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News from Humboldt Scholars
The following information was received from Humboldtians in the
United States.
Dr. Josef Chytry (Humboldt Research Fellow 1973)
of the University of California, Berkeley, writes that a gathering is to take place this April 22-28, 2007 in Prague honoring the 100th anniversary of Jan Patocka, the Czech philosopher who influenced the Czech Velvet Revolution and Vaclav Havel, but was himself the fatal victim of police interrogation in 1977. Dr. Chytry shall be contributing with a talk on "Jan Patocka and Central European Polis Thought" on Monday, April 23, 2007. Patocka was himself an Alexander von Humboldt recipient in 1933, which allowed him to attend Freiburg University and acquaint himself with both Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, the key figures at that time in philosophical phenomenology. Patocka's thought is largely the result of his connection with these key figures and the fact that he was a Humboldtianer and is being celebrated this April is worth noting.
Prof. Susan Bernofsky (German Chancellor Fellow
1995) is the 2006 recipient of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation
Prize for her translation of "The Old Child and Other Stories"
by Jenny Erpenbeck (published by New Directions).
J. Laurence Hare Jr. and Johanna Jacobsen
Kiciman (both German Chancellor Fellows 2003) organized
a Humboldt
Kolleg at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
April. Titled "National Scholarship and Transnational Experience,"
the interdisciplinary colloquium brought together 22 scholars from
across the United States, Canada, Germany, and Austria to discuss
the extent to which individual scholars or disciplines have been
influenced by a national context, yet have engaged colleagues, ideas,
and issues beyond the frontiers of the nation-state.
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