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Social Sites/Öffentliche Räume/ Lieux d’échanges 1300-1800

Social Sites/Öffentliche Räume/ Lieux d’échanges 1300-1800. Prepared for a History Department Council Meeting Research Showcase Day Wednesday 23 rd May 2007. History & Funding.

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Social Sites/Öffentliche Räume/ Lieux d’échanges 1300-1800

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  1. Social Sites/Öffentliche Räume/Lieux d’échanges 1300-1800 Prepared for a History Department Council Meeting Research Showcase Day Wednesday 23rd May 2007

  2. History & Funding Formed by Beat Kümin in 2003 under the auspices of an ‘Academic Collaboration: International Networks’ award from the Leverhulme Trust. Designed to ‘foster and develop fields of research where the participants can benefit from an international exchange of ideas and of experience between two or more institutions’.£41,000 for a three-year cycle.

  3. Network Members As well as Beat Kümin and James Brown from the University of Warwick, the network comprises colleagues from the University of Paris I (Wolfgang Kaiser) and the Technical University of Dresden (Susanne Rau, Gerd Schwerhoff and Christian Hochmuth).

  4. Network Members

  5. Communicative Structure Annual Follow-up Meetings:Coventry (2006), Frankfurt (2007), Paris (2008)The Network Facilitator: A 20% administrative post. Principal tasks include liaison with the host institution, network members and workshop participants, and rolling maintenance of the network website.Tobias Hug (2005-6)James Brown (2006-7)

  6. Thematic Basis: The ‘Spatial Turn’ Focussing on Europe and its neighbouring areas from the late Middle Ages to the eve of the modern period, the networkpartakes of and promotes the interpretative upgrading of space from an inert platform or empirical ‘given’ to a social and cultural construct with an ‘agentic’ role in social action. Three interrelated foci:The ‘actually lived space of sites’dwellings, public houses, marketplaces, parish churchesEarly modern spatial perceptionstheology, economic and political theory, optics, geometrySpace as ‘good to think’a hermeneutic device for the investigation of historical problems

  7. Activities I: Workshops Three international gatherings interrogate early modern space in some major manifestations. Invited speakers from various disciplinary backgrounds (c. 20) explore theme over an intensive residential workshop consisting of formal sessions, plenaries, public lectures and field trips:Political Space (Warwick, 2005) Speakers included Ronald Asch, Christine Carpenter, James C. Scott and David ZaretReligious Space (Dresden, 2006) Speakers included José Casanova, Susan Karant-Nunn and Jacques Rossiaud Economic Space (Aix-en-Provence, 2007)Speakers include Olivia Remie Constable and Molly Greene

  8. Activities II: Website Launched in April 2005 and hosted by the History Department, the website is central to our communication and research profile. General information about the network, links to other research resources and projects, an interdisciplinary bibliography, as well as a calendar advertising network workshops and related events: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/socialsites/ Attracts a high number of visitors; 2829 ‘hits’ in January 2007, 98% of which were external.

  9. Dissemination Political Space in Preindustrial EuropeB. Kümin (ed.) R. Dürr & G. Schwerhoff (eds) Kirchen, Märkte und Tavernen: Erfahrungs- und Handlungsräume in der Frühen Neuzeit(Frankfurt, 2005)C. Hochmuth & S. Rau (eds) Machträume der früneuzeitlichen Stadt(Konstanz, 2006)B. Kümin (ed.) Political Space in Preindustrial Europe(Aldershot, 2008)

  10. Future Directions With our three-year cycle of activity coming to an end all members have expressed a strong interest in continuing the initiative. Future collaborations might involve:A large thematicresearch project with linked PhD and postdoctoral studentships at network institutions.A major research article on spatial approaches co-authored by network members.A residential summer school, attached to a network institution, that would enable European graduate students to converge on spatial questions.

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