30 April (Wednesday) 2025 at 14:00 CET
Institute of World Literature SAS + online, in English
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In this journal issue, an international group of scholars discusses European, American, and Chinese texts that cover a wide spectrum of imagined peace, ranging from naïve enthusiasm for top-down solutions to dejected elegies for the demise of civil liberties. The utopian appeal of peace, both in a political and spiritual sense, belongs to the powerful drivers of the human imagination. Yet the rhetorics of peace are difficult to untangle from the realities of war; after all, efforts that supposedly serve a higher purpose frequently result in injustice and violence. The issue will be presented by three authors of the studies: Kilian Jörg (Independent Artist and Scholar), Anton Matejička (Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna) and Michael Ka-chi Cheuk (School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University).
The event will be moderated by the issue’s editor Johannes D. Kaminski.
The full content of the issue with links to the individual texts can be found HERE.