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Annual Report 2007 Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 140-142 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark Phone: (+45) 3532 86 80 Fax: (+45) 3532 8681 Email: [email protected] Website: www.cfs.ku.dk Annual report: January 1 - December 31, 2007 Content 1. Introduction 2. Staff 3. External funding for 2007 4. Research 5. Foreign visitors 6. Activities organized by the Center 7. Teaching, supervision, evaluation 8. Various academic and administrative tasks 9. Editorial tasks 10. Collaboration (national and international) 11. Talks and lectures 12. Publications 13. Submitted/accepted manuscripts 1. Introduction The Center is an interdisciplinary "Center of Excellence" funded by the Danish National Research Foundation, with supplementary funding from the University of Copenhagen (Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Health Sciences). The current research program of the center, which runs from March 1, 2007 – February 28, 2012, is entitled "The Self: An Integrative Approach". The Center’s research is divided into six sections: • Self and consciousness • Core self and extended self: A viable distinction? • Infantile self-experience: A developmental perspective • Self, emotions and understanding • Disorders of self • Self and normativity Although the Center’s research is mainly focused on conceptual and theoretical issues, it is not a narrowly conceived philosophical investigation, but one that is enriched and informed by empirical research, and which involves active collaboration with psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists. 1 During 2007 the Center organized, co-organized, and/or co-sponsored 7 conferences and workshops (with more than 140 speakers) as well as 10 individual guest lectures by invited speakers, and it had more than 45 foreign visitors. The staff of the Center published 56 books and articles, submitted 49 manuscripts for publication, and presented more than 89 papers and lectures in Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Israel, Canada and USA. The Center’s interdisciplinary meetings have attracted foreign PhD students from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Turkey, Hungary, Latvia, Italy, Japan and USA. Among the conferences and workshops organized by the Center in 2007, the following two might be singled out as having attracted particular attention in terms of international attendance: Feb. 8-10: Despite Oneself. Subjectivity and its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas. April 20-22: Self and Other. 5th Annual Meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology. Among the Center’s many 2007 publications one might highlight the following: • Legrand, D. (ed.): Subjectivity and the body. Special issue of Consciousness and Cognition, 16/3, 2007, 577-768. • Overgaard, S.: Wittgenstein and Other Minds: Rethinking Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity with Wittgenstein, Levinas, and Husserl. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. (xiii+201 pp.) • Grøn, A., Damgaard, I., Overgaard, S. (eds.): Subjectivity and transcendence. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. (255 p.) • Gallagher, S., Zahavi, D.: The Phenomenological Mind: An introduction to philosophy of mind and cognitive science. London - New York: Routledge, 2008. (256 pp.) • Jansson, L.B., Parnas, J.: "Competing definitions of schizophrenia: what can be learned from polydiagnostic studies?" Schizophrenia Bulletin 33/5, 2007, 1178-1200. Other highlights include: In his capacity as member of the steering committee of the Research Priority Area “Body and Mind” at the University of Copenhagen, Dan Zahavi was the original promoter and proposer of the new education Cognition and Communication, which subsequently received official approval by the Danish Akkrediteringsrådet. Dan Zahavi joined Shaun Gallagher as co-editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (publisher by Springer). Arne Grøn obtained 1.997.590 DKK in funding from the VELUX FONDEN to a project entitled "Trust, Conflict, Recognition". 2. Staff Scientific board • Professor, dr.phil., PhD, Dan Zahavi, Director • Professor, dr.theol., Arne Grøn • Professor, dr.med., Josef Parnas 2 Post.docs • Post.doc. PhD, Thor Grünbaum • Post.doc. PhD, Joel Krueger (since 1.7.2007) • Post.doc. PhD, Dorothée Legrand (since 1.9.2007) • Post.doc. PhD, Claudia Welz (since 1.4.2007) PhD students (all are enrolled at the University of Copenhagen) • Cand.mag., Rasmus Thybo Jensen. The position is financed by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. • Cand.teol., René Korsholm Rosfort. The position is financed by the Research Priority Area “Body and Mind”, University of Copenhagen. • Mag.art. Johan Eckart Hansen (since 1.3.2007) • Cand.mag. Line Ryberg Ingerslev (since 1.3.2007) • Cand.mag. Christian Beenfeldt (since 1.9.2007) Research assistants • Cand.scient.soc., Gry Ardal Christensen (since 19.2.2007). Technical Staff • Ditte Sæbye, statistician Administrative personnel • Pia Kirkemann, administrator • Mads Henriksen, student helper (until 15.5.2007) • Simon Rodovský, student helper (from 15.5.2007) Visiting professors • Tim Crane, University College London and Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK (10.4-30.4.2007) • Katalin Farkas, Dept. of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (10.4-30.4.2007) • Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland (26.3- 26.5.2007) • Werner Jeanrond, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (11.09-31.12.2007) Visiting researchers • Thomas Brudholm, Post.doc, MA (Philosophy & Danish) & Ph.D. (Philosophy) Researcher, Dept. of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, DIIS, Copenhagen, Denmark (1.1.- 1.6.2007) • Wolfgang Fasching, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria (1.3.-25.5.2007) • Paul Heefer, Post.doc, Husserl-Archives, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (01.09.07 - 31.12.07) • Borut Skodlar, MA & MD, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (26.3-27.4. and 6-24.11.2007) Visiting PhD students • Takaya Suto, Hititsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences (1.8-19.9.2007) • Morten Sørensen Thaning, cand.phil., University of Aarhus, Denmark (since 1.1.2007) • Somogy Varga, Dept. of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (since 1.9.2007) 3 3. External funding for 2007 The list does not include any external funding already mentioned in the original contract, i.e., it does not include the salary, running expenses, etc. of Dan Zahavi, Arne Grøn and Josef Parnas. In some cases the funding has not been administered directly by the Center, and some of the figures are therefore approximate. Danish Employment Service, job training Gry Ardal Christensen (salary 1.2.07 – 31.12.07) = 128.090 DKK Research Priority Area “Body and Mind”, University of Copenhagen René Korsholm Rosfort (salary and running expenses (1.1-31.12.07) = 364.723 DKK Danish Research Council for the Humanities Morten Sørensen Thaning (salary and running expenses 1.1-31.12. 07) = 285.000 DKK Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen Paul Heeffer (salary 4 months from 01.09.07-31.12.07) = 48.712 DKK Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Dorothée Legrand (salary 1 month from 31.3-1.4.07) = 12.672 DKK The French Embassy in Denmark Dorothée Legrand (running expenses) = 18.518 DKK University Hospital of Ljubljana and Medical School of Ljubljana Borut Skodlar (salary 26.3-27.4. and 6-24.11.2007) = 24.000 DKK European Science Foundation Funding the First BASIC Workshop “Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity and Self-representation", ESF-Eurocores programme, CNCC Copenhagen, May 9-12, 2007 = 133.486 DKK Danish Research Agency Thor Grünbaum (salary and running expenses 1.8-31.12.07) = 245.472 DKK Rasmus Thybo Jensen (salary 1.1-31.12.2007) = 290.754 DKK European Commission: Marie Curie Research Training Networks (RTN) Post.Doc. Dorothée Legrand (salary and running expenses 1.9.-31.12.2007) = 186.500 DKK Network activities = 12.000 DKK Austrian Science Fund Wolfgang Fasching (salary 1.3-25.5.2007) = 73.215 DKK Hititsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Sciences Takaya Suto (salary 1.8-19.9.2007) = 15.000 DKK University of Iceland Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir (salary 26.3-26.5.2007) = 67.000 DKK Carlsberg Foundation Thor Grünbaum (salary 1.1.-31.07.07) = 136.490 DKK External funding in total = 2.041.632 DKK 4 Arne Grøn has obtained funding from the VELUX FONDEN to a research project entitled “Trust, Conflict, Recognition”. The core research group will be Arne Grøn, Anne Marie Pahuus (post.doc.), Claudia Welz (post.doc.) and Gry Ardal Christensen (Ph.D.-student). The project will run from 2008-2011. The precise amount will figure in the center’s annual reports for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. 4. Research Arne Grøn has worked primarily on the following projects: 1. Within the overall project of a hermeneutical philosophy of religion, studies have focused on a) religion and interpretation, and the question of transcendence, b) religion and (in)humanity, c) phenomenology of religious life and hermeneutics of facticity in Heidegger. 2. Within the overall project of a hermeneutical theory of subjectivity, studies have focused on: a) subjectivity, interiority, and exteriority, particularly in Kierkegaard and Levinas, b) dialectics of recognition, singularity and alterity, c) consciousness, experience and history, particularly in discussing Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, d) freedom and
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