Three Public Lecture Series during the 2020 Spring/Summer Semester at Freie Universität Berlin
No 045/2020 from Mar 03, 2020
Freie Universität Berlin cordially invites you to three free public lectures as part of the Open Lecture Hall program during the 2020 spring/summer semester. One series is devoted to various professional perspectives on democracy as a form of rule, society, and life. The other series look into world literary considerations on the work of the writer Paul Celan and into body designs and pictures in comics.
A series of lectures entitled "Comics - Art - Body. Construction and subversion of body images in comics" will begin on Thursday, April 16. Another lecture series on the topic of ¡Democracy! - history, present, future" will also be held Thursdays. On Tuesdays, beginning April 21, scholars and a writer will examine the work of Paul Celan (1920-1970) in a lecture series entitled "Paul Celan in a Global Literary Context," and in particular, referring to the current relevance of his works in the global literary context. April 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of his death; in November this year he would have been 100 years old.
Attendance is free of charge, and no registration is required.
Overview of the lecture series
Paul Celan im weltliterarischen Kontext
- Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m.; first lecture: April 21
- Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Lecture Hall 2, U3 Dahlem-Dorf or Freie Universität (Thielplatz); Bus 110, M11, X83
- Opening event: "Scherben und Sterne: Ein Porträt ohne Zentralperspektive": Reading and discussion with the Japanese writer Yoko Tawada
- Conception: Jürgen Brokoff, Anne Fleig, Susanne Zepp-Zwirner
Comic - Kunst - Körper. Konstruktion und Subversion von Körperbildern im Comic.
- Thursdays, 4 to 6 p.m.; first lecture: April 16
- Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Lecture Hall 1 b, U3 Dahlem-Dorf or Freie Universität (Thielplatz); Bus 110, M11, X83
- Opening event: "Abwesende Körper visualisieren. Die desaparecidos im Comic ,Fußnoten’ (2017)": Nacha Vollenweider (Córdoba, Argentinia)
- Conception: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, Dr. Nina Schmidt
¡Demokratie! - Geschichte, Gegenwart, Zukunft
- Thursdays, 6 to 8 p.m.; first lecture: April 16
- Fabeckstraße 23/25, Hörsaal -1.2009 (basement), 14195 Berlin, U3 Dahlem-Dorf; Bus 110, M11, X83
- Opening event: "Politik! Oder was sonst? Plädoyer für eine zeitgemäße demokratische Politik: Gesine Schwan (Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform)
- Conception: Martin Lücke, Matthias Sieberkrob
Keywords
- History and cultural studies
- Philosophy and humanities
