Temporal Communities

Die Welt z/erlesen Reading the world in/to pieces. Am Sonntag Abend um 19 Uhr in der @lettretage EINTRITT FREI 🟥 Eine Lecture Performance von Anna Lena von Helldorff @alvonh und mir. Charlotte Puder spielt die Nachrichtensprecherin Lilo XYZ und ist auf dem Bildschirm und als Stimme dabei. Kasimir Sauer hat Jingles komponiert und uns bei der Videobearbeitung unterstützt. Barbara Bausch @ara_bausch hat alles möglich gemacht. 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 Kommt, es wird hoffentlich schön. 🟥 Kooperationsveranstaltung mit dem @exc2020 Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, Freie Universität Berlin im Rahmen des Projekts READING READING.

This is what »at the bottom of the frame« looks like from the inside. Its a declaration of love to subtitles and explores their challenges and potential. It‘s an easy read, combining an interview, essay and screenshots of my videowork. I worked on it with Sulgi Lie, Carol O‘Sullivan and @anoukbln . @berndgrether did the design and it was published by @textem thank you @sibel_ooo for your 🫷🏻🫶🏻✌🏻🤙🏻

🚧 Wir bauen für euch um! Der Forschungscampus Dahlem steckt mitten in der Transformation – und ihr könnt live dabei sein. 👀 Erlebt den spannenden Zwischenstand unserer Museumsarbeit und werft einen Blick hinter die Kulissen. Freut euch auf die Eröffnung unserer neuen Ausstellung „Erzählstoff. Neue Perspektiven auf Literatur“ 📚✨ 📅 16.04. 🕡 18:30 Uhr Die Ausstellung entsteht in Kooperation mit der @fu_berlin und dem @exc2020 Kommt vorbei, entdeckt Neues und begleitet uns auf dem Weg zur Eröffnung! // 🚧 We’re rebuilding for you! The Research Campus Dahlem is currently undergoing an exciting transformation – and you can experience it live. 👀 Get a glimpse of our museum work in progress and take a look behind the scenes. We’re also looking forward to the opening of our new exhibition “The Stuff of Narrative. New Perspectives on Literature” 📚✨ 📅 April 16 🕡 6:30 PM The exhibition is developed in cooperation with @fu_berlin and @exc2020 Come by, discover something new, and join us on the way to the opening! #MuseumInProgress #TheStuffOfNarrative #BerlinCulture #MeinFCD #ErzählStoff

“Address: Balat Orphanage“ is dedicated to the history of a place of care that served Istanbul’s Armenian community for nearly two centuries: the Khorenyan School and Orphanage in the neighbourhood of Balat, which closed its gates in the late 1970s. As they trace the Khorenyan’s social and cultural memory, co-authors @l_oriental and @arsenique___ draw on oral history, spatial analysis and a treasure trove of archival material currently being digitised by @hrantdinkfoundation to reflect on the role of Armenian educational institutions before, during and after the Armenian Genocide. Complementing editions in Eastern and Western Armenian (both with @csn_lab as publisher, 2026), this ninth instalment of con·stel·la·tions, the joint series by @exc2020 and @textem , constitutes a thoroughly revised exploration of the Khorenyan’s past for English-speaking readers. Don’t miss the book launch at @d21_kunstraum on March 21, 2026 | 05:00 PM (part of @leipzigerbuchmesse )! #balat #memory #istanbularmenians #exc2020 #constellations

“Archivo en obras“ plays on the double sense of ‘archive‘ as a site under construction and as a field continuously reshaped by the artworks that activate it: Through critical and aesthetic interventions, archival art draws attention to violent histories of colonial extraction and displacement, thereby destabilising conventional ways of organising, preserving and representing memory. This eighth volume of con·stel·la·tions, the joint series by @exc2020 and @textem , has its roots in the first Activation Lab organised by poet and researcher @anarociojouli in cooperation with the festival @barrio.berlin . It brings together texts (Spanish and Portuguese, with English translation) and images by a diverse range of artists and researchers: @celendunio , André Felipe, @paloma.zamorano.ferrari , @camilo_echeverri and @ludmila.fks , whose activations premiered at @ibero.amerikanisches.institut . #archivoenobras #archiveintheworks #latinamerica #exc2020 #constellations

Meet CSN Lab’s new publication at the Leipzig Book Fair. We are launching “Address: Balat Orphanage,” a publication developed through a collaboration between CSN Lab and the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin. Join us at D21 Kunstraum for a conversation with authors Tigran Amiryan and Arsen Abrahamyan, together with co-editor Barbara Bausch, tracing the making of the book, from archival research and reading to its transformation into a research publication, and its place within the con·stel·la·tions series. Date: 21 March, 17:00 Location: D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig The publication is part of the con·stel·la·tions series, a project of the eponymous hub for networked and transdisciplinary initiatives conceived within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Freie Universität Berlin. 📷 Martin Thaulow 📷 Lorenz Brandtner

WHAT LEAVES & WHAT LIVES
Tracing the Multiple Pasts of an Armenian School in Istanbul CSN Lab and D21 Kunstraum Leipzig warmly invite you to the book presentation and public talk of Address: Balat Orphanage as part of the Leipzig International Book Fair. The event presents a collaboration between CSN Lab and the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin, which led to the creation of two volumes,  Address: Balat Orphanage and Berlin Dialogues, that bring together archival research and literature to explore the complexities of war, conflict and borders through the lenses of memory, migration and spatiality. The event will feature a conversation with the authors, Tigran Amiryan and Arsen Abrahamyan (CSN Lab), moderated by co-editor Barbara Bausch (Freie Universität Berlin). Address: Balat Orphanage emerges from CSN Lab’s long-term research on the archives of the Armenian Khorenyan School in Istanbul’s Balat district. The archives were digitised and categorised by the @hrantdinkfoundation forming the basis for an interdisciplinary study. The book traces nearly two centuries of transformations of the Khorenyan School and Orphanage, a place of care that played a pivotal role in Istanbul’s Armenian community and closed its doors in the late 1970s. Spanning the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, the archive reveals the intertwined histories of Armenian, Jewish, and Greek communities and documents the political and social shifts that shaped shared urban spaces and collective memory. By exploring the intertwined processes of forgetting and remembrance, the publication offers insight into a rich body of previously unpublished archival material documenting life before, during and after the Armenian Genocide. Date: 21 March, 17:00
Venue: D21 Kunstraum (Demmeringstr. 21) The publication is part of the con·stel·la·tions series, a project of the eponymous hub for networked and transdisciplinary initiatives conceived within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Freie Universität Berlin.

Join us in congratulating former Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence Łęko Zygmuntówne on winning the Grand Prix in the Polish poetry competition O Złotą Pszczołę with their latest book, "Ξένο"! Full of surprising combinations of words and poetic images, rapid transformations and moments of shocking fragmentation, "Ξένο" [Foreign] reflects the diversity and uniqueness of beings while also showcasing the commonality and interdependence between them. "Ξένο" is for sale at the Literature House Łódź, @domliteraturywlodzi (by arrangement). Orders can also be directed to @lekozygmuntowne ([email protected]). A selection of the volume's collages has recently been published in volume five of EXC 2020’s con·stel·la·tions series, "zeit · brechen — Versatzstücke queerer / trans* Dichtung" (Hamburg: Textem Verlag, 2025, open access). 📷 Image Credit: Maciej Kaczyński for CK ZAMEK 🎨 Book cover © czAR(T) Krzywogońca #poetry #foreign #diversity #exc2020 #constellations

Novels organised by tight plots are surprisingly rare – narrative closure is by no means guaranteed, which leaves individual episodes and the relations between them open to retrospective reconfiguration. The essay collection ‘To Be Continued – Forms of Narrative Continuation’, edited by Ulla Haselstein (Research Area 3: Future Perfect) and Florian Sedlmeier, explores forms of narrative returns and follow-ups such as adaptation, adventure, parody, remake, serialisation and spinoff. From the significance of seriality in novels to robot rewrites of canonical plays, the volume spans genres and media to discuss how and why narratives are continued across times and cultures. It has been published as part of the peer-reviewed ‘Anglia Book Series’ (ANGB) co-edited by Andrew James Johnston (Cluster Co-Director and member of Research Area 3: Future Perfect). 📷 Book cover @degruyter_brill #narrative #continuation #tobecontinued #exc2020 #temporalcommunities

Stand-up comedy is a truly global phenomenon, and twenty-first-century India is no exception. Enter Dhritii Dutta, who examines how the country’s thriving comedy scene constantly builds new communities that transcend seemingly unsurmountable social barriers. As Dhritii explains in our video, she doesn’t stop at analysing footage of the latest routines – she’s just as interested in the endless comment sections below! #standupcomedy #contestation #aakashgupta #fellow #exc2020

🎤Science On Stage🔬 Snapshots from the Science Slam of the Berlin Excellence Clusters — an evening full of bold ideas, sharp minds and great energy. Thank you to all slammers and everyone who joined us!🧡 (c) Kay Herschelmann

The bilingual publication Cinco vozes brings together five prominent voices in contemporary Brazilian writing. Made available for the first time in German translation, the stories, poems, essays and experimental works by Eliana Alves Cruz @elialvescruz , Conceição Evaristo @conceicaoevaristooficial , Ana Maria Gonçalves @_anamariagoncalves , Leda Maria Martins @leda.maria.martins and Amara Moira @amoiramara address issues such as the echoes of history in the body, Afro-Brazilian traditions, femininity* and sexuality, as well as violence and Latin America’s troubled political past. The contributions point towards a major shift in Brazilian culture as historically marginalised voices increasingly take centre stage, redefining their country’s literature and expanding its means of expression. This seventh volume of 'con·stel·la·tions', the joint series by @exc2020 and @textem , has its origins in the third iteration of the Middle Ground festival at @hkw_berlin (10–11 October 2025, realised in collaboration with EXC 2020), which hosted the Festa Literária das Periferias @vempraflup , an event born in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. #cincovozes #fuenfstimmen #brazilianwriting #exc2020 #constellations