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Questions of housing and cohabitation are a topic of undeniable relevance today. Contemporary literature in particular shows that the polycrisis and cultural trends of the 21st century reflect and influence the way we experience figurations and practices of cohabitation in an ambivalent way. While existing research focuses on the home as the place where questions of identity, ideology and power are negotiated, the interdisciplinary workshop The Companies We Keep focuses on the relationality of humans, animals, objects and technologies in all types of dwellings in 21st-century British and Anglophone literature. 

The aim of this event is to examine dynamic constellations of co-living from a literary, cultural and media studies perspective and therefore to outline cohabitation and its constitutive relationalities as a field of research. 

Keynote speaker Professor Ben Highmore (University of Sussex) will deliver a lecture entitled “Domestic Milieux: Infrastructure, Osmosis, Reflux" (31.10., 6 pm., s.t.) The workshop is organized by Dr. Susanne Bayerlipp (Goethe University Frankfurt) and hosted by the Institute for English and American Studies.

For further information and the full programme please contact bayerlipp@em.uni-fankfurt.de