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*Vor 60 Jahren – “The Family of Man” in Frankfurt* - Matinee, 7. Oktober 2018, 11.30 Uhr

 Die ungebrochene Relevanz der wichtigsten Foto-Ausstellung aller Zeiten

Als Max Horkheimer in Frankfurt vor 60 Jahren die Family of Man, die einflussreichste Ausstellung in der Geschichte der Fotografie, mit einer Rede eröffnete, konnte niemand ahnen, dass dieser wichtige Text fast 60 Jahre unentdeckt und unkommentiert bleiben sollte. Über die Relevanz der Frankfurter Family of Man-Ausstellung, über Horkheimers wichtigen Fotoessay und die brisanten Ausstellungsthemen Pazifismus, Gleichberechtigung und interkulturelle Kommunikation sprechen an Hand zweier neuer Publikationen die Amerikanisten Prof. Dr. Gerd Hurm (Universität Trier) und Prof. Dr. Werner Sollors (Harvard University) mit Prof. Dr. Johannes Völz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).
Vorgestellt werden die Publikationen Gerd Hurm, Anke Reitz, Shamoon Zamir, hrsg. /The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age/ (IB Tauris 2018) und Werner Sollors, /Die Versuchung zu verzweifeln/ (Winter Verlag, 2017).

Historisches Museum Frankfurt, (Saalhof 1, 60311 Frankfurt am Main), Leopold Sonnemann-Saal im HMF
Eintritt frei!
Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden Sie hier: https://historisches-museum-frankfurt.de/de/node/50499

The Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies - International Conference, Goethe University Frankfurt, 29.11.2018 – 01.12.2018

Aesthetics is coming back.
For the past forty years, scholars across the humanities have routinely rejected aesthetic inquiry as ideological, exclusionary, or politically quietist. In American Studies particularly, this anti-aesthetic attitude has congealed into the field’s common sense. Only in the most recent past have several scholars begun to pay renewed attention to the aesthetic and to rethink its relationship to the spheres of the social, economic, and political. “The Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies” critically takes stock of recent returns to the aesthetic and extends their scope.

Registration
The conference is free of charge to the public. We kindly to ask you to register with Regine Vatanasomboon, vatanasomboon@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

Link zur Konferenz: www.returnoftheaesthetic.de

Lecture Series

We thank our speakers of the summer term 2018: Leonard Cassuto and David James.
To be continued. 

“In Transit|ion – Frankfurt Lectures in Literary and Cultural Studies” is a transdisciplinary lecture series that the departments of American Studies, English Studies, and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt organize twice a semester. It functions as a forum to cultivate dialogue among the disciplines of our institute. Faculty members, graduate students, as well as Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts students of the Institute for English and American Studies are its target audience. ...more

Memory Studies is an international and interdisciplinary convergence field. It addresses – broadly speaking – the interplay of past and present in sociocultural contexts. Memory Studies is interested in the social shape of individual memory as well as in the collective generation of past, present, and future.
The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (FMSP) is an initiative of the Forschungszentrum für Historische Geisteswissenschaften (FzHG). It brings together people and projects from history, sociology, literature, arts, media studies, psychology, and other relevant disciplines in a dialogue about memory. It wants to shape the future of memory studies by developing and discussing new research questions and new methodologies.
The activities of the FMSP revolve around three main Research Lines: Transcultural Memory, the Mediality of Memory, and Memory and Narrative.

Vorlesungen und Workhops der Abteilung NELK finden sie auf unserer Website. 

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