The program of our colloquium lectures in the winter term 2026/27 is online! Starting November 10, 2026, our current fellows will present their research projects. Interested listeners are cordially invited to participate.

Recent scholarship on the history and style of theory has fundamentally revised the traditional image of detached observation. In doing so, it brings other dimensions of theory into focus: its situatedness, its embeddedness in media ecologies and practices, and its affective forces. This is particularly apparent in recent...

We bid farewell to our Fellows of the Summer Term 2026 and would like to express our appreciation for the stimulating contributions and discussions within our colloquia and lectures.

Dr. Johanne Gormsen Schmidt was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2025 to April 2026. A short report on her research on the topic »Troubling Animal Forces Across Modernist and Contemporary Literature« is now available online.

Depictions of disaster in literature and art highlight a fundamental contradiction: on the one hand, natural disasters appear to challenge the symbolic order; at the same time, they have always been interpreted culturally. Poetry itself has contributed to the emergence of such interpretative patterns. However, it is not...

Cornelia Zumbusch is bidding farewell to the University of Hamburg. She has accepted a professorship in Modern German Literature at the University of Bern, effective since August 1, 2026. She will remain affiliated with the CAS »Imaginarien der Kraft,« which she has jointly directed with Frank Fehrenbach since 2019, as an...

Was the post-antique depiction of cast shadows really a Florentine innovation of the 1420s, as Giorgio Vasari and subsequent scholarship have led us to believe? In this study, Gerd Mathias Micheluzzi undertakes the first comprehensive examination of this question, combining art-historical inquiry with an interdisciplinary...

Dr. Johannes Gebhardt was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from April to September 2025. A short report on his research on the topic »Blood as Material – Dimensions of Liminality in Early Modern Visual Culture« is now available online.

Prof. Dr. Peter Probst, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the summer term 2026, will present his current research project »Kräftepolitik: Kunst und Konflikt in einer nigerianischen Energielandschaft«.

Time: Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

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