University of Hamburg - to research, to teach, to educate and form, to homepage
PoetryDA
Poetry in the Digital Age(ERC Advanced Grant)

Photo: UHH/Denstorf

Public Closing Event and Book Launch “Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook”

17 November 2025

Team of the ERC project Poetry in the Digital Age

Photo: UHH/Feuerböther

On 9 December 2025, the public closing event of the ERC project “Poetry in the Digital Age” will take place, beginning at 6:00 p.m. (UTC+1). Participation is possible either in person (University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, Room A7005) or via Zoom*, as the event will be held in a hybrid format.

This event also serves as the launch of Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook edited by Claudia Benthien, Vadim Keylin, and Henrik Wehmeier, which will be published with De Gruyter on 19.11.2025. With 50 contributions from internationally renowned scholars, the handbook represents the state of the art in interdisciplinary poetry research and covers four major areas: (1) contemporary adaptations of traditional poetry theory categories, (2) new and emerging poetry formats, (3) interdisciplinary perspectives, and (4) current debates. Half of the articles in this book were written by PoetryDA researchers and our research fellows. This makes it one of the most fundamental and important research outcomes of the project. The book will be part of the PoetryDA book series.

The formal event (6.00–7.15 p.m.) will consist of three parts:

  1. Brief presentation of the team and of key project results
  2. Presentation of Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook
  3. A short talk by Prof. Hans Kristian S. Rustad (University of Oslo) based on his article on “Posthumanism and Poetry in the Anthropocene” in our handbook.

For those attending in presence the event will be followed by a reception.

You can find the announcement poster for the final event here.

During the last two months of the project, retrospective and farewell posts from all team members will be published continuously on our Instagram channel (https://www.instagram.com/ercpoetryda/), offering a panorama of various facets of the project: anecdotes, publications, travels, insights, future plans, acknowledgments, and much more!

* Zoom link: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/94190354413

Latest articles

Poetry Debates IV

Photo: Benedikt Stamm

08.05.2025|Event
Poetry Debates IV: “Poetry After Nature” – A Review

Urgent poetic and political questions about humans’ relationship to the more-than-human environment were the focus of the fourth and final Poetry Debates series, entitled “Poetry after Nature.” During three public evening events* poets, performers, and literary scholars came together to discuss the...

Workshop “Posthuman Entanglements: Poetry in the Technocene”

Photo: United States Geological Service (USGS)

14.02.2025|Event
Workshop “Posthuman Entanglements: Poetry in the Technocene”

From February 27 to 28, an internal interdisciplinary workshop will take place in preparation for the edited volume Posthumane Verflechtungen: Lyrik im Technozän (Posthuman Entanglements: Poetry in the Technocene). The event is being organized by Anna Hofman, PhD student, and Antje Schmidt...