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6 August 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Call: Conference 09.-11.06.2022 »Perceiving Forces. Dynamics of the Senses in Science, Art and Literature«, Hamburg

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Since the philosophy of ancient Greece, perception (aisthesis) has been fundamentally understood as a force (dynamis). Thinking about how the...

29 June 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Research report: Hannah Baader: Dividing Forces. Titian, Crossing of the Sea

Titian: The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea

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Dr. Hannah Baader was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from December 2020 to January 2021. A short report on her research on the topic...

8 June 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Announcement: 08./09.07.2021 Workshop »The Power of Imagination: Physiology, Aesthetics and Media«

Poster Workshop Die Kraft der Einbildung: Physiologie, Ästhetik, Medien

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Imagination is situated at the intersection of issues explored by the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. As a human faculty, on the one hand, imagination...

7 June 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

New article: Dominik Hünniger: Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies

Carl von Linné: Die Kennzeichen der Insekten

Photo: Zentralbibliothek Zürich, NNN 828, https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-25036 / Public Domain

The practice of early modern natural history depended on the collective collecting activities of a great variety of people. Among them, artisans...

12 May 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Research report: Caroline Torra-Mattenklott: Forces of the Concrete as Poetic Principles of Agency and Form

Willem van Aelst: Still-Life with Mouse and Candle

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Prof. Dr. Caroline Torra-Mattenklott was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from mid-October 2020 to mid-March 2021. A short report on her...

10 May 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

New Fellow in the Summer Term: Matthew Vollgraff

Photo: Matthew Vollgraff

We welcome our new fellow Dr. Matthew Vollgraff at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. He is a research associate at the Warburg Institute London, where he...

4 May 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Research report: Jana Graul: The 'punch' of virtuous art: concepts of power in early modern allegories of artist’s envy

Joachim von Sandrart: Minerva und Saturn beschützen Kunst und Wissenschaft vor Neid und Lüge (Ausschnitt)

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Dr. Jana Graul was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from September 2020 to February 2021. A short report on her research on the topic »The...

30 April 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

New Fellow in the Summer Term: Mathilda Blanquet

Photo: Caroline Ruiz

We welcome our new fellow Mathilda Blanquet at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. She is a PhD candidate in the history of modern art at the Université...

29 April 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Announcement: 05.05.2021 Lecture Jocelyn Holland: The lever as instrument of reason

Illustration zur Hebelwirkung aus Chambers' Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)

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To open our summer term program, we were able to win Prof. Dr. Jocelyn Holland (Caltech - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena/CA) to hold a...

28 April 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Research report: Monika Wagner: Art history in black and white or: banning the 'power of color'

Matthias Grünewald: Isenheimer Altar, Aufestehung Christi / Reproduktion links: 1921, Reproduktion rechts: 1922

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Prof. em. Dr. Monika Wagner was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2020 to February 2021. A short report on her research on the...

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