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Announcement: 12.11.2024 Colloquium with Claudia Nitschke: Metabolic Dynamics and Private Property in the Long Eighteenth Century: Locke’s Idea of Transformative Forces and Their Reception in German Literature

6 November 2024

Prof. Dr. Claudia Nitschke, fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« in the winter term 2024/25, will present her current research project »Metabolic Dynamics and Private Property in the Long Eighteenth Century: Locke’s Idea of Transformative Forces and Their Reception in German Literature«.

Time: Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 4:15 p.m.
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

Registration: caroline.herfert"AT"uni-hamburg.de 

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