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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. Markus Messling (Saarland University, Director Käthe Hamburger Kolleg CURE) will be our guest in the next RKF on January 27, 2026, 2:15-3:45 p.m. (00.026, Universitätsstr. 19, 'Schwarz-Weiß-Saal'). His lecture is called "Universalität und (Mikro-)Geschichte: Der Fall Champollion".
On January 28, 2026, at 7:00 p.m., our PI Christian Schicha will discuss his monograph „Kommunikationsethik: Grundlagen – Debatten – Lösungsansätze“ (DOI: 10.36198/9783838564692) with Madlen Geidel and Florian Höhne at ‘Haus der Kirche,‘ Bohlenplatz 1, Erlangen: https://www.evangelische-termine.de...
Our PI Anastasia Glawion will give a presentation on “Queere Interpretationen von Harry Potter: Fanfiction aus der Perspektive der Digital Humanities” on January 13, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., “Kleiner Hörsaal” (small lecture hall), Bismarckstraße 1a, Erlangen. Further information about the event and FAU'...
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...
