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Workshops / Symposia

  • Workshop with Prof. Dr. Juliane Rebentisch »Das ökologisch Unheimliche«

    Organization: Caroline Adler

    Date: 22. Mai 2025, 10:30 am –12:00 pm (participation with registration)
    Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

    Our 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 ökologisch Unheimliche« (published in Berlin Review 8, 2025), which interprets Sigmund Freud's concept of the »uncanny« in contrast to »fear« as an affect that motivates action in the context of ecological crises, the workshop invites participants to discuss aesthetics of the »ecological uncanny« in literature, art, and theory – and their role in developing a necessary sensibility to the environmental and climate crises of the present.

    The reading material for the workshop will be sent by email to registered participants in advance.

    Please register until May 15, 2025: caroline.adler"AT"uni-hamburg.de
  • Workshop »DESIGNING the Energy Transition. Aesthetic, social and ecological challenges«

    Date: 16 – 18 November 2023
    Venue: Seminarzentrum der Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung F.V.S. Gut Siggen

    Non public.

  • Workshop with Ph.D. Regina Karl: »Zur Geste«

    Date: 25 June 2020, 10:15–11:45 am (participation with registration, in German language)
    Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration             

    Please register: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de

  • Workshop with Georg Kroneis: »Fetish Black Box«

    Date: 18 June 2020, 10:15–11:45 am (participation with registration, in German language)
    Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration             

    Please register: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de

  • Workshop with Prof. Dr. Andreas Daum »Leidenschaften und Wissenschaft: Alexander von Humboldt in den 1790er Jahren«            

    Date: 7 May 2020, 10:15–11:45 am (participation with registration, in German language)
    Venue: Zoom, participation link will be sent after prior registration             

    Please register: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de

  • Workshop with Donna Bilak, Dominik Hünniger and Kelly Whitmer: »The Imaginaria and Realia of Making Knowledge – the Power of Collections in the Early Modern World and Today«

    Date: 24 February 2020, 10:00 am–5:00 pm (participation with registration, in English language)
    Venue: Universitätsmuseum, Universität Hamburg (main building), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, first floor, 20146 Hamburg

    Please register until 13 February 2020: dominik.huenniger@uni-hamburg.de (dominik.huenniger"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

  • Workshop with Prof. Dr. Matthew Eddy: »Materiality for Mortals: Joseph Black, Matter Theory and Experimental Natural Philosophy«

    Date: 9 January 2020, 10:00–12:00 am (participation with registration, in English language)
    Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), room 1021

    Matthew Daniel Eddy, Professor and Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University, analyses the relationship between ‘force’ and ‘power’ (the former the applied to particles, the latter applied to substances) during the Scottish Enlightenment. Eddy examines the practices and concepts that underpinned experimental understandings of the term ‘force’. The discussion will especially focus on everyday and common metaphors and materials used to describe force.

    Please register: imaginarien.der.kraft"AT"uni-hamburg.de

  • Workshop with artist in residence Sabine Scho: »Kreatur oder Kulisse. Kräfteverhältnisse von Mensch und Tier in der Literatur«

    Date: 19 December 2019, 10:00–12:00 am (participation with registration, in German language)
    Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), room 1021

    Please register: imaginarien.der.kraft"AT"uni-hamburg.de

  • Workshop »Von der Kraft der Zeugung (18. – 20. Jahrhundert)«

    Conception: Dominik Hünniger, Frederike Middelhoff, Adrian Renner

    Date: 5 / 6 December 2019 (participation with registration, in German language)
    Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, first floor (on the left), room 1021

    Please register: imaginarien.der.kraft"AT"uni-hamburg.de