General

Ruth-Klüger-Forum 10th December 2024: Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt (LMU München) will be our guest in the next RKF, 10th December 2024, 2:00-4:00 p.m. (00.5 PSG III, Kochstr. 6a). Her lecture is called »Opaque Practices and Literary Publics – New Writings from the Black Diaspora«.

Online-Workshop: “Energy and Gender” on 22nd November 2024

The second workshop organized as part of the DFG-funded research network “Energy and Literature: Texts, Theories and Methods from a Comparative and Cultural Studies Perspective” will examine the connections between gender issues and social inequalities in literary representations of energy product...

12. November 2024 Category: General, Workshops & Conferences

Ruth-Klüger-Forum 12th November 2024: Guest Lecture by Prof. Barry Murnane

Prof. Barry Murnane (Oxford University) will be our guest in the next RKF, 12th November 2024, 2:00-3:30 p.m. (00.5 PSG III, Kochstr. 6a). His lecture is called: »Ausstellung von Literatur anlässlich der Kafka-Ausstellung an der Bodleian Library, Oxford University«.

6. November 2024 Category: General, Guest Lecture, Ruth Klüger Forum

Book Out Now: Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany

The collected volume Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions was co-edited by Laura Marie Sturtz, a fellow of the Research Training Group »Literature and the Public Sphere«, together with Selma Rezgui and Tara Talwar Windsor, and was recently publis...

4. November 2024 Category: General, Research, Publications

Welcome Ulrike Dencovski and Birgit Umbreit!

The GRK has two new coordinators: Ulrike Dencovski (50%) and Dr. Birgit Umbreit (50%) joined 2024, October 15th. They provide organizational and coordinating support to all members of the GRK. Ulrike Dencovski studied English literary and cultural studies, German linguistics and Ethics of Textual Cu...

29. October 2024 Category: General, Members

DFG network “The Knowledge of Digital Literature” approved

The DFG has approved a scientific network on the topic of “The knowledge of digital literature”. The applicant is Prof. Dr. Annette Gilbert. Digital literature – literature that is, in a nontrivial way, produced with computers – has seen a considerable upswing in recent years; contributing fa...

24. October 2024 Category: General, Funding

Guest lecture by Ethel Matala de Mazza (HU Berlin): “Schwarze Reportagen. Muckraking in Berlin and Vienna around 1900”

On October 29th, 2024, together with the RTG The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics, we welcome Prof. Dr. Ethel Matala de Mazza from HU Berlin with a guest lecture “Schwarze Reportagen. Muckraking in Berlin and Vienna around 1900” in the Wassersaal (Orangerie). The next day, Ethel M...

2. October 2024 Category: General, Guest Lecture, Event

Internship: 21st Erlangen International Comic Salon

PhD candidate is working as an intern in the Comic Salon Team at the Cultural Office and warmly welcomes everybody to the 21st International Comic Salon on the behalf of the team. She was involved in the editorial work for the website, translations, and most importantly, in the organization of the ...

27. May 2024 Category: General, Internship, Event

Library of Artistic Print on Demand: Exhibition at Villa Stuck

Exhibition from May 3 - September 15, 2024, Villa Stuck in Munich. Annette Gilbert opens the exhibition »Library of Artistic Print on Demand« on May 4, 2024 with a speech and a guided tour. The »Library of Artistic Print on Demand« is the result of a DFG research project (2019-2022) by GRK mem...

26. April 2024 Category: General, Event

Obituary

We were very saddened to be informed today of the sudden death of our coordinator Dr. Jochen Venus. The thoughts of the members of the Kolleg are with Jochen's wife and family. Jochen Venus was an important contact person for all the members of our Kolleg. As a media scholar who researched and ta...

9. April 2024 Category: General, Members