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Warburg Professorship 2018
Alexander Honold, Basel
We are delighted that Alexander Honold holds the Warburg Professorship 2018 of the Aby Warburg Foundation and is staying at the Warburg-Haus from April to July 2018. Prof. Dr. Alexander Honold is Professor of modern German literary studies at the University of Basel since 2004. After studies of German and Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Latin American Studies in Munich and Berlin, he completed his PhD in 1994 at Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on Robert Musil and World War I. His Habilitation was completed in 2002 with a treatise on astronomy in the works of Friedrich Hölderlin.
Alexander Honold has taught, amongst others, at the Freie Universität Berlin, at Huboldt-Universität Berlin, at the University of Konstanz and the University of Basel; the most recent of his numerous international research stays were as a Senior Fellow at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, University of Art and Design Linz (October 2017-January 2018) and as Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (January-March 2018).
His research areas include the study of narration (the history of genres, forms and media of narration), the cultural theory of classical modernism, travel literature, intercultural and postcolonial literary studies, the semantics of landscape and cultural topography, texts and authors from Switzerland and Austria, literary theatre and play (in and since the Goethe era) as well as literature and music (cooperation between, transfer of forms and mutual dealings with each other).
Lecture
Monday, July 2nd, 7 pm
“Rausch, Taumel, Schicksalsergebenheit: Im Planetarium des Krieges”
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Call for Papers: Warburg International Seminar 2018 »Political Emotions in the Arts«
Deadline 31 March 2018
Philipp Ekardt, Frank Fehrenbach, Cornelia Zumbusch The role of emotions in politics is currently subject to intensive debates. Sociology, political science and political philosophy have identified such feelings as trust, hope, fear, outrage or contempt as motors of protest movements, as part of…
Call for Papers / Warburg-Kolleg
Neuerscheinung: Magische Bilder
Mnemosyne. Schriften des internationalen Warburg-Kollegs, Band 5
“And if you were to ask me / After all that we’ve been through / Still believe in magic? / Yes, I do.” Diese Zeilen aus “Magic” von Coldplay stellen Uwe Fleckner und Iris Wenderholm ihrem einleitenden Aufsatz “Magie und Metapher. Wirkmächtige Bilder in…
Neuerscheinungen / Warburg-Kolleg
Landschaft wahrnehmen
Mit dem Warburg-Kolleg "Memorial Landscapes" in Taipeh II
Zwei Meter, vielleicht drei. Weiter wagen wir uns nicht vor die Türe des Hotels, bis uns der peitschende Wind mit zerzausten Haaren wieder zurückgehen lässt. In Taipeh fegt der Taifun. Während des Wirbelsturms lassen die staatlichen Vorgaben das öffentliche Leben brachliegen, Schulen und…
Warburg-Kolleg
Landschaft beschreiben
Mit dem Warburg-Kolleg "Memorial Landscapes" in Taipeh I
Unerwartet ist die Lautstärke, das unablässliche Rauschen, mit dem sich der tiefgraue Liwu-Fluss durch die hochaufragenden Felsen schiebt und dort in Jahrmillionen seinen Weg durch die erodierten Marmorschichten hindurch gefunden hat. Dort in der Taroko-Schlucht, unweit von Taipeh gelegen, nimmt…
Warburg-Kolleg
Memorial landscapes. World images East and West
International Warburg Seminar starts next week in Taipei
Hamburg University / Aby Warburg Foundation, Hamburg, in cooperation with National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University, Taipei The 2016-2017 International Warburg Seminar, to be held in Taipei on 26-30 September 2016 and in Hamburg on 3-7 April 2017 and aimed at doctoral…
Warburg-Kolleg