New Fellow in the Summer Term: Sabine Mainberger

17 April 2023

We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. Sabine Mainberger at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Sabine Mainberger is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. Her research focuses on literatures of various ancient and modern languages, aesthetics and art theory, literature, art and the history of knowledge, literary forms of philosophy, history and theory of writing, line practices and line discourses since antiquity. During her research stay at the DFG CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from April to September 2023, she will investigate the topic »The Binding Force of Gifts: Arts, Agonism, Sociality – scenarios of a work in progress«.

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06.05.2025|Imaginarien der Kraft

Announcement: 22.05.2025 Workshop with Juliane Rebentisch: Das ökologisch Unheimliche

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05.05.2025|Imaginarien der Kraft

Announcement: 21.05.2025 Lecture of Juliane Rebentisch: Die unheimliche Präsenz des Abwesenden. Trauer und Melancholie im Anthropozän

One way in which people today realize their relationship to nonhuman beings is through the experience of their absence. In the wake of the sixth mass extinction of species, the uncanny feeling that »there is nothing where there should be something« (Mark Fisher) points to a loss that has yet to be...