Figurations of In-/Hospitality in German Culture and Thought, AGS 2018

Dear All,

Here is a reminder about our panel at the coming AGS conference in Bangor (29-31 August). The deadline for proposals is 6th April 2018.

Figurations of In-/Hospitality in German Culture and Thought, AGS 2018

Between the optimism of Willkommenskultur and the new acceptability of the far right, the theme of (in)hospitality is central to contemporary German discourse. This panel welcomes papers that explore new conceptualisations of community that move beyond the established intellectual tradition of cosmopolitanism from Kant to Habermas. Areas for discussion include artistic responses to the paradoxes of hospitality, exploring the extent to which art might be able to suggest alternative mode(l)s of togetherness that destabilise binary categories such as self/Other and/or essentialist notions of community. We are particularly interested in figurations of love, friendship and neighbourliness as ephemeral and contingent modes of community formation.

Please send your proposals (150-200 words) to both conveners: Maria Roca Lizarazu (Warwick); M-D.Roca-Lizarazu@warwick.ac.uk / Joseph Twist (UCD); joseph.twist@ucd.ie

We very much look forward to reading them.

Maria and Joe