[JFKI-News] short-seminar on "Queer Temporalities: Between Utopia and Negativity

[John-F.-Kennedy Institute <administration@jfki.fu-berlin.de>]

To the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies,

 

the Literaturforum im Brecht Haus Berlin kindly invites students to a short-seminar on "Queer Temporalities: Between Utopia and Negativity“ taught by Dennis Ohm (Medical Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal). The seminar will take place on July 1 & 15, 10am-4pm, is free of charge, and taught in English. We would be very greatful if you can circulate this with your students. 

 

"Walter Benjamin suggests that it is our very understanding and affective relation to a progressive, continuous, and linear notion of time that solidifies and reproduces it. Since its advent, queer theory has asked how heteronormativity relies on linear notions of time and how they enforce normative configurations of the family, which are crucial for capitalist relations of (re)production. How can alternative relations to past, present, and future unsettle such progressive temporalities and what Lee Edelman has called “reproductive futurism”? 
In this seminar, we will navigate through different approaches to queer time by reading canonical texts in queer theory by José Esteban Muñoz, Lee Edelman, Lauren Berlant, and Ann Cvetkovich, among others."

 

Queer Temporalities: Between Utopia and Negativity (in English)
Taught by Dennis Ohm (PhD candidate in Medical Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal)

Two sessions: 01.07 + 15.07 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For details see: https://lfbrecht.de/event/queer-temporalities-between-utopia-and-negativity/

 

Readings and discussions in English. Registrations via mail to campus@lfbrecht.de. The seminar will take place at Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus. The seminar ist part of the lfb school program. Free admission. 

Best regards

Jochen Schmon


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Liebe Studierende,

 

ich möchte Sie auf ein Seminar im Programm der LfB school aufmerksam machen: 

Queer Temporalities: Between Utopia and Negativity
Seminarleitung Dennis Ohm

Zwei Sitzungen: 01.07 und 15.07 jeweils 10–16 Uhr
https://lfbrecht.de/event/queer-temporalities-between-utopia-and-negativity/

Es wird auf englischer Sprache gelesen und diskutiert. Anmeldungen sind ab sofort per Mail an campus@lfbrecht.de möglich. Die Seminare finden vor Ort im Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus statt. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.

 

Mit besten Grüßen,
Jochen Schmon