Events
12 Feb 2025
Book presentation
Horror & Melodrama: Die sowjetische Vergangenheit in der Populärkultur von Belarus, Ukraine und Russland
13 Feb 2025 – 14 Feb 2025
Workshop
Digital Tools, Radical Views, Appealing Aesthetics. Comparative Approaches to Popular Culture from Eastern Europe
18 Feb 2025
Digital Meeting of the Working Group “The Cultural Study of Periodicals”
Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschriftenforschung
24 Apr 2025 – 25 Apr 2025
Workshop
Von der Carstenn-Figur bis in die Gegenwart: Kulturgeschichte der Moderne in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
17 Sep 2025 – 19 Sep 2025
Conference
Natural-Cultural Memory in the Anthropocene. Tracing – Archiving – Remembering
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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.
News
WRITE EAST – Scholarship Programme of the Leibniz Research Network Central and Eastern Europe for Media Professionals
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New in the audio collection: Nina Weller on “I am from the Fiery Village” and the crimes of the German Wehrmacht in Belarus
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.
read moreKnowledge of Life
investigates the knowlege of life in historical and interdisciplinary respects.
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