04.07.23 – 07.07.23
HISTORICIZING THE REFUGEE EXPERIENCE, 17TH–21ST CENTURIES
Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies
Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), Duisburg
04.07.23 – 07.07.23
Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies
Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), Duisburg
21.06.23 – 23.06.23
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethstr. 31, 45128 Essen
12.06.23
Mo / 18:00
"Accidental Gods. On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine"
Anna Della Subin
Online (Zoom)
05.06.23
Mo / 18:00
Elite Capture. How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Georgetown University
Online (Zoom)
16.05.23
Di / 17:30
A look at the history of the photobook and the current situation
KISD Köln International School of Design, Room 12
Ubierring 40, Köln
13.05.23
Sa / 10:00 – 17:00
Artist Meets Archive #3
Marissa Petrou u.a.
Rheinisches Bildarchiv im Historischen Archiv
Eifelwall 5, 50674 Köln
08.05.23
Mo / 18:00
"Fallen Idols. Twelve Statues That Made History"
Alex von Tunzelmann
Online (Zoom)
24.04.23
Mo / 18:00
"Last Call at the Hotel Imperial. American Foreign Correspondents, Interwar Geopolitics and the History of Private Life"
Deborah Cohen
Online (Zoom)
20.04.23
Do
Sanam Roohi (KWI International Fellow), Aslı Vatansever (Bard College Berlin)
University of Amsterdam
08.03.23
Mi
Jo Reichertz, KWI
University of Auckland, New Zealand
17.02.23 – 18.02.23
/ 10:00 – 17:00
Administrative Cultures and their Aesthetics
Jonathan Foster (University of Stockholm), Alexandra Irimia (KWI International Fellow), Stefan Nellen (Swiss Federal Archives), & Burkhardt Wolf (University of Vienna)
Online (ZOOM) & Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
15.02.23
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Dezso Mate, Academy in Exile@KWI Fellow
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
01.02.23
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Diren Demir, Academy in Exile
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
25.01.23
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Sasha Gora, KWI International Fellow
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
23.01.23
18.01.23
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
On Psychology, Political Theory, and Literature of the 1930s and 1940s
Sandra Janßen, Thyssen@KWI Fellow
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
11.01.23
Mi / 10:00
Literary Strategies against Narrative Supremacy
Samir Sellami, KWI Fellow
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
21.12.22
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Claudia Tazreiter, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), University Linköping
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
14.12.22
Mi / 18:00
Maya Marshak (Delfina Foundation), L. Sasha Gora (KWI). David Bates (Chatham House)
Delfina Foundation, 29/31 Catherine Place, London SW1E 6DY
14.12.22
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Fractured Subjects and the Administrative Grotesque in Bureaucratic Fiction
Alexandra Irimia, KWI International Fellow
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
10.12.22
Sa / 14:00 – 16:50
L. Sasha Gora (KWI), Erin Li (Delfina Foundation), Songsoo Kim
Asymmetry HQ,
102a Albion Drive, London, E8 4LY
08.12.22 – 09.12.22
Internal Workshop
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
07.12.22
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Tetiana Vodotyka, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences / Georg-August University Göttingen
Online (Zoom)
30.11.22
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
German Anthropology ca. 1900
Marissa Petrou, KWI International Fellow
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
23.11.22
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Kris Decker, KWI International Fellow
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
17.11.22
Do / 18:00
Digital Curation and Photobook Research
Verena Kick, KWI International Fellow
Folkwang University of the Arts, Campus Welterbe Zollverein, Quartier Nord, Room 2.13
16.11.22
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Montage Strategies and Counter Publics in Interwar Photobooks
Verena Kick, KWI International Fellow
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
14.11.22
Mo / 16:00
Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University
Online (Zoom)
09.11.22
Mi / 18:00
Martin Puchner, Harvard University
Online (Zoom) & Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
26.10.22
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Current Sustainability in and of Cities
Britta Acksel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Room 106, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
24.10.22
Mo / 18:00
Ursula K. Heise (UCLA)
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31, 45128 Essen
15.10.22
Sa / 12:00 – 16:00
As part of "Where is the Planetary?"
L. Sasha Gora, KWI International Fellow
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Auditorium, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
14.10.22
Fr / 18:30
Narcotic City Event Series at 1014
Tamara Oyola-Santiago (NYC), Sebastian Bayer (Berlin), Machteld Busz (Amsterdam), Ashley Quinones (NYC), Celia Joyce (NYC), Nancy Campbell (NYC))
1014 5th Avenue
New York, NY, 10028 United States
13.10.22
Do / 18:30
Narcotic City Event Series at 1014
Machteld Busz (Amsterdam), Kenneth Cobb (New York), Jen Hoyer and Brooke Shuman (New York), Stefan Höhne (Essen), Kimberly Springer (New York)
1014 5th Avenue
New York, NY, 10028 United States
12.10.22
Mi / 10:00 – 12:00
Air and Health Crisis in Early Modern London
Birgit Näther, FU Berlin
Online (Zoom)
11.10.22
Di / 18:30
Narcotic City Event Series
Gemma Blok (Netherlands), Sam K. Roberts (New York), Matthew Vaz (New York), Frederieke Westerheide (Germany)
1014 5th Avenue
New York, NY, 10028 United States
14.07.22 – 16.07.22
International Conference at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
14.07.22
Do / 20:30
Second Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies: "Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th - 21st Centuries"
Delphine Diaz (University of Reims)
German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC
13.07.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
On Art and the Value Form
Nathan J. Taylor, Goethe University Frankfurt
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
13.07.22 – 16.07.22
Second Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies
German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC
06.07.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Flowers as Living Beings and Linguistic Signs
Isabel Kranz, Universität Wien
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
29.06.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Writing Art History as Literary and Epistemic Practice
Tilo Reifenstein, KWI
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
23.06.22
Do / 18:00
‘Pulsive Theorizations’ as an Aesthetic Project, 1974-1990
Gregory Jones-Katz, KWI
IG Farben-Gebäude 1.414
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
22.06.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Race, Policing, and Tickets Issued in Error
Kasey Henricks, KWI International Fellow
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
15.06.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Embodiment and Gender In Contemporary Writing from South Asia and Beyond
Nisha Kommattam, KWI International Fellow
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
08.06.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Between Science and Politics
Irit Kornblit, KWI International Fellow
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
01.06.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Exploring the Artistic and Scholarly Potential of Soundwalkings
Weronika Kobylińska, KWI International Fellow
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
25.05.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Gregory Jones-Katz, KWI International Fellow
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
03.05.22
Di / 18:00
New KWI Fellows
Online (Zoom) & Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestr. 31. 45128 Essen
27.04.22
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Malevich, Lenin, and Philosophy of Nothingness
Tatiana Levina, KWI International Fellow
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Raum 106, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
13.04.22
Mi / 18:00
In the Series "Carte Blanche IV"
Pierre Charbonnier (CRNS-Sciences Po Paris), Corinna Mieth (RUB)
Online (Zoom)
06.04.22
24.03.22
Do / 19:30
Opening of the Narcotic City Archive
Live from Aquarium, Berlin Kreuzberg via Zoom and Youtube
15.02.22
Di / 18:00
In the Series "Carte Blache IV"
Anna Aslanyan, Friedrich Balke (RUB)
Online (Zoom)
20.12.21
Mo / 18:00
In the Series "Carte Blache IV"
David Bates (UC Berkeley), Eva Weber-Guskar (RUB)
Online (Zoom)
08.12.21
Mi / 17:00 – 18:30
Conversation in German and English organised by the German Department at Rutgers University
Saša Stanišić, Martin Mittelmeier, Damion Searls, Regina Karl
Online (Zoom)
19.11.21
Fr / 19:00 – 20:30
"Breathing: A cliché?"
John Durham Peters (Yale University), Tim Altenhof (University of Innsbruck), Regina Karl (Thyssen@KWI Fellow, Rutgers University)
Online (ZOOM)
05.11.21
Fr / 19:30 – 21:00
Rethinking Borders
Volker Heins (KWI), Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai‘i), Gabriella Etmektsoglou (NYU Berlin)
Online (ZOOM)
02.11.21
Di / 16:00 – 17:30
Leif Randt, Wolfgang Hottner (FU Berlin), Regina Karl (Thyssen@KWI Fellow)
Online (ZOOM)
28.10.21 – 29.10.21
International Conference
Volker Heins (KWI), Darshan Vigneswaran (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research)
Online (ZOOM) & University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus
26.10.21
Di / 16:00 – 18:00
Hannah Arendt and the Principle of Beginning
Facundo Vega, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez / ICI Berlin
Online (Zoom)
18.10.21
Mo / 19:00
Mercator Salon mit Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore, Julika Griem, Louis Klamroth
Online
12.10.21
Di / 18:30 – 20:00
As part of the First Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies
Peter Gatrell, University of Manchester
Online (Zoom)
04.10.21
Mo / 18:00 – 19:00
In the Series "Carte Blanche III"
Amia Srinivasan, All Souls College, Oxford
Online (Zoom)
23.09.21
Do / 18:00 – 19:00
Book Presentation
Stefan Höhne, KWI
Online
16.09.21
Do / 18:00 – 20:00
A guided tour through Museum Folkwang
Online (WebEx) & Museum Folkwang, Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
02.09.21 – 04.09.21
A "Narcotic City" conference in the FEAR+ series
Online (Zoom) & Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI), Gartensaal, Goethestraße 31, 45128 Essen
14.07.21
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Bécquer Seguín, KWI International Fellow
Virtual Meeting
13.07.21
Di / 18:00 – 19:00
Lecture in the Series "Carte Blanche III"
Edna Bonhomme, LMU München
Virtual Lecture
01.07.21 – 02.07.21
Online-Workshop
Virtual Workshop
30.06.21
Mi / 16:00 – 17:30
Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Mira Siegelberg, University of Cambridge
Virtual Meeting
16.06.21
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Chiara Salari, Thyssen@KWI Fellow
Virtual Meeting
09.06.21
Mi / 18:00 – 20:00
FEAR+ Seminar
Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi, Christina von Braun, Volker Heins, Yevgeniy Fiks, Kader Konuk, Pawel Leszkowicz, Tomasz Kitlinski
Virtual Seminar
02.06.21
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Péter Kristóf Makai, KWI International Fellow
Virtual Meeting
17.05.21
Mo / 14:30 – 20:30
Third conference of the “Drugs, Genders, Cities" cycle
Roxane Scavo (CNRS Passages), Gemma Blok (Open University of the Netherlands), Jenny Künkel (CNRS Passages), Emily Nicholls (University of Portsmouth)
online
21.04.21
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal Colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Dr. Jacob Birken, Universität zu Köln / Hochschule Düsseldorf
Virtual Meeting
09.03.21
Di / 11:00
Narcotic City Public Lecture Series
Peter-Paul Bänziger, University of Basel
Virtual Lecture
09.03.21
Di / 18:00 – 19:30
Dealing with the collection area "Archaeology, World Art, Applied Arts" at the Museum Folkwang
Nadine Engel, Museum Folkwang
Virtual Lecture
16.02.21
Di / 18:00
Massimiano Bucchi, University of Trento
Virtual Lecture
10.02.21
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Volker Heins, KWI
Virtual Meeting
03.02.21
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Ryan Nutting, KWI International Fellow
Virtual Meeting
26.01.21
Di / 18:00
Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Leipzig University Library
Virtual Lecture
25.01.21
Mo / 16:00
Andrew Piper, McGill University
Virtual Talk
20.01.21
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Danilo Scholz, Thyssen@KWI-Fellow
Virtual Meeting
16.12.20
Mi / 16:00 – 17:30
KWI Book discussion with Jan Plamper
Jan Plamper, Autor
Virtual Meeting
15.12.20
Di / 18:00
Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago
Virtual Lecture
09.12.20
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Carla R. Almeida, KWI International Fellow
Virtual Meeting
25.11.20
Mi / 10:00 – 11:30
Internal colloquium, open to members of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Stéphane Kenmoe, University of Duisburg-Essen
Virtual Meeting
12.11.20
Do / 14:00
Barış Ünlü
Virtual Lecture
09.11.20
Mo / 09:00 – 18:00
Academy in Exile
Virtual Workshop, Closed Event
15.10.20
Do / 18:00
Judit Takács
Virtual Lecture
07.07.20
Di / 18:00 – 20:00
Panel Discussion on ZOOM
Olga Selin Hünler (Fellow at AiE, Berlin) Egemen Özbek (AiE, KWI), Judit Takács (Fellow at AiE, KWI)
Virtual Meeting, University of Bremen