--- ONLINE --- RA 4 Meeting | Visual and Material Culture Studies --- ONLINE ---
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/ggkgcsc/events/semester-overview/previous/archive/summer-term-2020/research-area-meetings/copy2_of_ra-4-meeting-visual-and-material-culture-studies
- --- ONLINE --- RA 4 Meeting | Visual and Material Culture Studies --- ONLINE ---
- 2020-05-18T10:00:00+02:00
- 2020-05-18T11:30:00+02:00
When
May 18, 2020 from 10:00 to 11:30 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
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If you are interested in joining Research Area 4: Visual and Material Culture Studies, please e-mail the current speakers Rebekka Marpert (rebekka.marpert [at] gcsc.uni-giessen.de) or Taya Hanauer (taya.hanauer [at] gcsc.uni-giessen.de).
During these unusual circumstances, we will be continuing our research area meetings (RA4 Visual and Material Culture) with a few special sessions acknowledging our current conditions through the intersection of disease and art. We invite you to read together Susan Sontag's essay Illness as a metaphor/Krankheit als Metapher (1978) in three sessions during May. Sontag writes about cultural discourses around illnesses such as tuberculosis, cancer, and Aids, and traces their literary traditions and relevance today.
For our exchange we will meet online on Jitsi - if you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to Rebekka Marpert (rebekka.marpert@gcsc.uni-giessen.de) or Taya Hanauer (taya.hanauer@gcsc.uni-giessen.de).