Language and the Moulding of Space – an interdisciplinary Discussion
Der Tagungsband “Language and the Moulding of Space – an interdisciplinary Discussion” von Fergal Lenehan und Nadine Jänicke ist nun erschienen.
“Space” has acquired a quite astonishing presence as a category of analysis within the academic world during the past number of years, well beyond the discipline of Geography. Studies that have examined the interrelationship between language and space have, however, not been as frequent. This interdisciplinary volume brings together academics from Finland, Germany, Greece and Ireland to investigate the relationship between language and space in a number of different contexts. The authors, dealing with such diverse topics as the history of place name methodologies, the renegotiation of nomenclature and the spatial philosophy of Michel Serres, view the relationship between language and space in a multifaceted fashion that allows for cross-disciplinary dialogue and the discovery of new avenues of approach.
About the Editors
Fergal Lenehan received his PhD in 2009 from the University of Leipzig where he is currently teaching cultural studies at the Department of English. He is originally from Ballinasloe, Co. Galway in Ireland. His interests deal with intellectual history of the 19th and 20th century in the Irish, British and German context.
Nadine Jänicke is currently completing her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Leipzig. Her research concentrates on the literary analysis of the discourse of globalisation, incorporating narrativity, intertextuality and spatial theory. She teaches English Literatures and cultural studies at the University of Leipzig.
About the Authors
Jani Vuolteenaho received his PhD in human geography at the University of Oulu in 2001. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher within the Department of Geography at the Academy of Finland and the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on urban and cultural geography. In 2009 he co-edited Critical Toponymies: Contested Politics of Place Naming with Lawrence D. Berg.
Terhi Ainiala received her PhD in 1997 from the University of Helsinki and is currently a senior researcher and adjunct professor at the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland in Helsinki. The study of proper names represents her main field of interest. One of her newest publications is a Finnish textbook of onomastics (Nimistöntutkimuksen Perusteet, 2008), co-authored with Minna Saarelma and Paula Sjöblom.
Myrto-Maria Voreakou is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Architectural Language, Communication and Design of the School of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Departments of Architecture at the University of Cyprus and at the University of Nicosia. Her research focuses on the notion of narrativity and its spatial implications.
Hans-Peter Söder received his PhD from Cornell University in 1991. He is resident director of the Junior Year in Munich at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and concurrently Adjunct Professor of German Intellectual History at Wayne State University (USA). His research focuses on European Intellectual and Cultural History from the 19th century to the present. Entitled This Way Madness Lies: Max Nordau on Fin-de-Siècle Genius (2009), his most recent monograph deals with cultural theory at the turn of the century.
Doris Schweitzer recently submitted her PhD thesis in sociology at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg. Since November 2009 she has worked as a research associate in the research group Idioms of Social Analysis at the Center of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Integration
hosted by the University of Constance. Her interest lies in the areas of spatial theory, post-structuralism/structuralism, and cultural theory. She has also co-edited the forthcoming volume entitled Die Figur des Dritten (The Figure of the Third).
Judith Frömmer received her PhD in 2005 from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich where she is also assistant professor of Romance Literatures. Her research concentrates on political semantics in the early modern and modern period. In 2008 she published the monograph Vaterfiktionen. Empfindsamkeit und Patriarchat in der Literatur der Aufklärung (Father Fictions. Sensitivity and Patriarchy in the Literature of the Enlightenment).
Georg Grote completed his PhD at the University of Münster in 1997. He is currently Head of German Studies in the School of Languages & Literatures in University College Dublin. His research areas include Western European History with special focus on historical and contemporary collective organisation of peoples through nationalisms and regionalisms. He has recently published a monograph on the transformation of the German South Tyroleans’ collective identity in the 20th century, “I bin a Südtiroler.” Kollektive Identität zwischen Nation und Region (2009).
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- 128 Pages
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978 – 3-941305 – 08-3
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