Prof. Dr Claudia Öhlschläger, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Dr des. Tillmann Heise, research associate for Modern German Literature at Paderborn University, are organising an international and interdisciplinary conference in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Marcel Lepper from the Swiss Rilke Foundation on the topic of "Cultural conservatism, intellectual aristocracy, resentment: critical perspectives on literary intellectual discourses since 1918 and their current relevance". The conference will take place from 4 to 7 June at the Jenny Aloni House at Paderborn University. Interested parties can register by email to claudia.oehlschlaeger@uni-paderborn.de by Friday, 31 May.
The event, which is sponsored by the "Zeit-Stiftung Bucerius" and the University Society Paderborn, focuses on a current, politically and socially challenging finding: "Cultural conservatives, intellectual aristocrats and resentment-led currents and narratives, which were made prominent by intellectuals and writers in the crisis years after the end of the First World War, have been experiencing a renaissance for several years," says Öhlschläger.
The conference looks at discourses at the interface of art and politics from both a diachronic and a synchronic perspective in order to better understand them in their complexity and political explosiveness. The aim is to methodically compare today's positions of cultural conservatism, intellectual aristocracy and resentment with the multi-layered, inconsistent and contradictory intellectual formations in the ideological "right-wing" spectrum from 1918 onwards.
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