Activities

Internationale Tagung | I̶m̶p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶t̶u̶r̶. Gatekeeping, Buchmarkt und Publikum

Organisiert von Melina Brüggemann, Florian Fuchs, Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Cornelia Ortlieb und Susanne Strätling, Projekt Obscured, Unrecognized, Forgotten. Negative Circulation in Literature, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies"
Thursday, 26 June - Friday, 27 June 2025

Tagung | Theoriestile: Schreibweisen, Denkfiguren, Zirkulationsformen

Organisiert von Michael Gamper und Oliver Simons (Columbia University), Projekt Theoriezirkulationen. Themen, Prozesse und Geschichten einer globalisierten Schreibweise, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Mittwoch, 18 Juni 2025

Performance Workshop | How to Sing a Picture?

Organised by Barbara Bausch, project Reading Reading. On an Aesthetic Practice (2024–), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies" in cooperation with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

International Symposium | Neo-Historical Fiction at 2025: Prized Temporalities and Contested Progress

Organised by Caroline Kögler, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Monday, 2 June - Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Workshop | Invoking Processional Publishing: A Modern Wayzgoose

Organised by Jamie Allen (Critical Media Lab Basel/continent.), Mela Dávila, Nina Jäger (continent.), Rebekka Kiesewetter (Coventry University), Cassie Thornton (artist and activist) and Anna Luhn (EXC 2020/Constellations), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies"
Thursday, 29 May - Friday, 30 May 2025

Symposium | Transcribing Violence: Art, Nature, Politics

Organised by Susanne Strätling, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies", and Vasyl Cherepanyn (Visual Culture Research Center, Ukraine/EXC 2020 Early Career Fellow April–May 2025) in cooperation with the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education).
Saturday, 24 May 2025

Film Series | Transnational Filmmaking in Germany: Practices, Routes, Archives

Organised and curated by Till Kadritzke and Carlos Kong (Princeton University/EXC 2020 Doctoral Fellow, April–September 2025), project Moving Images, Transforming Germanness: Race, Migration and Transnational Filmmaking in Germany, 1968–1989, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies", supported by Constellations (Anna Luhn). In cooperation with Sinema Transtopia.
April - July 2025

Masterclass with Jack Halberstam | The Aesthetics and the Politics of Collapse

Organised and co-taught by Caroline Kögler (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies" and Nina Tolksdorf (EXC 2020), Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters".
April - May 2025

Workshops, Exhibition, Screening, Talks & Performances | READING READING ROOM: Dealing with Illegibility

Curated and organised by Barbara Bausch, project Reading Reading. On an Aesthetic Practice (2024–), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies" in cooperation with Matthias Zeiske (DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program) as part of the format READING READING: IL/LEGIBLE.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Workshop | Mapping Textual Spaces: Visual Strategies to Approach the Unreadable

Workshop | Die Bürokratie des Büchermachens

Organisiert von Irine Beridze (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa, Leipzig) und Susanne Strätling (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020)
Dienstag, 11 Februar 2025

Symposium | Gender and/as Literary Currency in the Anglophone Bookmarket

Organised by Caroline Kögler, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Monday, 4 December 2023

Reading and Discussion with Mark Prince and Yvonne Albers | On the Edge of the Empty Quarter

Organised by Regine Ehleiter, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 19 October 2023

Workshop | Autosociobiography: Global Entanglements of a Literary Phenomenon

Organised by Johanna Bundschuh-van Duikeren (Freie Universität Berlin), Marie Jacquier (Freie Universität Berlin) and Peter Löffelbein (Freie Universität Berlin), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 23 March - Saturday, 25 March 2023

Workshop | Celan in der bildenden Kunst der Gegenwart

Organisiert von Diego León-Villagrá (Freie Universität Berlin) und Friederike Felicitas Günthe (Freie Universität Berlin), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 2 March - Friday, 3 March 2023

Workshop | Mobile Avantgarden. Netzwerke der Moderne im östlichen Europa und in Skandinavien

Organisiert von Jutta Müller-Tamm (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020, Research Area 4: Literary Currencies) und Sylwia Werner (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder).
Friday, 10 February - Saturday, 11 February 2023

Lesungen, Screening, Gespräche | Translation Games – Vom Kosmos eines Verses und der Gemeinschaft im Übersetzen

Organisiert von Anna Luhn (EXC2020, RA4) in Kooperation mit LCB, TOLEDO, Haus für Poesie und Lena Hintze (Lettrétage)
Thursday, 12 January 2023

Research and Development Workshop with Yael Ort-Dinoor and Sophie Seita | Translating Borders, Transitions in Practice

Organised by Anna Luhn (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020), Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Monday, 19 December - Tuesday, 20 December 2022

Workshop | Value – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines literaturwissenschaftlichen Konzepts

Friday, 25 November 2022

Experimental Workshop with Sophie Seita | Juicy or Wiry: The Textures, Materials, and Gestures of Translation

Tuesday, 08 November 2022

Workshop | Comic Studies with Nina Mickwitz (UAL)

Organised by James Hodapp (Fellow in Reseach Area 4: "Literary Currencies") and Jasmin Wrobel (Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies").
Thursday, 02 June 2022

International Conference | Lateral Solidarities: Visualizing Global South Comics

Organised by James Hodapp (Northwestern University in Qatar, Fellow in Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies"), and Jasmin Wrobel (Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies).
Thursday, 02 June - Friday, 03 June 2022

Guest Talk | Edward King (University of Bristol): Aesthetics of Resistance to Algorithmic Racism in Brazil

Organised by Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Friday, 10 December 2021

Workshop | Antirassismus als Querschnittsaufgabe

Organised by Nina Tolksdorf, Jasmin Veeh, and Jasmin Wrobel, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Monday, 15 November 2021

Workshop | Enter Literature

Organised by Lena Hintze, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 21 October - Friday, 22 October 2021

Literarische Performance | Enter Literature

Organised by Lena Hintze, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Workshop | Rebecca Walkowitz on "Future Reading"

Organised by Michael Gamper and Jasmin Wrobel, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Workshop | Doing Things with Code - Electronic Literature and Critical Making

Organised by Anna Sophie Luhn, Nina Tolksdorf, and Paul Wolff, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 24 June - Friday, 25 June 2021

Workshop | Celan in globalen Übersetzungen

Organised by Friederike Günther and David Wachter, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Monday, 14 June - Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Film Installation | Lea Hopp: Rengashis' Room (2021)

Organised by Anna Luhn and Lena Hintze, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Friday, 11 June - Sunday, 13 June 2021

Workshop | Reading and Writing Electronic Text

Organised by Anna Sophie Luhn, Nina Tolksdorf, and Paul Wolff, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies". A workshop held by Allison Parrish.
Monday, 7 June - Tuesday 8 June 2021

Digital Essay | The Game(s) of Translation – Experimentelles Übersetzen als kritische Praxis

Organised by Anna Luhn and Lena Hintze, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Monday, 7 June 2021

Workshop | Kollektive Autorschaft: Digital/Analog

Organised by Jürgen Brokoff, Michael Gamper, Cornelia Ortlieb, and Anita Traninger, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 6 May - Friday, 7 May 2021

Workshop | Book Fairs and Literary Prizes: Economy, Prestige, and Global Circulation

Organised by Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, and Jasmin Wrobel, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 10 December - Friday, 11 December 2020

Workshop | CorpoRealities: Perceptions of 'Extraordinary' Time in Literature and Comics

Organised by EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" in cooperation with the PathoGraphics research project at Freie Universität Berlin.
Thursday, 25 June - Saturday, 27 June 2020

Readings & Talks | Translation Games

Organised by Anna Luhn and Lena Hintze, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies", in cooperation with LCB and TOLEDO.
Monday, 30 November 2020

International Conference | Imagining the Black Diaspora: On the Circulation and Competition of Literary Picture-Making across the Americas

Organised by Jasmin Wrobel, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies", and Dustin Breitenwischer, Research Area 1: "Competing Communities".
Thursday, 9 January - Friday, 10 January 2020

Presentation | Eine Insel im Siegfried Unseld Archiv: Vermittlungsdynamiken einer Literatur für den Export

Organised by Jasmin Wrobel, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Workshop | Der Wert der Zirkulation

Organised by Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm and David Wachter, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".
Thursday, 21 November - Friday, 22 November 2019

EXC 2020 Temporal Communities