Jahrestreffen Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken

In the organizer's words:

Annual meeting of the Political Aesthetics Working Group

Workshop

10:00
Welcome and introduction
with Charlotte Rathjen, Dîlan Canan Çakir and Christian Hippe

10:15
Panel I: Activism and forms of resistance

Interruption and resistance: forms of deceleration in the ecological crisis

Discussion of the novels "Phytopia Plus" by Zara Zerbe and "Die Spur des Anderen" by Patrick Chamoiseau. Followed by a discussion with Alexander Neupert-Doppler on the topic of "Interrupting crisis narratives". With Lisa Brunke, Katharina Kalthoff, Magdalena Siebert. Graphic Recording Krishan Rajapakshe

Activist actions by authors

Discussion based on selected authors and literary alliances and collectives on how literary, performative and other artistic strategies are used as a means of resistance. With Iuditha Balint, Ela Gezen, Nacim Ghanbari, Tara Talwar Windsor. Moderated by Dîlan Canan Çakir

14:45
Materialities and Visibilities of Proletarian Aesthetics

Interactive workshop on the relationship between proletarian literature and materiality with Annika Hildebrandt, Katharina Kolar, Henning Podulski, Charlotte Rauth, Andrea Schütte, Mimmi Woisnitza

16:45
Panel II: Aesthetics, politics and forms of expression

After and despite autonomy? Political aesthetics in literary and artistic production today

Discussion from a philosophical and sociological perspective on the relationship between aesthetic autonomy and contemporary political aesthetics. With Anne Eusterschulte, Alexandra Schauer. Moderated by Robin Becker, Nursan Celik

18:15
Telling East Germany. Literary quintet

Book reviews and discussion about the connections between Stasi and provincial romanticism, GDR and Wende aesthetics, East German othering and post-socialist self-assertion in contemporary literary texts about the East. With Jonas Haug, Franziska Haug, Tim Preuß, Charlotte Rathjen, Mareike Gronich

In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence 2020 "Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" at the Freie Universität Berlin