New Fellow in the Winter Term: Katharina Bedenbender

26 October 2026

We welcome our new fellow Katharina Bedenbender, M.A. at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Katharina Bedenbender is Research assistant at the Chair of Early Modern Art History at the Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt University in Berlin. She earned her Ph.D. with a dissertation on Venetian threshold spaces in early modern architecture and imagery and is currently working on her postdoctoral project's with the working title »Before Ecology – Looking at Plants and Non-Human Animals in Early Modern Italy«. During her research stay at the CAS from October 2026 to March 2027, she will investigate the topic »Viriditas in Early Modernity – Imaginaries of 'Green Power' between 1450 and 1650«.

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06.11.2026|Imaginarien der Kraft

Research report: Anastasia Kubrak: Lithium. On Bathing and Mining Grounds, 1817–1914 and 2015–2024

Anastasia Kubrak, M.A. was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2025 to March 2026. A short report on her research on the topic »Lithium. On Bathing and Mining Grounds, 1817–1914 and 2015–2024« is now available online.

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05.11.2026|Imaginarien der Kraft

Announcement: 03.–05.12.2026 Early Career Conference »(Un)Moving? Forces of Early Modern Sculpture«

Early modern sculpture shaped by its cultural and political circumstances, is toppled, destroyed, or melted down to be cast into new forms. Despite its static qualities and its claim to permanence, sculpture thus reveals itself as a fluid, mobile, and moving phenomenon. This raises questions about...