Archive (2026)

30 January 2026|Imaginarien der Kraft

Announcement: 04.–06.02.2026 Conference »Figurations of Force in the Avant-Gardes between 1900 and 1940«

Poster Tagung Avantgarden 2026 (Ausschnitt)

Photo: Gestaltung: QART Büro für Gestaltung, Abbildung: Francis Picabia, Sans titre, um 1920. Copyright: bpk / Nationalgalerie, SMB, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Volker-H. Schneider

The emphatic evocation of ›forces‹ can be regarded as one of the defining features of avant-garde movements—both within and beyond Europe—between 1900...

30 January 2026|Imaginarien der Kraft

Welcome: Caroline Stobbe

Photo: Katja Klein

We 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...

28 January 2026|Imaginarien der Kraft

Call: Workshop 18.–20.06.2026 »Verletzliche Landschaften? Empfindlichkeit als ökologische und ästhetische Kategorie«, im Tal – Stiftung Wortelkamp, Hasselbach

Photo: QART/Imaginarien der Kraft

The CAS »Imaginaria of Force« (UHH) and the Forum »Designing the Energy Transition« invites applications for the workshop »Verletzliche Landschaften...

21 January 2026|Imaginarien der Kraft

Announcement: 27.01.2026 Guest lecture of Antonia Villinger: ›Im Ruhrgebiet‹ mit Heinrich Böll und Chargesheimer. Literarische und fotografische Perspektiven auf Steinkohle und Energie

Photo: Antonia Villinger

Dr. 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 Kraft

Announcement: 11./12.12.2025 and 22.01.2026 Workshop »Righteous Violence? Moral Ambivalence in Early Modern Art«, Rome and Hamburg

Piero di Cosimo: A Hunting Scene (Detail), ca. 1494–1500

Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (75.7.2). Gift of Robert Gordon, 1875

The 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 Kraft

Announcement: 20.01.2026 Colloquium with Vera Thomann: Labor in Space, Labor in Time: Literary Terraforming in the German Cultural Imagination (1824–1924)

Photo: Vera Thomann

Dr. 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...