At the threshold of the 20th century, a cross-disciplinary fascination emerges with the moving body as a locus of knowledge creation. Between medical disciplines and artistic domains, the body is conceptualized as an element within complex networks connecting organism and environment. Corporeal practices evolve into...

Dr. Johannes Gebhardt, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2025, will present his current research project »Blut als Material. Dimensionen der Liminalität in der visuellen Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit«.

Time: Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

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We welcome our new fellow Prof. em. Dr. Klaus Krüger at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. His research interests include the theory and history of the image, in particular the aesthetics and cultural semantics of the image in the pre-modern era, as well as its various functional forms and intermedial references (e.g...

We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. Maximilian Bergengruen at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Maximilian Bergengruen is the holder of the Chair of Modern German Literature and History of Ideas at the Institute of German Philology at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on the relationship between literature and...

We are awarding one Junior and one Senior Junior Fellowship in the winter term 2026/27:

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The call is addressed to advanced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers (up to a maximum of 4 years after the doctorate) respectively experienced researchers (postdoctoral researchers from 4 years after the...

Werner Boschmann, M.A., fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2025, will present his current research project »Organisation und Übertragung. Konfigurationen energetischer Körper bei den sowjetischen Avantgarden«.

Time: Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

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We welcome our new Artist in Residence Simone Kessler at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Simone Kessler is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates, through creative processes, philosophical questions that interconnect human systems, ecology and science. Her artistic practice is structured in thematic series, in which she...

The program of our colloquium lectures in the summer term 2025 is online! Starting May 6, 2025, our current fellows will present their research projects. Interested listeners are cordially invited to participate.

We welcome our new fellow Werner Boschmann, M.A. at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Werner Boschmann is Research associate at the Osteuropa-Institut at the Feie Universität Berlin. During his research stay at the CAS from April to September 2025, he will investigate the topic »Organization and Transfer: Configurations of...