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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 in different languages and cultural contexts since 1945 with regard to changing and fragmenting public spheres. It is characterised 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. (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, speakers: Prof. Dr. Antje Kley, Prof. Dr. Dirk Niefanger)
On October 10th, 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
International Conference
“Digitality and the Public Sphere: Literature, Mediality, Practice”
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30.09. - 02.10.2024
Extended deadline February 18, 2024
About the Conference
At this moment of our present time, processes of digitalization are leading to a profound transformati...
