German-Canadian International Training Research Group 'Diversity'

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnumber 211741315
Duration: 2013 - 2022

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ursula Lehmkuhl

In cooperation with Saarland University (Prof. Dr. Astrid Fellner) and the Université de Montréal (Prof. Dr. Laurence McFalls), the German-Canadian Research Training Group deals with the politically and socially controversial fields of 'multiculturalism' and 'diversity'. Through the collaboration of humanities and social science disciplines, paradigmatic changes and historical processes of transformation in dealing with multicultural realities in North America and Europe since the late 18th century are examined. The IRTG places the processual character and discursive construction of diversity, as well as its historical contextuality, at the center of its research program and analyzes the mediation and translation of cultural difference across space and time.

The research program is structured by three cross-cutting themes: Policies, Practices, and (Historical) Narratives of Diversity. The research program opens up original and innovative perspectives for dissertation topics that address diversity change at the political, social, and cultural micro, meso, and macro levels. The research program focuses on the entangled European-North American history and follows methodological the principle of "herméneutique croisée". It thus establishes new approaches for area and transnational studies as well as for comparative research. In methodological-theoretical terms, the IGK contributes a historically grounded sharpening of its core analytical concepts: diversity, transculturalism, translation, and space.

The research-oriented qualification concept is based on regular meetings of doctoral students and participating scholars, includes intensive one-week summer and spring schools, master classes on selected theoretical concepts, an international conference with external experts, and a dissertation workshop at the beginning of the third year. These intensive phases ensure the scholarly exchange of the entire group and the international visibility of the College. They provide a framework for international networking among the doctoral students and support them in key phases of the work process.

For further information visit the Homepage of the IRTG Diversity.

Publikationen

Sammelbände / Herausgeberschaften:

Lehmkuhl, Ursula/Elisabeth Tutschek (Eds.) (2020): 150 Years of Canada: Grappling with Diversity since 1867, Münster: Waxmann Verlag.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula/Lutz Schowalter (Eds.) (2019): Translating Diversity. Concepts, Practices, and Politics, Münster: Waxmann Verlag.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula (Ed.) (2018): Länderbericht „Kanada“, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Bonn: single authored contributions to the volume: Einleitung: Kanada – das bessere Nordamerika?, p. 10-21; Die Geschichte Kanadas von der europäischen Kolonisation bis zum Beginn des Kalten Krieges, p. 60-112; Der kanadische Dualismus: Franko- und anglophone Politik und Gesellschaft, p. 114-122; Das „Peaceable Kingdom“: Kanada in der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft, 1945-2016, p. 522-550.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula/Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink/Laurence McFalls (Eds.) (2016): Spaces of Difference: Conflicts and Cohabitation, Münster: Waxmann Verlag.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula/Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink/Laurence McFalls (2015): Of ‘Contact Zones’ and ‘Liminal Spaces’: Mapping the Everyday Life of Cultural Translation, Münster: Waxmann Verlag.

Articles

Lehmkuhl, Ursula (2020): Celebrating First of July: Political Identity Construction and Multi-Cultural Memories in a Postnational State, in: Ursula Lehmkuhl, Elisabeth Tutschek (Hg.), 150 Years of Canada: Grappling with Diversity since 1867 (Münster: Waxmann Verlag), 19-36.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula (2019): Translation as a Heuristic Model for Diversity Studies, in: Ursula Lehmkuhl, Lutz Schowalter (Hgg.), Translating Diversity: Concepts, Practices, Politics (Münster: Waxmann Verlag), 29-56.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula (2016): Paradoxes of Resistance and Resilience: The Pitfalls of Métis Renaissance since the 1970s, in: TransCanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies 8, Special Issue: Canadian Sites of Resistance: Solidarity—Struggle—Change (?), ed. by Weronika Suchacka, Hartmut Lutz, and Anna Kricka, 52-72.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula (2016): Das Dilemma der Gleichheit, in: Themen Thesen Texte: Magazin des Exzellenzclusters „Kulturelle Grundlagen der Integration 05/16, 18-21.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula (2016): Spaces of Difference: Conflicts and Cohabitation, in: Lehmkuhl, Ursula/Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink/Laurence McFalls (Eds.), Spaces of Difference: Conflicts and Cohabitation, Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 5-26.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula (2016): Duke Redbird: We Are Metis (1980) - Oder: "Participation Mystique" und Resilienz, in: Jürgen Martchukat/Olaf Stieglitz (ed.), race & sex: Eine Geschichte der neuzeitlichen Welt, Berlin: Neofelis, 110-117.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula (2015): Spaces and Practices of Diversity: An Introduction, in: Lehmkuhl, Ursula/Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink/Laurence McFalls (Eds.), Of ‘Contact Zones’ and ‘Liminal Spaces’: Mapping the Everyday Life of Cultural Translation, Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 5-28.

For the publications of the members of the IRTG Diversity visit our website.