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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Colonial Residue: Dismantling the Colonial Legacy in Postcolonial Environments
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Adopting the breadth of the term ‘environment’ outlined in the 2018-2020 ERRANS environ/s Fellowship, and being attentive to its focus on how environments can urge the questioning of clear-cut distinctions and ‘produce complex political ecologies...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    When History Merges into Setting: Walter Benjamin and the Decreation of Human Sovereignty
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This monograph turns to the writings of Walter Benjamin with the hope of renewing a critical language for addressing the philosophical pre-conditions of ecological and racialized violence. The project explores how Benjamin re-theorizes notions of...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    'Nuclear Afterlives'
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project, tentatively titled ‘Nuclear Afterlives’, examines the complex and conflicting residues of nuclear contamination, and some of nonhuman harborers of these residues. Following Sperling’s first book project on weird embodiment in...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Turning to Stone
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    With a focus on the presence of rocks in the work of a number of non-male artists, this project will begin with a study of Beverly Buchanan’s work with stones in the American South in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Amelia Groom will travel to the US...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Possibility and the Utopian Imagination in the Poetic Practice of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Peripheral but central, external but inner, between being and non-being—possibility has the multi-stable ontology of utopias and their creative and transformative power. Through possibility, writers, philosophers, and artists through the ages have...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature and law,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. 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
  7. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    ERRANS environ/s ICI Focus 2018-20
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    If what begins already finds itself in the thick of it, in the midst of something else, and among others elsewhere, what emerges, in the middle, at this mid-place or mi-lieu , does not thereby constitute a centre. Without starting or end point,...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Linköpings Universitet (LiU) / Linköping Universität
    Monstrous Events: Aesthetic Dimensions of Collective Protest
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project examines art, literature and film dealing with collective protests in 2011 and after. It will explore how aesthetic presentations advance our understanding of collective political action in ways that other modes of knowledge such as...

    Fields of research Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies,  Aesthetics and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Con-Science and The Whole: Sara Lidman s Literary Philosophy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of this project is to investigate the complex relation between philosophy and literature through a study of the Swedish modernist author Sara Lidman (1923-2004). At the center of the investigation lies Lidman’s concepts ”con-science”...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    The voice of conscience; Shakespeare, imagination and judgment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The idea that we may be beset by an inner voice of conscience has been negotiated in philosophy and literature over the centuries. This book project, which builds on articles and lectures written by myself during the last few years, offers a new...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg
    Song Lyrics as a Challenge to Transnational Literary History – the Case of ”Vårvindar Friska”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project posits one piece of song lyrics as a productive challenge to literary history after the transnational turn: “Vårvindar friska” (Fresh Spring Breezes), by Julia Nyberg. Whereas most research on world literature and transnational...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Nabokov´s Spine
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During his tenure at Cornell, Vladimir Nabokov liked to exclaim: “Let us worship the spine!” Setting out from this exhortation, the study considers his œuvre in a dual regard, encompassing both the “spine-thrill of delight” that the reader should...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Expressing Siberian Exile: Literature, Language, and the Resistance of the Real
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this project I explore nineteenth century narratives of Siberian exile. The writers that I work with––Anton Chekhov, George Kennan, Peter Kropotkin, Henry Lansdell, and others—were all facing difficulties in their attempts to represent the social...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Chinese literature: the short stories and novels by Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this study, I will examine how Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin in novels and short stories written between 1900-1950 draw on ancient Chinese cosmopolitan literary traditions as well as indigenous vernacular and popular modes of storytelling, in...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    The Production of Paradise. The role of travel literature in the discursive construction of the South Sea as utopia on Earth
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project sets out to understand how travel literature translates and mediates accounts from and of the world – from one local setting to another, and over time. It is, more specifically, concerned with Western travel writers’ persistent and...

    Fields of research Australian/Oceanian literature,  World Literature,  travel literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019