Archive11 September 2026|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 24./25.09.2026 Workshop »Ethico-Aesthetics of Landscape«Photo: Ivan Kafka: Pro soukromou maxipotřebu [For Private Maxi-Need], 1979, Moravská galerie v Brně (MG 10852).Landscapes are not merely objects of aesthetic perception but also media of ethical and political order. The workshop explores landscape as image...10 September 2026|Imaginarien der KraftResearch report: Niklaus Largier: Symbolic Forms – Symbolic Riffs. The Energetic Charge of SymbolsPhoto: Wikimedia, AlvesgasparProf. Dr. Niklaus Largier was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in June and July 2025. A short report on his research on the topic »Symbolic...1 September 2026|Imaginarien der KraftNew Fellow in the Winter Term: Sara BenningaPhoto: Sara BenningaWe welcome our new fellow Dr. Sara Benninga at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Sara Benninga is an art historian and contemporary artist whose work...24 August 2026|Imaginarien der KraftLecture Program in the Winter Term 2026/27Photo: QART/Imaginarien der KraftThe program of our colloquium lectures in the winter term 2026/27 is online! Starting November 10, 2026, our current fellows will present their...19 August 2026|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 05./06.11.2026 Workshop »Theorie und die Kraft der Suggestion: Eine Verhältnisbestimmung«Photo: Nationalmuseum Stockholm, NM 1851, Gift 1915 Friends of Art through Richard BerghRecent scholarship on the history and style of theory has fundamentally revised the traditional image of detached observation. In doing so, it brings...17 August 2026|Imaginarien der KraftReview: Summer Term 2026Photo: UHH / Saint PereWe bid farewell to our Fellows of the Summer Term 2026 and would like to express our appreciation for the stimulating contributions and discussions...14 August 2026|Imaginarien der KraftResearch report: Johanne Gormsen Schmidt: Troubling Animal Forces Across Modernist and Contemporary LiteraturePhoto: Museum Folkwang, Inv.-Nr. G 239Dr. 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...3 August 2026|Imaginarien der KraftNew publication: Laura Isengard: Katastrophe. Erzählte Naturgewalten im deutschsprachigen RealismusPhoto: De Gruyter BrillDepictions of disaster in literature and art highlight a fundamental contradiction: on the one hand, natural disasters appear to challenge the...2 August 2026|Imaginarien der KraftFarewell: Cornelia ZumbuschPhoto: Susanne DupontCornelia Zumbusch is bidding farewell to the University of Hamburg. She has accepted a professorship in Modern German Literature at the University of...14 July 2026|Imaginarien der KraftNew Publication: Gerd Micheluzzi: Aus Mangel an Licht. Funktionen des Schlagschattens in der italienischen Malerei (ca. 430–1430)Photo: De Gruyter BrillWas the post-antique depiction of cast shadows really a Florentine innovation of the 1420s, as Giorgio Vasari and subsequent scholarship have led us...Show all news