Social imagining as a network of humans and media

Welcome to Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining

The Cluster of Excellence aims to contribute to a better understanding of social conflicts and debates by researching social imagining.
Social imagining as a network of humans and media
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Latest News

  1. Figures, Types and Images of the Social in the 19th and 20th Century

    Figures, Types and Images of the Social in the 19th and 20th Century: Practices of Social Imagining in the History of Knowledge and the Sciences International Meeting Center (M38), University of Erfurt (20.11.25 - 21.11.25)
  2. JAIME HUENÚN VILLA

    Contemporary Mapuche literature between memory work and champurria strategies. Social imagination and aesthetic resistance in Jaime Huenún and Daniela Catrileo – PART I: Lectures and reading by Jaime Huenún (03.11.25 - 06.11.25)
    Jaime Huenún
    Image: Álvaro de la Fuente Farré
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    Jena receives two Clusters of Excellence

    Friedrich Schiller University has been successful in the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments with its "Balance of the Microverse" and "Imaginamics" Clusters. It therefore fulfils the requirements for an application to become a University of Excellence.
    Flag with the profile lines ‘Light. Life. Liberty.’ in front of the main building of the University of Jena.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
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07743 Jena

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The office is open all day on Tuesdays and Fridays, as well as on Thursday afternoons.

Postal address:
Excellence cluster “Imaginamics”
c/o Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena
Friedrich Schiller Universität
Fürstengraben 13
D-07743 Jena

Coordination

  1. Schroth, Claudia, Dr on parental leave Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics"
  2. Strehle, Samuel, Dr Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics"

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    Fürstengraben 18
    07743 Jena