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Democratic Vistas Annual Workshop in cooperation with GRK 3113 »Aesthetics of Democracy«
Keynote Lecture: Eva Illouz (Jerusalem/Paris) "Is Guilt Good for Democracy?" |
From 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m
Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Registration before April 21: anmeldung@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de
You will receive a registration confirmation.
Eva Illouz is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She has published numerous books on the sociology of emotions, consumer capitalism, and modern culture. For her work, she was awarded the Frank Schirrmacher Prize 2024, the Aby Warburg Prize 2024, and the EMET Prize for Social Sciences, among others. Latest book publications: The Emotional Life of Populism. How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy (Polity Press, 2023), Der 8. Oktober. Über die Ursprünge des neuen Antisemitismus (in German, Suhrkamp, 2025), and Explosive Emotions. How Modern Society Shapes What We Feel (Princeton University Press, 2026).
Workshop with Eva Illouz
From 9.30 a.m. to 4.15 p.m
Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Registration: Ma.Renz@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Events
This Reading Group is open to all researchers (specifically Master's students, PhDs, and Postdocs) interested in the burgeoning field of the Environmental Humanities. We will meet online fortnightly during the summer term and venture into reading Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation (1990, transl. 1997). Long recognised as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, Glissant has so far been read mostly in cultural studies, yet his work is increasingly gaining relevance in the Environmental Humanities. Considering the entanglements between cultural and environmental studies, we will discuss and analyse the text's significance for our contemporary moment.
The format of this group follows the principles of slow, emergent, and collective scholarship. While gathered online, we will silently read a section of the text, and then discuss it together. This means that no prior preparation is necessary, nor is registration. It doesn't matter if you show up only once and not from the start; if you're interested, just come along!
Please join us via the following Zoom link:
https://uzh.zoom.us/j/67385372114?pwd=UFXHMwJD4RUt0R8UKuFL22KSbAZcxP.1
