Research Areas und Hubs des Exzellenzclusters Imaginamics

Structure

Research Areas, Working Groups and Partners
Research Areas und Hubs des Exzellenzclusters Imaginamics
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Structure of the research programme and partners

The interdisciplinary work of Imaginamics is divided into three Research Areas and three transversal Hubs. The Areas and Hubs are designed to mobilise innovation potential and focus on issues that are relevant to contemporary societies. The Research Areas and Hubs will be implemented from the outset as a permanent, overarching structure in which alternating working groups lasting 2 to 4 years will be set up. In this way, Imaginamics crystallises around the long-standing research interests of our Principal Investigators and will boost the research strengths of the FSU and the participating institutions. The joint work in the Research Areas and Hubs is organised in two overarching formats that can be flexibly
adapted: in Working Groups and Forums.
Other higher education institutions, non-university organisations and international research institutions are integrated into the Imaginamics network.

Research Areas of the Cluster of Excellence

  • Research Area 1 - Imagining Difference

    Directors: Anja Laukötter, Kim Siebenhüner

    Working Group: Creating Race, Reinventing Identity - Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)
    Convenors: Claudia Hammerschmidt, Anja Laukötter, Kim Siebenhüner

    Working Group: Mediating Difference, Substantiating Truth – Liminal Figures between Religion and Science
    Convenors: Bernhard Kleeberg, Matthias Perkams

  • Research Area 2 - Imagining Crises and Temporalities

    Directors: Stefan Matuschek, Adriana Markantonatos

    Working Group: "Enlightenment Now!?" – Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates
    Convenor: Daniel Fulda

    Working Group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
    Convenors: Patrick Roberts, Stefanie Middendorf*

    Working Group: Conflicting Stories of Change – Storytelling in Times of Crisis
    Convenors: Stefan Matuschek, Tobias Rothmund, Christoph Vatter

  • Research Area 3 - (Re-)Imagining Democracy

    Directors: Joachim von Puttkamer, Marion Reiser

    Working Group: Spatial Imaginaries as Political Representations of Dictatorship, Democracy and Right-Wing Extremism in Eastern and Western Germany
    Convenor: Marion Reiser

    Working Group: Hegemonic and Counter Imaginaries in/of Digital Society
    Convenors: Tobias Rothmund, Sabine Wirth

    Working Group: Imagining the Democratic Self – Historical Trajectories
    Convenors: Joachim von Puttkamer, Holly Case

  • Early Career Researchers

    Research School
    Koordination: Lena Dallywater
    Koordination: Dr. Claudia Schroth (in Elternzeit)

    Graduiertenkolleg: Explorations in Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining
    Koordination: Lena Dallywater

    Junior Research Group: Kulturtechnik Imagination
    Leitung: Adriana Markantonatos

Hubs of the Cluster of Excellence

  • Theory Hub

    Directors: Daniel Fulda, Hartmut Rosa
    Koordinator: Samuel Strehle

    Forum: Concepts and Theory
    Convenors: Daniel Fulda, Hartmut Rosa

    Forum: Doing Research on Practices
    Convenors: Johannes Grave, Stefanie Middendorf*

    Working Group: The Role of Images in Social Imagining
    Convenors: Johannes Grave, Lambert Wiesing

  • Digital Hub

    Directors: Tobias Rothmund, Henning Schmidgen
    Koordinator: Jana Zündel

    Forum: Imaginary Media
    Convenors: Joachim von Puttkamer, Tobias Rothmund, Henning Schmidgen

    Forum: Immersive Practives
    Convenors: Bernd Fröhlich, Jürgen Renn

    Working Group: Understanding socio-technical imagining
    Convenors: Henning Schmidgen, Sabine Wirth

  • Public Hub

    Directors: Christoph Vatter, Helmut Heit
    Koordinator: Wolfram Höhne

    Forum: Normative and political implications
    Covenors: Andrea Esser, Claudia Hammerschmidt

Participating Institutions

Cooperation Partners