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  1. 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
  2. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.06.2019
    The Work of World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What is the relation between literary theory and world literature? Literary studies today tries to reckon with and transcend the parochialism and Eurocentrism of its tradition by adopting transnational, transhistorical, transcultural, translocal...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature
    Created on: 29.04.2019
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 03.06.2019
    A Revision without Reserve. Agamben’s Homo Sacer
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Over the course of two decades, from 1995 to 2015, Giorgio Agamben published a series of nine books, not in sequence but conceived from the beginning as parts of a project sharing the title of its first volume, Homo sacer . These nine books have...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 29.04.2019
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.05.2019
    Milieus of Minutiae. Contextualizing the Small in Science, Philosophy, and Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were replete with large-scale projects and interests: the rise of the most colossal modern literary form, the novel; the craze for panorama; the pursuit of imperial ambitions by both European and American...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science,  Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment)
    Created on: 29.04.2019
  5. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 09.05.2019
    Lecture: Can the Posthuman Speak? In Defense of Anthropocentrism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What are the implications of the increasingly popular ‘posthumanist’ and ‘new materialist’ perspectives challenging human privileges in research and political action by claiming agency for a range of non-human entities, animate or otherwise? These...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 29.04.2019
  6. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 26.02.2019
    Lecture: Die leise Arbeit des Todestriebs. Eine kleine Theoriegeschichte des Begehrens von 1968 bis zur Queer Theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im 1972 erschienen Anti-Ödipus denken Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari Begehren als nomadisch mäandernde, transformative Kraft. Dieses Manifest der ›Philosophie des Begehrens‹ inspiriert Guy Hocqenghem, Vordenker der Queer Theory, der diese Idee...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 20.02.2019
  7. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 14.05.2019
    Lecture: Critique of Fantasy: Between a Crypt and a Date Mark
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    With George Lucas’s Star Wars , we entered the Heimat of blockbusters, which lies in the borderlands of the fantasy and science fiction genres folding out of and staggering a contest that J. R. R. Tolkien inaugurated in the 1930s around his...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 20.02.2019
  8. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 23.04.2019
    Lecture: Dr. Freud meets Dr. Schnitzler: A Case Study of the Ambivalent Intersections between Psychoanalysis and Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) was a central figure of Viennese modernism, living and working in the Habsburg metropolis at the same time as Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). The talk will introduce the productive, but also extremely ambivalent intellectual...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 20.02.2019
  9. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 18.03.2019
    Voice and Environment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This workshop will bring artists and scholars together for a sustained conversation on the theme of voice and environment. It will explore physical, cultural, sonic, and social interactions between voice and environment, as well as issues relating to...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and music/sound studies
    Created on: 20.02.2019
  10. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.06.2018
    Barthes by the Margins
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens to the ‘death of the author’ when we do not read it as a manifest for a new critique, but as a commentary on contemporary art? What happens to our perception of Camera Lucida when we read it not only as a textbook for photography doubled...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  11. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 09.11.2018
    Vielleicht. Formen literarischer Eventualität
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Jahrestagung der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien 9.-10. November 2018 im ICI Berlin Jüngere Veröffentlichungen und aktuelle Theoriedebatten betonen in auffälligem Maße den zukunftsbezogenen...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  12. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.06.2018
    Barthes, Queer Before Queer? A Journey Into Barthes’s Visual Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Barthes’s homosexuality is a well-known fact, and recent biographies have shed light on this major part of his social life. How should the inaugural text of Mythologies (‘The World of Wrestling’) be re-read in light of the fact that he was going to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and visual studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 13.06.2018
    Ästhetische Eigenzeiten heute: Gegenwart, Gegenwärtigkeit, Vergegenwärtigung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gerade jetzt? Die Jahrestagung »Ästhetische Eigenzeiten heute: Gegenwart, Gegenwärtigkeit, Vergegenwärtigung«, die im Rahmen des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms ‘Ästhetische Eigenzeiten: Zeit und Darstellung in der polychronen Moderne’ stattfindet, will die...

    Fields of research Aesthetics
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 08.06.2018
    Philological Time(s)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What is the time, are the times of philology? Whether grasped narrowly in the sense of textual criticism or more widely as a ‘love of words’, philology, underpinning all critical practices attentive to the materiality of language, demands to be...

    Fields of research Literary theory
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  15. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 04.06.2018
    Fixation: Freud’s Queer Counter-Concept
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The talk will examine how ‘fixation’ is associated with some of the most inventive and enigmatic moments in Freud’s accounts of the body, sexuality, and time. In one of Freud’s earliest clinical publications from the late 1880s, the term ‘fixation’...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 12.12.2018