The First Kulturwissenschaft (cultural science). Topicality and Epistemological Potential of an Intellectual Movement around 1900

Date

02 oct 2026 16:00 - 16:40

[ ONLINE ]

Online conference by Sigrid Weigel, Emeritus Director and Senior Researcher of the Leibniz Research Center for Literature and Culture (ZfL) in Berlin, which she developed to a place of transdisciplinary research, and fellow for a one-month writing residency at the Paris IAS in October 2026, as part of the "Paris IdeAS" series.

The "Paris IdeAS" online talk series features short and stimulating presentations from fellows of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, marking the beginning of 1-month writing residencies.

Online only and in English. Open to the public. Free event but registration required.
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Presentation

The project is dedicated to a group of scholars (such as Freud, Warburg, Simmel, Benjamin et al), who formed a fascinating intellectual movement around 1900.

Without forming a homogeneous group, in retrospect their works show similarities in theoretical convictions, their way of thinking, operating in border areas and working on border concepts between disciplines and cultures, and beyond the taxonomic order of knowledge and conventional historical narratives oriented towards chronology and progress.

Séances
02 October 2027, 16:00 - 16:40

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Fellows

Sigrid Weigel, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany (Writing residency)

Research project

The First Kulturwissenschaft (cultural science). Topicality and Epistemological Potential of an Intellectual Movement around 1900

Dates of stay

01 October 2026 - 31 October 2026