| FB-12414-75 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Carl W. Chrislock | The Life and Times of Jindrich Plachta | 9/1/1975 - 8/31/1976 | $14,000.00 | Carl | W. | Chrislock | | | | University of St. Thomas | St. Paul | MN | 55105-1096 | USA | 1975 | European History | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 14000 | 0 | 14000 | 0 |
To study the life, work and times of Jindrich Plachta. Plachta was a comic theater and film actor and a writer of feuilletons in Czech newspapers. He was active from the 1920's. until the 1950's. He functioned under three extremely different political systems: the democratic first Czechoslovak Republic; the German Protectorate; and finally, the Communist Republic. Study will determine how this was accomplished. Such an in depth study of Plachta, who had close contact with Social Democratic leaders and writers, will add another dimension to the study of popular culture and its impact on the party's development. |
| FE-24854-90 | Fellowships and Seminars: Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95 | Karen L. Ryan-Hayes | Developments in the Contemporary Russian Feuilleton | 6/1/1990 - 5/31/1991 | $750.00 | Karen | L. | Ryan-Hayes | | | | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 1990 | Slavic Literature | Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95 | Fellowships and Seminars | 750 | 0 | 750 | 0 | No project description available |
| FEL-289136-23 | Research Programs: Fellowships | Stefani B. Engelstein | The Emergence of the Concept of Opposite Sexes around 1800 in German Literature, Science, and Nature Philosophy | 6/1/2023 - 5/31/2024 | $60,000.00 | Stefani | B. | Engelstein | | | | Duke University | Durham | NC | 27705-4677 | USA | 2022 | German Literature | Fellowships | Research Programs | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | Research and writing leading to a book on the scientific concept of “Opposite Sexes” in 19th-century German scientific and scholarly discourse.
A 12-month NEH fellowship will enable me to complete a book, The Making of the Opposite Sex, that will investigate how sex came to be viewed as opposite rather than merely other. As naturalists shifted focus from anatomy to physiology, this oppositional sexual dynamic emerged in science, medicine, literature, and philosophy, all fields in dialogue. In various thinkers, the polarity came to ground definitions of the organism; the workings of all life; the possibility of empirical knowledge; the existence of the objective world beyond subjective imaginings; human ethical interactions; and even an originary heterogeneity as the condition of possibility for differentiated existence as such. My book will focus on the German-speaking world in which sexual polarity emerged. It will conclude by analyzing the resurgence of the model in the US in the last 30 years. My research will illuminate from a scholarly standpoint why the concept has proven so intertwined with social values for so long. |
| RZ-266172-19 | Research Programs: Collaborative Research | Regents of the University of Michigan | Below The Line: The Feuilleton, the Public Sphere, and Modern Jewish Cultures | 10/1/2019 - 10/31/2021 | $50,000.00 | Shachar | M. | Pinsker | Naomi | | Brenner | Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | MI | 48109-1015 | USA | 2019 | Cultural History | Collaborative Research | Research Programs | 50000 | 0 | 48284.64 | 0 | Two international conferences, a website, and digital resources on Jewish culture and “feuilleton,” a newspaper insert popular throughout Europe from the 19th to the early-20th centuries. (12 months)
This convening grant would fund two conferences to bring together international scholars working on the feuilleton, an important and immensely popular feature in newspapers that has been largely forgotten. Our project proposes the feuilleton as a new area for interdisciplinary and multilingual inquiry, seeing the feuilleton as a critical juncture in the production of modern cultures and the public sphere. It focuses on the unique place of the feuilleton in modern Jewish cultures, which were highly multilingual and transnational. By assembling scholars in literature, history, and communications from North America, Europe, and Israel, we will examine the development of the feuilleton as a new form of media and make key texts accessible online for scholars, students, and the public. We will explore and sharpen the topic of investigation, identify and discuss significant periodicals and feuilletons, and plan subsequent publication in print and digital forms. |