Current NewsPhoto: Corpus Vitrearum Freiburg, Rafael Toussaint13 June 2025|Imaginarien der KraftCall: Workshop 11.12.2025/22.01.2026 »Legitimized 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: 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...Photo: Tanja Michalsky26 May 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 10.06.2025 Colloquium with Klaus Krüger: ›konstig en kragtig‹ – kunstvoll und kräftig. Zur Ästhetik der ›overnatuurlijke kracht‹ in der Holländischen MalereiProf. em. Dr. Klaus Krüger, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2025, will present his current research project »konstig en kragtig – kunstvoll und kräftig. Zur Ästhetik der overnatuurlijke kracht in der Holländischen Malerei«. Time: Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 4:15 p.m.Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354...Photo: The National Gallery, London, NG58323 May 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: Sarah Rosenthal22 May 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 03.06.2025 Colloquium with Sarah Rosenthal: Art and Power in Flux: Urs Graf and Artistic Sovereignty in Early-Sixteenth-Century Germanic LandsSarah Rosenthal, M.A., fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2025, will present her current research project »Art and Power in Flux: Urs Graf and Artistic Sovereignty in Early-Sixteenth-Century Germanic Lands«. Time: Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 4:15 p.m.Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg Registration...Photo: Niklaus Largier21 May 2025|Imaginarien der KraftNew Fellow in the Summer Term: Niklaus LargierWe welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. Niklaus Largier at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Niklaus Largier is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair in the Humanities, Distinguished Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the history of mysticism and its...Photo: Caroline Adler6 May 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 22.05.2025 Workshop with Juliane Rebentisch: Das ökologisch UnheimlicheOur environment is deeply familiar to us, yet it increasingly appears threatening, alien, and destructive. According to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, no other term describes the strangeness of the ecological crises of our anthropocentric present more aptly than the word »uncanny.« Based on Juliane Rebentisch's text »Das...Photo: Caroline Adler5 May 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 21.05.2025 Lecture of Juliane Rebentisch: Die unheimliche Präsenz des Abwesenden. Trauer und Melancholie im AnthropozänOne way in which people today realize their relationship to nonhuman beings is through the experience of their absence. In the wake of the sixth mass extinction of species, the uncanny feeling that »there is nothing where there should be something« (Mark Fisher) points to a loss that has yet to be comprehended as such. In...Photo: Johannes Gebhardt26 April 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 13.05.2025 Colloquium with Johannes Gebhardt: Blut als Material. Dimensionen der Liminalität in der visuellen Kultur der Frühen NeuzeitDr. 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 Registration...Photo: Kunsthaus Zürich, Grafische Sammlung, Nachlass Suzanne Perrottet, 1990/ The Trustees of the Rudolf Laban Estate26 April 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 15./16.05.2025 Symposium »Moving Bodies – Hidden Knowledge Energies and Ecologies of Corporeal Practices around 1900«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...Archive of current news
