Dr. Antonia Villinger, Postdoc at the DFG Research Training Group 2806 »Literature und the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures« at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, holds a lecture on the topic »›Im Ruhrgebiet‹ mit Heinrich Böll und Chargesheimer. Literarische und fotografische...

The question of when violence is morally reprehensible and whether—and under what conditions—it can be justified remains of pressing relevance today. At the same time, it calls for both critical reflection and historical contextualization. The workshop »Righteous Violence? Moral Ambivalence in Early Modern Art«, which seeks...

Dr. Vera Thomann, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the winter term 2025/26, will hold a lecture on the topic »Labor in Space, Labor in Time: Literary Terraforming in the German Cultural Imagination (1824–1924)«.

Time: Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 04:15 pm
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

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Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid, Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg, will hold a lecture on the topic »Powers, Laws, and Successions: On the Transformation of the Notion of Cause in the Early Modern Period«.

What exactly does it mean and on account of what is it that one thing—such as a hot stove—has...

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hensel was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2024 to March 2025. A short report on his research on the topic »›How to Equip Power Skeleton‹. Reflections on Game Mechanics of the Video Game« is now available online.

Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch, Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Hamburg, is one of ten scientists to receive the 2026 Leibniz Prize, which is endowed with €2.5 million. Germany's most important research funding award is presented by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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Prof. em. Victor Stoichita was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from December 2024 to January 2025. A short report on his research on the topic »Gender Troubles. The Achilles Heel« is now available online.

Anastasia Kubrak, M.A., fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the winter term 2025/26, will present her current research project »Lithium. On Bathing and Mining Grounds, 1817–1914 and 2015–2024«.

Time: Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 4:15 pm
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de

Dr. Magdalena Grüner, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the winter term 2025/26, will present her current research project »Reflective Matter: Metallic Paint and the Energetic Imagination in Hilma af Klint's Nature Studies (1919/1920)«.

Time: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 4:15 pm
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354...