Colloquia / Lectures
Winter Term 2026/27
Participation at the colloquia is also possible for university staff with registration. Please contact caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de for details in case of interest.
- November 10, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Racha Kirakosian: »Habitus und die Seelenkräfte um 1300«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- November 17, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Assoc. Prof. Yasuhiro Sakamoto: »Die Triplehelix der Kraft in Bildern«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- November 24, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Maurice Saß: »„Weil es die Erde mit Kraft aufreißt:“ Skizzen zu einer ökokritischen Kunstgeschichte des Pflügens«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- December 1, 2026, 4:15 pm, lecture: Dr. Stella Wisgrill: »Forging Imperial Authority: Metals, Artisans, and the Making of the Habsburg Dynasty, c. 1500«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- December 8, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Johanna-Charlotte Horst: »Law and Gossip. Affektzirkulationen in Gayot de Pitavals Causes célèbres et intéressantes«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- December 15, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Sara Benninga: »The Aesthetics of Collective Disorder: Crowds, Violence, and the Spectacle of Force in Early Modern European Prints«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- January 12, 2027, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Katharina Bedenbender, M.A.: »Viriditas – Vorstellungen von Grünkraft in der Frühen Neuzeit«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- January 19, 2027, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Andreas Lipowsky, M.A.: »The Emancipations of Animism«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- January 26, 2027, 4:15 pm, lecture: Dr. Violaine Gourbet: »Naturkraft und Menschenhand: Die Schleuse als Symbol kontrollierter Energie in Constables Landschaftsmalerei«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Summer Term 2026
- Update 17.06.2026: July 14, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Peter Probst: »Kräftepolitik: Kunst und Konflikt in einer nigerianischen Energielandschaft«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 30, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Sergius Kodera: »Traumbilder: zur Psychologie des schwachen Bildes im 16. Jahrhundert«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 23, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Antje Schmidt, M.Ed.: »Ökofeministische Perspektiven auf Erdkräfte in der Literatur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 16, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Michael Auer: »Schwache Signale. Soundscapes in Vergils Bukolik«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 9, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Elisa Ronzheimer: »Die Kraft der Achtsamkeit: Spätmoderne Spiritualität und Gegenwartsliteratur«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de(caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de )
- June 2, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann: »Materialität entkräftet. Geschichten eines schwachen Konzepts«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de(caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de )
- May 26, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen: »Mut-Proben im 20. Jahrhundert (Nietzsche, Arendt, Blumenberg)«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- May 19, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Stefan Willer: »Wünschen. Versuch über eine poetische Kraft«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- May 7, 2026, 3:00 pm, lecture: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch: »Heat. Literary Landscapes and the Thermic Body« (Lecture as part of the workshop »The Meteorological Body«), Ort: HIAS Institute for Advanced Study, Mittelweg 161, 20148 Hamburg, futher information: www.hias-hamburg.de
- May 6, 2026, 7:00 pm, lecture: Dr. Robert Brennan: »Trecento Seascape: Navigating the Tractive Sphere« (Public opening lecture of the workshop »›Tractive Forces‹ Potentials of Art in the Trecento«), Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116, 20249 Hamburg, futher information: www.warburg-haus.de
- May 5, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Hana Gründler: »Kleine Gesten, schwache Kräfte. Ästhetiken des Underground in der ČSSR, 1969–1989«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Winter Term 2025/26
- January 27, 2026, 4:15 pm, guest lecture: Dr. Antonia Villinger: »›Im Ruhrgebiet‹ mit Heinrich Böll und Chargesheimer. Literarische und fotografische Perspektiven auf Steinkohle und Energie«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- January 20, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Vera Thomann: »Labor in Space, Labor in Time: Literary Terraforming in the German Cultural Imagination (1824–1924)«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de(caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de )
- January 13, 2026, 4:15 pm, guest lecture: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmid: »Powers, Laws, and Successions: On the Transformation of the Notion of Cause in the Early Modern Period«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- January 6, 2026, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Anastasia Kubrak, M.A.: »Lithium: On Bathing and Mining Grounds, 1817–1890 and 2015–2024«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- December 16, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Magdalena Grüner: »Reflective Matter: Metallic Paint and the Energetic Imagination in Hilma af Klint's Nature Studies (1919/1920)«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- December 9, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Johanne Gormsen Schmidt: »Troubling Animal Forces Across Modernist and Contemporary Literature«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- December 2, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg: »Climate Hope«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- November 25, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Dennis Borghardt: »Dýnamis, enérgeia, and movement in Aesthetic Theory«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- November 18, 2025, 7:00 pm, evening lecture: Prof. em. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz: »Der liebe Gott und die Details«, Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116, 20249 Hamburg
- November 4, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luca Palozzi: »Virtus Vitalis: Observing, Depicting and Discussing Bodily Veins and Plant Vessels in the Thirteenth Century«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- October 28, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Antonia Eder: »Tiredness. On the Cultural History of Perseverance«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Summer Term 2025
- May 6, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Werner Boschmann, M.A.: »Organisation und Übertragung. Konfigurationen energetischer Körper nach der Oktoberrevolution«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- May 13, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Johannes Gebhardt: »Blut als Material. Dimensionen der Liminalität in der visuellen Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- May, 21, 2025, 7:00 pm, evening lecture: Prof. Dr. Juliane Rebentisch: »Die unheimliche Präsenz des Abwesenden. Trauer und Melancholie im Anthropozän«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.adler"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 3, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Sarah Rosenthal, M.A.: »Art and Power in Flux: Urs Graf and Artistic Sovereignty in Early-Sixteenth-Century Germanic Lands«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 10, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. em. Dr. Klaus Krüger: »konstig en kragtig – kunstvoll und kräftig. Zur Ästhetik der overnatuurlijke kracht in der Holländischen Malerei«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 24, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Simone Kessler: »Someone's Sensing«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- July 1, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Maximilian Bergengruen: »Kräfte des Marktes, Kräfte der Natur. Zur literarischen Ökonomie bei Theodor Fontane«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- July 8, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Niklaus Largier »Symbolic Forms – Symbolic Riffs. The Energetic Charge of Symbols«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- July 15, 2025, 4:15 pm, lecture: Dr. Carolin Rocks: »Halt am Wort. Ilse Aichingers existentielle Prosa«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Winter Term 2024/25
- January 21, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Huiming Jia: »The Transformative Force: Rediscovering the Chinese Concept of ›Rhythmic Vitality‹ in Early Twentieth-Century Europe«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- January 14, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Carolin Slickers, M.A.: »Infinite Infrastructures: Oil’s Spatial Relationships in 20th Century Literary Fiction«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- January 7, 2025, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Annika Hildebrandt: »Ästhetische Klassenkämpfe. Kraftdiskurse der Arbeiterdichtung um 1900«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- December 17, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. em. Dr. Victor Stoichita: »Gender Troubles. Die Ferse von Achilles«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- December 3, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hensel: »›How to Equip Power Skeleton‹. Gedankengänge zu Spielmechaniken des Computerspiels«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- November 26, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Christiane Frey: »Unsichtbare Kräfte: Von Bahnen, Ellipsen und dem Okkulten im europäischen 17. Jahrhundert«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- November 19, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Löhr: »Fokus und Distanz – Spannungsfelder der italienischen Tafelmalerei im 14. Jahrhundert«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- November 12, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Claudia Nitschke: »Metabolic Dynamics and Private Property in the Long Eighteenth Century: Locke’s Idea of Transformative Forces and Their Reception in German Literature«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
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October 29, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Daniela Bohde: »Die Dynamiken von Zeit und Raum in spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Passionsdarstellungen«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Summer Term 2024
- July 9, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Stefano de Bosio: »The Logic of the Matrix: Techniques and Metaphors of Imprinting in Early-Modern Europe«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- July 2, 2024, 7:00 pm, lecture: Prof. Dr. Claudia Swan: »The Latencies of Global Encounter Objects: Ebony, Horn, Featherwork«, Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
- June 25, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Julia Klar, M.A.: »Forms of Climate Change in Contemporary Literature«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de Update 19.06.2024: Unfortunately, the colloquium with Julia Klar has to be cancelled at short notice.
- June 18, 2024, 4:15 pm, lecture performance: Ir. Ton Matton: »Dance of the Turbines: Observing Wind Turbines and Designing Wind Farm Landscapes«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left) Update 07.06.2024: Altonaer Balkon, Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 11, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Monika Brodnicka: »Force as Living Tradition in West African Metaphysics«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- June 4, 2024, 7:00 pm, lecture: Prof. Dr. Eckart Goebel: »Unter Hochdruck. Hydraulik als Paradigma der Kulturwissenschaft« (lecture in German language), Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
- May 28, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Jana Schuster: »Atmospheric Diffusion of Light as a Primal Phenomenon of Aesthetics«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
- May 14, 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Birgit Meyer: »Imaginaries of Forces in Colonial and Postcolonial Interfaces: the Legba-Dzoka Collection in the Übersee-Museum Bremen«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Winter Term 2023/24
- 23 January 2024, 7:00 pm, lecture: Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf: »Dämonenkraft. Heimsuchungen (in) der Moderne«, Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
- 16 January 2024, 4:15 pm, guest lecture: Kyra Sutton, M.A.: »Beyond Empty Homogeneity: The Force of Seriality in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature« (EN), Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 11 January 2024, 10:15 am, colloquium: Julia Klar, M.A.: »Formen des Klimawandels in der Gegenwartsliteratur«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 9 January 2024, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Agnieszka Dziki, M.A.: »Halb roh/halb transformiert: Das Sammeln von Schnitzereien und ihren natürlichen Oberflächen im frühneuzeitlichen Deutschland (1550-1650)«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 19 December 2023, 7:00 pm, lecture: Prof. em. Dr. Christine Göttler: »Rubens’ Weltenbrand: Imaginarien der Apokalypse, um 1620«, Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
- 14 December 2023, 10:15 am, colloquium: Dr. Tanja Klemm: »Kräfteverhältnisse: Leonardos bewegte Figur im dritten Teil des Libro di pittura«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 21 November 2023, 6:00 pm, workshop: Franca Buss, M.A., Prof. Dr. Frank Fehrenbach, Mia Hallmanns, M.A.: »Energielandschaften im Kontext: historisch und kulturell«, Venue: Jupiter, Mönckebergstraße 2-4
- 7 November 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Kira Jürjens: »Dichte. Kompression als literarische Denkfigur«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 24 October 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch: »West-östliche Wasserwirtschaft. Wasserkraft und Formreflexion in Goethes Divan«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
Summer Term 2023
- 20 June 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Barbara Bausch, M.A.: »Aufbegehren. Die Kraft der Form im politischen Schreiben der Gegenwart«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 13 June 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Christian Kassung: »Der Blick in den Vortex«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 6 June 2023, 4:15 pm, guest lectures: Lee Chichester, M.A.: »Thema Kristalle, Gestalten und Felder: Ganzheit in der Wiener Moderne« and Jun.-Prof. Hanna Wimmer: »Natur ordnen: Diagramme und Karten im europäischen Mittelalter«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 30 May 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Jakob Moser: »Physik der Wolke. Naturgewalt und Phantasma bei Lukrez«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 23 May 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Thomas Leinkauf: »Untersuchungen zum Problem von Gradierungen-Intensitäten in Kraft-Feldern, Lichtverhältnissen und Farbwerten«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 2 May 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. em. Dr. Michael T. Taussig: »Shadowless Being and the Importance of Apotropaic Magic« (EN), Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 25 April 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Sabine Mainberger: »Die Kraft der Gaben oder Künste, Agonismus, Sozialität – Szenarien eines work in progress«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
Winter Term 2022/2023
- 31 January 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. James Costa: »The first Utopian evolutionist: Selection in the service of Utopia in the scientific and social thought of Alfred Russel Wallace« (EN), Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 24 January 2023, 4:15 pm, guest lecture: Dr. habil. Marco Tamborini: »Die Kraft der Übersetzung: von natürlichen zu biotechnischen Formen«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 17 January 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Hana Gründler: »Politik der Imagination - Kraft der Solidarität. Inoffizielle Kunst und Philosophie in der ČSSR, 1948-1989«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 10 January 2023, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Stefania Caliandro: »Aesthesia and Vibration: Reflections on contemporary art with a focus on the works of three artists: Tomás Saraceno, Carsten Nicolai, Carsten Höller« (EN), Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 13 December 2022, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston: »Imagining the World System: How Science Became an International Movement« (EN), Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 6 December 2022, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Clemens Finkelstein, M.A.: »Planetare Urkraft: Vibration als Phänomenotechnik in den Raumkonzeptionen der Moderne«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 29 November 2022, 4:15 pm, guest lecture: Dr. Kirill Chepurin: »Cross-Scalar Romanticism: On the Forces of Universal History« (EN), Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 22 November 2022, 4:15 Uhr, colloquium: Gregor Meinecke, M.A.: »Holy Writing and its Medium in the Image of the Italian Renaissance« (EN), Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 15 November 2022, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Philipp Osten: »Widerstandskräfte. Zur Geschichte der Abwehrkraft in Politik und Medizin«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 8 November 2022, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Juliane Vogel: »Pathos und Kraft. Auftrittsprotokolle in der Tragödie des 19. Jahrhunderts«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 1 November 2022, 4:15 pm, colloquium: Dr. Julia Weber:»Dynamis. Bausteine zu einer Geschichte der Virtualität«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 25 October 2022, 6:15 pm, colloquium: Claudia Jentzsch, M.A.: »vis dicendi - Sprachkraft – Bildkraft. (rhetorische) Bilder und Sprachbilder in humanistischen Texten und in den Künsten des Florentiner Quattrocento«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
Summer Term 2022
- 12 July 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Birgit Recki: »Kultur, Freiheit, Lebendigkeit: Immanuel Kant und Ernst Cassirer über Einbildungskraft«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 5 July 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Campe: »Energeia zwischen Rhetorik und Geometrie (Aristoteles)«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 28 June 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Ines Gries, M.A.: »Die Kraft des Zufälligen in Goethes Pflanzenmetamorphose«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 21 June 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, lecture: Prof. Dr. Claudia Swan: »Landscapes of the Mind: Materiality and the Force of Imagination in the Work of Hercules Segers«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 7 June 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Martin Jörg Schäfer: »Kräfte des Sich-Versammelns«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 31 May 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Giosuè Fabiano, M.A.: »›Radii solis per fenestram‹: Experiencing Divine Potency in Late Medieval Architecture«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 17 May 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Thomas Jacobsen: »Zum Verhältnis von Kraft und Merkmalsausprägung«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
Winter Term 2021/2022
- 25 January 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Lee Chichester, M.A.: »Kraftfelder des Organischen: Gestalt(ungs)prozesse als Bildproblem in der organizistischen Biologie des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 18 January 2022, 6:00 pm, lecture: Artist in Residence Marion Poschmann: »Energie der Störung. Marion Poschmann liest aus ihrem Werk«, Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
- 11 January 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Astrid Böger: »Imaginarien der Superkräfte: Die Sehnsucht nach weiblicher Stärke im U.S.-Comic«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 4 January 2022, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Artist in Residence Fanti Baum: »FORZA FEMME II. Nothing But Failure: Die Infragestellung des Subjekts im Namen der Kraft«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 14 December 2021, 4:00-–5:30 pm, colloquium: Dr. Dariya Manova: »Jugend – Zeitschrift – Literatur. Kraft und Kraftlosigkeit der Jugend in Zeitschriften der Jahrhundertwende«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 7 December 2021, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Susanne Strätling: »Rohe Stoffe und der literarische Metabolismus der Moderne«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 30 November 2021, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Robert Gugutzer: »Kraft als körperliche und leibliche Dimension der Sportsucht«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 23 November 2021, 4:00 pm, lecture: Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Welsch: »Unterschiede, die keine sind – Zur Struktur des Selbstbewusstseins. Pfade durch das Kapitel "Kraft und Verstand" in Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 16 November 2021, 4:00 pm, workshop discussion: Prof. Dr. Juliane Vogel: »Fallen und Springen. Lebenskräfte in der Tragödie um 1800«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 2 November 2021, 6:00 pm, lecture: Prof. em. Dr. Rudolf Preimesberger: Anagnorisis? Zur Frage des Wiedererkennens in einem Gemälde El Grecos, Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
Summer Term 2021
- Prof. Dr. Jocelyn Holland: »Der Hebel als Instrument der Vernunft«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
Winter Term 2020/2021
- 2 February 2021, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Caroline Torra-Mattenklott: »Kräfte des Konkreten als poetische Wirkungs- und Formprinzipien: Blaise Cendrars’ Poèmes élastiques«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 19 January 2021, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Prof. em. Dr. Monika Wagner: »Die Domestizierung der Farbe. Kunstgeschichte in Schwarz-weiß«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 5 January 2021, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Jana Graul, M.A.: »Die 'Schlagkraft' virtuoser Kunst: Kraftkonzepte in frühneuzeitlichen Künstlerneidallegorien«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 8 December 2020, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Dr. Hannah Baader: »Teilungskräfte. Tizian, Durchzug durch das Meer«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 24 November 2020, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: Dr. Reto Rössler: »Architekturen der Kraft. 'Weltgebäude' und 'Lehrgebäude' in Kosmologie und Poetiken der Aufklärung«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 10 November 2020, 4:00–5:30 pm, colloquium: PD Dr. Andrea Schütte: »Intensität. Ästhetik und Poetik eines literarischen Phänomens«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
Summer Term 2020
- 14 July 2020, 4:15–5:45 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Nicola Gess: »Attonitus. Zur Wissens- und Kulturgeschichte des Donners«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 30 June 2020, 4:15–5:45 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer: »Bilder-Machen: Antriebskräfte und Anthropologie in der Frühen Neuzeit«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 23 June 2020, 4:15–5:45 pm, colloquium: Prof. Spyros Papapetros: »Dynamism and participation in art and design during the post preanimist condition«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 26 May 2020, 4:15–5:45 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Goldstein: »Georg Forster: Zeichnungen«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
- 12 May 2020, 4:15–5:45 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Ivana Rentsch: »Die Bändigung musikalischer Kraft in der Frühen Neuzeit«, Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration
Winter Term 2019/2020
- 23 January 2020, 10 am–12 noon, colloquium: Wilma Scheschonk, MA: »Kraft, Lebendigkeit und Ausdauer. Zum Begriff der Künstler-Fitness«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 7 January 2020, 4–6 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Petra Lange-Berndt: »Von Nistern und Nestern. Zeitgenössische Kunst als Habitat«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 18 December 2019, 7 pm, lecture: Artist in residence Sabine Scho: »The Origin of Values« (DE), Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
- 17 December 2019, 4–6 pm, colloquium: Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Böhme: »Morphologie. Die Kraft der Form – die Kräfte hinter den Formen«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- new date: 10 December 2019, 4–6 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Staffan Müller-Wille: »Affinitäten. Zur Geschichte eines transdisziplinären Konzepts um 1800«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 3 December 2019, 4–6 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Johannes Lehmann: »Arbeitskraft/Schwerkraft – oder: Steine heben«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 5 November 2019, 4–6 pm, colloquium: PD Dr. Georg Toepfer: »Biologische Autonomie: Die Kraft aus der Form, oder: Die Rehabilitierung der Lebenskraft aus dem Paradigma der Selbstorganisation«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 29 October 2019, 4–6 pm, colloquium: Prof. Dr. Karin Leonhard: »Kunst als Pharmakon: Die Droge der Malerei", Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 1 October 2019, 7:15–8:45 pm, lecture: Prof. Dr. Susanne Strätling: »Kraftlinien. Die Entdeckung der Schrift als Medium der Energie« (This lecture is a part of the course Imaginarien der Kraft: Kunst, Literatur, Wissenschaft), Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
Summer Term 2019
- 16 July 2019, 2–4 pm, colloquium: Thomas Moser, MA: »Gravitationsästhetik. Rupert Carabin und der Muskelsinn im Fin de Siècle«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 9 July 2019, 2–4 pm, colloquium: Dr. Lutz Hengst: »Zu Landschaftsbildungen: begrifflich, bildlich, räumlich – und wieder bildlich«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 2 July 2019, 7–9 pm, opening lecture of the centre: Prof. Dr. Mario Biagioli: »Imagining Invention: From Force to Information«, Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116
- 25 June 2019, 6–8 pm, evening lecture: Prof. Dr. Michael Esfeld: »Do Forces Exist? Remarks on the Physics and the Metaphysics of Forces«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 4 June 2019, 6–8 pm, evening lecture: apl. Prof. Dr. Myriam Gerhard: »Kraft der Fakten: Zum Kraftbegriff im 19. Jahrhundert«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 28 May 2019, 2–4 pm, colloquium: Dr. des. Nassima Sahraoui: »Die dynamis des Widerstandes: Philosophie, Politik, Literatur«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)
- 30 April 2019, 6–8 pm, evening lecture: Prof. Dr. Ute Berns: »Intimations of Great Accelerations: Temporalities and Forces in S. T. Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner«, Venue: Seminar Room 1021, Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left)