Review: Winter Term 2020/2021 and Preview: Summer Term 2021

31 March 2021

We bid farewell to our Fellows of the Winter Term 2020/2021 and would like to thank them for the stimulating exchange in the context of our digital colloquia. We would also like to thank the contributors to our lecture series »Dark Forces. Reflections on a diffuse phenomenon in literature and the arts«!

We are looking forward to the Summer Temester 2021, for which an equally varied program of events is planned: The first will be a virtual lecture by Jocelyn Holland on May 5, 2021. A reading with our Artist in Residence Marion Poschmann is planned for June 8, 2021. On July 8 and 9, 2021, a virtual workshop on "Imagination" with Rüdiger Campe, Lorraine Daston, David Freedberg, Daniel Irrgang, Thomas Jacobsen, Birgit Recki, Claudia Swan, Rahel Villinger, and Siegfried Zielinski will take place.

Detailed information on the events will follow shortly on this page and under Activities.

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