Aris Fioretos, born in 1960 in Gothenburg as the son of an Austrian mother and a Greek father, studied in Stockholm and Paris and at Yale University. In recent years he has received numerous awards for his novels and translations. Since 2010 he has been a professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University near Stockholm, and since 2011 he has been one of the vice presidents of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt. Fioretos lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.

In his most recent novels, The Last Greek, Halva Solen (Half the Sun), and Mary, Fioretos explores the themes of migration, longing, repression, and resistance in 20th-century Europe. The topic of his CeMoG Lecture is a preview of his essay You Water, You Gooseflesh about the genre of the novel, which is scheduled to be published in German in the fall (Wasser, Gänsehaut). Introductions to the lecture will be given by Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk, dean of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Prof. Dr. Miltos Pechlivanos, the director of the Center for Modern Greece, and Dr. Panos Papoulias, Deputy Director of Programs & Strategic Initiatives of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

The fourth CeMoG Lecture is being held in cooperation with the Dahlem Humanities Center of Freie Universität. For logistical reasons, advance registration is requested via an online form (www.cemog.fu-berlin.de/aktivitaeten/anmeldung/anmeldung-cemog-lecture).

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Aris Fioretos

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