At the conference organized by the University of Hamburg and the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«, young researchers will explore the tension between the emergence of depictions of war as an artistic task and their specific impact.

Early Career Conference »Violence, Chaos, Destruction: Depictions of War in the Early Modern...

Dr. Tanja Klemm was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2023 to September 2024. A short report on her research on the topic »Balances of forces: Leonardo's moving figure in the third part of his Libro di pittura« is now available online.

Dr. Johanne Gormsen Schmidt, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the winter term 2025/26, will present her current research project »Troubling Animal Forces Across Modernist and Contemporary Literature«.

Time: Tuesday, December 09, 2025, 4:15 pm
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

Registration...

From November 23 to 29, 2025, twelve researchers and artists came together at the Buchnerhof in Laives/Leifers to explore new ways of perceiving and articulating landscape – beyond the classical separation of nature and culture. The workshop focused on how the concept of landscape can be rethought in times of ecological...

Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the winter term 2025/26, will present his current research project »Climate Hope«.

Time: Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 4:15 pm
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de

Dr. Dennis Borghardt, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the winter term 2025/26, will present his current research project »Dýnamis, enérgeia, and movement in Aesthetic Theory«.

Time: Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 04:15 pm
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de

The CAS »Imaginaria of Force« (UHH) invites applications for the workshop »›Tractive Forces‹ Potentials of Art in the Trecento«, which will take place from May 6 to 8, 2026 at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg as well as the seminar room of the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«.

Pull, draw, attract, and captivate. The question of...

Prof. em. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz, winner of the Aby Warburg Foundation’s 2025 Science Award and a CAS »Imaginaria of Force« fellow in the winter term 2025/26, will give a lecture on the topic »Der liebe Gott und die Details« at this year's Science Award Ceremony.

The lecture explores the consequences of investigating...

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch will give a lecture on the topic of »Care for the world? Zur Kritik ökologischer Sorge« as part of the symposium organized by Juliane Rebentisch »›Denken müssen wir. Wir müssen denken!‹ Kritische Theorien im Anthropozän.«

›Earthcare‹ (Merchant), ›cura del mondo‹ (Pulcini), ›cues to care‹...