Organised by Research Area 5: "Building Digital Communities".

For detailed information, please visit the Annual Conference 2025 website.

The 5th Annual Conference "Futures of Doing Literature" will focus on the potentialities, strategies, expectations, challenges and imaginaries for doing literature, both as a scholarly practice and as a social, material-aesthetic and performative form of expression, communication and negotiation. We will explore how doing literature enables meditation, critique and action; how it enacts different notions of participation, impact, agency and literary timing, always creating temporalities of its own. 

In addition, by placing contributions from Cluster members, associated researchers and fellows at the core of the programme, the conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on the collaborative achievements and developments throughout Temporal Communities' first funding phase. 

Three days of panels, roundtables, presentations and readings will provide an exploratory space and shared time for Cluster members and friends to engage in critical discussion and reflection, while all of the Cluster's international partners will gather with the local research community in Berlin to discuss the future(s) of their collaborative work.

This year, the conference will be combined with an 'International Week', allowing us to welcome all of the Cluster's international collaborators to Berlin to discuss the future of research on temporal communities.