Practical Arrangements for Implementation and Management

This research project has made practical arrangements that will ensure its successful implementation and management. Dr. Markin has received a preliminary agreement from Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin, Germany, for a research stay as soon as requisite funds become available. As well, Prof. Kaschuba from Georg Simmel Center who has a very relevant research and publication record has given his agreement to take part in a future team research project, especially given its comparative focus on art biennials in Berlin and Jerusalem. In this context, Dr. Jeanette R. Malkin from the Theatre Studies Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has expressed her agreement to act as a scholarly supervisor of this research project. Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, a director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, has expressed his interest in the research project and has given his agreement to take part in it as soon as its formal framework becomes finalized. Given that the initial stages of this research project will take art biennials of Germany, Italy and Israel into consideration, with a further widening of the countries sample being planned, Prof. Mario Perniola, a professor of aesthetics at the Tor Vergata University of Rome and a more well known representative of contemporary Italian philosophy, has agreed to take part in the future research project. Prof. Perniola possesses highly needed expertise on art biennials in Italy. He is a theorist of intellectual and art history who is highly regarded internationaly. These arrangements lay a firm basis for the future research project to succeed.

Additionally, a bridge funding between the completion of his doctoral program by Dr. Markin and the start of his Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant has been secured. As a returning resident, he is eligible for a partial post-doctoral fellowship from the Israeli government. The Center for German Studies has come forward with a matching amount of support to make sure that the reintegration of Dr. Markin takes place in Israel. Though this arrangement puts the start date of Dr. Markin's present stay in his host country before the forthcoming cut-off date for this Marie Curie People Call, this circumstance does not contradict its guidelines. Moreover, presently Dr. Markin has an opportunity to start a smaller scale research project that will lay groundwork for the team research project this research proposal applies for. The current arrangement is intended to be separate from and auxiliary to the prospective framework of the Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant. Dr. Jeanette Malkin, Prof. Wolfgang Kaschuba and Prof. Mario Perniola has been involved in the composition of this research project. They all have expressed their agreement to future cooperation and their support of this research proposal.

As part of the process of its preparation, this research project has been submitted for review by Prof. Bianca Kuhnel, the director of the Center for German Studies and of the European Forum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Significant parts of the research output of this research project will be published in the Working Papers Series of the Center for German Studies.