Workshop 19-21 January 2023 | Unfree Spaces in the Modern World: Resistant Responses—Empowering Acts
Viewing experiences of spatial unfreedom as both a prerequisite and aftermath of modernity, the workshop focuses on resistant and empowering reactions to the experience of being un/free in spaces of different scales.
Please note that participants are kindly asked to register. Information on program details and registration procedures can be found on the main website of the event.
International and Interdisciplinary Workshop
19-21 January 2023
Regensburg & Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum
This interdisciplinary and international workshop is hosted by the Regensburg Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America in the Modern World” and its partners. It features presentations by visiting international scholars as well as by scholars from the University of Regensburg (UR) and the Regensburg Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS). It takes place at the IOS, UR, and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. Viewing experiences of spatial unfreedom as both a prerequisite and aftermath of modernity, the workshop focuses on resistant and empowering reactions to the experience of being un/free in spaces of different scales.
We look forward to welcoming you to this workshop! Please note that participants are kindly asked to register. Those wishing to travel to Flossenbürg on 20 January should contact un.free@ur.de by 20 December 2022, while registration for the main event is invited by 9 January 2023.
Program details and information on registration procedures are available here.
WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS:
Opening and Keynote Lecture:
January 19, 10 a.m., IOS; Conference Welcomes followed by:
Leona Toker, Hebrew University, Israel
“The Theme of Poetry Recital in Concentration-Camp Literature”
Author’s Reading:
January 19, 6 p.m., IOS
Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas
Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America, 2022
Friday, 20 January 2023: Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum
registered conference participants will travel by conference bus
guided tour, expert/practitioner discussion, panel presentations
Saturday, 21 January 2023:
UR campus: panel presentation and concluding discussion
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The organizers Sabine Koller and Birgit Hebel-Bauridl would like to thank: the Center for International and Transnational Area Studies; the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies; the University of Regensburg; the Regensburg European American Forum; the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum.
