Home
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)
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...
On November 27 and 28, 2025, the conference “Schwarzer Markt für rote Bücher. Zur Raubdruckbewegung der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”, organized by our PI Annette Gilbert, will take place at the German National Library in Leipzig. For more information please visit the ...
What do everyday images tell us about future energies? What subtle messages do photographs of wind turbines, solar panels, or dark cities imply? What creative ideas can be found in literature for dealing with the climate and energy crisis? These and other questions will be explored artistically in ...
“Library of Artistic Print on Demand. Post-Digital Publishing in Times of Platform Capitalism,” written by our PI Annette Gilbert and Andreas Bülhoff, has just been published. Following its launch at the New York Art Book Fair, further presentations take place on October 30, 2025 (Hochschule für Kü...
