Paragesellschaften as Paperback Edition
DeGruyter has re-issued Paragesellschaften:
Im,aginationen - Inszenierungen - Interaktionen in
den Gegenwartskulturen.(editors: Agnes Bidmon,
Simone Broders, Katharina Gerund, Teresa Hiergeist)
as a new paperback edition.
According to the Federal
Agency for Civic Education, the term "parallel
society" is associated in public debate with the
notion of ethnically homogeneous population groups
that are spatially, socially and culturally isolated
from the Mehrheitsgesellschaft" (APUZ
1/2006). Contemporary literature and culture
stage parallel and alternative societies as well as
negotiate the fears, attitudes and behaviours
associated with this demarcation in the political,
social, religious, ideological, or ethnic spheres.
See the De
Gruyter homepage for more details.
Forthcoming: Special Issues of JLS: The Ethics
and Narratives of Non-Knowledge
Release date: second quarter of 2025
Together with Anna Auguscik (University odf Oldenburg), I am excited to announce that we are going to edit two special issues of JLS (Journal of Literatiure and Science) on The Ethics and Narratives of Non-Knowledge, to be published in 2025. Please note also our upcoming method workshop “The Uses of Ignorance: Agnotological Practice in English Studies”. Participants will be invited to apply agnotological practices and aesthetics to their own research projects and, specifically, in their methodology.
For more information, see https://limitsofknowledge.eu
Medical Humanities:
Die Behandlung von Krankheit in den Humanwissenschaften
In the upcoming summer semester 2025, the OVGU Magdeburg will be hosting a ring lecture on Medical Humanities which I have been invited to partiicipate in. The lecture will take place on Tuesdays, 5-7 p.m., Hörsaal 6 (Campus Zschokkestr.). More details will become available soon.
Conference: ISECS 2023, Rome
Panel: “Non-Knowledge is Power”? Transformations of the Concept of Ignorance in Enlightenment Literature and Culture
The self-awareness of ancient philosophy is based on overcoming ignorance, which is viewed pejoratively as an ‘aberration’ of the mind (Plato), the mark of the ‘fool’ (Stoics). Medieval authors have perpetuated this by association of ignorance with sin. With Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) and its emphasis on the limits of the human mind, however, a shift in the discussion has been initiated. In the Enlightenment period, “ignorance […] became one of the decisive terms of contrast contouring the guiding concept of the epoch” (von Wille 182). Enlightenment discourses therefore frequently advocate that non-knowledge has been elevated, by applying reason, to docta ignorantia, the recognition of one’s own imperfection. From then on, the focus has been on different kinds of ignorance, theories of cognition, the progress of reason.
This panel explores how literature and culture engage with this thesis and the surrounding discourses of non-knowledge, ancient and modern, as well as the proposed ‘breach’ with pejorative notions of ignorance. We are interested in what terms are used in negotiating epistemological limits. Specifically, we encourage papers that examine representations of ignorance through media-specific tools, for example, what types of literary characters embody different practices of dealing with non-knowledge.Anglistik 33.2 (Summer Issue 2022)
Selected Papers from the 2021 Conference of the German Association for the Study of English. Selection Editor: Daniela Wawra und Jonathan Rose. Section editors for section "Limits of Knowledge -- Knowledge of Limits. The Productiveness of Ignorance, Non-Knowledge and Agnotology in Anglophone Studies, Literature and Culture": Anna Auguscik and Simone Broders.
https://angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2022/2
