{"id":3,"date":"2022-02-23T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/anticipating-modernities\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-07-01T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:27:57","slug":"beispiel-seite","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/anticipating-modernities\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipating Modernities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In an age of so-called globalisation and dramatically deteriorating environmental conditions, the concept of modernity has come under ever-increasing scrutiny, not least for its traditional links to specifically Western grands r\u00e9cits<\/em>. Because of literature\u2019s fundamental involvement with issues of temporality and especially because of its tendency to construct temporalities of its own, literature, too, must be affected by these debates. How many modernities are there, how are they constructed and how are they related to the cultural modernisms they are associated with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXC 2020\u2019s annual conference \u201eAnticipating Modernities\u201d (July 6th\u20138th, 2022) will critically address these issues, inquiring how literary temporalities engage with their own futures and pasts beyond oppositions such as \u201eold\u201d vs. \u201enew\u201d. Our conference seeks to explore how the process of \u201edoing literature\u201d is always involved in developing and transforming its own historical and temporal forms of signification, how imagined futures can only be established by relying on past models, how current cultural productions are haunted by the suppressed lines of tradition embedded within them, and how visions of literature go out of date. Is it possible to think modernity within a broad variety of cultural and historical settings without simultaneously falling prey to the anticipatory, teleological and self-fulfilling tendencies so dominant in the Western grand r\u00e9cit<\/em> of modernity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXC 2020\u2019 annual conference \u201eAnticipating Modernities\u201d is organised by its Research Area 3 \u201eFuture Perfect\u201d (Anne Eusterschulte, Beatrice Gr\u00fcndler, and Andrew James Johnston). The conference will take place in a hybrid format, with discussants meeting on campus in Berlin. Participation online is open to the public. For participation and all relevant information and accesses, please register <\/a>by July 6th<\/sup><\/strong>. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEN? Wednesday, July 6th\u2013Friday, July 8th<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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