Dr. Nicole Grimes gave a presentation on her research analyzing Johannes Brahms' music and its relationship to modernism and 19th century German culture. Her talk discussed Brahms' treatment of death in his elegies and how it reflected the poetics of loss in German culture between the late 18th to early 20th centuries. She also briefly outlined her background in historical musicology and the Marie Curie application process, emphasizing the importance of independent thinking, leadership potential, and clearly defining one's professional identity and career goals.

1. New Horizons in the Humanities
Royal Irish Academy, 30. i. 2014
“Brahms and the Fabric of Modernist Culture”
Dr Nicole Grimes
Marie Curie Fellow (IOF/SOC)
UCD School of Music

2. • BRIEF BACKGROUND
• Historical Musicologist
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Music analysis
Music history
Aesthetics
German Studies
Philosophy
• The music of Johannes Brahms

3. • Marie Curie Application Process
• WISSENSCHAFT = SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

4. The Humanities Crisis:
Where do we fit?
• Utility argument
• Public good argument
• Civic benefits argument
• Intrinsic worth

5. The Humanities Crisis
Consequentialist
• Utility argument
• Public good argument
• Civic benefits argument
Nonconsequentialist
• Intrinsic worth

6. Brahms and Death
Brahms and
Modernism
Brahms’s
Humanism
Brahms’s literary
and
Philosophical
world

7. Brahms and Death
Brahms and
Modernism
Brahms’s
Humanism
Brahms’s literary
and
Philosophical
world

8. Brahms and Death
Brahms and
Modernism
Brahms’s
Humanism
Brahms’s literary
and
Philosophical
world

9. Brahms and Death
Brahms and
Modernism
Brahms’s
Humanism
Brahms’s literary
and
Philosophical
world

10. Brahms’s Elegies
Schicksalslied (Hölderlin)
Nänie (Schiller)
Gesang der Parzen (Goethe)
Vier ernste Gesänge (Lutheran Bible)
The Poetics of Loss in German Culture
New Humanists
Late 18th–early 19th-C
1870s– 80s
1896–97
Frankfurt School
Early 20th-Century

11. Application Process:
More than Research
• Marie Curie Application Process
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Cutting edge and well-thought out
Independent thinking and leadership
Match between profile and project
Potential to acquire new knowledge
Attainability of research proposal within given timeframe
IMPACT: Knowledge transfer

12. Application Process:
More than Research
• What is your dream career?
• What steps do you need to take to make that
attainable
– Ready to apply this year?
• If you had a dream team to help you
implement that, who would they be?

13. Application Process:
More than Research
• What is your dream career?
– 3 facets
• Research
• Lecturing
• Professional Maturity
• What steps do you need to take to make that
attainable
– Ready to apply this year?
• If you had a dream team to help you implement
that, who would they be?

14. Application Process:
More than Research
• What is your dream career?
– 3 facets
• Research
• Lecturing
• Professional Maturity
• What steps do you need to take to make that attainable
– Ready to apply this year?
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Publication Record
Professional Service
Professional Network
YOUR PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
• If you had a dream team to help you implement that, who
would they be?

15. Application Process:
More than Research
• What is your dream career?
– 3 facets
• Research
• Lecturing
• Professional Maturity
• What steps do you need to take to make that attainable
– Ready to apply this year?
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Publication Record
Professional Service
Professional Network
YOUR PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
• If you had a dream team to help you implement that, who would they be?
• Leaders in the field
• Status of institution/university matters
• Figures with whom you have a professional relationship/have worked or collaborated
with beforehand

16. New Horizons in the Humanities
Royal Irish Academy, 30. i. 2014
“Brahms and the Fabric of Modernist Culture”
Dr Nicole Grimes
Marie Curie Fellow (IOF/SOC)
UCD School of Music