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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.09.2023
    Coding Utopias
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is no shortage of critiques of utopian imaginaries for being coded in colonial, Western, masculine, Christian, and extractive ideologies. Utopia has been, and continues to be, an often violent gesture that chooses the future of select groups...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  2. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 17.11.2020
    Prekäre Verkörperungen: Die Figur des Helden zwischen Exemplarität und Singularität (Andreas Cremonini)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Was ist ein Held, eine Heldin? Eine Figur, die bestimmte menschliche Eigenschaften, verkörpert, die wir für exemplarisch halten und Dinge tut, die vorbildlich sind? Ein normatives Beispiel also, das an unser Handeln appelliert und zur Identifikation,...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 1 more
    Created on: 24.01.2020
  3. 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
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.04.2018
    Dis-Ordered Eating. Temporality, Normativity, Representability
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Much has been made of the influence of media and fashion on the proliferation of eating disorders (ED): The glamorization of skinny and ephebic bodies is blamed for the quasi-epidemic spread of anorexia among young women, and hence the core of ED is...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 12.12.2018