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05/25/2023 - 05/27/2023 | Greifswald

Negotiating Peripeties: Change and Its Narrative

‘Peripety’ has been defined by Aristotle for dramatic plots as a change to the opposite direction of events in accord with necessity or probability. The conference provides a platform to discover and critically discuss the notion of ‘peripety’ and its analytical potential for negotiating historical as well as contemporary transformations and corresponding stories of transition.

Encouraging reflection upon neighbouring concepts of change, we aim to expand the debate on their relation to ‘peripety’, their scholarly prolificacy, and conditions of transferability. Together, we will elucidate turning points, crises, events, tipping points, and disruptions in the fields of literary, migration, and memory studies, medical humanities, environmental history, theatre studies, and political science. In this highly interdisciplinary format, we enter into negotiations about narratives of current poignancy: wars, floods, diseases, challenges to personal and collective identities, and even humour are being examined with regard to the narrative activities humans engage in to make sense of change.

Information on participating / attending:
Pre-registration is requested: baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de

Date:

05/25/2023 08:30 - 05/27/2023 13:30

Event venue:

Martin-Luther-Straße 14
17489 Greifswald
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Germany

Target group:

Journalists, Scientists and scholars

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Geosciences, History / archaeology, Language / literature, Philosophy / ethics

Types of events:

Conference / symposium / (annual) conference

Entry:

05/24/2023

Sender/author:

Stiftung Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald

Department:

Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event74478

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