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In this episode, we recap Moving Books, a public lecture series organized by Madeline Zehnder with support from the research group “Kleine Formen”. Spanning the 2024–25 academic year, the series brought together different scholars, who explored histories of books in motion across sites ranging from contemporary Argentina to early modern Czechia. Talks in this series considered books not just as…

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In the final episode of our three-part series on the circulation of small forms, we follow Sebastian Gießmann’s reflections on infrastructures and circulation through a series of his own works and translations, as well as some systematic considerations on infrastructures, circulatory movements, media ecologies, networks, their inherent practical dimension, and possible challenges in their…

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The year 1606 marked a dramatic escalation in the long-standing political standoff between Venice and Rome. The conflict propagated itself through a diverse ecosystem of small forms, including printed pamphlets and various handwritten publications known as pasquinades or libels. This war of words pitted Roman and Venetian scholars against one another while also engaging the active participation…

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In the first episode of this three-part series on the circulation of small forms, media scholar Cait McKinney revisits AIDS activism in the 1990s. Focusing on the Day Without Art project, they demonstrate how queer activists adopted the aesthetics of blackouts as an online protest tactic to expose systemic failures during the HIV crisis. Through small-scale interventions such as web banners…

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As a closing of the visit of literary scholar Jessica Rosenberg to our research group, in the summer of 2024 the microform team interviewed her at the Botanical Garden of Berlin about her first book Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print (2023), as well as on her current project “Shakespeare’s Second Nature. Tricks, Knacks and the remaking of Renaissance Worlds”.

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In the summer of 2024, literary scholar Jessica Rosenberg joined the “Kleine Formen” research group as a Mercator-Fellow. Early in her stay, she introduced her new research project titled Shakespeare’s Second Nature: Tricks, Knacks, and the Remaking of Renaissance Worlds. Her public lecture on “The Theory of the Knack” marked the start of an intense and continued exchange.

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Early Modern Venice is generally assumed to have been an unusually calm city-state, devoid of the collective protest that characterised contemporary societies across Europe. In this talk, held in February 2024 at the Colloquium for Economic and Social History of Humboldt University Berlin, Maartje van Gelder argues that this eponymous reputation for serenity rests on extensive archival suppression…

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In this episode, we talk to literary scholar Madeline Zehnder about her research on the relationship between pocket-sized print formats and the management of soldiers during the U.S. Civil War. We learn what soldiers read during their downtime and how print material circulated in nineteenth-century America. We also discuss how publisher choices about print format intersected with military and…

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Kunstgenuss verlangt nach einem Ortswechsel und Werkbetrachtung nach einem physisch betretbaren Raum. Dieser an Gallery Weekends und Museumssonntagen geschulte Ausstellungbegriff ist erstaunlich haltbar. Destabilisiert wird er von Publikationen, die den Ausstellungsbesuch in Druckwerke verlegen. Von der Kunstgeschichtsschreibung ist dieses Phänomen erfasst – allerdings unter spezifischen örtlichen…

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Unter dem Titel Diaristik im Ersten Weltkrieg. Zwischen Alltagspragmatik und Privathistoriographie ist 2022 die Dissertation von Marie Czarnikow im Verlag Walter de Gruyter erschienen. Die Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin erarbeitete diese Studie als Kollegiatin des Graduiertenkollegs. Im Zentrum ihrer Arbeit stehen die mit der Schreib- und Sammelkonjunktur des Ersten Weltkriegs einhergehenden…

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