#CfP for the #colloquium "Politics and #narratives of the body", which will take place in Padova (Italy) from December 13-15, 2023.

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: September 30, 2023

📌Further Information: https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/politics-and-narratives-of-the-body-padova-italy/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #poetics #LiteraturePolitics

Recently at the :digitalcourage: #Aktivcongress @kirschner and me were discussing social problems in #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource after I gave some input on how such projects are created and how they evolve.

> Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.
> — Melvin E. Conway

My presentation is basically the same as the one I used in my master's #colloquium about the #JackTrip project https://jacktrip.org investigating its #SoftwareArchitecture and focusing the phenomenon of #ArchitecturalErosion in #AcademicSoftware.

I'm currently working on ways to release a 📄 paper within this year. Stay tuned. 🙃

Whether in an elevator or a train compartment, temporary confinement can cause communication to escalate quickly into conflict. Christian Kirchmeier discusses interaction in small spaces in his #Colloquium “Microtopoi: Poetics of Small Spaces” on 12.07. → kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/colloquium/

#Colloquium → Christian Berger, Thyssen@KWI Fellow, delves into “Eleanor Antin's Critical Communicative Practice” and her critical engagement with dominant positions in Conceptual art next Wednesday.
INFO: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/colloquium_sose_23_13/

🌞Es ist "Sommer vor den Mauern" - in Nora Bossongs gleichnamigem Lyrikband sowie hier in Essen. Im #Colloquium nächsten Mittwoch untersucht
Laura Reiling Naturlyrik von Nora Bossong und Raphael Urweider:
http://tinyurl.com/ye24yx5u

Next week in our #Colloquium Academy in Exile Fellow Iymon Majid examines the entanglements between sovereignty, law, and religion in the context of Kashmir.

More Info: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/colloquium_sose_23_10/

What problems does #tact solve? What are the advantages of being tactless? When does tactful #communication reach its limits?

KWI international fellow Niklas Barth discusses these questions & more in his #Colloquium “On Tact and Tactlessness” next Wednesday:
http://kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/colloquium_sose_23_9/

KWI international fellow Sanam Roohi will present her talk, based on a decade long ethnographic study, “In Pursuit of the American Dream: Morality, obligation and the transnational reproduction of caste”, in our #Colloquium next Wednesday. More info: http://shorturl.at/chx12

What does #postdigital literature look like? In our #Colloquium next Wednesday, KWI Int. Fellow Philipp Weber discusses “The Virtual Life of Power”, drawing on "Miami Punk" by Juan S. Guse & "Flexen in Miami" by Joshua Groß.
Info: bit.ly/3Mx4cFO

Photographs for the Future Historian – KWI Int. Fellow
Candela Marini joins the KWI #colloquium to speak about her research on the reception of #photography of the Paraguayan War (1864-1870) and its role in the development of visual #journalism: https://bit.ly/421tlhx

Substance, Self, and Setting – On 3 May, Stefan Höhne explores the “Triangular Epistemologies of Drug Use from the 1960s until Today” in his #colloquium talk: https://bit.ly/3mT8Hkd

#Colloquium - Next week, @hannaengelmeier explores how memory and places are linked to each other and how this is displayed in literature. For this, she will undertake a joint reading a.o. of George Perec's "Lieux" and compare it with Pierre Nora's concept of “lieux de mémoire”.

More information:
https://bit.ly/41C4KPB

Today, the researchers of our new fellow cohort meet in person for the first #colloquium of this summer term. Next Wednesday, Danilo Scholz will lead his colloquium on “Alexandre Kojève on the Future of European Colonialism” in a hybrid format.
➡️ Info: http://bit.ly/3MAN

On 1 Feb., Diren Demir (@academyinexile) will discuss “Gentrification and Queer Exile in Istanbul” focussing the erasure of genderless and fluid #queer spaces in Turkey in our upcoming #Colloquium: bit.ly/3wqjL9z

Appetites and Other Ghosts – Next #colloquium this Wednesday, 25 January, cultural historian L. Sasha Gora will consider #extinction and loss through a culinary lens. How do cuisines chart, mourn, and perhaps even aim to counter environmental loss?

More → http://bit.ly/3QOex0S

THE TOTALITARIAN SUBJECT – Thyssen@KWI Fellow Sandra Janßen will speak about her current book project on the connections between political #theory, #psychology and #literature in the 1930s and 40s on 18 January in our next #colloquium. More information: https://bit.ly/3ZxKE8M

@kwi_essen

AGAINST NARRATIVE SUPREMACY
– Join this year’s first KWI #colloquium on 11 January 2023 for KWI fellow Samir Sellami’s “Case against Story”.

More information: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/the-case-against-story/

"In this talk, I will present a brief outline of my general project and a short, but close reading of Frederick Douglass’s 'Slave Narrative, Written by Himself' from 1845. Which non-narrative or even anti-narrative strategies can be traced in Douglass‘ fascinatingly complex account, a text whose author is endowed with great narrative authority and that presents itself as an ideal type of strong #narrativity And how can these insights refine our view of the text’s aesthetics and communicative roles and functions?“

AGAINST NARRATIVE SUPREMACY – Join this year’s first KWI #colloquium on 11 January 2023 for KWI fellow Samir Sellami’s “Case against Story”. More information: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/the-case-against-story/

The #AppleTV hit “Severance” is a modern example of ‘bureaucratic fiction’ – In her #colloquium
talk this Wednesday
KWI international fellow Alexandra Irimia situates Severance in the context of a larger tradition of literary and cinematic works using an interdisciplinary framework: http://bit.ly/3PcF6Mn

The online interdisciplinary #colloquium "Placing Experiment: Losing, Gaining and Shifting Ground" organized by
Bangor University will take place on 🗓️ December 3rd, 2022 and explore avant-garde artistic legacies and futures.

📌Further Information:
https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/placing-experiment-losing-gaining-and-shifting-ground-bangoronline-03122022/ #fidavlnews @litstudies