Wolfgang Bunzel about a future exhibition on romantic women in love. November 2021: Visit to the Goethe Haus and Romantik Museum in Frankfurt and meeting with the museum Director Professor Dr. Gesa Stedman, Grossbritannienzentrum, Humboldt Universität Berlin, who spoke on ’The Injurious Fruits of Ungoverned Passion: Narrating the Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Literature’. October 2021: Visit and guest lecture by Professor Dr. June 2021: Kick-off conference at Hornbækhus What were the functions of lighting in writing about emotions at the time? Did they change with technology? How does noticing what was lit up, and what was kept in shadow, help us to define Romanticism’s conception of love? The revolutions that gas and electric lighting brought to how we lived, felt, and loved gave writers and designers new tools to structure and inspire romance. JB’s project wonders whether emotions of loving were staged, sparked or sustained by material conditions -both designed and accidental- made possible through lighting technologies.
Languages of Love – New Technologies as Languages of Romantic Experience in Nineteenth-Century European Culture The project spans many aspects of culture: high and low, visual and print culture, as it seeks to map the dynamic and creative topography of a European literature of love. The project revolves around the effect and affect of literature, how it moves us, emotionally and physically, making us leave home in search of sites where characters in poetry and fiction experienced love. It examines the ways in which reading of love begets travel in a merging of fiction and reality. This project deals with the emergence of a literary tourism in Europe, based on locations for famous love stories, drawing readers abroad, alone, à deux, or in groups, in pursuit of literary love. Sites of Love - Where Love Took Place: Literary Tourism in the Nineteenth Century.Thirdly, to unfold spatiotemporal connections of rights-discourse between the works of 19 th and today as new ways of enacting love and rights are emerging. Secondly, interrogating how a prism for ‘reading rights’ might be developed in holding declarations of love and rights together. Love’s Right holds three lines of inquiry: firstly, to explore love as a condition for creating equality.
HG’s project looks at the connection between love and human rights from the 19 th Century, drawing parallels to today. Tied together by their claim to universality, love and human rights can be understood to rely on articulation and equality for an outward life, but also on continual revision. Rights of love: ‘when love speaks’, articulating equality and declaring love’s right.Notizen zur Geschichte des Fühlens and the fragments of the history of feeling scattered throughout his posthumous papers, AK aims to give a more complete account of it than Anders himself achieved in his own lifetime. By combining Anders’s observations from his seminal book Lieben gestern. In the second part, he will reconstruct the philosophy of love developed by Günther Anders (1902-1992). In the project’s first phase, AK will provide an account of the emergence of the theory of Romantic love in German, English, and French philosophy and literature. Philosophies of Love - Animal Amans: Günther Anders’s Philosophy of Love.
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