Hubert van den Berg

University professor

Department of Dutch and South African Studies

Office: Collegium Novum, room 104A
Phone: (0-61) 829 35 57
e-mail: hubert@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link

Degrees:

  • Doctorandus (drs.) in German, Leiden, 1987
  • Doctor (dr) in the Arts, University of Amsterdam, 1998
  • D.Litt. in literary studies, Poznań 2010

Research interests:

  • Dutch, German and Nordic literatures
  • Social-political and other contextual aspects of literature and art
  • Historiography and theory of European avant-garde and modernism
  • History of the international Dada movement
  • Historiography and theory of transnationality in culture
  • German-Dutch intercultural relations
  • Representation of nature in literature and art
  • Cultural history of swimming and bathing
  • Digital literature

Teaching experience:

  • Lectures, seminars, courses on different levels in Dutch, German and English at University of Amsterdam, Groningen University, Leiden University, Carl-von-Ossietzky-University Oldenburg, University of Osnabrück and Adam Mickiewicz University
  • Translation (German, Dutch)
  • Language Acquisition (German, Dutch)
  • Comparative literature
  • Literature and art of European avant-garde and modernism
  • Modern Dutch literature
  • Literature and art of the Dutch avant-garde
  • Dadaism
  • Representation of nature in European literature
  • German nature poetry
  • Nature and technique in literature
  • Digital literature
  • History of the Low Countries

Other professional experience

  • Translator of academic and literary texts from German and Finnish into Dutch and from Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French and Swedish into German
  • Curator of the Dada section of the exhibition “Kurt Schwitters in Nederland”, Stadgalerij Heerlen 1997
  • Curator of the exhibition “Avant-garde in het Noorden/Avantgarde im Nordwesten” in the University Library of Groningen University and the Landesbibliothek Oldenburg 2000

Professional organizations

  • Internationale Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (IVG)
  • Deutscher Germanistenverband (DGV), Fachgruppe Hochschule
  • Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek (IVN)
  • Vereniging voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap (VAL)
  • International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
  • European network for avant-garde and moderism research (EAM)
  • Comenius Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek in Centraal-Europa
  • Deutsche Schillergesellschaft
  • Kurt Schwitters Society UK

Editorial

  • General editor of the series Nature, Literature and Culture (Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York), since 2003
  • Member of the advisory board of the series Avant-Garde Critical Studies (Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York), since 2003
  • General editor of the Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries in the framework of the Nordic Avant-Garde Research Network, 2006-2010
  • Editor of the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (De Gruyter: Berlin/New York), since 2007
  • Member of the editorial board of Werkwinkel. Journal of Low Countries and South-African Studies, since 2011
  • Member of the advisory board of the series ‘Studies in Modern European Literature’ by Palgrave MacMillan (Basingstoke), since 2011
  • Editor and co-editor of several academic essay collections, anthologies of literary texts and other source material (see publications)

Scholarships

  • Grotius Fellow, post-doc, German Dept./ICOG, University of Groningen 1999-2000
  • Post-doc, VNG (NWO/FWO-Vlaanderen), Dutch Dept./ICOG, University of Groningen 2003-2007
  • Research grant (2 months), Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar 2008
  • Research grant (1 month), Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar 2009

Visiting lecturer

  • Fachbereich Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft of the Universität Osnabrück 1995-2004
  • German Dept., Leiden University 1996
  • German Dept., Universidad de País Vasco in Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2004
  • Listháskóli Íslands (Art Academy of Iceland), Reykjavík 2007

Guest lectures

  • Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 1996 and 2005
  • Dept. of Comparative Literature, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1997
  • Dutch Dept., Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität, Oldenburg, 2000
  • Vereniging van Germanisten aan Nederlandse Universiteiten (VGNU), Utrecht University 2001
  • History Dept., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2003
  • Universidad de País Vasco in Vitoria-Gasteiz, German department, 2004
  • Literary Faculty, Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland), Reykjavík, 2005
  • Poetics Conference, Helsingin Yliopisto (Helsinki University). Helsinki, 2005
  • Graphic Arts, Listháskóli Íslands (Art Academy of Iceland), Reykjavík, 2007
  • Institut for Kunst- og Kulturforskning. Københavns Universitetet, Copenhagen, 2008.
  • Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, 2008
  • Dept. of Comparative Literature, Université de Fribourg, 2009
  • Institut für Germanistik, Regensburg, 2010

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • Zweite Erich-Mühsam-Tagung, Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft (Lübeck), Malente 1991
  • Erich-Mühsam-Seminar, Erich-Mühsam-Kreis, Berlin 1991
  • Dritte Erich-Mühsam-Tagung, Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft (Lübeck), Malente 1992
  • Sexual Cultures in Europe”, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1992
  • Vierte Erich-Mühsam-Tagung, Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft (Lübeck), Malente 1993
  • Deutsche Literatur in den Niederlanden 1933-1940, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M. 1993 [with: Dieter Nelles]
  • Littérature et Anarchie, Université Stendhal, Grenoble 1994
  • IX. World Congress of the Internationale Vereinigung für Germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC 1995
  • Mimesis, Fifty Years Later: the Representation of Reality in Literature, University of Groningen 1996
  • Literature's Nature/Littérature et Nature, Odense Universitet 1996
  • Anarchisten, Anarcho-Syndikalisten, Rätekommunisten, Trotzkisten in Widerstand und Exil - Tendenzen, Organisationen, Personen, Forschungsstelle Widerstandsgeschichte von Freier Universität Berlin und Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin 1997
  • XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Leiden University 1997
  • Pamphlet, utopie, manifeste (XIXe - XXe siècles), Université Stendhal, Grenoble 1997
  • Rückblick auf die Avantgarde, Universität Osnabrück 1999
  • Baltic-Scandinavian Interdisciplinary Workshop on Culture and Nature, Palmse 1999
  • Nature between fact and fiction. Nature in the cultural sciences, University of Groningen 1999
  • Zweite internationale Otto-Gross-Konferenz, Academic Psychiatric Hospital Burghölzli, Zurich 2000
  • Cultural Icons, Lund University 2000
  • Avantgarde in Noord en Zuid, University of Groningen
  • X. World Congress of the Internationale Vereinigung für Germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Wien 2000
  • Finnougrier und Indoeuropäer: Kontakte der Sprachen, Kontakte der Literaturen, University Groningen 2001
  • Avant-garde - Neo-Avant-garde, University of Edinburgh 2002
  • Brücken zwischen Kunst und Leben und andere Mythen der Avantgardeforschung, Zentrum für Literaturwissenschaft, Berlin 2002
  • Ismer og Avantgarder, University of Aalborg 2002
  • Danish Avant-Garde Network, Hald/Viborg 2003
  • Anarchisme en utopie in de literatuur rond 1900 in Duitsland, Nederland en Vlaanderen, Freie Universität Berlin 2003
  • The Poetics and Politics of the Historical Avant-Garde, University of Ghent 2004
  • First conference Nordic Network of Avant-GardeStudies, Københavns Universitetet 2004
  • La Vanguardia histórica – ¿utopía y progreso?, Eusko Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2004
  • Avant-garde Now?! Fourth Ghent Conference on Literary Theory”, University of Ghent 2005
  • Deutsch-polnische Literaturbeziehungen zwischen Avantgarde, Nationalismus und Totalitarismus in den zwanziger und dreißiger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts”, University of Gdansk 2005
  • Visualising Utopia, University of Groningen 2005
  • XI. World Congress of the Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik, Germanistik im Konflikt der Kulturen, Sorbonne, Paris 2005
  • Mapping the neo-avant-garde. Theorising art, literature, music, and film in the 1950s and 60s, University of Edinburgh 2005
  • Framúrstefna: Tilurðsaga, samtími, Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík 2005
  • I dialetti della tribù, European Network of Comparative Literature, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence 2005
  • Autonomy and engagement in literature at the two fins de siècle, 1900 and 2000, University of Groningen 2005
  • ICOG Conference Vision in text and image, University of Groningen 2005
  • Il primitivismo e le sue metamorfosi:archeologia di un discorso culturale, University of Bologna 2005
  • Dada in Debate, Tate Modern, London 2005
  • 3rd Annual Conference of the Nordic Network for Avant-Garde Studies, Centre–Periphery. Avant-Garde and the Other”, University of Tromsø 2006
  • Avantgardistische Metropolen (1909-1930)”, University of Geneva 2006
  • Réseau du sens/ Réseaux des sens/ Vernetzung des Sinns/ Netzwerke der Sinne, Université Paul Verlaine, Metz 2006
  • Metamorphosis of the Mind: Out of One’s Mind, Losing One’s Mind, Light-Mindedness, Mindlessness”, Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga 2006
  • Flugblätter vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 2006
  • Founding conference of the European network for avant-garde and moderism research (EAM), Ghent University 2008
  • Raoul Hausmann and the Avant-Gardes, Institut National d`Histoire de l’Art, Paris 2008
  • Alternativ publicering/Litterär innovation?, Nordens Folkshögskola, Biskops Arnö 2008
  • Internationales Symposion zu Kurt Schwitters. Merzgebiete aktuell, Sprengel Museum, Hannover 2008
  • Capitales culturelle et Europe du Nord/Cultural Capitals and northern Europe, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg 2008
  • Avant-Garde and Violence, Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík 2008
  • Ernst Jünger. Versuch einer Bilanz, University of Wrocław 2009
  • Historizing the Avant-Garde, Københavns Universitetet 2009
  • Neerlandistische ontmoetingen - Trefpunt Olomouc. Palacký University, Olomouc 2010
  • XII. World Congress of the Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik, Vielfalt und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit,  Warszawa 2010
  • Metamind 2010. Conference of the International Association for Semiotic studies (IASS/AIS) and the International Communicology Institute (ICI) at the Latvian Acadamy of Culture, Rīga/Ungurmuiža 2010
  • Der Aufbruch in die Moderne. Herwarth Walden und die europäische Avantgarde. Symposium of the Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Terchnikforschung (IZKT) at the Universität Stuttgart 2010
  • International conference ’Transgression und Intermedialität. Die Texte von Kurt Schwitters’, by Leibniz-Universität and Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2011
  • Contactforum Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, ’Midden-Europa & de Nederlanden. Literaire inspiraties, variaties, combinaties (van interbellum tot heden)’, Brussels, 2011
  • Colloquium ’Paradoxes de l’avant-garde européenne. La modernité artistique entre nationalisme, internationalisme et traditionalisme’, Université de Fribourg (CH), 2011
  • Second International Comparative Literature Conference. Literature and Culture, Ilia State University and National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Tbilisi, 2011
  • Regionaal Colloquium Neerlandicum. Lage landen – hoge heuvels’, University of Belgrade, 2011

Organizer of international conferences

  • Section “Anarchist Literature and Literary Anarchy as Itineraries to Freedom” at the 5th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Utrecht 1996
  • Nature between fact and fiction. Nature in the Cultural Sciences, Groningen 1999
  • Avant-garde in Noord en Zuid, Groningen 2000
  • Avant-Garde Now?! Fourth Ghent Conference on Literary Theory, Ghent 2005
  • Workshop Internationality and Internationalism in the European Arts, 1880-1930, Groningen 2007
  • First conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Research (EAM), Ghent 2008
  • Panel (together with Joanna Orska, Wrocław University)  „Plagiarism and Piracy as Avant-garde Practices“ at the Second bi-annual conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Research (EAM), UAM Poznań 2010
  • Round table „The Future of Avant-Garde Studies“ at the Second bi-annual conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Research (EAM), UAM Poznań 2010

Honours

  • Research bonus award for excellent research from the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen 2003

Publications