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