Events
13 Nov 2024
Wednesday lecture
Susanne Gehrmann (HU Berlin): »Grand Prix de l’Afrique noire en 1963 … mort en 1984 en Allemagne«. Eine Archivrecherche zu Jean-Ikelle Matiba
13 Nov 2024 – 15 Nov 2024
Workshop
Dualla Misipo: “Der Junge aus Duala”. Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein frühes Werk der Schwarzen deutschen Literatur
05 Dec 2024 – 06 Dec 2024
ZfL Annual Conference
Activism and Academia. Fields and Methods in Academic Activism
05 Dec 2024
Keynote
John Guillory (NYU): Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
13 Dec 2024
Seminar
The Dissident Library: Resisting the Formal Laws to Push the Soviet State to Observe the Legal Ones
10 Jan 2025
Book launch
Hermann Borchardt und der Club der Harmlosen. Wiederentdeckung eines Romans
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
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
New on the ZfL BLOG: Michael Mönninger tells the story of the ZfL’s new location
Magdalena Gronau among the Tagesspiegel’s 100 most important people in science in 2024
Out now in open access: Moral Seascapes. On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Maritime Emergency
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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