On 29 and 30 September, Paderborn University will host the conference "Idylls - Forms and Functions in Conflict", organised by the Institute of German and Comparative Literature of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. In room Q1.101, there will be contributions from Paderborn University academics and external speakers who will approach the topic from different perspectives. All interested parties are cordially invited to attend, registration is not necessary.
The conference "Idylls - Forms and Functions in Conflict" will examine historical and contemporary representations of idylls from a double perspective: on the one hand, idylls will be analysed for their (literary) aesthetic form and the "spaces of thought" behind them as "precarious idylls". On the other hand, however, they will also be scrutinised with regard to the prevailing mixture of the observable accumulation of idyllic representations in contemporary literature and media in the context of current crises and self-understandings of our own present, without following a simplistic escapism thesis.
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