Events
08 Oct 2024
Book presentation
Zeitdiagnostik in Schlüsselbegriffen. Das Glossar der Gegenwart 2.0
15 Oct 2024
Leibniz researchers answer your questions on topics that affect everyday life
Book a Scientist 2024. Speed Dating mit der Wissenschaft
23 Oct 2024 – 25 Oct 2024
Workshop
Revolution revolutionieren. Walter Benjamin und die Frage nach Revolution und Revolte
30 Oct 2024
Wednesday lecture
Petra Boden (HU Berlin): Eberhard Lämmert und die Frage, wie sich Geschichte erzählen lässt
14 Nov 2024 – 15 Nov 2024
Workshop
Dualla Misipo: “Der Junge aus Duala”. Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein frühes Werk der Schwarzen deutschen Literatur
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
Call for Papers: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
New episode of “Bücher im Gespräch”: Oliver Precht talks to Katrin Trüstedt about Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s politics of perception
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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