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DESCRIPTION:Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus will be coming to speak at the Seminar in
  Cultural History on Wednesday\, February 1\, 2012.  His talk is entitled 
 “Voices of the People in the Berlin Phono Archive.”Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus c
 urrently serves as the Scientific Coordinator at the Wissenschaftskolleg z
 u Berlin and as Professor of German Philology at the University of Potsdam
 \, Germany.  He studied Philosophy and German at Ruhr University Bochum an
 d received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Göttingen\, where he a
 lso held the rank of Lecturer and Assistant Professor.  Dr. Meyer-Kalkus h
 as previously been appointed as a Getty Research Scholar and Officier dans
  l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques of the French Republic.  He has published 
 extensively on oral traditions\, musicology\, language\, and philosophy.Wh
 en thinking of phono archives in Berlin\, generally\, what first comes to 
 mind is the Phonogramm-Archive\, founded by Carl Stumpf at his Institute f
 or Psychology and later curated by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel.  One forge
 ts that there has been and is still another archive of historical sound do
 cuments in Berlin\, the Berliner Laut-Archiv\, the collections of which da
 te to 1909\, but which was officially founded in 1920 as the “Lautabteilun
 g an der Preußischen Staatsbibliothek” (the Sound Department of the Prussi
 an State Library).  This Lautarchiv was not the initiative of a German Her
 r Professor and serious scholar\, such as Stumpf or Hornbostel\, but rathe
 r of a schoolteacher and self-made man\, Wilhelm Doegen (1877-1960)\, who 
 never hid his commercial interests.  Whereas the Phonogramm-Archiv primari
 ly focused on European music for scholarly purposes\, the aim of the Lauta
 rchiv was to collect spoken language—be it the different languages and dia
 lects in the world\, German regional dialects\, or spoken poetry.  The hid
 den dream was to find an equivalent for Herder's dream of the Stimmen der 
 Völker (the voices of the people of the world).  Today\, the Phonogramm-Ar
 chiv\, which is hosted by the Helmholtz-Center at Humboldt-University\, ho
 uses 4\,600 items and—next to the Vienna Phonogramm-Archive and the phono 
 archives in St. Petersburg—is one of the largest sound archives of spoken 
 language in Europe.Light refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The prese
 ntation will begin at 6:00 pm.RSVP is required. Please click on the regist
 ration link at the bottom of this page or contact academicevents@bgc.bard.
 edu.PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate a limited numbe
 r of people\, so please come early if you would like to have a seat in the
  main room.  We also have overflow seating available\; all registrants who
  arrive late will be seated in the overflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Voices of the People in the Berlin Phono Arch
 ive
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