Call for Submissions – Patterns Lectures

 

PATTERNS_RESEARCHING AND UNDERSTANDING RECENT CULTURAL HISTORY

PATTERNS is a transnational programme of the culture programme of ERSTE Foundation.
The aim of PATTERNS is to research and understand recent cultural history in Central and
South Eastern Europe. PATTERNS initiates, commissions and supports contemporary
culture projects and academic activities in a variety of formats and media. The programme
focuses on the visual arts and culture of the 1960s until today.

CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF COURSE PROPOSALS

The call is launched to encourage the development of new university courses in the fields of
art history, cultural studies and cultural sciences. The call addresses lecturers at public
universities in Central and South Eastern Europe that share PATTERNS' areas of interest
and who are interested in developing new courses that tackle the topics of PATTERNS. We
support course development, study visits, literature purchase, as well as guest lectures.

PATTERNS aims to document, analyse and investigate different aspects of and practices
related to the transformation of daily life and culture in Central and South Eastern Europe,
while accounting for the pluralities that describe the region. PATTERNS seeks to promote
understanding and knowledge of a differently lived past, which can facilitate a shared present
and future. In doing so, it takes on the role of a "contemporary witness". The initiative focuses
on the 1960s and 1970s, as well as on the "transition" period leading up to the present. The
period commonly known as the "transition" is, without question, an important historical
turning point, not only in the sense of reshaping and redefining what art and culture could
mean in a post-totalitarian society: At historical and geographical fault lines, stories and
historical documents emerge.

WHAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN
We are particularly interested in courses which:

• are newly developed and were not held before
• analytically deal with the time period starting from the 1960s up to the present, but

also with the year of transition in 1989
• deal with cultural phenomena before

 

WHOM WE SUPPORT
The call addresses lecturers at public universities in Central and South Eastern Europe that
offer study programmes in the fields of art history, cultural studies and cultural sciences and
related fields. We support lecturers at public universities who are interested in developing
new courses that tackle the topics of PATTERNS. Course proposals by external lecturers
must be embedded in the framework of a public higher education institution.
Courses should be held in the academic year 2010/2011.

WHOM WE DO NOT SUPPORT
We offer funding exclusively to public universities. Course proposals by external lecturers
must be embedded in the framework of a public higher education institution. Grants are not
made to individuals or political parties.

APPLICATION DEADLINE
7th March, 2010.
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deadline.
For further information please refer to the Guide for Applicants; the Application Form and the
Guide can be downloaded from www.wus-austria.org/patterns_lectures.

CONTACT INFORMATION
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