Events
03 Jul 2024
Wednesday lecture
Sylvia Sasse (Universität Zürich): Probleme mit der Wirklichkeit. Dokumentarliteratur und Dokumentartheater vor Gericht
03 Jul 2024 – 05 Jul 2024
Workshop
Dokumentarische Evidenz – Zu einem besonderen Genre sprachlicher und praxeologischer Vergangenheitserkenntnis
17 Jul 2024
Max Czollek and Sasha Salzmann in conversation
Contemporary Society and Aesthetic Practice
17 Jul 2024
Book presentation
Stefani Engelstein (Duke University/ZfL): Geschwister-Logik. Genealogisches Denken in der Literatur und den Wissenschaften der Moderne
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The ZfL
The ZfL is a humanities institute for literary research in interdisciplinary contexts that draws from a cultural studies framework. Its methods also engage with the structural transformations within historical-hermeneutic subject areas that have taken place in recent decades. In contrast to the study of literature at universities, predominantly organized by nationality, the ZfL fosters a broad concept of literature, but also uses interdisciplinary tools to fundamentally question the etiology of various literary concepts, their potential for the future, and the relationship between literature and other arts or cultural practices. This is done in the three program area History of Theory, World Literature, Knowledge of Life, and in the key projects.
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Call for Applications: 3-Month Fellowship in the project “Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe”
Research
History of Theory
analyzes the genealogy of theory and develops innovative forms of historicizing it.
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disusses the global interrelations of literature and its potential to shape the world.
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investigates the knowlege of life in historical and interdisciplinary respects.
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