KÄTE HAMBURGER LECTURES WITH PATRICIA MALONE
WHEN
WHERE
Innovation Center A2 1, Seminarraum 0.01
Universität des Saarlandes
LANGUAGE
ENGLISH
PROGRAMME
The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) and the CEUS | Cluster for European Studies warmly invite you to attend the next Käte Hamburger Lecture at Saarland University. This series allows fellows from the centre to share their latest research perspectives on cultural practices of reparation. After the lectures, audience members will have the opportunity to engage with key topics in more detail during a public discussion session.
Patricia Malone: Systematic Misperceptions
In this lecture, I will consider some of the ways in which ‘common sense’ comes to mean that certain experiences or actualities are construed as ‘beyond belief’ despite their factual occurrence, where ‘beyond belief’ means in large part that listeners lack the capacity to receive and/or integrate the information, or knowledge, being transmitted to them. This outline seeks to think about the relative capacities of narrative forms (primarily literature) in communicating ‘unknowable’ knowledge and to demonstrate the significance of (relational) recognition as a part of redress within a framework of epistemic justice. Rather than making recourse to claims about the ‘empathetic capacity’ of literature, this talk concentrates on the dishabituation of thought and its potential to induce affective shift in the readerly sensorium as a way of changing (our) minds.
The Käte Hamburger Lectures provide deeper insight into the centre’s ongoing research, convey these ideas to the wider university community, and invite the public to engage in meaningful discussions on cultural practices of reparation.
Live Lecture Broadcast
The lecture will be broadcast live via Microsoft Teams on May 26 starting at 6:00 p.m. with the lecture starting no later than 6:15 p.m. You can find the link for online participation here.