This summer term, we cordially invite you participate in our interdisciplinary lecture series "Irreversible - The Manifestations of Change" at the University of Greifswald. The lectures will take place on Thursdays 18.15 to 19.45 in hybrid format, for online participation please contact baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de.
Irreversible – The Manifestations of Change
The Baltic Sea Region is an area where changes mostly occur within a set of intertwining transregional parameters. By focusing on the aftereffects of transformations, this joint lecture series inquires about processes that lack the chance of a turn-around: from a single event to a concatenation of circumstances leading to an unforeseeable outcome. It can be difficult to draw a line between the permanent and the transient, but there are, certainly, damages or developments that are irreversible, in terms of material loss or environmental change. At the same time, the very idea of irreversibility has to be processed in language and media; it is part of a discourse and thus of history. In literary theory, the term ‘peripety’ signifies a reversal of action: How do narrations model and maybe alter the irreversible? How do geopolitical tipping points affect subsequent generations? In taking historico-political, narrative, ecological, material, and aesthetic changes into consideration, this summer term program seeks to bring conceptional clarifications, concrete case studies from a broad range of disciplines and regional studies approaches together.
Dr des. Verena Liu, International Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) | Dr Arne Segelke, Master Programme “History and Culture in the Baltic Sea Region” (HiCuBaS)| Torsten Veit, Research Centre for Manors in the Baltic Sea Region | Dr Alexander Waszynski, IRTG “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”
Programme:
Mapping the Past – from Irreversible Archaeological Excavations to the Non-invasive Exploration of Entire Archaeological Landscapes
“He could never go home now”. Imperceptible Turning Points and Irreversible Trajectories as Narrative Devices in Conrad and Kafka
Herman Lundborg – The Enigma of a Swedish Racial Biologist
The Paradigm Shift from Non-change to Change: Reflections on Translation and Translation Studies
Digital Reconstruction and “Rechte Räume” – Architectural Reconstruction between Cultural Heritage Mediation and “Right-Wing” Urbanism
In Search of the Northern Lights. On the Research History of a Riddle of the Sky
Dr. Andris Banka, Prof. Dr. Roman Dubasevych, Natalia Iost (all Greifswald)
In the Storms of Transformation: Shipbuilding and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the EU (19.00 – 20.30 CEST, lecture in German)
Making the Baltic Blue – Supporting Ocean Literacy for the Sustainable Development of the Baltic Sea
Climate Crisis – Water Crisis
Choices, Harm, and Reconciliation: (Ir)reversibility in Contexts of Moral Philosophy
The Implex: On Transforming the Seemingly Irreversible in the 21st Century
Mythemes of the North. Tracing Historical Change in the Discursive Grammar of the North with Computational Methods (16.15 – 17.45 CEST)
Recovering Nomadic Memory of the Ignitions of the Revolution as a Spark for Embodiment of Utopia Today
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Redaktion: Constanze Baum – Lukas Büsse – Mark-Georg Dehrmann – Nils Gelker – Markus Malo – Alexander Nebrig – Johannes Schmidt
Diese Ankündigung wurde von H-GERMANISTIK [Constanze Baum] betreut – editorial-germanistik@mail.h-net.msu.edu
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