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Keynote speakers and programme: Summer School 2021

Regarding the topic of the Summer School 2021, her areas of expertise include contemporary art and literature, critical theory and psychoanalysis, cultural studies, embodiment and affect, literary theory, popular culture, film theory, continental philosophy, formalist reading, visual culture and iconography, gender and sexuality studies.

 

Prof. Dr. Christian J. Emden (Professor of Politics, Law & Social Thought, Rice University)
Regarding the topic of the Summer School 2021, his areas of expertise include modern intellectual history, history of life sciences, history of scientific materialism and positivism, European philosophy since 1750, new materialism (critical gaze), genealogy of philosophical naturalism and political realism, theories of subjectivity.

 

Prof. Dr. Caroline van Eck (Professor of Art History, Director of Studies of King’s College, University of Cambridge)
Regarding the topic of the Summer School 2021, her areas of expertise include art and architectural history (mainly 18th and 19th Century), anthropology of art, organicism in artistic theory and practice, agency, excess and material presence of art works, entangled history.

Week Morning Afternoon Evening
Mon Arrival (or afternoon) Arrival / Welcome Introduction / Poster Exhibition
Tue Lecture, response, discussion Parallel workshops
Wed Lecture, response, discussion Excursion Special Dinner
Thu Lecture, response, discussion Parallel workshops Film
Fri Parallel workshops

Reports and lessons learned

Departure (or Sat)




 

 

Detailed Programme

 

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