How can we think literature globally?
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| 5 EUR / 2,5 EUR reduced |
| Following the event, there will be the opportunity for an exclusive visit to the exhibition "After Nature" in the Humboldt Laboratory. |
| Duration: 90 min |
| Adults |
| German |
| Accessible for wheelchairs |
| Hall 1, Ground Floor |
At a time when the global is at the centre of political, economic and cultural debates, literary scholars are asking how literature can be understood as a global phenomenon. The global perspective developed by the cluster assumes that it is above all temporality that makes literature global.
The Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität is about examining literature beyond traditional categories such as nation and epoch. The cluster explores how literature unfolds over centuries or even millennia in ever new interconnections between authors, readers, publishers, critics, artists, etc. all over the world. It does this in communities that each develop their own temporalities: “Temporal Communities”. Nothing less than the essence of literature itself is at stake! For as literature reaches out across times and spaces and enters into new relationships, the idea of what literature is is also constantly changing.
Following the event, there will be the opportunity for an exclusive visit to the exhibition “After Nature” in the Humboldt Laboratory.
PARTICIPANTS
is a professor of the history of philosophy at the FU Berlin and a member of numerous transdisciplinary research associations. Her research interests include studies on the history of knowledge in pre-modern times, philosophy and philology, as well as critical theory, social philosophy and contemporary aesthetics. She is the moderator of Research Area 3 – Future Perfect in the Cluster of Excellence 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective.
is a research associate at the Cluster of Excellence in Research Area 3 – Future Perfect. He studied philosophy and literary studies and was awarded his doctorate in 2019 with a study on Michel de Montaigne and Pierre Bayle. His research focuses on the history of philosophy and literature, rhetoric and poetics, and questions of reception. His current project is dedicated to tragic notions of time in Anagnorisis and Peripetia.
is Professor of English Literary Studies with a focus on the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period at the FU Berlin and one of the two spokespersons of the Cluster of Excellence 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective. His research focuses on materiality and temporality in medieval English literature, Italian-English cultural relations in the late Middle Ages and the relationship between visual art and literature in the Middle Ages.
has a lot of questions and is the presenter of the series MitWissenschaft. From 1997 to 2011 he presented, among others, Die schöne Sendung and Der schöne Morgen on Radio 1 with Robert Skuppin, and since 2019 he has been on the RBB Abendschau.