Within the Global Funding Scheme of the UZH, Zurich and Yale scholars research challenges and possibilities of AI in Swiss and Austrian Contemporary Literature and Media (AI@SACoLM).
The SNSF-funded project "META: Margareta Klopstock's Aesthetic Feminism" rediscovers one the most important public intellectuals of the arising bourgeois society. Her work led to new social and aesthetic forms.
The SNSF-funded project “ARTS: The Formation of Practical Aesthetics in A. G. Baumgarten's German Corpus" interrogates the foundation of discursivity underpinning modern aesthetics, with particular attention to its political dimension.
The SNSF-funded project “FORM: Generic Ambiguity in Narrative Fiction (1800-1930)” identifies and elucidates the open forms of modern narrative fiction as generic ambiguity, which is understood as an ambiguity of form.
The SNSF funded project “ETHOS. Ethical Practices in Aesthetic Theories of the 18th Century” reconstructs the alliance between ethics and aesthetics in order to emphasize a neglected trajectory in the history of aesthetics.
How does literature think & act through form? The UZH-funded “Zurich Distinguished Lectures” serve as a platform for transatlantic discussions on aesthetic, ethical, and political interventions in public discourse.
The international anniversary conference on the 250th anniversary of deaths of Johann Jacob Breitinger invites to explore how the most important aesthetician of the early Enlightenment measured the world aesthetically.
The international congress in honor of the two 200th anniversary of Gottfried Keller initiates new approaches to his work in the horizon of aesthetic realism, which is further explored in a book series.
The DFG-funded project "Zones of Ambiguity in Contemporary German Literatures and Arts" has started an international collaboration aiming at interdisciplinary insights in the uncertainty of social and aesthetic forms.