2024
Israel's Civil Society - From protest to service-delivery to populations affected by the Gaza war - Prof. (em.) Dr. Benjamin Gidron (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), 09.07.2024
ZKF Public Talk, 03.07.2024: Emerging Forms - Dr. Wolfgang Funk (Universität Mainz), Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Huber (Universität Konstanz)
ZKF Public Talk 19.06.2024: A Fuzzy European Literature - Prof. Dr. Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina) with a comment by Prof. Dr. Chenxi Tang (UC Berkeley)
ZKF Public Talk 05.06.2024: From Societas to World Society. Genealogy of a Concept - Prof. Dr. Volker H. Schmidt (National University of Singapore)
ZKF Public Talk 22.05.2024: Monumental Lies. Culture Wars and the Truth About the Past - Dr. Gruia Badescu (Universität Konstanz) in conversation with Author Robert Bevan (London)
ZKF Public Talk 08.05.2024: Haunted objects and the contemporary - Dr. David Hering (University of Liverpool)
ZKF Public Talk 24.01.2024: Populism and Explosive Communities: Politics of Authenticity in a Global Society - Prof. Dr. Jiri Priban, Universität Cardiff
2023
ZKF Public Talk 28.06.2023: Cartographies of Chilean Muralism in Exile: Between Testimony and Memory. Dr. Cristóbal Barria Bignotti, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris, und Dr. Sandra Rudman, Universität Konstanz
ZKF Public Talk 21.06.2023: In your own time - Ein Hörspaziergang. Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Huber, Yvonne Bigler, Christine Hasler
ZKF Public Talk 31.05.2023: Anticipation by Redress: Transforming African Mega-Infrastructure Futures. Prof. Dr. Kenny Cupers, Universität Basel
Wolfgang Iser Lecture, 17.05.2023: Not All Each Day: The Infrastructures of Racial Life. Prof. Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University
ZKF Public Talk 27.04.2023: Enduring Infrastructure. Prof. Caroline Levine, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
ZKF Public Talk 08.02.2023: Odesa City Mythology in the Time of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Prof. Dr. Oksana Dovgopolova, Odesa National University
ZKF Public Talk 01.02.2023: „Russian World“ in the Whole World: Historical and Linguistic Manipulations in the „Russkij Mir“ Construction. Dr. Liudmyla Pidkuimukha, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
ZKF Public Talk 25.01.2023: Adaptation as Renewal: The Transformative Impact of Hamlet's Travels. Prof. Dr. Sandra Young, University of Cape Town
2022
ZKF Talk 2022-07-13: Rethinking Imperial Space. Prof. Jane Burbank / Prof. Frederick Cooper, New York
ZKF Opening Event 2022-06-29: Elevator Pitch. Gratitude for Infrastructure and Beyond. Prof. Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
ZKF Talk 2022-06-22: Impossible Domesticity and Travels. Thing Theory, New Materialisms, and Other Epistemologies. Prof. Leila Gómez, University of Colorado, Boulder
ZKF Talk 2022-06-08: Community Protests over Perceived Inadequate Municipal Service Delivery in South Africa, 2004-2021, Prof. Dr. Sethulego Matebesi, University of the Free State, South Africa
ZKF Talk 2022-05-04: Marx in Texas: Slavery, Capital, and the Revolutionary 1860s, Prof. Dr. Eric Lott, University of New York
ZKF Talk 2022-04-27: Microprocessors as Media, Kyle Stine PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
ZKF Talk 2022-01-12: What is a Classic? 3.0: Poetry, myth and classical forms in some contemporary South African theatre, Prof. Dr. Mark Fleishman, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2021
ZKF Talk 2021-11-10: (Mis)translating Deceit: Disinformation's Hidden Translingual Journey, Prof. Vera Tolz, Prof. Stephen Hutchings, both: University of Manchester
