Events
10 Jan 2025
Book launch
Hermann Borchardt und der Club der Harmlosen. Wiederentdeckung eines Romans
14 Jan 2025
Working Group
Neither/Nor & de_coloniaLanguage: Artistic Practice and Theoretical Intervention
15 Jan 2025
Wednesday lecture
Mischa Suter (Geneva Graduate Institute): Geld an der Grenze: Koloniale Strukturen und kollidierende Temporalitäten
16 Jan 2025 – 17 Jan 2025
Workshop
The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
05 Feb 2025
Wednesday lecture
Sebastian Vehlken (DSM Bremerhaven/University of Oldenburg): “Seestatt”. Schwimmende Städte als maritime Medien
12 Feb 2025
Book launch
Horror & Melodrama: Die sowjetische Vergangenheit in der Populärkultur von Belarus, Ukraine und Russland
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
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
Job advertisement: Student assistant (m/f/d) to the project “The 20th Century in Basic Concepts”
Job advertisement: Researcher (m/f/d) for the project “The Philology of the Physicists”
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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