Intimate Demons. The Familiarity of the Uncanny in Cross-Cultural Perspective
12. November 2015
Interdisciplinary Workshop
The workshop explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to the experiences and manifestations of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny in domestic and intimate spheres of life. It does so in a cross-cultural manner, involving studies from sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Europe, while also pursuing an interdisciplinary and comparative approach that engages social anthropology and literary studies. This exploration of intimate experiences of the spectral and the uncanny in the form of demons fosters a perspective that has been long overdue in these fields of scholarship since most studies in these fields have up to now tended to foreground the wider social relevance, publicness and publicity of, as well as widely shared social imaginations about, these forces and their expressions.
Participants
- Florence Bernault (Madison)
- Jean Comaroff (Harvard)
- Zuzanna Dziuban (Amsterdam, Konstanz)
- Thomas G. Kirsch (Konstanz)
- Kirsten Mahlke (Konstanz)
- Isak Niehaus (London)
- Gudrun Rath (Linz)
- Rijk van Dijk (Amsterdam, Leiden, Konstanz)
- Ehler Voss (Stanford, Siegen)
- Martin Zillinger (Cologne)
Thu–Fri, 12–13 November 2015
Institute for Avanced Study Konstanz (Bischofsvilla), Otto-Adam-Str. 5, Konstanz
Registration
Due to the limited number of seats, registration is necessary to participate. Please register via e-mail to sylvia.seminara[at]uni-konstanz.de before 9 November 2015.
Contact
Thomas G. Kirsch (Konstanz) thomas.kirsch[at]uni-konstanz.de
Kirsten Mahlke (Konstanz)
Rijk van Dijk