30 April (Wednesday) 2025 at 14:00 CET
Institute of World Literature SAS + online, in English
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In this journal issue, edited by Johannes D. Kaminski, 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): Messy utopianism and the question of war: What does “staying with the trouble” mean in relation to war?
Anton Matejička (Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna): Totalitarian systems and their peaceful alternatives in Karin Boye’ s Kallocain and Olga Ravn’ s The Employees
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.
