Our Research Training Group has just published the proceedings of the lectures held during the first three years of our project (2020–2023). The volume is edited by Ronald G. Asch, Peter Eich and Elisabeth M. Piller. The contributions cover various topics regarding imperial temporality, the visualisations of imperial power, and post-imperial orders.
The PhD students in our Research Training Group just launched the website “Imperial Moments. An Anthology”. Professor Elisabeth Piller planned and coordinated the whole project.
The website gives an overview of the various research projects in our RTG.
We would be excited if some of you took the time to browse and discover our research.
Congratulations to Cornelius Beckers for publishing his essey “‘I too in couplets would attempt to paint / Our varied woes, and versify complaint’: Poetic Form and Knowledge in Early Nineteenth-Century Satirical Poetry by East India Company Employees, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 3,1 (2024), 51–64.” (https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2024.4)
Learn more about Cornelius and his research by visiting our homepage!
Our RTG is very honoured to have Professor Carolyn J. Eichner from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee as a guest this week.
As part of our colloquium, she will present one of her current projects, "Marked by the State: French Jews, Algerian Muslims, and the Surname”. Since this is a rare opportunity for a German audience to meet a professor, we are opening the talk to the public.
We are very excited that our PhD student, Verena Zabel, has just published her article “Atomwaffen? Nein danke“ at the Wochentaz. <https://t1p.de/vz-taz>
Aditionaly, Verena will moderate the section „Nukleare Steppe“ at the taz lab on 27. April 2024.
📢 Call for Chapters!
After a successful conference last year, we’re launching a call for chapters! 📚 Contribute to our edited volume, “Environmental and Cultural Destruction at Imperial Margins”
Deadline: 15 April 2024
Call for Chapters: https://t1p.de/hqhkq @empires@histodons@histodon#histodons#histodons#empires#enviroment
Yesterday, we heard Christian Feichtinger’s excellent talk “Zwischen den Zeiten und über (Denk-)Horizonte hinaus: die translatio imperii als Figur der Übertragung in den Texten Machiavellis”. He analysed Machiavelli’s transformation of the translatio imperii as a model for the transfer of geopolitical power and how Machiavelli drew his temporal concepts from ancient authors such as Livy.
Learn more about Christian’s research here: https://www.grk2571.uni-freiburg.de/people/docs/christian-feichtinger #romancestudies@histodons@empires