Professor for Ecclesiastical History?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: History of ancient Christianity and patristic studies; social imagining of Christian identity; figures/role models of the bible
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Mediating Difference, Substaintiating Truth – Liminal Figures between Religion and Science
Theory Hub, Forum: "Doing Research on Practices"
For further information please see the CVpdf,?116?kb
Professor for History and Philosophy of Science (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Metaphors and narration in experimental sciences; imaginaries of the future in life sciences and society; scientific racism (Haeckel)
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Creating Race, Reinventing Identity - Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: "Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates,?Working Group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?98?kb
Professor for Philosophy (focus on practical philosophy)?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Practical, political and public philosophy; practices of colonial imagining in philosophical contexts
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Creating Race, Reinventing Identity – Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining), Forum: Doing Research on Practices
Public Hub, Forum: Normative and Political Implications of Research on Social Imagining
For further information please see the CVpdf,?92?kb
Professor for Virtual Reality and VisualisationExternal link (Bauhaus-University Weimar)
Research portfolio: Social virtual reality and collaborative visualisation; 3D user interfaces; virtual group locomotion techniques; visual analytics
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
Digital Hub, Forum: Immersive Practices and Social Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?84?kb
Professor for Modern German LiteratureExternal link (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Research portfolio: Theories of narration; histories of concepts and metaphors; imaginations of temporality in historiography, literature and visual media; imagining enlightenment
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: "Enlightenment Now!?" – Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates"
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining), Forum: Doing Research on Practices, Working Group: The Role of Images in Social Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?101?kb
Professor for Art History?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Image theory and temporality of picture reception; early modern art; social imagining and Romanticism; intersections of practice theories and studies on image perception
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 3: (Re)Imagining Democracy, Working Group: Hegemonic and Counter Imaginaries in/of a Digital Age
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining), Forum: Doing Research on Practices, Working Group: The Role of Images in Social Imagining
Public Hub, Forum: Normative and Political Implications of Research on Social Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?93?kb
Professor for Film Studies / Visual Aesthetics of Cinematic Media (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Film theory and its history; filmic representations of the Holocaust; history, poetics and mediality of filmic representations of the everyday life
Participation in Imaginamics
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining), Working Group: The Role of Images in Social Imagining
Digital Hub, Working Group: Understanding Socio-Technical Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?93?kb
Professor for Romance Literature (focus on Latin American literatures)?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Foundational fictions, border poetics and strategic essentialism in postcolonial cultures; (de)colonial imaginaries in Latin American and indigenous cultures and literatures
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Creating Race, Reinventing Identity - Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: "Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates, Arbeitsgruppe: Conflicting Stories of Change - Storytelling in Times of Crisis
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)
Public Hub, Forum: Normative and Political Implications of Research on Social Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?102?kb
Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Leitung des Stabsreferats Forschung, Leitung des Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche
Beteiligung in Imaginamics:?
Theory Hub, Public Hub
RA2: Imagining Crises and TemporalitiesForum: Concepts and Theory
Working Group: "Enlightenment Now!?” – Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates
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Professor for History of ScienceExternal link (University Erfurt)
Research portfolio: Political/historical epistemology; historical praxeology of truth; relationship between knowledge and belief, science and religion; practices of structured imagination
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Mediating Difference, Substaintiating Truth - Liminal Figures between Religion and Science
Theory Hub, Forum: Doing Research on Practices
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?102?kb
Professor for Cultural History (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: History of museums, collections and exhibitions; transnational media history; history of emotions; practices of social imagining in colonial pasts and their contemporary legacies
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Mediating Difference, Substaintiating Truth – Liminal Figures between Religion and Science
Theory Hub, Forum: Doing Research on Practices
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?99?kb
Professor for Medieval German Literature?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Human-thing relations in mediaeval and early modern literature; imaginary dimensions of materialities; myths, allegories and commentaries; magic thinking and practices
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Mediating Difference, Substaintiating Truth – Liminal Figures between Religion and Science
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?77?kb
Professor for Modern and Contemporary History?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: European Romanticism as a practice and theory of imagining; myths, ‘new mythologies’ and their political impact; literary historiography and the imagining of national identity
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: Conflicting Stories of Change – Storytelling in Times of Crisis
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)
For further information please see the CVpdf,?90?kb
Professor for Modern and Contemporary History?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: History of capitalist imaginaries and crises; social representations of the political; state thinking, institutional imagining and micro-practices of power
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
Theory Hub, Forum: Doing Research on Practices
Digital Hub, Forum: Imaginary Media – Before and Beyond the Digital Age
For further information please see the CVpdf,?101?kb
Professor for Philosophy (focus on ancient and mediaeval philosophy)?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Philosophy in Antiquity, in the Christian Orient and in the Middle Ages; Arabic philosophy of the classical period; theories of consciousness, imagination and ethical/political action
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Mediating Difference, Substaintiating Truth – Liminal Figures between Religion and Science
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining), Forum: Doing Research on Practices
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?86?kb
Professor for Eastern European History?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Statehood and nationalism; museum studies and the politics of memory; democracy, dictatorship and reimagining society in Central and Eastern Europe
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 3: (Re)Imagining Democracy, Working Group: Imagining the Democratic Self – Historical Trajectories
Digital Hub, Forum: Imaginary Media - Before and Beyond the Digital Age
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?93?kb
Professor for German Politics?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Empirical research on representative democracy, political elites and political parties; democratic and antidemocratic attitudes; imaginaries and practices of representation
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
Research Area 3: (Re)Imagining Democracy, Working Group: Spatial Imaginaries as Political Representations of Dictatorship, Democracy and Right-Wing Extremism in Eastern and Western Germany
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?101?kb
Director at Max Planck Institute of GeoanthropologyExternal link in Jena (MPI-GEA)
Research portfolio: Long-term evolution of knowledge and structural changes in the technosphere; historical dynamics and origins of the Anthropocene
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
Digital Hub, Forum: Immersive Practices and Social Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?98?kb
Director of the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization Max Planck Institute of GeoanthropologyExternal link in Jena (MPI-GEA)
Research portfolio: Human history in tropical forests; human-environment-Earth system interactions; social imaginaries in the modelling of human-ecosystems dynamics; indigenous and traditional knowledge practices of imagining
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?80?kb
Professor for Sociology and social theory?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Sociology of time and acceleration; sociology of relationships to or with the world; social criticism; political imaginaries, social imagining in times of crises; temporal imaginaries
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: "Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates, Working Group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)
Public Hub, Forum: Normative and Political Implications of Research on Social Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?99?kb
Professor for Professur Psychology of Communication and Media Use (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Political communication; motivated cognition; political ideology; digital publics; conspiratorial narratives; post-truth media reception
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: Conflicting Stories of Change – Storytelling in Times of Crisis
Research Area 3: (Re)Imagining Democracy, Working Group: Hegemonic and Counter Imaginaries in/of a Digital Age
Digital Hub, Forum: Imaginary Media - Before and Beyond the Digital Age, Forum: Immersive Practices and Social Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?90?kb
Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft
Beteiligung in Imaginamics:?
RA3: (Re)Imagining Democracy
Working Group: Spatial Imaginaries as Political Representations of Dictatorship, Democracy and Right-Wing Extremism in Eastern and Western Germany
Professor for Media StudiesExternal link (Bauhaus-University Weimar)
Research portfolio: History and theory of media practices; media ecologies; philosophies of technology; history of scientific instruments; machine aesthetics, digital humanities; virtual laboratories
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: "Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates
Digital Hub, Forum: Imaginary Media – Before and Beyond the Digital Age, Working Group: Understanding Socio-Technical Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?95?kb
Professor for Early Modern History?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: History of material cultures and global encounters; history of religion; colonial heritage in Thuringia; material, emotional and sensual dimensions of social imagining
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Arbeitsgruppe: Creating Race, Reinventing Identity - Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)
Theory Hub, Forum: Doing Research on Practices
?For further information please see the CVpdf,?92?kb
Professor for Intercultural Studies and Business Communications?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Cultural diversity; intercultural media studies; transcultural dimensions of social imagining; Afro-European practices of (re)imagining Europe
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 1: Imagining Difference, Working Group: Creating Race, Reinventing Identity – Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)
Research Area 2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities, Working Group: Conflicting Stories of Change - Storytelling in Times of Crisis
Theory Hub, Forum: Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)
Public Hub, Forum: Normative and Political Implications of Research on Social Imagining
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?102?kb
Direktor der Stiftung Gedenkst?tten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora
Beteiligung in Imaginamics:?
RA3: (Re)Imagining Democracy
Working Group: Imagining Nazi Violence at the Buchenwald Memorial
Professor for Philosophy (focus on image theory and phenomenology)?de (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Research portfolio: Phenomenology, image theory and aesthetics; philosophy of perception, imagination and consciousness; individual and social imaginative performances
Participation in Imaginamics
Theory Hub: Forum "Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)" ,?Working Group "The Role of Images in Social Imagining"
For further information please see the CVpdf,?90?kb
Professor for Media studies (digital cultures)External link (Bauhaus University Weimar)
Research portfolio: User-interfaces; AI and everyday media practices; digital image cultures in the social web; media technologies and practices of social imagining; collective practices of counter-imagining
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 3: (Re)Imagining Democracy, Working Group: Hegemonic and Counter Imaginaries in/of a Digital Age
Digital Hub, Forum: Imaginary Media – Before and Beyond the Digital Age, Working Group: Understanding Socio-Technical Imagining
For further information please see the CVpdf,?91?kb
Lehrstuhl für ?ffentliches Recht, Verwaltungswissenschaften und Rechtsvergleichung
Beteiligung in Imaginamics:?
RA3: (Re)Imagining Democracy
Professur für Amerikanistik
Beteiligung in Imaginamics:?
RA2: Imagining Crises and Temporalities
Working Group: Disruptive Imagining – Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events
Professur für Islamwissenschaft
Beteiligung in Imaginamics:?
Working Group: Mediating Difference, Substantiating Truth – Liminal Figures between Religion and Science
Coordinator Research School
Research Coordinator, DFG Senate Working Group “Resilience of Science”
Postdoc, Head of Junior Research Group
Research coordinator Public Hub
Postdoc, Director of a Junior Research Group
Further information
Research staff Digital Hub
Research Coordinator (on parental leave)
Research coordinator Theory Hub
Research coordinator Deliberation Agora
Research coordinator Digital Hub
Doctoral Candidate, Junior Research Group "Kulturtechnik Imagination"?de
Further information?de
Doctoral Candidate, Research School
Doctoral Candidate, Research School
Doctoral Candidate, Research School
Doctoral Candidate, Research School
Doctoral Candidate, Research Training Group ?Explorations in Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining”?de
Doctoral Candidate, Research School
Doctoral Candidate, Research School
Doctoral Candidate, Research School
Doctoral Candidate, Research School
Scientific Director
Data Steward
Team Assistant
Student Assistent
