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Farewell: Cornelia Zumbusch

2 August 2026

Cornelia Zumbusch is bidding farewell to the University of Hamburg. She has accepted a professorship in Modern German Literature at the University of Bern, effective since August 1, 2026. She will remain affiliated with the CAS »Imaginarien der Kraft,« which she has jointly directed with Frank Fehrenbach since 2019, as an affiliated researcher.

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03.08.2026|Imaginarien der Kraft
New publication: Laura Isengard: Katastrophe. Erzählte Naturgewalten im deutschsprachigen Realismus

Depictions of disaster in literature and art highlight a fundamental contradiction: on the one hand, natural disasters appear to challenge the symbolic order; at the same time, they have always been interpreted culturally. Poetry itself has contributed to the emergence of such interpretative...

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14.07.2026|Imaginarien der Kraft
New Publication: Gerd Micheluzzi: Aus Mangel an Licht. Funktionen des Schlagschattens in der italienischen Malerei (ca. 430–1430)

Was the post-antique depiction of cast shadows really a Florentine innovation of the 1420s, as Giorgio Vasari and subsequent scholarship have led us to believe? In this study, Gerd Mathias Micheluzzi undertakes the first comprehensive examination of this question, combining art-historical inquiry...