Prof. Dr. Johannes Gravede
Johannes Grave, professor of art history, is the spokesperson of Imaginamics. In 2020, he received the Leibniz Prize for his work in the history of art, focusing on the time around 1800, Romanticism and early modern art.
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Prof. Dr. Christina Brandt
Christina Brandt is professor of History and Philosophy of Science, director of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus and deputy spokesperson of Imaginamics.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Prof. Dr. Joachim von PuttkamerExternal link
Joachim von Puttkamer is professor of Eastern European history, director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg and deputy spokesperson of Imaginamics.
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: Working Group "Creating Race, Reinventing Identity - Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)"
Research Area 2: Working Group ""Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates"
Research Area 2: 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
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: Working Group ""Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates"
Theory Hub: Forum "Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)"?
Theory Hub: Forum "Doing Research on Practices"
Theory Hub: Working Group "The Role of Images in Social Imagining"
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?101?kb
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: Working Group "Hegemonic and Counter Imaginaries in/of a Digital Age"
Theory Hub: Forum "Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)"?
Theory Hub: Forum "Doing Research on Practices"
Theory Hub: 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
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)"?
Theory Hub: 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
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: Working Group "Creating Race, Reinventing Identity - Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)"
Research Area 2: Working Group ""Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates"
Research Area 2: 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
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: 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
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: Working Group "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,?99?kb
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: Working Group "Mediating Difference, Substaintiating Truth - Liminal Figures between Religion and Science"
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?77?kb
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: 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
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: 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
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: Working Group "Mediating Difference, Substaintiating Truth - Liminal Figures between Religion and Science"
Theory Hub: Forum "Concepts and Theories (Living Handbook of Social Imagining)"?
Theory Hub: Forum "Doing Research on Practices"
For further information please see the CVpdf,?86?kb
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: 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
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: Working Group "Disruptive Imagining - Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events"
Research Area 3: 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
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: Working Group "Disruptive Imagining - Materialising Crises as Exceptional Events"
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?80?kb
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: Working Group ""Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates"
Research Area 2: 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
Research portfolio: Political communication; motivated cognition; political ideology; digital publics; conspiratorial narratives; post-truth media reception
Participation in Imaginamics
Research Area 2: Working Group "Conflicting Stories of Change - Storytelling in Times of Crisis"
Research Area 3: Working Group "Hegemonic and Counter Imaginaries in/of a Digital Age"
Digital Hub: Forum "Imaginary Media - Before and Beyond the Digital Age"
Digital Hub: Forum "Immersive Practices and Social Imagining"
For further information please see the CVpdf,?90?kb
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: Working Group ""Enlightenment Now!?" - Conflicting Imaginations of Enlightenment in Contemporary Crisis Debates"
Digital Hub: Forum "Imaginary Media - Before and Beyond the Digital Age"
Digital Hub: Working Group "Understanding Socio-Technical Imagining"
For further information please see the?CVpdf,?95?kb
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: Working Group "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
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: Working Group "Creating Race, Reinventing Identity - Imagining the (De)Colonial in Europe and Latin America (16th to 21st Century)"
Research Area 2: 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
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)"?
Theory Hub: Working Group "The Role of Images in Social Imagining"
For further information please see the CVpdf,?90?kb
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: Working Group "Hegemonic and Counter Imaginaries in/of a Digital Age"
Digital Hub: Forum "Imaginary Media - Before and Beyond the Digital Age"
Digital Hub: Working Group "Understanding Socio-Technical Imagining"
For further information please see the CVpdf,?91?kb