
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