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SUMMARY:"Reading for Democracy" with Laura Bieger\, 06/18 - GLAM Lecture
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Kare Mayurathan\, Gulsin Ciftci\n\nGLAM Lecture wit
 h Laura Bieger\, 06/18\nWe are pleased to welcome guest speaker Prof. Dr. 
 Laura Bieger from Ruhr University Bochum for an upcoming GLAM Lecture. Ple
 ase join us for this talk by registering via the form below.\nEvent Detail
 s:\n\n\nTitle: Reading for Democracy\n\n\nGuest Speaker: Laura Bieger\, Ru
 hr-University Bochum\n\n\nDate: Thursday\, June 18\, 2026\n\n\nTime: 12-2P
 M (GMT+2)\n\n\nLocation: ES203 or Zoom\n\n\n \n\nAbstract: \n\n\nIs lite
 rature of political use\, and if yes\, how might this use be defined? My n
 ew book\, Reading for Democracy\, addresses this question in a series of
  essays\, with topics ranging from reading as a political practice to lit
 erature as critical infrastructure\, from the public sphere as a space of
  appearance to the art of the essay in the digital age. This talk zeroes 
 in on my understanding of literature as a social practice\, in which liter
 ary texts are shape-shifting agents in a dynamic web of relations\, create
 d through literature’s linking and bonding capacities. I contend that\, 
 in trying and institutionalizing collective forms of judgment\, these agen
 ts are essential to negotiating the shape of the world. Which is what the 
 political is all about.\nLaura Bieger is Professor of American Studies at
  Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She is the author of Reading for Democracy (M
 etzler 2025)\, Belonging and Narrative (transcript 2018)\, and Ästheti
 k der Immersion (transcript 2007). Her essays have appeared in New Liter
 ary History\, Narrative\, Parallax\, Studies in American Naturalism\, Ame
 rikastudien/American Studies and ZAA. She is a member of the DFG-funded 
 Research Group “Infrastructure: Aesthetics and Supply\,” where she lea
 ds the project “‘Race as Infrastructure’ and Literary Infrastructure
 s of Resistance.” Together with Philipp Loeffler\, she is currently co-e
 diting two special issues: “After Contemporary Literature” for Americ
 an Literature\, and “What was Contemporary Literature? Or: The End of Pe
 riodization as We Know It” for Post45.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nhttps:/
 /indico.uni-muenster.de/event/4137/
LOCATION:ES203/Zoom (English Department)
URL:https://indico.uni-muenster.de/event/4137/
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