Jenny Körber

Dr. Jenny Körber is a Researcher at the University of Hamburg’s Department of European History and a member of the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Social Integration" (CSMC) in the research group RF B Inscribing Spaces. Her work focuses on the intersection of art, religion, and cultural history in the Early Modern period. She holds a PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin on the media practices of the Jesuit Order, and her habilitation project explores genealogy and heraldry in Early Modern media.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degrees in Art History and German Studies (2010) from WWU Münster and Paris IV La Sorbonne
• Master’s degrees in Art History (2011) and Literary Studies (2012) from the University of Amsterdam

Research Interests: Her interdisciplinary research spans Early Modern visual and religious cultures, including topics such as Jesuit media dispositifs, the interplay between music and visual art, and the role of genealogical and heraldic imagery in shaping social identity. She has curated exhibitions at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and contributed to international museum projects.

Publications: Her work bridges art history and cultural studies, with recent articles examining Vittore Carpaccio’s religious paintings, symbolic representations of bees in sacred contexts, and the exoticization of global cultures in 18th-century Europe. Her monograph Inner Bilder – äußere Schau (2024) analyzes Jesuit meditative practices through material culture.

Labs/Teams: Active in the CSMC’s Inscribing Spaces group, which investigates how spaces and inscriptions mediate cultural integration.