Institute of History and Literary Cultures

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Institute of History and Literary Cultures is dedicated to culturally oriented research and instruction in history and literary criticism. The Institute focuses its research particularly on the cultural history and literary phenomena of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Institute is divided into the Departments of History and Literary Cultures.

  1. 2025
  2. History Becomes Ecology

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    20.11.202521.11.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  3. Das geheime Eigenleben der Urzeitbilder. Ferdinand von Hochstetters Geologische Bilder der Vorwelt und der Jetztwelt (1873)

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    13.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Seamus Heaney: When all the others were away at Mass’

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    29.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  5. Jurymitglied für Arbeitsstipendien zur Förderung der Gegenwartsliteratur

    Drews, K. (Reviewer)

    2025

    Activity: Other expert activitiesOther

  6. 2024
  7. Das tiefe 19. Jahrhundert in Bildern am Beispiel des Naturhistorischen Museum Wiens

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    17.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Gegenwart: Hannah Arendt & Susan Sontag

    Costa, M. T. (Speaker) & Kramer, S. (Speaker)

    26.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  9. „Bildung eines Volkes. Zu Anna Seghers‘ Crisanta“.

    Meyzaud, M. (Speaker)

    19.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  10. Environmental history: a history to end all history?

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    21.08.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  11. Lesung und Diskussion: Ringen mit dem Ich: Zur Universalisierung von Subjektivität in Literatur und Politik

    Wessely, C. (Speaker), Séville, A. (Speaker) & Müller, J. (Speaker)

    25.06.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  12. Interdisziplinärer Workshop Postmoderne Prähistorie

    Stoffel, P. (Organiser)

    21.06.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. Tiefenzeit als Schaubühne und auf der Schaubühne. Die „Geschichte der Urwelt“ (1889) in der Urania Berlin

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    14.06.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Podiumsdiskussion "Flucht und Verflechtung"

    Meyzaud, M. (Organiser), Taylor, N. (Organiser) & Krampert, L. (Moderator)

    05.06.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    14.05.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  16. Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    13.05.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  17. „Amphibian poets. Some remarks on Rosenfeld’s literary criticism around 1959, and on Gertrud Kolmar’s ‚Die Kröte‘ (1933)“.

    Meyzaud, M. (Speaker)

    10.05.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  18. Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    17.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  19. transcript Verlag (Publisher)

    Steierwald, U. (Editor)

    04.2024 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  20. Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    22.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  21. Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    21.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  22. Vortrag: National Ecology. Wholeness, Diversity and Balance around 1871

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    11.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  23. LiteraTour Nord. Gianna Molinari liest aus "Hinter der Hecke die Welt" / Moderation

    Steierwald, U. (presenter)

    31.01.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  24. „Die haitianische Revolution als utopischer Ort. Anna Seghers in Lateinameri-ka“

    Meyzaud, M. (Speaker)

    11.01.202413.01.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  25. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft, Medizin und Technik - GWMT 2024

    Wessely, C. (Organiser) & Müggenburg, J. (Organiser)

    2024 → …

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  26. Sprache und Literatur (Journal)

    Meyzaud, M. (Reviewer)

    2024 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  27. 2023
  28. Thomas Brasch – »Der schöne 27. September«

    Betzler, L. (Speaker)

    13.12.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  29. Welt ohne Menschen. Eine Ideengeschichte

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    11.12.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  30. Den Himmel zeichnen

    Steierwald, U. (Organiser), Draesner, U. (Speaker), Sorg, H. (Artist), Reiners, A. (Speaker) & Brack-Bernsen, L. (Speaker)

    01.12.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  31. Vortrag: Die Erfindung der Mutterliebe

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    02.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  32. Vortrag: Exploring the Role of the History of Science in the Anthropocene

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    12.10.202313.10.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  33. Ein ‚geologisches Bild‘ vom Urmenschen (1845–1868)

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    21.09.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. Sommerakademie der Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes, Weimar 2023

    Steierwald, U. (Organiser) & Robl, L. (Artist)

    03.09.202310.09.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  35. Vortrag: "Another World is Possible. Ökotopia und die Aufgabe der Geisteswissenschaften."

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    13.07.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  36. Guy Hocquenghem – Homosexual Desire

    Betzler, L. (Speaker) & Branding, J.-H. (Speaker)

    13.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Sarah Kirsch – »Schwarze Bohnen«

    Betzler, L. (Speaker)

    07.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  38. Vortrag: Biologie und Gesellschaftstheorie am Golf von Neapel

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    25.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  39. Les analyses de Leo Löwenthal sur la “conscience bourgeoise” dans la littérature

    Betzler, L. (Speaker)

    14.04.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. Volkswagen Foundation (External organisation)

    Wessely, C. (Member)

    04.2023 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of private companies and organisationsTransfer

  41. Einleitung zur Konferenz

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    22.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  42. Perspektiven einer Geschichte ökologischen Wissens

    Wessely, C. (Organiser)

    22.03.202324.03.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  43. The Tuntenstreit: Respectability vs. Gay Feminism

    Betzler, L. (Speaker) & Branding, J.-H. (Speaker)

    23.01.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  44. Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Publisher)

    Meyzaud, M. (Reviewer)

    20232024

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  45. 2022
  46. Guy Hocquenghem - historische Sexualwissenschaft und queerer Marxismus

    Betzler, L. (Speaker) & Branding, J.-H. (Speaker)

    15.12.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  47. Lesung und Gespräch - Sven Pfizenmaier: Draußen feiern die Leute

    Betzler, L. (Moderator) & Pfizenmaier, S. (Artist)

    08.12.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  48. Franz Fühmann – »In Frau Trudes Haus«

    Betzler, L. (Speaker)

    30.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  49. Tagung - Die Lehre in der Kritischen Theorie

    Betzler, L. (Organiser) & Voller, C. (Organiser)

    18.11.202219.11.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper

    O'Sullivan, E. (Lecturer)

    09.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  51. Vortrag: Das Ganze der Natur und das Ganze der Nation. Ökologische Wissensformen ca. 1871

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    07.10.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  52. Berufungskommission JP Literatur und Theorie (W1) Leuphana Universität (Event)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    01.10.202230.04.2023

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  53. Prekäre Natur. Der Reiseschriftsteller J. G. Kohl über „Die Haidschnucken im Lüneburgischen“

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    27.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  54. 25th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for Irish-German Studies - 2022

    O'Sullivan, E. (Participant)

    22.09.202223.09.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  55. Vortrag: Nationalökologien und die Grenzen der Environmental Humanities

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    22.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  56. 4. interuniversitärer Forschungsworkshop für Promovierende im Bereich Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung

    O'Sullivan, E. (Organiser)

    31.08.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  57. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Member)

    01.07.202230.06.2025

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  58. 34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2022

    O'Sullivan, E. (Participant)

    26.05.202228.05.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  59. Geglückte Zweisprachigkeit in Bilderbüchern. Literaturwissenschaftliche und fremdsprachendidaktische Perspektiven

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker) & Rösler, D. (Speaker)

    12.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  60. Remote? Präsenz? Hybrid? Blended? Postpandemisches Lehren und Lernen in Bildungsinstitutionen am Beispiel von Literaturwissenschaft und Fremdsprachenvermittlung.

    O'Sullivan, E. (Keynote Speaker) & Rösler, D. (Keynote Speaker)

    31.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  61. Die Kolonialisierung der Vergangenheit

    Stoffel, P. (Organiser) & Shah, M. (Organiser)

    17.03.202218.03.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  62. Vortrag: "Neapel"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    14.03.202217.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  63. Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (Journal)

    Meyzaud, M. (Editorial Board)

    2022 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  64. 2021
  65. Friederike Mayröcker – »meine mutter mit den offenen armen«

    Betzler, L. (Speaker)

    15.12.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  66. Macht und Ohnmacht. Laßwitz’ ökologisches Bildungsmärchen „Homchen“

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    30.11.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  67. Der homo alpinus. Vom Versuch, die Existenz von „Bergmenschen“ auf ein wissenschaftliches Fundament zu stellen

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    17.11.202119.11.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  68. Tagung - "fest – flüssig – plasmatisch – flüchtig"

    Steierwald, U. (Organiser)

    29.10.202130.10.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  69. Translation

    O'Sullivan, E. (Plenary speaker)

    29.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  70. "'weep! 'weep!". Der kleine Schornsteinfeger in der britischen Literatur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    07.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  71. Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (External organisation)

    Wessely, C. (Chair)

    09.2021 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  72. Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (External organisation)

    Wessely, C. (Member)

    09.2021 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  73. Peter Altenberg – »Und endlich stirbt die Sehnsucht doch«

    Betzler, L. (Speaker)

    12.05.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  74. Das prähistorische Landschaftsbild

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    01.03.202102.03.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  75. Schwule Politik der Zerstreuung

    Branding, J.-H. (Panel participant), Betzler, L. (Panel participant) & Idier, A. (Panel participant)

    15.01.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  76. University of Applied Arts Vienna (External organisation)

    Wessely, C. (Member)

    2021

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  77. 2020
  78. Schätze- Sammlungen und ihre (Re-)Präsentation zwischen Weltentwurf und Fetischisierung

    Steierwald, U. (Lecturer)

    14.10.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  79. Menschsein angesichts der Tiefenzeit. Eine Bildungsgeschichte

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    23.09.202025.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  80. Das Bild des Urmenschen in Franz Ungers Urwelt-Atlas (1851)

    Stoffel, P. (Speaker)

    17.09.202018.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  81. Gutachten für ein DFG-Forschungsprojekt

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    08.2020

    Activity: Other expert activitiesPeer review of project proposalsResearch

  82. Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    07.2020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  83. Harry Potter - Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  84. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning: Sonnet 43

    O'Sullivan, E. (Lecturer)

    29.01.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  85. Vortrag: "Milieus, Environment, Life Forms. Biology and Critical Theory in the Gulf of Naples"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    27.01.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  86. Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)

    04.01.2020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  87. 2019
  88. Digital Humanities und historische Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - 2019

    O'Sullivan, E. (Participant)

    23.10.201925.10.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  89. International Research in Children's Literature (Journal)

    O'Sullivan, E. (Editorial Board)

    15.10.2019

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  90. Art and Politics in ‘Dark Times’

    Betzler, L. (Speaker)

    11.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  91. Brown University

    Betzler, L. (Visiting researcher)

    08.201912.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  92. Harry Potter: Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    20.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  93. Edward Lear: Limerick

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    05.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  94. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2019

    O'Sullivan, E. (Participant)

    30.05.201901.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  95. Vortrag: "Der Chefideologe. Zur Geschichte einer Figur politischer Beratung"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    03.04.201905.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  96. Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des SIKJM

    O'Sullivan, E. (Consultant)

    07.02.2019

    Activity: Consultancy

  97. 68. Jahrestagung der Vertrauensdozentinnen und Vertrauensdozenten der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2019

    O'Sullivan, E. (Participant)

    26.01.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  98. Imagology, comparative children’s literature, and digital humanities: exploring potential synergies

    O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

    17.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  99. Vortrag: "Neapolitanische Moderne"

    Wessely, C. (Speaker)

    14.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

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