Dr. Dennis Borghardt was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2025 to March 2026. A short report on his research on the topic »Dýnamis, enérgeia, and movement in Aesthetic Theory« is now available online.

Dr. Vera Thomann was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from September 2025 to February 2026. A short report on her research on the topic »Shaping Worlds, Shifting Genres: Literary Terraforming 1850–1950« is now available online.

As societies transition to renewable energy, landscapes have become the focus of growing aesthetic and public debate. Yet landscapes have long been shaped by practices of energy production – from agricultural land, wind – and watermills to the landscapes of fossil fuel extraction. These changing relationships between energy...

We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. Maurice Saß at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Maurice Saß is Professor of Art History at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter. His research focuses on ecocritical art history, the visual history of knowledge, and the history of gender from the late Middle Ages to...

We welcome our new fellow Dr. Johanna-Charlotte Horst at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Johanna-Charlotte Horst is a literary scholar and art historian. Most recently, she was a Research associate at the Department of Comparative Literature at MLU Halle-Wittenberg. Her research interests include everyday life and...

We welcome our new fellow Dr. Andreas Lipowsky at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Andreas Lipowsky is a cultural historian and theorist whose research lies at the intersections of the history of anthropology, literary and cultural studies, and Indigenous studies. His German-language dissertation, Metaanthropology: An...

We welcome our new fellow Katharina Bedenbender, M.A. at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Katharina Bedenbender is Research assistant at the Chair of Early Modern Art History at the Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt University in Berlin. She earned her Ph.D. with a dissertation on Venetian threshold spaces in...

We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. Racha Kirakosian at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Racha Kirakosian is Professor of Medieval Studies at the German Seminar of the University of Freiburg. Her research focuses on the intellectual and religious history of the Middle Ages and on questions of materiality, embodiment, and...

We welcome our new fellow Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Sakamoto at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Yasuhiro Sakamoto is an Image and Computer scientist. He is currently a Project Associate Professor at the Global Research Institute at Keio University in Tokyo. His research lies at the intersection of image studies, Gestalt...