International Walter Benjamin Society

Übersetzungen von Gewalt Workshop-Diskussion über Walter Benjamins „Zur Kritik der Gewalt“ am Juli 2019   Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin 10h-17h Georg Simmel Saal, 3. Etage   Organisation: Frank Müller (CMB / Freie Universität Berlin) Noa Levin (Kingston University London / ZfL)   Eine Kooperationsveranstaltung zwischen dem Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) und dem Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)   Anmeldung bitte bis 09. Juli 2019 an: ubersetzungenvongewalt@gmail.com   Walter Benjamins kurzer Text „Zur Kritik der Gewalt“ von 1921 ist…

Walter Benjamin obtained his doctoral degree on June 27 of 1919 at the University of Bern. Precisely 100 years on, this serves as an occasion to host the bi-annual conference organized by the International Walter Benjamin Society in Bern and to look at these beginnings. Six thematic-based panels show how much Benjamin’s thinking is connected to almost all humanities subjects, but in any case, requires inter- and trans-disciplinary access. A reading group aims to promote a discussion of two of…

EROS | ἔρως IN WALTER BENJAMIN’S PHILOSOPHY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, THE LONG ROOM HUB 24-25 MAY 2019 …the erotic life is ignited by distance Walter Benjamin, Outline of the Psychophysical Problem Although Walter Benjamin’s references to the concept and praxis of eros are sporadic, he appears to be acutely concerned with questions of love and desire from early on. In particular, his writings are deeply engaged with the concept of ἔρως as it appears in Plato’s Symposium, where it is…

Event date: Saturday, 11th May 2019 Location: Goldsmiths, University of London Deadline for abstracts: Monday, 4th February 2019 Contact: benjaminsbaudelaire@gmail.com   In affiliation with the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought’s 2018–19 research seminar series on Baudelaire and Philosophy as well as the corresponding conference to be held in June 2019, a one-day workshop will offer early career researchers the chance to re-examine the conceptual and methodological implications of Walter Benjamin’s relationship to ‘The Writer of Modern Life’. The workshop…

CHASE-funded screening event ‘Berlin Childhood around 1900 – A Project in Progress’ Friday, May 10  18:00 – 21.00  Professor Stuart Hall Building LG01 – Goldsmiths, University of London Attendance is free but registration is required, please register here: https://www.chase.ac.uk/film-screening-berlin-childhood-around-1900 In the early 1930s whilst in exile, German writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) began to draft a series of short autobiographical texts which documented his experience as a middle-class Jewish child growing up in Berlin at the turn of the twentieth century. These vignettes…

Walter Benjamin e la cultura italiana. Giornata di studi nel centenario della redazione a Lugano di «Destino e carattere»   A study day to celebrate 100 years of “Fate and Character” the work by Walter Benjamin written in Lugano March 21, 2019   Walter Benjamin e la cultura italiana Giornata di studi nel centenario della redazione a Lugano di «Destino e carattere»   21 marzo 2019 Auditorium ore 9.00 – 17.30   ore 9.00 Indirizzi di saluto Andrea Rocci, Decano…