{"id":9796,"date":"2024-06-14T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/?p=9796"},"modified":"2024-07-31T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:10:25","slug":"professors-frey-and-tobias-participate-in-international-conference-sensus-non-communis-gegenwarten-im-widerstreit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/2024\/06\/14\/professors-frey-and-tobias-participate-in-international-conference-sensus-non-communis-gegenwarten-im-widerstreit\/","title":{"rendered":"JHU professors\/students participate in conference “Sensus\u00a0Non-Communis: Gegenwarten im Widerstreit”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Held on June 13-14 at the Universit\u00e4t Bonn, Professors Frey and Tobias<\/a> and graduate students in German Luke Beller and Glen Gray<\/a> participated in the international conference “Sensus Non-Communis: Gegenwarten im Widerstreit. The conference was a collaboration of the Max Kade Institute for Modern German Thought<\/em> at JHU\u00a0& the GRK DFG-Graduiertenkolleg\u00a0Gegenwart\/Literatur<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference description (English):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A generation ago, the universalist pretensions of \u201cWestern\u201d culture were submitted to radical critique from many different angles: Lyotard\u2019s Le diff\u00e9rend<\/em>, Edward Said\u2019s Orientalism<\/em>, and the work of Gayatri Spivak\u2014to name just a few points of reference\u2014all revealed the invisible fault lines within what to some had seemed to be a shared philosophical and literary space. If for Kant sensus communis <\/em>was the condition for the universality as well as necessity of aesthetic judgments, that same sense came to be seen as a restriction eliminating other voices and other experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current interrogation of universalism and its limits takes up many of the same issues as Lyotard, Said and Spivak, albeit in a new frame. Instead of asking whether the subaltern can speak, the question has become who can speak to works from historically marginalized communities without reproducing the language of domination. The conference \u201cSensus Non-Communis: Contested Presents\u201d will consider the possibilities for consent and dissent beyond the framework of a universally shared common sense. The event is jointly organized by the Graduate School Gegenwart\/Literatur at the University of Bonn and the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought at the Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full conference description and program are available below<\/p>\n\n\n\n