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Kollektive Traumata? Zu den gesellschaftlichen Folgen massenhafter Traumatisierungen. Überlegungen am Beispiel der deutschen Nachkriegsgesellschaft von IFK_Junior Fellow Markus Brunner.
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Judith Frömmer widmet sich in ihren Forschungen Torquato Tasso, dem sagenumwobenen italienischen Dichter, der in Zeiten der Gegenreformation am Hof der Este in Ferrara tätig war. Sein bis heute bekanntestes Werk „Gerusalemme liberata“ leitet die Genealogie der Este-Dynastie aus der Geschichte des Ersten Kreuzzugs ab.
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Judith M. Barringer’s lecture gives an overview of her work, which focuses on the sculptural monuments at Olympia as part of a changing, dynamic landscape. She investigates patrons’ intentions and how activities (religious, athletic, political) at Olympia, together with existing monuments, influenced viewer perception and the siting of later monuments.
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Eric Hounshell, doctoral candidate in History at UCLA, discusses the scope of the Vienna-born social scientist Paul F. Lazarsfeld’s career through the territories he inhabited, in terms of geographical locations and intellectual milieus and of specific subfields and research contexts. Lazarsfeld was not only a self-described “connecting cog” between research traditions but also, and more fundamentally, a key contributor to the social sciences that came to shape everyday life in the 20th century.