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.
- 2026
Gangarten des Lesens. Intersektionale Perspektiven auf eine elementare Kulturtechnik
Drews, K. (Speaker) & Gellai, S. (Speaker)
29.01.2026 → 30.01.2026Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2025
Lachen am Rand der Zeit. Walter Benjamin und der Humor in der Zwischenkriegszeit
Drews, K. (Speaker) & Gellai, S. (Speaker)
26.11.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
History Becomes Ecology
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
20.11.2025 → 21.11.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Polylog: Zukünfte des Erinnerns in der Postmigrationsgesellschaft
Drews, K. (Speaker), Kollender, E. (Speaker), Otremba, L. (Speaker) & Schoop, M. E. (Speaker)
12.11.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Silbersalz Science & Media Festival
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
31.10.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Das geheime Eigenleben der Urzeitbilder. Ferdinand von Hochstetters Geologische Bilder der Vorwelt und der Jetztwelt (1873)
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
13.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Lesung aus „Liebesmühe“ auf Einladung der Jahreshauptversammlung der Deutschen Stiftung für Frauengesundheit
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
04.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Seamus Heaney: When all the others were away at Mass’
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
29.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der Veranstaltung: Leere Orte, Inseln: Die Einsamkeit der Mutterschaft, Monom Stifung für Veränderung
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
09.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Lesung aus „Liebesmühe“ und anschließende Podiumsdiskussion über Geschichte und Theorie der Mutterliebe
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
30.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Podiumsdiskussion auf der Tagung Partikulare Poetiken. Funktionen und Zukünfte der Autofiktion,
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
23.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Jurymitglied für Arbeitsstipendien zur Förderung der Gegenwartsliteratur
Drews, K. (Reviewer)
2025Activity: Other expert activities › Other
- 2024
Das tiefe 19. Jahrhundert in Bildern am Beispiel des Naturhistorischen Museum Wiens
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
17.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Gegenwart: Hannah Arendt & Susan Sontag
Costa, M. T. (Speaker) & Kramer, S. (Speaker)
26.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
„Bildung eines Volkes. Zu Anna Seghers‘ Crisanta“.
Meyzaud, M. (Speaker)
19.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: Zweierlei Naturgeschichte. Biologie und Kritische Theorie am Mittelmeer.
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
25.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Environmental history: a history to end all history?
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
21.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Vortrag: Introduction: Critique or Action, History or Activism? Exploring The Role Of Environmental History In The Environmental Crisis
Wessely, C. (Speaker) & Höhler, S. (Speaker)
21.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Introduction: Critique or Action, History or Activism? Exploring The Role Of Environmental History In The Environmental Crisis
Wessely, C. (Speaker) & Wessely, C. (Speaker)
19.08.2024 → 23.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Lesung und Diskussion: Ringen mit dem Ich: Zur Universalisierung von Subjektivität in Literatur und Politik
Wessely, C. (Speaker), Séville, A. (Speaker) & Müller, J. (Speaker)
25.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
»Cultural Aspects of National Socialism«. Reconsidering an unfinished project of the International Institute of Social Research
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
21.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Interdisziplinärer Workshop Postmoderne Prähistorie
Stoffel, P. (Organiser)
21.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tiefenzeit als Schaubühne und auf der Schaubühne. Die „Geschichte der Urwelt“ (1889) in der Urania Berlin
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
14.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Podiumsdiskussion "Flucht und Verflechtung"
Meyzaud, M. (Organiser), Taylor, N. (Organiser) & Krampert, L. (Moderator)
05.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
14.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
13.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
„Amphibian poets. Some remarks on Rosenfeld’s literary criticism around 1959, and on Gertrud Kolmar’s ‚Die Kröte‘ (1933)“.
Meyzaud, M. (Speaker)
10.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
17.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
transcript Verlag (Publisher)
Steierwald, U. (Editor)
04.2024 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
22.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
21.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Vortrag: National Ecology. Wholeness, Diversity and Balance around 1871
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
11.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
LiteraTour Nord. Gianna Molinari liest aus "Hinter der Hecke die Welt" / Moderation
Steierwald, U. (presenter)
31.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
„Die haitianische Revolution als utopischer Ort. Anna Seghers in Lateinameri-ka“
Meyzaud, M. (Speaker)
11.01.2024 → 13.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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 event › Conferences › Transfer
Sprache und Literatur (Journal)
Meyzaud, M. (Reviewer)
2024 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2023
Thomas Brasch – »Der schöne 27. September«
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
13.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Welt ohne Menschen. Eine Ideengeschichte
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
11.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Den Himmel zeichnen
Steierwald, U. (Organiser), Draesner, U. (Speaker), Sorg, H. (Artist), Reiners, A. (Speaker) & Brack-Bernsen, L. (Speaker)
01.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vortrag: Die Erfindung der Mutterliebe
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Vortrag: Exploring the Role of the History of Science in the Anthropocene
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
12.10.2023 → 13.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
»Cultural Aspects of National Socialism«. Reconsidering an unfinished project of the International Institute of Social Research
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
06.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ein ‚geologisches Bild‘ vom Urmenschen (1845–1868)
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
21.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
»Poetische Entdeckungen« und »politische Provokationen« - Franz Fühmann und seine Lektorin Edith George im Kinderbuchverlag
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
07.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sommerakademie der Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes, Weimar 2023
Steierwald, U. (Organiser) & Robl, L. (Artist)
03.09.2023 → 10.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Vortrag: "Another World is Possible. Ökotopia und die Aufgabe der Geisteswissenschaften."
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
13.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Guy Hocquenghem – Homosexual Desire
Betzler, L. (Speaker) & Branding, J.-H. (Speaker)
13.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sarah Kirsch – »Schwarze Bohnen«
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
07.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Vortrag: Biologie und Gesellschaftstheorie am Golf von Neapel
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
25.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Les analyses de Leo Löwenthal sur la “conscience bourgeoise” dans la littérature
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
14.04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Volkswagen Foundation (External organisation)
Wessely, C. (Member)
04.2023 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of private companies and organisations › Transfer
Einleitung zur Konferenz
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
22.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Perspektiven einer Geschichte ökologischen Wissens
Wessely, C. (Organiser)
22.03.2023 → 24.03.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Tuntenstreit: Respectability vs. Gay Feminism
Betzler, L. (Speaker) & Branding, J.-H. (Speaker)
23.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Publisher)
Meyzaud, M. (Reviewer)
2023 → 2024Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
- 2022
Guy Hocquenghem - historische Sexualwissenschaft und queerer Marxismus
Betzler, L. (Speaker) & Branding, J.-H. (Speaker)
15.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Lesung und Gespräch - Sven Pfizenmaier: Draußen feiern die Leute
Betzler, L. (Moderator) & Pfizenmaier, S. (Artist)
08.12.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Franz Fühmann – »In Frau Trudes Haus«
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
30.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Tagung - Die Lehre in der Kritischen Theorie
Betzler, L. (Organiser) & Voller, C. (Organiser)
18.11.2022 → 19.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
O'Sullivan, E. (Lecturer)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: Das Ganze der Natur und das Ganze der Nation. Ökologische Wissensformen ca. 1871
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
07.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Berufungskommission JP Literatur und Theorie (W1) Leuphana Universität (Event)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
01.10.2022 → 30.04.2023Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Prekäre Natur. Der Reiseschriftsteller J. G. Kohl über „Die Haidschnucken im Lüneburgischen“
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
27.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ambivalent transfer: Translated children's and youth literature and the postulated enrichment through the encounter with foreign cultures
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
25.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
25th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for Irish-German Studies - 2022
O'Sullivan, E. (Participant)
22.09.2022 → 23.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vortrag: Nationalökologien und die Grenzen der Environmental Humanities
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
22.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
4. interuniversitärer Forschungsworkshop für Promovierende im Bereich Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
O'Sullivan, E. (Organiser)
31.08.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
O'Sullivan, E. (Member)
01.07.2022 → 30.06.2025Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2022
O'Sullivan, E. (Participant)
26.05.2022 → 28.05.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Geglückte Zweisprachigkeit in Bilderbüchern. Literaturwissenschaftliche und fremdsprachendidaktische Perspektiven
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker) & Rösler, D. (Speaker)
12.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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)
31.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Kolonialisierung der Vergangenheit
Stoffel, P. (Organiser) & Shah, M. (Organiser)
17.03.2022 → 18.03.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vortrag: "Neapel"
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
14.03.2022 → 17.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
„Vor der Sündfluth!“ – Zur Gestaltung der Urwelt-Jetztwelt-Grenze in Oscar Fraas’ gleichnamiger „Geschichte der Urwelt“ (1866)
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
03.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (Journal)
Meyzaud, M. (Editorial Board)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2021
Friederike Mayröcker – »meine mutter mit den offenen armen«
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
15.12.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Macht und Ohnmacht. Laßwitz’ ökologisches Bildungsmärchen „Homchen“
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
30.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Der homo alpinus. Vom Versuch, die Existenz von „Bergmenschen“ auf ein wissenschaftliches Fundament zu stellen
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
17.11.2021 → 19.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tagung - "fest – flüssig – plasmatisch – flüchtig"
Steierwald, U. (Organiser)
29.10.2021 → 30.10.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Translation
O'Sullivan, E. (Plenary speaker)
29.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"'weep! 'weep!". Der kleine Schornsteinfeger in der britischen Literatur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (External organisation)
Wessely, C. (Chair)
09.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (External organisation)
Wessely, C. (Member)
09.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Peter Altenberg – »Und endlich stirbt die Sehnsucht doch«
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
12.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Das prähistorische Landschaftsbild
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
01.03.2021 → 02.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Schwule Politik der Zerstreuung
Branding, J.-H. (Panel participant), Betzler, L. (Panel participant) & Idier, A. (Panel participant)
15.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
University of Applied Arts Vienna (External organisation)
Wessely, C. (Member)
2021Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
- 2020
Schätze- Sammlungen und ihre (Re-)Präsentation zwischen Weltentwurf und Fetischisierung
Steierwald, U. (Lecturer)
14.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Menschsein angesichts der Tiefenzeit. Eine Bildungsgeschichte
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
23.09.2020 → 25.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Das Bild des Urmenschen in Franz Ungers Urwelt-Atlas (1851)
Stoffel, P. (Speaker)
17.09.2020 → 18.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Gutachten für ein DFG-Forschungsprojekt
O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)
08.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)
07.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Harry Potter - Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning: Sonnet 43
O'Sullivan, E. (Lecturer)
29.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: "Milieus, Environment, Life Forms. Biology and Critical Theory in the Gulf of Naples"
Wessely, C. (Speaker)
27.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
O'Sullivan, E. (Reviewer)
04.01.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2019
Reprints, Piracies, Hibernicisations: Children’s Books and Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin Booksellers (Princeton University)
O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)
01.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digital Humanities und historische Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - 2019
O'Sullivan, E. (Participant)
23.10.2019 → 25.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Research in Children's Literature (Journal)
O'Sullivan, E. (Editorial Board)
15.10.2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Art and Politics in ‘Dark Times’
Betzler, L. (Speaker)
11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research