Lubrich, Oliver (5 December 2023). Doktoranden-Workshop “Politics, poetics, positions – Negotiating (scholarly) writing and activism”, mit Abdourahman Waberi (Unpublished). In: Walter Benjamin Kolleg. Universität Bern. 5. Dezember 2023.
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Ma place est ici» («I belong here»), said French writer Annie Ernaux on October 17th, 2022, in Paris, while demonstrating with Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the protest march against the high cost of living and climate inaction. Eleven days earlier Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish academy underlined rightfully how her class background and the reality of class divides shaped her writing. Annie Ernaux, Edouard Louis, Didier Eribon, Mati Diop, Eric Vuillard, and I were among the small group of French writers, thinkers and artists who dared to engage not only publicly with the electorate campaign but also to endorse the underdog candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Most prominent cultural figures supported either the status quo – Emmanuel Macron – or remained silent in their ivory tower. Writing fulfills different functions and the writer must deal with different roles and responsibilities as an artist, a scholar, a citizen, a human being guided by a set of values. From the earliest ages of my writing and my contribution to reflection, from the Tutsi Genocide of Rwanda to the Mélenchon 2022 campaign involvement, I have been navigating politics, poetics, and positions. In the workshop, through plenary discussions and reflection on our own projects, we will explore the question of how academic work and activism, or positioning in a broader sense, can be reconciled.
– Abdourahman Waberi
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages > Modern German Literary Studies |
Graduate School: |
Graduate School of the Arts (GSA) Graduate School of the Humanities (GSH) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Lubrich, Oliver |
Subjects: |
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 830 German & related literatures |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Sophie Maria Susanne Odermatt |
Date Deposited: |
05 Mar 2024 13:23 |
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05 Mar 2024 14:42 |
Additional Information: |
mit Abdourahman Waberi |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/193802 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/193802 |
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