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What are the social, political, economic and media conditions under which literature emerges? And what effects does literature have on its immediate environments? These are the issues addressed by the Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures.” It aims to examine contemporary literature since 1945, in different languages and cultural contexts, and with regard to changing and fragmenting public spheres. It is characterized in particular by its praxeological concept of literature, which includes socio-cultural contexts, political frameworks, institutional conditions, the literary world and literary life in its analysis. (spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Dirk Niefanger, Prof. Dr. Antje Kley)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bunzel (Head of the Romanticism Research Department, Deutsches Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt am Main) and Dr. Sylke Kaufmann (Director of Lessing-Museum in Kamenz) will discuss the “(Re)Conceptualization of Literature Museums” in a round table discussion in Room 00.3 PSG, Kochstr....
The Media Ethics Network, represented by our PI Christian Schicha, among others, hosts the conference “Digitale Teilhabe: Medien als Bedingung von Partizipation und Freiheit?” on February 5 and 6, 2026, in collaboration with the DGPuK specialist groups for Communication and Media Ethics and Media E...
Our fellows Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth, Ruxandra Teodorescu and our associate Chiona Hufnagel have edited the latest conference proceedings in the series Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies: “(Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions: The 2024 Postg...
Our fellow Eve Obier will give a lecture on “My body my choice – Eine feministische Geschichte des Körpers” at VHS Siegen on December 3, 2025. Click here for the announcement.
Dr. Enno Stahl (Dept. Rhineland Literature Archive at the Heinrich Heine Institute Düsseldorf) will be our guest in the RKF on November 25, 2025, 16:00-17:30 Uhr (KH 0.024, Universitätsstraße 4). His lecture is called „Hybride Autorschaft, kollektive Werke und Zusammenarbeit. Einführung in die Theo...
