GRK 2196:  Document - Text - Editing. Conditions and Forms of Transformation and Modeling: a Transdisciplinary Perspective

• Subject Area: History
• Term: since 2016
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• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 277132246

Both the University of Wuppertal and Wuppertal/Bethel Theological College possess a well-established focus on editorial studies, supported by the respective university management’s targeted appointments to strengthen the academic profile of both universities. The April 2016 established research training group incorporating the fields of print and media technology, German, history, classical philology, philosophy, and theology is, therefore, embedded in an ideal institutional structure. In the proposed second phase of funding it is planned that the disciplines of computer science, digital humanities, and art history will be further incorporated into the training group. The research training group analyzes the discipline-specific practices for editing documents, considering the developing transdisciplinary editorial methods and theories, and thereby maintaining a double-view of scholarly editing as both a theoretical discipline and research-directing activity: through works regarding editorial theory and particular theoretically- relevant editions the editorial scope is defined, as well as informed by the (discipline-specific) scholarly use of the editions. In the second phase, the research training group rests upon three thematic columns: Under the first theme of "document", it considers the actual object of an edition, which has not yet been adequately addressed from a transdisciplinary perspective. Under the second theme, the "text" is treated as a product emerging from (discipline- influenced) editorial premises and work upon the document. Under the third theme of "editing", the training group focuses on the different disciplinary modalities of knowing, with recourse to transdisciplinary theory and methods. In this way, a broad re-evaluation of scholarly editing is accomplished. This re-evaluation was both exemplarily established as well as methodologically and theoretically supported by the dissertation projects during the first funding phase and should now be enriched by transdisciplinary theoretical cores. In the first funding phase, the relationship between the understanding of documents and the concept of “text” stood at the center of the training group’s discussions and the description of discipline-specific differences in these regards were highlighted by the dissertation projects. This scope should then be expanded in the second funding phase according to multi- and transmedia perspectives on the document and its editorial reappraisal.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• Participating Institution: Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Jochen Johrendt
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Alf Christophersen; Professor Dr. Armin Eich; Professor Dr.-Ing. Bela Gipp; Professor Dr. Gerald Hartung; Professor Dr. Ulrich Heinen; Professor Dr. Martin Karrer; Professorin Dr. Ursula Kocher; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Lukas; Professor Dr. Thomas Riesenweber; Professor Dr. Patrick Sahle; Professor Dr.-Ing. Karl-Heinrich Schmidt