Events
18 Mar 2021
Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting of the Working Group “The Cultural Study of Periodicals”
06 May 2021 – 08 May 2021
Conference
Style and Rhetoric: A Precarious Couple and its Histories
17 Jun 2021 – 19 Jun 2021
International Conference
Socialism's Divergent Masculinities. Representations of Male Subjectivities in Soviet Constellations and Beyond
24 Jun 2021 – 25 Jun 2021
Symposium
“In Defense of Democracy.” Hermann Broch’s American Experience and the Relevance of His Political Thinking Today
02 Jul 2021 – 03 Jul 2021
Conference
Arendts Kritik am “archimedischen Punkt” – Erscheinungsraum einer nicht gegebenen Welt
06 Oct 2021 – 08 Oct 2021
Conference
Schreibarten im Umbruch. Stildiskurse im 18. Jahrhundert

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 Focus Projects.
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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work on issues that run across the thematic fields of the program areas.
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