Past Events
2017:
- January 24: Keynote Lecture with Albrecht Koschorke: "Stories and Decisions. Toward a Theory of Factual Narratives"
- January 25: Anniversary Workshop with Albrecht Koschorke: "We Are the People and I Am Speaking on Behalf of You: Populist Narratives and Democratic Representation"
- April 20/21: Conference: "Realms of Royalty: New Directions in Researching Contemporary European Monarchies"
- May 23: Workshop with Felicitas Meifert-Menhard: "Narrative Futures, Future Narratives: The Story Depends on Your Perspective"
- June 20/21: Symposium: "Literature and Institutions"
- June 29 to July 1: Conference: "Online Vitriol: Advocacy, Violence, and the Transforming Power of Social Media"
- November 14/15: Workshop "Challenging Concepts of Broken and Unnatural Narratives" with Stefan Iversen and Jan Alber
- November 14: Keynote Lecture with Stefan Iversen: "Strange Narratives in Rhetorical Discourse"
- November 15: Master Class with Stefan Iversen: "Broken Narratives: The Works of Joshua Oppenheimer"
2016:
- July 5: Keynote Lecture with Birgit Neumann: "Pushing Narrative to its Limits: Ekphrasis and Visuality in Teju Cole's Fiction"
- July 6: Workshop with Birgit Neumann: "New Directions in the Study of Culture and Narration: Verbal-Visual Configurations in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction"
2015:
- June 11: Deathbook. Der Thriller 3.0. Multimediale Autorenlesung mit Podiumsdiskussion zur Zukunft des Lesens mit Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet, Dr. Uwe Naumann, Andreas Winkelmann, Ute Nöth, Nicole Wiesmann.
2014:
- November 11: Master Class with Jessica Pressman: “Bookishness in Post-Print Literature” and Keynote Lecture: “Bookishness: The Afterlife of the Book in Digital Literary Culture”
2013:
- May 14: Master Class with Brian Richardson: “Unnatural Narratives: Transcending the Conventional, Writing the Unspeakable”
- July 3: Master Class with Richard Walsh: “Story and World: Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy”
- August 5: Keynote Lecture with Richard Walsh: “Narrating Complexity: The Antipathy of Stories and Systems“
2012:
- January 24: Research Area Meeting with Doris Bachmann-Medick on "The Spatial Turn in Cultural Studies: An Introduction" and project presentations
- May 7: Master Class with Henry Jenkins: "How Content Gains Meaning and Value in the Era of Spreadable Media"
- May 24: Workshop with Bettina Hagen: "Storytelling als Methode in Marketing und PR"
2011:
- March 1: Workshop “Narratologie des Raumes” with Katrin Dennerlein from Julius-Maximilains-Universität Würzburg (cooperative project of RA 2 and “AG Konzepte und Funktionen des Raumes”
- May: Cooperative Workshop about autobiography with graduate students from the Life-Writing Kolleg in Mainz
- May 4-6: Conference about narrative genre in new media. Cooperative project of RA 2 and the LOEWE-Kulturtechniken, sub-project
- June 8: Workshop "Possible Worlds Theory and Transmedial Narratology" with Marie-Laure Ryan