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On November 11, 2025, RTG 2806 and RTG 2726 (The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics) hold their ceremonial semester opening in the Orangerie Erlangen (Wassersaal). Guest of honor is the American poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine.

From November 6 to 8, 2025, the conference “(Un)Angemessenheit" on literary standards of evaluation and assessment between pre-modernity and modernity will take place at KREUZ+QUER in Erlangen. The conference is organized by our associate professor Franziska Bergmann and her colleague Christiane Wi...

Our postdoctoral researcher Antonia Villinger has edited the essay collection „Fossile Fiktionen. Kohle als Energiequelle in der Literatur von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart“. The climate crisis and the demand for a sustainable energy transition are shaping socio-political discussions. Against this back...

RTG 2806 has co-organized the lecture series „Zukunft der Demokratie“ (“The Future of Democracy.”) The lectures take place every Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. in the Senate Hall of the Kollegienhaus (Universitätsstraße 15). The series begins on October 14, 2025.

On October 23 and 24, 2025, the conference “Literatur in polarisierten Öffentlichkeiten” (Literature in Polarized Public Spheres) organized by GRK 2806, will take place at ‘Villa an der Schwabach’ in Erlangen. More information in the conference program.

The authoritative essay collection “Medienregulierung” (Media Regulation) (edited by Hardy Gundlach, formerly together with Wolfgang Seufert) has been published in its third edition by Nomos. It includes an article by our PI Svenja Hagenhoff on the protection and utilization of intellectual prop...

Our post-doctoral fellow Antonia Villinger and our PI Dirk Niefanger participate in the Research Day of the FAU Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology on July 31, 2025 with a panel discussion on science and the climate crisis and a contribution on state poetry in West Germany from 194...

The second volume of the RTG 2806 series »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit / Literature and the Public Sphere« has been published: Friedrich, Sabine (2025): Semifiktionen. Hybrides Erzählen im digitalen Zeitalter. Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71111-8 For some time now, there has b...