The following centers and collaborative research projects are engaged in this focus area:

• ERC Project: DramaNet (2010-2016)
• EXC Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective (since 2020)
• FOR 2305: Discursivisations of the New (since 2016)
• Forum Mittelalter – Renaissance – Frühe Neuzeit (since 2015)
• CRC 980: Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period (since 2012)

Activities

2024

• June 27-28, 2024, Workshop: Lyric Communities: Conflict and Assent, Center for Italian Studies - University of Notre Dame, Dahlem Humanities Center, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, Italienzentrum, Oxford Berlin Research Partnership
• June 18, 2024, Inauguration: echo—Center for the Study of Rhetoric between Old and New Media, echo
• June 17, 2024, Talk: Renzo Bragantini (Sapienza – Università di Roma): Boccaccio senza poetica? Italienzentrum
• June, 11, 2024, Talk: Stefania Salvadori (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel): Luther im Italien des 16. Jahrhunderts. Eine Geschichte von Büchern, Übersetzern, Händlern, "Dissidenten" und neuem Lesen, Italienzentrum, Institut für Romanistik der Universität Potsdam
• June 7-8, 2024, Tagung (mehrtägig): Wissensgeschichten – von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit, SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“
• June 3, 2024, Talk: Leyla Livraghi (University College Cork/Università di Pisa), Dante classicista sulle orme di Virgilio, Italienzentrum
• June 3, 2024, Talk: Leyla Livraghi (University College Cork/Università di Pisa): Dalla Divina Commedia alla commedia 'umana' di Boccaccio. Personaggi danteschi nel Decameron, Italienzentrum
• May 16, 2024, Talk: Carolin Schreiber, Paolo Eleuteri, Bernhard Huss (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/Universität Venedig/FU Berlin). Die italienischen Handschriften der Berliner Staatsbibliothek und Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron, Italienzentrum
• April 25, 2024, Talk: Manuscript Sources for the Early Modern Orientalist Reception of Kalīla wa-Dimma, ERC Projekt "Kalīla and Dimna-AnonymClassic"

• April 11–12, 2024, International Workshop: Phanariot Knowledge Transfer in Context, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• April 3–5, 2024, International Conference: “… that is the Question” – Towards a History of the Question as an Epistemic Genre in the Early Modern Age, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• March 13–15, 2024, Workshop: ‚wunder‘ in Serie. Verfahren der Akkumulation von Mirabilien, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• February 6 –7,  2024, Conference: Jakob Böhme um 1800, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• February 2, 2024, Lecture: Catalan Maps and Jewish Books. The Intellectual Profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325–1387), Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• January 19, 2024, Lecture: Translating German Mysticism: The Construction of a European Idea (Jacob Böhme), Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit

2023

• December 1, 2023, Studientag: Prospects of Decay: Reflecting on the Decadence of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• November 17–18, 2023, Workshop: Ästhetische und politische Praktiken der Handzeichnung, 1400 bis heute, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• October 20, 2023, Lecture: Caesar and Carmen: il n’a jamais, jamais connu de loi, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• October 16, 2023, Audio event: The sound of science: Das Ischtar-Tor von Babylon, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• October 4–5, 2023, Workshop: Die letzte Lücke schließen, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• September 28–29, 2023, Workshop: Keilschriftrecht zwischen Theorie und Praxis, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• September 28, 2023, Workshop: Arabic Wisdom Literature as a Template for Reframing Wisdom Literature, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit

2022

• October 25, 2022, Seminar: Handling Manuscripts in the Late Middle Ages, Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities
• July 18–19, 2022, Workshop: Das Wunderbare als Konfiguration des Wissens in der Literatur des Mittelalters, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• July 7–8, 2022, Workshop: Malleable Texts, Fluid Authorships: Galenic Medicine and Late Antiquity, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• July 2, 2022, Talk: LNDW 2022 "Meet the Scientist" | Andrew James Johnston: "Weltliteratur im Frühmittelalter: Das Runenkästchen von Auzon", Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities
• June 16–17, 2022, Conference: Medicine, Life, and Transformations of Matter 1500-1800, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• June 10, 2022, Lecture: Handhabe und Anweisung in der ‚Kunstliteratur‘ der Frühen Neuzeit, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit
• May 20, 2022, Lecture: Feste verwalten: Die Umsetzung liturgischer Normen im spätmittelalterlichen Kloster, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 4–6, 2022, Conference: Body and Soul. Comparative Studies on the Body-Soul Concept in the Pre-Modern Era, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• February 18, 2022, Workshop: Rituelles Wissen in Bewegung, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"

2021

• December 9–11, 2021, Workshop: Liminale Temporalität in der Frühen Neuzeit, Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities
• Septmeber 17–18, 2021, Conference: AMASSING PERSPECTIVES: Recent Trends in Syriac Iconography, Forum Mittelalter – Renaissance – Frühe Neuzeit
• June 24–26, 2021, Annual Conference: Ästhetiken als Wissenspraktiken in der Vormoderne, Sonderforschungsbereich 980 "Episteme in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der Alten Welt bis in die Frühe Neuzeit"
• June 24, 2021, Talk: The Community of Letters in Renaissance Italy, Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities
• April 26, 2021, Workshop: Gattungstradition und Emergenz. Online-Workshop der DFG-Forschungsgruppe 2305, DFG-Forschungsgruppe 2305 - Diskursivierungen von Neuem

2020

• November 16, 2020, Online Talk: The Islamic Age of Communication – Beatrice Gruendler, Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
• October 27, 2020, Presentation: La sequenza biografica Ghiberti/Brunelleschi e le origini della storiografia artistica rinascimentale: filologia e storia dell'arte, Italienzentrum
• October 2–3, 2020, Talk: Familiarity with Persian among Early Modern Arabic Anthologists – Theodore Beers, Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic
• September 9–11, 2020, International symposium of the Melanchthon Academy: Totus noster? - Augustinus zwischen den Konfessionen, Forum Mittelalter - Renaissance - Frühe Neuzeit
• February 10, 2020, Lecture: Ulrike Strasser, UC San Diego: Global Knowledge, Emotions, and the Making of Enlightenment Europe. Joseph Stöcklein’s Neuer Welt-Bott Revisited, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut

2019

• October 17–18, 2019, Workshop: The Rediscovery of Epic Writing in France around 1500. Negotiating Genre in a European Humanist Context, DFG-Forschungsgruppe 2305 - Diskursivierungen von Neuem
• September 30–October 2, 2019, Conference: Wissen in Buchgestalt, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• September 18–19, 2019, Workshop: Wunderkammern – Materialität, Narrativik und Institutionalisierung von Wissen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• August 1–3, 2019, Workshop: Objects of Belief: Dissent, Reform and Material Culture in Late-Medieval England, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 27–29, 2019, Annual Conference: (Nicht)Wissen – Dynamiken der Negation in vormodernen Kulturen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 7, 2019, Lecture by Prof. Natalia Filatkina: Übersetzungskulturen und sprachliche Dynamiken der Verständigung im Spiegel frühneuzeitlicher Sprachlehrbücher, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• July 5–7, 2019, Workshop: Renaissance – Baroque – Religious Humanism – Orthodox/Early Enlightenment: Periodization problems in the history of Knowledge in Early Modern South-East Europe, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 5, 2019, Lecture by Elisabetta Tonello and Paolo Trovato: La Commedia di Dante dalle edizioni ottocentesche a quelle digitali. Perchè un'altra edizione? E come sarà?, Italienzentrum
• May 10–11, 2019, Workshop: Female Voices in Medieval Literature, Forum Mittelalter - Renaissance - Frühe Neuzeit
• May 2, 2019, Lecture by Prof. Dr. Giulio Busi: Andrea Mantegna und das Geheimnis der hebräischen Buchstaben
• April 15–16, 2019, International Workshop: Asymmetries of Knowledge, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• April 11, 2019, Lecture by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Huss: Triumphzüge der Renaissance von Petrarca bis Mantegna, Italienzentrum
• February 28, 2019, Workshop: Arbeitsgespräch zu Johann Valentin Andreae und den Rosenkreuzer-Schriften, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• February 22, 2019, Workshop: Savoire faire & Faire savoir dans les académies en France (XVIIe Siècle), Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", Project B05: Theory and Aesthetics of Elusive Knowledge in the Early Modern Period: Transfer and Institutionalisation
• February 11, 2019, Lecture: Was Genregemälde sichtbar machen: Adriaen Brouwer, Gerard ter Borch und das sozialanalytische Sehen, Institute of Art History
• February 8, 2019, Workshop: Wissenshybride zwischen Textwissen und Naturbeobachtung. Formen und Medien der Gelehrsamkeit in der république des lettres, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"

2018

• November 5–6, 2018, Workshop: Probleme der Epochisierung, DFG Research Group FOR 2305 - Discursivizations of the New
• November 2–3, 2018, Workshop: Asynchronien im Kontext von Periodisierungsverfahren, Einsteinzirkel "Asynchronien. Formen verschränkter Zeit in der Vormoderne", Forum Mittelalter-Renaissance-Frühe Neuzeit
• September 27–29, 2018, Conference: Darstellung und Geheimnis in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• September 10–11, 2018, Workshop with Prof. Kathryn Starkey: „Things in Medieval Literature, Society, and the Visual Arts“, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• August 23–25, 2018: "Strange Matter": How Things Disrupt Time, International conference organised by project B01 "Artefacts, Treasures and Ruins - Materiality and Historicity in the Literature of the English Middle Ages " (Head: Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston)
• July 5–6, 2018, Workshop: „Aetius of Amida, Books on Medicine“, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• July 5, 2018, Lecture: "Die Selbststilisierung des William Style Esq - Eine Beitrag zum Self-Fashioning im englischen Porträt um 1630", Institute of Art History
• July 2–3, 2018, Workshop: The Devil and His Poetic Power, Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Universität Zürich
• June 26–27, 2018 Workshop with Rotraud Hansberger: „Träumende Pferde und träumende Propheten: Aristoteles’ Schriften zu Schlaf und Traum und ihre Rezeption in der griechischen, lateinischen, arabischen und hebräischen Tradition“, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 22, 2018, Conference: La rima tra filologia, metrica e musica dal Medioevo al Rinascimento, Italienzentrum
• June 9, 2018: „Wissensschätze heben – eine Reise durch vormoderne Wissenslandschaften“, Project of the Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period" at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
• June 1, 2018, Lecture: „Der Esstisch – vom Repräsentationsort zum Gesprächsmöbel. Eine kultur- und kommunikationsgeschichtliche Skizze“, Event Series „WissensFragen“, Dr. Angelika Linke, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 22–23, 2018, Conference: What is an Academy? Early Modern Learned Societies in a Transcultural Perspective, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period" in Kooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• May 18, 2018, Lecture: „Ghost Machines“, Event Series „WissensFragen“, Prof. Shane Butler, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 3, 2018, Lecture: Atlante dei canzonieri in volgare del Quattrocento, Italienzentrum
• May 3–5, 2018, Conference: Wissenskulturen der Vormoderne: Autorisierungen – Remediationen – Transfers, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period" and Graduiertenkolleg 1662 "Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa (800–1800). Transfers und Transformationen – Wege zur Wissensgesellschaft der Moderne", Tübingen
• February 9, 2018, Lecture: Exzerpieren - Kompilieren – Tradieren. Transformationen des Wissens zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• February 1, 2018, Lecture, Dr. Berit Wagner (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Quintessenz und Opus Magnum. Peter Paul Rubens im Reich der Alchemie, Institute of Art History

2017

• December 11, 2017, Workshop: The Know[ing] How of Early Modern Italian Academies, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• December 7–8, 2017, Workshop: Picturing the Revelation: Dreams, Prophecy and Imagination in Medieval Traditions, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• December 1–2, 2017, Workshop: Magie in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
• November 23, 2017, Workshop: Dante e la dimensione visionaria tra medioevo e prima età moderna, Italienzentrum
• November 9–10, 2017, Conference: Petrarca e la sua ricezione europea, Italienzentrum
• October 17, 2017, Lecture: Wiederholung und Gegenüberstellung. Persische Alben aus dem 15. und 16. Jahrhundert als Bildwissen-Speicher, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
• July 21–22, 2017, Conference: Medieval Texts in Transit, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• June 29–July 01, 2017, Conference: Umschreiben / Re-Writing. Materiale und epistemische Dimensionen von textualisierung in der Vormoderne, 5th Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Centre 980 : "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period" in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Centre 933 "Materiale Textkulturen" (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
• June 21–23, 2017, Conference: Aristotelismus und Naturwissen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• May 12–13, 2017, Workshop: Die Materialität der Wissensordnungen und die Episteme der Zeichnung, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• April 26, 2017, Lecture: Bücher und Bilder: Medien der (divina) commedia und ihre Evidenzen, Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• February 6–8, 2017, Opening Conference of the DFG-Research Group 2305: Discursivizations of the New. Tradition and Innovation in Medieval and Early Modern Texts
• January 19, 2017, Lecture: Verkörperte Imagination, imaginierte Körper: Die Martyrien des hl. Bartholomäus und der hl. Katharina in der rheinischen Kunst des Spätmittelalters, Kunsthistorisches Institut

2016

• December 1–2, 2016, Conference: Das Haus schreiben. Wissensbewegungen in der ökonomischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit (1300‐1700), Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• November 17–19, 2016, Conference: Gender-Studies - Queer-Studies - Intersektionalitätsforschung. Eine Zwischenbilanz aus mediävistischer Perspektive, Forum Mittelalter - Renaissance - Frühe Neuzeit
• November 3, 2016, Opening Ceremony of the DFG-Research Group 2305: Discursivizations of the New. Tradition and Innovation in Medieval and Early Modern Texts
• October 28, 2016, Workshop: Ästhetiken der Liminalität. Die transformative Kraft von Werken der bildenden Kunst in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, DFG-Research Group 1703 "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art. Comparative Perspectives on Historical Contexts and Current Constellations"
• October 27–28, 2016, Conference: Approcci interdisciplinari al Petrarchismo. Tra Italia e Germania, Italienzentrum
• October 25, 2016, Nina Maria Gorissen Lecture: Performing Scholasticism: Ars Disputandi and the Medieval Public Sphere,  American Academy (Cooperation Partner of the DHC)