Archive19 March 2026|Imaginarien der KraftCornelia Zumbusch receives Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2026Photo: David AusserhoferCornelia Zumbusch has been awarded Germany’s most prestigious research prize. The Professor of Modern German Literature received the Gottfried Wilhelm...12 March 2026|Imaginarien der KraftReview: Winter Term 2025/26Photo: UHH / Saint PereWe bid farewell to our Fellows of the Winter Term 2025/26 and would like to express our appreciation for the stimulating contributions and discussions...30 January 2026|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 04.–06.02.2026 Conference »Figurations of Force in the Avant-Gardes between 1900 and 1940«Photo: Gestaltung: QART Büro für Gestaltung, Abbildung: Francis Picabia, Sans titre, um 1920. Copyright: bpk / Nationalgalerie, SMB, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Volker-H. SchneiderThe emphatic evocation of ›forces‹ can be regarded as one of the defining features of avant-garde movements—both within and beyond Europe—between 1900...28 January 2026|Imaginarien der KraftCall: Workshop 18.–20.06.2026 »Verletzliche Landschaften? Empfindlichkeit als ökologische und ästhetische Kategorie«, im Tal – Stiftung Wortelkamp, HasselbachPhoto: QART/Imaginarien der KraftThe CAS »Imaginaria of Force« (UHH) and the Forum »Designing the Energy Transition« invites applications for the workshop »Verletzliche Landschaften...27 January 2026|Imaginarien der KraftWelcome: Caroline StobbePhoto: Katja KleinWe welcome Caroline Stobbe, M.A., who will join our project team as Research associate on February 1, 2026. Her research will be dedicated to the...21 January 2026|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 27.01.2026 Guest lecture of Antonia Villinger: ›Im Ruhrgebiet‹ mit Heinrich Böll und Chargesheimer. Literarische und fotografische Perspektiven auf Steinkohle und EnergiePhoto: Antonia VillingerDr. Antonia Villinger, Postdoc at the DFG Research Training Group 2806 »Literature und the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures« at...15 January 2026|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 11./12.12.2025 and 22.01.2026 Workshop »Righteous Violence? Moral Ambivalence in Early Modern Art«, Rome and HamburgPhoto: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (75.7.2). Gift of Robert Gordon, 1875The question of when violence is morally reprehensible and whether—and under what conditions—it can be justified remains of pressing relevance today...14 January 2026|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 20.01.2026 Colloquium with Vera Thomann: Labor in Space, Labor in Time: Literary Terraforming in the German Cultural Imagination (1824–1924)Photo: Vera ThomannDr. Vera Thomann, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the winter term 2025/26, will hold a lecture on the topic »Labor in Space, Labor in Time...16 December 2025|Imaginarien der KraftAnnouncement: 13.01.2026 Guest lecture of Stephan Schmid: Powers, Laws, and Successions: On the Transformation of the Notion of Cause in the Early Modern PeriodPhoto: Stephan SchmidProf. Dr. Stephan Schmid, Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg, will hold a lecture on the topic »Powers, Laws, and...15 December 2025|Imaginarien der KraftResearch report: Thomas Hensel: ›How to Equip Power Skeleton‹. Reflections on Game Mechanics of the Video GamePhoto: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6. Januar 2015, Foto: NintendoProf. Dr. Thomas Hensel was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2024 to March 2025. A short report on his research on the topic...Show all news
