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Research Program of the Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum
| The RESEARCH PROGRAM of
the COLLEGIUM PHILOSOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM is determined by principles
that provide the FELLOWS with the opportunity to test and evaluate international
and interdisciplinary forms of cooperation in their research. The program
is meant to enable the FELLOWS to integrate and apply the results of continuous
discussion with their advisors, other professors and other fellows, into
their own projects. Thus the following elements are constitutive for the
structure and program of the COLLEGIUM:
Internationality The cooperation of German and American professors in one graduate program, attempted for the first time in the COLLEGIUM PHILOSOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM, demands first and foremost the assimilation of different educational systems, study and research principles in such a way that work at projects in the humanities becomes possible at an international level. Internationality should therefore not only be declared at this first transatlantic graduate collegium, but must also be actualized in concrete research. In this way new forms, methods and concrete international projects of philosophical and interdisciplinary research can emerge, which transform the particularities of national scientific culture in research, teaching and communication. A first step in this direction is a contract that will permit the awarding of a common degree for the Ph.Ds trained in the COLLEGIUM. This contract is already in effect between Marburg and Stony Brook, and is in preparation between the other participating universities. The fellows, therefore, are expected not only to work towards doctorates in their respective countries of origin, but will be allowed the opportunity to obtain a joint Dr. phil/PhD to be recognized in both countries. This unprecedented joint Ph.D program between the two German and two American universities does not, however, exclude participation by students and faculty from other nations and institutions. Rather, this principle of internationality stipulates openness to students, scholars and faculty from other countries and affiliations, to engage actively in the program as research fellows or visiting professors. Since the COLLEGIUM PHILOSOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM has set out to realize internationality as a principle of research and teaching, concrete concepts for teaching and research have been developed, which will have to be tested, modified and/or expanded in the years to come. Among these provisionally assumed concepts are: Co-advising Co-advising stipulates the advising of doctoral students by both German and American Professors; a concept that is being attempted in this particular format for the first time. Participating fellows are expected to first, select a doctoral advisor from her home institution; then, second, choose a counter-part advisor from one of the transatlantic partner institutions. Both co-advisors are then expected to continually supervise, in cooperation with one another, their mutual charge. The enlisted advisors are also expected to participate in the annual international conference of the COLLEGIUM as well as the national research workshops held at regular intervals. Co-teaching Every semester, a participating American professor and a participating German professor will jointly lead a seminar, whose topic will be thematically relevant to the interests of the participating research fellows. Currently, a three-hour seminar, to be held twice a week, for 6 to 7 weeks, in English, has been scheduled for Stony Brook and Emory. The two professors will then go to either Marburg or Wuppertal, and repeat the seminar in German for a comparable length of time. Obligatory Year Abroad Student exchange, in the traditional sense, is of course an essential feature of the COLLEGIUM. Each participating fellow is expected to spend at least one year abroad at one of the transatlantic partner universities. It is while abroad that the participating fellow will be allowed the opportunity to engage in close discussion of their research with her foreign advisor. Every fellow will thereby have the opportunity to gain insight into the study conditions, the scientific culture and the academic scene of the respective partner countries. Bilingual Approach All faculty participants and fellows of the COLLEGIUM PHILOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM are expected to be functionally bilingual. Accordingly, all functions and events related to the COLLEGIUM will be conducted in both German and English, regardless of whether they be doctoral seminars, workshops, colloquia of reading groups initiated by fellows involved in the guest speaker series, even if offered by only one of the partner universities. Permanent Colloquium Marburg-Wuppertal Transatlantic cooperation
among the German and American universities is not the only goal. 'Cisatlantic'
work aims at expanding and, if possible, intensifying the cooperation between
the two German universities. The permanent colloquium Marburg-Wuppertal
provides the setting for such cooperation. It has already started and takes
place monthly, alternating in Wuppertal and Marburg. If possible all professors
and fellows participating in Wuppertal and Marburg are expected to come
together in order to discuss and explicate classical texts of the philosophy
of subject and person. The aim is to reach, at least in principle, a common
understanding of subject and person in modern and contemporary philosophy
and to communicate it to the fellows. By bringing together different philosophical
schools, interpretative approaches and methods as well as scholars, the
various disciplines participating in the interdisciplinary work is to be
realized in an exemplary way. Within the first three years of funding,
the COLLEGIUM attempts to provide the fellows with an overview of historically
significant and currently effective conceptions of subjectivity.
Doctoral Seminar Primary goal and criterion
of success for any graduate program - and hence also for the COLLEGIUM
PHILOSOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM: the successful completion of as much of one's
dissertation or post-doctoral work as possible within the three year period
of funding provided by either the DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT or the
KADE foundation. Therefore, the regular doctoral seminar taking place at
each of the four universities is an indispensable element of the fellows'
education. It is also the forum in which the fellows can present certain
sections of their dissertations, report and discuss progress and results
of their work on methodological and thematic problems, and engage in more
expansive exchange with their advisors and other professors. The continuous
participation and effort of all fellows and professors is imperative.
Initiatives by the Collegiates: study groups and colloquia The fellows of the COLLEGIUM PHILOSOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM are not only encouraged, but are indeed expected to organize their own reading groups, study groups and colloquia, relevant to the CENTRAL TOPIC of the COLLEGIUM--namely, Subject and Person in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy. The COLLEGIUM PHILOSOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM offers the opportunity to organize such colloquia to which the fellows can also invite guest speakers. However, such initiatives will receive funding if, and only if, they do not take away time from the fellows' own research projects. Therefore, for any colloquium whose initiation is made with expectation of material support from the COLLEGIUM, a proposal is expected by a commitee of participating professors, who will then judge the relevance of such a colloquium to the CENTRAL TOPICS of the COLLEGIUM as a whole. Guest speakers/Lecture Series The CENTRAL TOPIC, Subject
and Person in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, is discussed by renowned
scholars all over the world. The COLLEGIUM PHILOSOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM
regards it as one of its tasks to familiarize the fellows with these contemporary
tendencies in scholarship and research throughout the world, as well as
with current debates in Marburg, Wuppertal, Stony Brook and Atlanta; and
to facilitate discussion with the advocates of different philosophical
positions. For this purpose, guest speakers are regularly invited; at least
once during a single funding period, talks should be combined into one
coherent lecture series.
Workshops and Annual Conferences
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Overview of the first three year study period at the COLLEGIUM PHILOSOPHIAE TRANSATLANTICUM 1. Year of Studies (1999/2000)
2. Year of Studies (2000/2001)
3. Year of Studies (2001/2002)
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