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<trans-abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This paper aims at bringing out some of the most significant characteristics that unite and differentiate the way culture is dealt with in the Cultural Studies, <italic>Kulturwissenschaften</italic> and <italic>études culturelles</italic> and does so in the light of norm. It would be indeed unavailing to be fully exhaustive given the great plurality of all this scientific formations. It is certainly more relevant to point out how these formations respectively navigate in relation to the norm, whether in theory and practice or at the institutional level, and in so doing fulfill a crucial orientation function.</trans-abstract>

Etudes culturelles, Cultural Studies, Kulturwissenschaften. Eine vergleichende Skizze im Prisma der Norm

<trans-abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">While the French school of <italic>cultural history</italic> adopts this identity in the 1980s, it is in fact the outcome of several approaches that have renewed an old project dating back to the French as well as to the German Enlightenment: i.e. a socio-historical approach issuing from a critical evolution of the Marxist doxa; an approach of political history issuing from a critical evolution of liberal reading patterns; finally and most importantly an approach in historical anthropology, anchored in a critical evolution of the economic hypotheses formulated by the dominant group of the Annales School. It is paradoxical that after WWII the distinctive French characteristic, expressed in the notion of ‘mentality’ has, by way of recovering the concept of culture, facilitated the reintegration of that school into an international movement.</trans-abstract>

Y-a-t-il une « école française de l’histoire culturelle » ? Retour sur les origines

<trans-abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">After years of intense debate, Kulturwissenschaft has become firmly established in philology. It seems that programmatic positions as well as scientific practise have reached a phase of consolidation. Still, the notion of Kulturwissenschaft and its realization in philological research and teaching are broad, ranging from literary studies with a ‘cultural’ perspective to interdisciplinary Area Studies. The article gives an overview of this range, focussing on Romance studies’ neighbouring disciplines, more precisely: the study of German and English.</trans-abstract>

Kulturwissenschaft in den Philologien. Das Beispiel der deutschen Germanistik und Anglistik

<trans-abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The contribution is aimed at surveying the history of <italic>French Cultural Studies</italic>, subdiscipline within German <italic>Romanistik</italic> (‚Romance Studies‘). Its goal is to demonstrate in which extent the interests both in research and in teaching have been conditioned – according to the given prevailing historical and social conditions – by the requirements of imparting orientation knowledge on the one hand, scientific paradigm shifts on the other, but also by the calculated instrumentalization in favour of public respectively ideological changes. The following seven phases are specifically discussed: (1) The formation of <italic>Romanistik</italic>, (2) the dichotomy between French <italic>Realienkunde</italic> (‚Realia Studies‘) and the critically questioning <italic>Kulturkunde</italic> (‚Cultural Studies‘), (3) the long lasting dominance of the <italic>Wesenskunde</italic> (knowledge of the specific frenchmens’ nature and its cultural manifestations), (4) the brutal strenghtening of the antagonisticdisparaging sort of <italic>Wesenskunde</italic> during the Nazi period, (5) a modern accentuation of <italic>Realienkunde</italic>, (6) the strong tendency to explore French culture beyond historical, sociological and political interests of knowledge, (7) finally, the epochal paradigm shift in ‚Cultural Studies‘.</trans-abstract>

Civilisation <italic>(Landeskunde)</italic> et science de la culture <italic>(Kulturwissenschaft)</italic> dans la franco-romanistique : histoire d’un combat

<trans-abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This article broadly reviews the history of the encounter between French German studies and Cultural Studies / <italic>études culturelles</italic>. In this context, not least the organon of the latter is called into question. Yet, the long-established multidisciplinary approach of French specialists in German studies has led them to move closer to Cultural Studies. Institutional developments, such as the creation of the CIERA and the Marc Bloch Centre, innovative research practices and methods brought about by cultural studies and applied particularly within the framework of joint PhD programs or research center projects, are proof of this. These innovative steps, committing themselves to the paradigm of Humboldtian university, which for its part refuses to reify knowledge, are received positively.</trans-abstract>

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 About the Jornal  SYMPOSIUM CULTURE@KULTUR is an interdisciplinary scientific open access journal, which is also available as a print edition from the publisher. It is supported and co-published by the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. and the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès IRPALL (Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Arts, Letters and Languages).The journal SYMPOSIUM CULTURE@KULTUR aims to be the primary venue for scholarly exchange and debate among scholars of histoire culturelle/Kulturwissenschaften to facilitate the dialogue between France and Germany, while also welcoming researchers from other countries. A central concern of the journal is to discuss the different outcomes of the so-called "cultural turn" in German and French research. Each number offers articles, review essays, and book reviews. All of the articles are peer-reviewed publications.     The journal SYMPOSIUM CULTURE@KULTUR aims at analyzing the recent gradual convergence between the German Kulturwissenschaften and the French études culturelles/histoire culturelle. Our ambition is to present case studies that illustrate epistemological foundations and question structural resemblances and differences. Establishing a dialogue also means examining the possibility of transfers and cooperation beyond spatial and disciplinary frontiers. We will present successful examples and delve into the reasons of their success. Reciprocal perceptions and transfers will be analyzed in the perspective of the potential transformation of concepts, and we will also consider the resistances and defensive positions that jeopardize or even prevent interdisciplinary cooperation.  Keeping in mind the core domains of research of the editorial team - German and French historians, Romanists and Germanists from Berlin, Freiburg, Potsdam, Dresden and Paris, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. SYMPOSIUM CULTURE@KULTUR will take into account as much as possible the principle of the "crossed gaze", looking at one's own identity with a foreigner’s eyes. This can yield a methodological surplus result, since it allows to question implicit research assumptions.  Our objective in the long run is mainly to nurture the scientific dialogue and the flow of information about the scientific output in the field of culture and cultural history in France and Germany, without excluding other cultural realms. We will strive to shed light on research that is often untranslated and receives little exposure beyond national borders.  Archiving Sciendo archives the contents of this journal in Portico - digital long-term preservation service of scholarly books, journals and collections. Plagiarism Policy The editorial board is participating in a growing community of Similarity Check System's users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process. 

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Kulturwissenschaften – Histoire culturelle – Cultural Studies: Konzeptionen, Debatten/Des conceptions en débat

Editorial

Etudes culturelles, Cultural Studies, Kulturwissenschaften. Eine vergleichende Skizze im Prisma der Norm

Y-a-t-il une « école française de l’histoire culturelle » ? Retour sur les origines

Kulturwissenschaft in den Philologien. Das Beispiel der deutschen Germanistik und Anglistik

Civilisation (Landeskunde) et science de la culture (Kulturwissenschaft) dans la franco-romanistique : histoire d’un combat

Études culturelles et études germaniques en France

Im Westen nichts Neues? Cultural Studies in Frankreich im 21. Jahrhundert – eine Sammelrezension

Reflexionen anlässlich der Verabschiedung der ersten Generation Studierender des Masters Kulturwissenschaften / Cultural Studies an der Université Paris Nanterre (2016-2018)

Die Herausgeberinnen im Gespräch

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