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.
Topics
Das Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft und Literarische Kulturen widmet sich der kulturwissenschaftlich orientierten geschichts- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung und Lehre. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt bildet die Erforschung kulturgeschichtlicher und literarischer Phänomene des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Es gliedert sich in die Abteilungen Geschichtswissenschaft und Literarische Kulturen.
Geschichtswissenschaft
Der Bereich der Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte beschäftigt sich mit der Beschreibung der kulturellen und sozialen Vergesellschaftungsprozesse in ihrem historischen Kontext. Dies ermöglicht vor allem auch einen Blick auf historische Transformationsprozesse, wie sie sich strukturell, aber auch in Biographien ausprägen.
Literarische Kulturen
Die Bezeichnung "Literarische Kulturen" betont den kulturwissenschaftlichen Charakter der im Fächerensemble der Lüneburger Kulturwissenschaften praktizierten Literaturwissenschaft. Auch diese widmet sich im Kernbereich – ganz wie die traditionell orientierten literaturwissenschaftlichen Institute – zunächst und vor allem den literarischen Werken: ihrer Ästhetik, den Umständen ihrer Produktion, ihrer Geschichte sowie den Lektüren, die sie hervorgerufen haben.
- 2024
Environmental history: a history to end all history?
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
21.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Lesung und Diskussion: Ringen mit dem Ich: Zur Universalisierung von Subjektivität in Literatur und Politik
Christina Wessely (Speaker), Astrid Séville (Speaker) & Julian Müller (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
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
21.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Interdisziplinärer Workshop Postmoderne Prähistorie
Patrick Stoffel (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
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
14.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
14.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
13.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
17.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
transcript Verlag (Publisher)
Ulrike Steierwald (Editor)
04.2024 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
22.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Lesung & Diskussion: "Liebesmühe"
Christina Wessely (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
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
11.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
LiteraTour Nord. Gianna Molinari liest aus "Hinter der Hecke die Welt" / Moderation
Ulrike Steierwald (presenter)
31.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft, Medizin und Technik - GWMT 2024
Christina Wessely (Organiser) & Jan Müggenburg (Organiser)
2024 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
- 2023
Thomas Brasch – »Der schöne 27. September«
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
13.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Welt ohne Menschen. Eine Ideengeschichte
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
11.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Den Himmel zeichnen
Ulrike Steierwald (Organiser), Ulrike Draesner (Speaker), Heidi Sorg (Artist), Ansgar Reiners (Speaker) & Lis Brack-Bernsen (Speaker)
01.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vortrag: Die Erfindung der Mutterliebe
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Vortrag: Exploring the Role of the History of Science in the Anthropocene
Christina Wessely (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
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
06.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ein ‚geologisches Bild‘ vom Urmenschen (1845–1868)
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
21.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
»Poetische Entdeckungen« und »politische Provokationen« - Franz Fühmann und seine Lektorin Edith George im Kinderbuchverlag
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
07.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sommerakademie der Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes, Weimar 2023
Ulrike Steierwald (Organiser) & Lilian Robl (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."
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
13.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Guy Hocquenghem – Homosexual Desire
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
13.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sarah Kirsch – »Schwarze Bohnen«
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
07.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Vortrag: Biologie und Gesellschaftstheorie am Golf von Neapel
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
25.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Les analyses de Leo Löwenthal sur la “conscience bourgeoise” dans la littérature
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
14.04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Volkswagen Foundation (External organisation)
Christina Wessely (Member)
04.2023 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of private companies and organisations › Transfer
Einleitung zur Konferenz
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
22.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Perspektiven einer Geschichte ökologischen Wissens
Christina Wessely (Organiser)
22.03.2023 → 24.03.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Tuntenstreit: Respectability vs. Gay Feminism
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (Speaker)
23.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
- 2022
Guy Hocquenghem - historische Sexualwissenschaft und queerer Marxismus
Lukas Betzler (Speaker) & Jan-Hauke Branding (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
Lukas Betzler (Moderator) & Sven Pfizenmaier (Artist)
08.12.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Franz Fühmann – »In Frau Trudes Haus«
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
30.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Tagung - Die Lehre in der Kritischen Theorie
Lukas Betzler (Organiser) & Christian Voller (Organiser)
18.11.2022 → 19.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: Das Ganze der Natur und das Ganze der Nation. Ökologische Wissensformen ca. 1871
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
07.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Berufungskommission JP Literatur und Theorie (W1) Leuphana Universität (Event)
Emer O'Sullivan (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“
Patrick Stoffel (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
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
25.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
25th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for Irish-German Studies - 2022
Emer O'Sullivan (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
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
22.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
4. interuniversitärer Forschungsworkshop für Promovierende im Bereich Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung
Emer O'Sullivan (Organiser)
31.08.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (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
Emer O'Sullivan (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
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker) & Dietmar Rösler (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.
Emer O'Sullivan (Keynote Speaker) & Dietmar Rösler (Keynote Speaker)
31.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Kolonialisierung der Vergangenheit
Patrick Stoffel (Organiser) & Mira Shah (Organiser)
17.03.2022 → 18.03.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vortrag: "Neapel"
Christina Wessely (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)
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
03.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2021
Friederike Mayröcker – »meine mutter mit den offenen armen«
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
15.12.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Macht und Ohnmacht. Laßwitz’ ökologisches Bildungsmärchen „Homchen“
Patrick Stoffel (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
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
17.11.2021 → 19.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tagung - "fest – flüssig – plasmatisch – flüchtig"
Ulrike Steierwald (Organiser)
29.10.2021 → 30.10.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Translation
Emer O'Sullivan (Plenary speaker)
29.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"'weep! 'weep!". Der kleine Schornsteinfeger in der britischen Literatur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
07.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (External organisation)
Christina Wessely (Chair)
09.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (External organisation)
Christina Wessely (Member)
09.2021 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Peter Altenberg – »Und endlich stirbt die Sehnsucht doch«
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
12.05.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Das prähistorische Landschaftsbild
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
01.03.2021 → 02.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Schwule Politik der Zerstreuung
Jan-Hauke Branding (Panel participant), Lukas Betzler (Panel participant) & Antoine Idier (Panel participant)
15.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
University of Applied Arts Vienna (External organisation)
Christina Wessely (Member)
2021Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
- 2020
Schätze- Sammlungen und ihre (Re-)Präsentation zwischen Weltentwurf und Fetischisierung
Ulrike Steierwald (Lecturer)
14.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Menschsein angesichts der Tiefenzeit. Eine Bildungsgeschichte
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
23.09.2020 → 25.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Das Bild des Urmenschen in Franz Ungers Urwelt-Atlas (1851)
Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
17.09.2020 → 18.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Gutachten für ein DFG-Forschungsprojekt
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
08.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (Reviewer)
07.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Harry Potter - Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning: Sonnet 43
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
29.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: "Milieus, Environment, Life Forms. Biology and Critical Theory in the Gulf of Naples"
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
27.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Emer O'Sullivan (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)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
01.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digital Humanities und historische Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (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)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
15.10.2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Art and Politics in ‘Dark Times’
Lukas Betzler (Speaker)
11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Silenced voices: Erasing difference in translation (24. Konferenz der Internationalen Forschungsgesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (IRSCL), Stockholm)
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
15.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Brown University
Lukas Betzler (Visiting researcher)
08.2019 → 12.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Harry Potter: Zwischen Satanismus und Heilslehre
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
20.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Edward Lear: Limerick
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
05.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - GKJF 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
30.05.2019 → 01.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Vortrag: "Der Chefideologe. Zur Geschichte einer Figur politischer Beratung"
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
03.04.2019 → 05.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
The Pollard Lecture 2019: Reprints, piracies, hibernicisations: Children’s books and Dublin booksellers in the late 18th century
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
14.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des SIKJM
Emer O'Sullivan (Consultant)
07.02.2019Activity: Consultancy
68. Jahrestagung der Vertrauensdozentinnen und Vertrauensdozenten der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2019
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant)
26.01.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Imagology, comparative children’s literature, and digital humanities: exploring potential synergies
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
17.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vortrag: "Neapolitanische Moderne"
Christina Wessely (Speaker)
14.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
- 2018
Pictures that paint a thousand words? Nonsense translated in illustrations for Lewis Carroll's "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strange people and places: the representation of other nations in children’s literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
30.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Illustration as intersemiotic translation: visualising nonsense
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
29.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Schatzhaus, Thesaurus - Die Bibliothek in der Paradoxie des Offenen Systems
Ulrike Steierwald (Keynote Speaker)
09.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
11.2018 → 11.2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
College (Organisational unit)
Emer O'Sullivan (Member)
01.10.2018 → 31.03.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Gemeinsames Forschungskolloquium (DoktorandInnen, HabilitandInnen)
Emer O'Sullivan (Participant), Gabriele von Glasenapp (Organiser), Ute Dettmar (Participant), Michael Staiger (Participant) & Ingrid Tomkowiak (Participant)
25.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE Journal) (Journal)
Emer O'Sullivan (Editorial Board)
08.2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Vortrag: • Bodies revisited: Körperlichkeit in der Ästhetik der Gegenwart
Ulrike Steierwald (Lecturer)
30.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die gegenwärtige Situation der Germanistik und ihre Vorgeschichte seit 1945
Ulrike Steierwald (Speaker)
27.06.2018 → 28.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Heiner Müller: Gespräch mit Horaz
Andreas Jürgens (Speaker)
21.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18): Vorlesung in der Reihe "10 Minuten Lyrik"
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
14.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag: "Die Urzeit in ´Bildern aus der Gegenwart´. Philipp Leopold Martins Museum der Urwelt in Berlin
Christina Wessely (Speaker) & Patrick Stoffel (Speaker)
13.06.2018 → 16.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer