Events
24 Apr 2024
Wednesday lecture
Christopher Wood (New York University/Wiko Berlin): Neue Perspektiven auf vormoderne europäische Ortslegenden
07 May 2024
Information event
Der “Fall” Schrödinger. Zur Aufklärung der Missbrauchsvorwürfe
15 May 2024 – 17 May 2024
International conference
Images of the Ideal. Evald Ilyenkov at 100
22 May 2024
Wednesday lecture
Karin Harrasser (IFK Wien): Wie Gegenentkommen? Nachdenken über Kolumbiens Friedensprozess
29 May 2024 – 31 May 2024
Conference
Semiotic Machines: Artificial Text and the Praxis of Reading
06 Jun 2024 – 07 Jun 2024
Workshop
European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
12 Jun 2024 – 14 Jun 2024
International conference
The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics
03 Jul 2024 – 05 Jul 2024
Workshop
Dokumentarische Evidenz – Zu einem besonderen Genre sprachlicher und praxeologischer Vergangenheitserkenntnis
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: Revolution revolutionieren. Walter Benjamin und die Frage nach Revolution und Revolte
Job advertisement: Researcher (m/f/d) for the project “Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation”
New on the ZfL BLOG: Falko Schmieder discusses Armin Nassehi’s book on basic social concepts
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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