“Today literature can be all sorts of things”
Video: Professor Andrew James Johnston on the annual conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities” from July 6 to 8
Jul 05, 2022
Professor Andrew James Johnston provides a brief insight into the work of the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities” as well as its upcoming annual conference in July.
1:30 for ... Andrew James Johnston. The professor of English and co-director of the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective,” explains what the Cluster does and in particular, what the upcoming annual conference “Anticipating Modernities” plans to address.
What is modernity in literature? Is there such a thing? These issues will be examined in the online public conference of the Cluster of Excellence at Freie Universität from July 6 to 8, 2022. The participants will address the topic in seven panels: Communities in Time, Planetary Modernities/Modern Temporalities, Global Anticipations, Mapping Modernities, Projections, Encounters, Liminal Anticipations.
Further Information
Annual conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective”: “Anticipating Modernities”
- Wednesday, July 6, 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Thursday, July 7, 1:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
- Friday, July 8, 2:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- For the conference program, please see the conference website
- Participation online is open to the public via WebEx. Please register by July 6th. The access data will be circulated upon registration.
- The conference language is English.