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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.05.2021
    Suzanne Conklin Akbari: What Ground Do We Read On? (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The field of Medieval Studies has undergone a period of reckoning, including a greater awareness of histories of race and racialization, an increasingly fraught relationship of religious and racial identities, and the effects of the ’global turn‘,...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Media studies,  Writtenness and 2 more
    Created on: 10.05.2021
  2. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 27.10.2020
    Lecture: The Ambivalent Translator. On Psychoanalysis, Philology, and Translation (Andreas Mayer)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In The Interpretation of Dreams , Freud famously compared the act of interpreting a dream to the translation of a text. This metaphorical use of translation has not only had an impact on the way psychoanalysts understand their own practice, but...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 06.03.2020
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    The Unwriting Machine: Medio and the Archive in Mario Bellatin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How to write without writing? What is a literary milieu outside of itself? How can we read a writing that proliferates by disappearing? Where does the archive end and the oeuvre begin? This project aims to explore the creative (un)writing process...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. Arnd Wedemeyer
    University or institution: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and philosophy; Lyric poetry; Theory of translation

  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 11.10.2019
    Eskalation! Skandal in der Literatur und in den Künsten
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    ‘Was darf Literatur, was nicht?‘ Mit dieser Frage beschäftigten sich anlässlich des kürzlich erschienenen Romans „Stella“ von Takis Würger wieder einmal die deutschsprachigen Feuilletons, die dem Autor einen unangemessenen Umgang mit der...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies,  Poetics and 1 more
    Created on: 29.04.2019
  6. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 20.06.2019
    Lecture: Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature: A South African Example
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There are strong arguments for considering the world’s speech practices as a continuum rather than as a series of discrete languages, the establishment of the latter very often being a political as much as a linguistic process. This talk will...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  World Literature,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 29.04.2019