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Stefano Harney, Professor of Transversal Aesthetics at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, and Fred Moton, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, are jointly holding this year’s Dagmar Westberg Lectures. Within this framework, outstanding researchers from the humanities and cultural studies are invited to Goethe University once a year.
The speakers have been working on questions of the aesthetics of art, music and language, black studies and critical theory for decades and have authored books together. In the lecture series, they build on their unique method of combining philosophy and poetry and deal with topics such as resistance, solidarity and the role of art.
The lectures „Four Turns from Felicity Street“ will be opened on May 17, 2022 at 7:00 p.m First Turn Campus Westend, Casino 823, ballroom.
Other dates are:
May 18, 2022 at 7:00 p.m
Second Turn
MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt
May 19, 2022 at 7:00 p.m
Third Turn
Campus Westend, Casino 823, ballroom
May 20, 12:00 p.m
Fourth Turn
Campus Westend, Eisenhower Hall (IG Farben building)
To register at [email protected] is asked.
Prof. Dr. Stefano Harney is a lecturer and writer who works collaboratively and collectively in teaching, research, and social practice. His scientific work took him to the University of New York in the USA and to universities in Great Britain, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore. In 2020-2021 he was Hayden Fellow and Guest Critic at Yale University School of Art and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.
Prof. Dr. A.S. Fred Moten is a teacher and writer. His areas of work extend to black literature, aural and visual culture, critical theory, performance studies, poetry and poetics. He is primarily concerned with the social power and social origins of black expressive cultural practices. Moten received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkely.
Stefano Harney and Fred Moton have books in common like All Incomplete (2021) and The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013) authored; in them they renew a critical discourse on community and subject and develop alternative forms for the university and learning.
Die Dagmar Westberg lecture series – organized this year in cooperation with the Art History Institute of the Goethe University – was established in 2012 as a guest professorship in the humanities and cultural studies. The invited researchers from universities in Germany and abroad present important insights into their research for discussion in lectures and a colloquium at the Research College Human Sciences at Goethe University.
www.uni-frankfurt.de/Dagmar-Westberg-Stiftungsgastprofessur
The lecture series was made possible by the eponymous founder Dagmar Westberg, who died in 2017. With their support, an endowment fund of the same name and thus a permanent guest professorship were set up.
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