Doctoral program
"Medialities in historical contexts. Cultures of knowledge and the arts in the 17th and 18th centuries"
The title of the doctoral program "Medialities in historical contexts. Knowledge Cultures and the Arts in the 17th and 18th Centuries" refers to the character of processes that began in this period and continue to the present day. The doctoral program was founded in 2009 byAo.Univ. Prof.i.R. Dr.h.c.mult. Dr. phil. Harald Heppner and a founding consortium in order to research the process of "Enlightenment" in a transdisciplinary and interfaculty collaboration between academics and students and to generate new insights through networking.
By including the perspective of medialities, questions of ideologies, identities and ideas can be addressed, taking into account hybrid and changing conditions of existence within the framework of discourses and networks.
The aim of the doctoral program "Medialities in Historical Contexts" is to offer an interdisciplinary exchange forum for doctoral students at the University of Graz, but also at other university institutions, who work in the core area of knowledge cultures and the arts in the 17th and 18th centuries and/or are interested in dealing with historical topics from the perspective of medialities.
Target group of the doctoral program
The doctoral program "Medialities in Historical Contexts" is aimed in the narrower sense at doctoral students from different fields of study and faculties of the University of Graz who work in the core area of knowledge cultures and the arts in the 17th and 18th centuries and/or are interested in dealing with historical topics from the perspective of medialities.
One aim of the doctoral program is also to establish an interdisciplinary forum for exchange beyond the institutional context of the University of Graz and in cooperation with non-university memory institutions to reflect on current research topics and innovative methods with regard to knowledge cultures and the arts in the 17th and 18th centuries. By including the perspective of medialities, questions of ideologies, identities and ideas can be addressed, taking into account hybrid and changing conditions of existence within the framework of discourses and networks. It is essential to embed medialities in their historical, cultural, ideological, social and political contexts. From a methodological perspective, the focus on medialities includes both historical source criticism and digital possibilities in the processing of historical questions.
