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Our fellow Maximilian Würz’s project is one of four study proposals which receives funding from the HERMES | Humanities Education in Research, Data, and Methods Resarch Study Program 2025! The HERMES Research Study Program supports practical data skills. To this end, the German National Library pro...

Our PI Svenja Hagenhoff co-authored an article on 21st-century publishing in 'Handbuch Verlag: Geschichte – Aufgaben – Perspektiven': Publishing is a constant function of the media system that transforms intellectual content into usable objects and ensures their public accessibility. Digitization...

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the 'Stock Exchange Association of the German Book Trade', an essay collection on important events from 1825 to 2025 has been published. It contains 5 contributions from our PI Svenja Hagenhoff. 200 Years of Book Trade, Knowledge Transfer and Cultural I...

Our fellow Noran Omran organized together with Erika Thomalla of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich a workshop entitled “German-language Fanzines” in Berlin. In material-related analyses of the holdings of the Archive for Alternative Culture and the Archive of Youth Cultures, the workshop soug...

'Wissenschaft im Dialog' funds Antonia Villinger's project "The Art of Energy: Future Energy in Literature and Film" as part of the BMBF Science Year ‘FutureEnergy’. The project is dedicated to the future of energy in literature and film. At a film evening, an exhibition with readings, and workshops...

Aida Bosch, PI in our RTG, contributed her expertise as a sociologist to the SCOBEL program "Rites and Rituals". The program is available on 3sat Mediathek.

The first volume of the Open Access GRK 2806  series “Literatur und Öffentlichkeit / Literature and the Public Sphere” has been published: Bosch, Aida; Kley, Antje (Hg.) (2025): Literatur und mediale Öffentlichkeiten. Orientierende Fallstudien. Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69735-1 ...

The FAU Emerging Talents Initiative (FAUeti) supports our PI Anastasia Glawion as an excellent young researcher with start-up funding for her preliminary work on an Emmy Noether application on "Patterns of Amateur Literature".