James Kaye
European University Institute
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
via dei Roccettini 9
I-50016 Fiesole (FI)
Italy
email: james.kaye@eui.eu
fon +39 055 46 85 846 and +39 055 65 94 352
fax: +390554685804
Research Fellow and Assistant Project Coordinator EMEDIATE
Education
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Ph.D. in History and Civilisation (Defence 15 September 2003) Dissertation: No One Such Place, "Home" in Austrian and Swedish "Landscapes", Advisor: Prof. Bo Stråth
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Student of History 1992-1997
The City College of New York, New York, New York
B.F.A. Film/Communications, Cum Laude 1991
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Intensive German Program Summer 1988
Publications
There's No Place Like Home, in Ron Robin and Bo Stråth (eds.) Homeland, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2003. Abstract
Mellifluence Yielding Architecture or What They Saw, Florence 2000 (web publication) Link
Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity, Philosophy and Politics No. 5, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000 (edited with Bo Stråth). Abstract
A Problematic Obligation: Commemorating the 1848 Revolution in Austria, (with Isabella Matauschek), in Charlotte Tacke (ed.), 1848 - Memory and Oblivion in Europe, Euroclio No. 19, P.I.E -Peter Lang Brussels 2000.
Wolfgang Pavlik, the Image of the Other: Ahnengalerie, in Bo Stråth (ed.), Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community, Historical Patterns in Europe and Beyond, Multiple Europes No. 9, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000. Abstract
Work in Progress
No One Such Place, "Home" in Austrian and Swedish "Landscapes",
Manuscript near completion for submission for publication as a monograph.
Apes and Sahibs, Bodyscapes, Origins, Cultural Communication and the Mind, Article near compleation.
Scholarships, Awards and Honours
Guest Scholar, Centre for Multiethnic Research/Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala University 2002-2003
Fellow, Konstanzer Meisterklasse on "Sprache, Kultur und Gesellschaft", University of Konstanz, Bernhard Giesen with Jeffrey Alexander, Zygmunt Bauman and Reinhart Koselleck, Konstanz, Germany 2001
Visiting Research Fellow, Lund University, Department of History, Lund, Sweden Spring 1999
Dissertation Scholarship, Amt der niederösterreischischen Landesregierung (The government of Lower Austria) 1999
Scholarship, Winter School on "Belonging", Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary 1998
Erasmus Scholarship, European University Institute, Florence, Italy 1997-1998 Austrian Ministry of Science
Employment
Research Fellow Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/EUI From 2004
Founding Editor of the Web-based Journal "Collaborative History" 2000-2001
Research Assistant, Prof. Bo Stråth, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute 1998-2003
Collaborator in the Project The Cultural Construction of Community in the Process of Modernisation in Sweden and Germany 1998-1999
Web-master, Prof. Bo Stråth, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI 1998-2002
Teaching Assistant for Professor Michael Mitterauer Vienna University 1996/97
Artistic Director, Film im Puls, alternative film society, St. Pölten, Austria 1995-1998
Artistic Director, Film am Dom, Open Air Film Festival, St. Pölten, Austria 1993-1998
Archaeological Photographer, Vienna City Archeology, Unterlaa 1993, Kaiserebersdorf 1994, Palais Porcia 1995/6
Freelance Photographer, Vienna, Austria 1992-1998
Referent für Überregionales, International Students of History Association, Vienna 1990-1995
Second Mate Schooner Freedom, New York Harbor 1989-1990
Conferences and Workshops
Presenter, "Europe Questioned from Within" in the panel The View from Europe, chaired by Bonnie Wheeler, at the Renaissance Weekend hosted by Phil Lader (Former U.S. Ambassador to the UK) Oxford 31 July - 4 August 2002
Chair/Paper, Continuing Education Seminar for Scandinavian teachers of German Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen: Österreich und der nord./balt. Raum im Vergleich, Vienna, 24-26 April 2002
Chair, Aliens, Strangers and Monsters a video conference Boston-Florence, 18 March 2002. Link
Chair, Inter-Media and the Practice of History, 28 May 2001. Link
Paper, "Clothes Make the Man" at Identity, Institutions, Practices, Organised by Peter Becker and Glenda Sluga, Florence 21 May 2001
Paper, Identity and Temporality Constructions of Continuity and Discontinuity, 2-3 April 2001. Link
Chair/Paper, Pasts Proposed, Factual and Contra-factual History, 15-16 May 2000. Link
Paper, Homeland, 14-15 April 2000. Link
Chair/Paper, Beyond the Printed Word: New Media and the Practice of History, 29 March 2000. Link
Chair/Paper, Art and Fact: Possibilities of Representation, 19-20 April 1999. Link
Paper, De historiska vetenskaperna och bilden (Historical Science in Images), Lund University, 5-7 February 1999
Paper, "Wolfgang Pavlik, The Image of the Other: Ahnnengalerie" Memory and Myth in the Construction of Community, Organised by Bo Stråth, 4-7 June 1998
Chair/Paper, We and They, constructing European Identities, Vienna, September 1998
Paper, Between 'Americanisation' and 'Sovietisation' la représentation de l'Holocauste dans les Musées, Florence 21 October 1997
Chair, I.S.H.A Conference Man and Nature, Vienna Organisation and Workshop Chair 1996
Discussant, Propaganda and History, Mainz, 1995
Chair, I.S.H.A Nationalism Congress, Vienna April 1991
Exhibitions (Curator)
Mellifluence Yielding Architecture or What They Saw, Florence March 2000. Link
The Image of the Other: Ahnnengalerie, Wolfgang Pavlik, Florence June 1998
Children in War, Pädagogische Akademie Vienna December 1993
Research and Teaching Interests
The theory of history and narration
Historiography
Conceptual history
Comparative history
Social and cultural history
The history of daily life
Microhistory
Memory and history
The Enlightenment
Nineteenth and twentieth century European history
Central European history
Austrian history
Scandinavian history
The image and history
Photography and history and the history of photography
Languages
English, German, Italian, Swedish
References
Prof. Bo Stråth
European University Institute/Robert Schuman Centre
via dei Roccettini 9
I-50016 Fiesole (FI)
Italy
Tel.: +39 055 46 85 535
E-mail: bo.strath@iue.it
Prof. Peter Becker
European University Institute/ Department of History and Civilization
via dei Roccettini 9
I-50016 Fiesole (FI)
Italy
Tel: 0039-055-4685-257 (or 391)
E-mail: peter.becker@iue.it