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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 18.06.2018
    On and On and On: The Seriality of Serial Killing
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Serial killing is an extremely rare form of homicide that is nonetheless culturally ubiquitous. Much of what makes it so resonant is the very naming of it ‘serial’. The seriality of serial killing – the temporal form of narratives of multiple murder...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 22.05.2018
    Media Anachronism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Media landscapes are far from being homogeneous. Media diverge not only because they perform diverse functions and elicit different practices, but also because they recall distinct stages in the media history. We deal with a number of “obsolete”...

    Fields of research Media studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  5. 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
  6. Category: Non-university research organisations
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das ICI Berlin ist ein unabhängiges Kultur- und Forschungsinstitut, das sich der Frage widmet, wie unterschiedliche Kulturen – außer in Form von gleichgültigem Nebeneinander oder zerstörerischem Konflikt – in eine produktive Spannung gebracht werden...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018