CURE out and about with Markus Messling
WHEN
WHERE
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Raum 00.026, Universitätsstr. 19, EG, Schwarz-Weiß-Saal
LANGUAGE
GERMAN
PROGRAMME
On 27 January 2026, Markus Messling, director of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, will deliver the Ruth Klüger Lecture hosted, by the graduate research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere” at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
The graduate research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” addresses questions such as the social, political, economic, and media conditions under which literature emerges and the effects literature has on the environments in which it circulates. It investigates postwar contemporary literatures in a range of languages and cultural contexts, with a focus on shifting and fragmenting public spheres. The programme is distinguished by its praxeological understanding of literature, which integrates sociocultural contexts, political frameworks, institutional settings, the literary field, and literary life into its analyses. In the lecture, Markus Messling will present his book Kulturtod und Reparation. Der Fall Champollion (Cultural death and reparation: the case of Champollion), which is due to be published shortly with Matthes & Seitz Berlin as the first volume in CURE’s Reparationen series.
More information is available here.
