24 Feb
26 Feb

Activist Writing – The pamphlet in Practice, History, Media and the Public Sphere

Opening hours / Beginning:

24 February 2022 - 26 February 2022

Venue:

online

© Amerikahaus

Pamphlets are everywhere. In recent years, the polemical texts of the #MeToo movement, of Black Lives Matter, of anticapitalist movements, of Brexit, of anti-abortion coalitions, or of digital secessionists have demonstrably affected the normative fabric of Western societies. Pamphletary literature and the responses it elicits are at the core of social history and are drivers of revolutionary events. From disenfranchised groups defending their existence to transnational coalitions advocating for systemic change, pamphlets are both a preeminent medium of political transformation and a massively popular genre of literature.

How does the pamphlet, both in its traditional and digital forms, shape and frame the objectives of contentious politics? What pamphletary impulses lead to political action, and what political actions crystalize as normative change? The international bilingual conference “Activist Writing —The Pamphlet in Practice, History, Media, and the Public Sphere” addresses these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Keynote speakers:

  • Sigrid Weigel (February 24)
  • Robert Pfaller (February 24)
  • Eva von Redecker (February 25)
  • Philipp Staab (February 25)
  • Grace Blakeley (February 25)
  • Amber A’Lee Frost (February 25)

The conference will be hosted online. For registration, please visit ArtsAutonomy's website or send an email. For further information visit the institute's website.

This conference is organized by the members of the ERC research project “The Arts of Autonomy: Pamphleteering, Popular Philology, and the Public Sphere” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 852205).

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