Current NewsPhoto: Carolin Rocks2 July 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 15.07.2025 Colloquium with Carolin Rocks: Halt am Wort. Ilse Aichingers existentielle ProsaDr. Carolin Rocks will be speaking as part of our Tuesday Jour Fixes on the topic »Halt am Wort. Ilse Aichingers existentielle Prosa«. Time: Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 4:15 p.m. Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.dePhoto: Niklaus Largier1 July 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 08.07.2025 Colloquium with Niklaus Largier: Symbolic Forms – Symbolic Riffs. The Energetic Charge of SymbolsProf. Dr. Niklaus Largier, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2025, will present his current research project »Symbolic Forms – Symbolic Riffs. The Energetic Charge of Symbols«. Time: Tuesday, July 8 2025, 4:15 p.m.Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de Photo: QART/Imaginarien der Kraft1 July 2025|Imaginarien der KraftCall: Conference 04.–06.06.2026 »Beyond Strength: Imaginaria of Weak Forces in Art, Literature, and Science«, Warburg-Haus, HamburgThe CAS »Imaginarien der Kraft« (UHH) invites applications for the interdisciplinary Conference »Beyond Strength: Imaginaria of Weak Forces in Art, Literature, and Science«, which will take place from June 4 to 6, 2026 at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg. Concepts of weakness today are often associated with a pathological or...Photo: Corpus Vitrearum Freiburg, Rafael Toussaint30 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftCall: Workshop 11.12.2025/22.01.2026 »Righteous Violence? Moral Ambivalence in Early Modern Art«, Rom/HamburgWhen is violence morally justified and where does it cross the line into injustice? This pressing contemporary question will be explored through the lens of early modern art in a two-part workshop. The DFG CAS »Imaginaria of Force« at the University of Hamburg and the Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max Planck Institute in Rome are...Photo: The National Gallery, London, NG58329 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftCall: Early Career Tagung 11./12.12.2025 »Gewalt, Chaos, Vernichtung? Kriegsdarstellungen in der Frühen Neuzeit«, HamburgThe University of Hamburg and the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies »Imaginaria of Force« invite submissions for the international Early Career Conference »Violence, Chaos, Destruction: Depictions of War in the Early Modern Period«, which will take place on December 11 and 12, 2025 in the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek...Photo: QART/Imaginarien der Kraft28 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftCall: 1 Junior and 1 Senior Fellowship Winter Term 2026/27We are awarding one Junior and one Senior Junior Fellowship in the winter term 2026/27: Application requirement: 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...Photo: Maximilian Bergengruen25 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 01.07.2025 Colloquium with Maximilian Bergengruen: Kräfte des Marktes, Kräfte der Natur. Zur literarischen Ökonomie bei Theodor FontaneProf. Dr. Maximilian Bergengruen, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2025, will hold a lecture on the topic »Kräfte des Marktes, Kräfte der Natur. Zur literarischen Ökonomie bei Theodor Fontane«. Time: Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 4:15 p.m.Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg Registration...Photo: Isabel James24 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftNew Fellow in the Summer Term: Magdalena GrünerWe welcome our new fellow Magdalena Grüner, M.A. at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Magdalena Grüner a scholar of the entanglements of art and ocean science in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During her research stay at the CAS from July to December 2025, she will investigate the topic »Claiming Truth...Photo: Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar23 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 30.06.2025 Lecture of Frank Fehrenbach: Groping Statues – Pseudo-Reprisen im globalen Bilderfluss oder: Gibt es eine weibliche Statuenliebe?As part of the lecture series »Am Anfang war das Auge? Beiträge zur Methodik der Kunstgeschichte« of the Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar in the summer term 2025, Frank Fehrenbach will hold a lecture on »Groping statues – Pseudo-Reprisen im globalen Bilderfluss oder: Gibt es eine weibliche Statuenliebe?«. Time: June 30, 2025...Photo: Ruzana Liburkina11 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 26.06.2025 Talk Ruzana Liburkina and Cornelia Zumbusch: Ökologische Sorge: Literatur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven im Dialog›Care for the World‹ or ›Sorge um die Natur‹: What has become an apparently self-evident buzzword in current debates raises a number of questions on closer examination. What are the emotional foundations, ethical standards and concrete practices of care/Sorge? Is it a matter of affectionate care or rather an anxious...Photo: Enver Hirsch6 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 24.06.2025 Colloquium with Simone Kessler: Someone's SensingSimone Kessler, artist in residence at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2025, will present her current project »Someone's Sensing«. Time: Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 4:15 p.m.Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de Photo: Nature Writing Festival Hamburg 20254 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 18.06.2025 Talk »Vom Verlust und Wiedererstehen einer Gegenwelt«, ZentralbibliothekAs part of the first »Nature Writing Festival Hamburg 2025«, Frank Fehrenbach and Georg Toepfer will talk about the past and present of Nature Writing. Using images and texts, they show that nature, which has been repeatedly declared dead in the visual arts and literature for centuries, could hardly be more alive and...Archive of current news
