International Walter Benjamin Society

Walter Benjamin & Co. https://www.quodlibet.it/riviste/testata/126 Struttura di ogni numero / Structure for each issue Lingue / Languages Italiano, Tedesco, Inglese, Francese, Spagnolo / Italian, German, English, French, Spanish 1. Einbahnstrasse: sezione monografica / monographic section 2. Passages: parte miscellanea / miscellaneous section 3. Krise & Kritik: Recensioni / Reviews 4. Correspondances: varia (interventi esterni, non scientifici) / varia (external non scientific interventions and writings) Programmazione / Planning Numero 1, 2026: “Automa/Automaton” Numero 2, 2027: “Generazione / Generation” Numero 3, 2028:…

CALL FOR PAPERS (closing date: 19 October 2025) Organisers: Federico Filauri (ILCS, University of London) and Gregor Schäfer (University of Basel / ILCS, University of London) Offers of papers are invited for a one-day workshop addressing the question of theocracy, with a focus on 20th-century continental debates on political theology. This workshop aims to bring together early and mid-career researchers along with established scholars who are engaged in exploring the nexuses, implications, underpinnings, and bearings of religiously informed political thought.…

Title: Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution Date: 17-20 September 2025 Location: Sapienza University of Rome (Department of European, American, and Intercultural Studies), Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4, 00185 Rome The next biennial conference of Walter Benjamin scholars will be held in Rome, 17-20 September 2025, organised by the Associazione Italiana Walter Benjamin ( https://associazionewalterbenjamin.it/ ). The occasion is offered by the book’s centenary on the Trauerspiel , marked by Benjamin’s stay in Capri and his Marxist turn, thanks to his acquaintance with…

DAY ONE 17 SEPTEMBER – 13.30 – 14.30 : OPENING 17 SEPTEMBER — 14.30 – 16.00 PANEL 1 – MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY Gabriele Guerra (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle) Maria Enrica Giannuzzi -The Cosmic, the Catastrophic and the Melancholic. Walter Benjamin and the Styles of Mourning (EN) Francisco Naishat – The Folds of the Idea of Natural History from Monadology to the Unconsciousness (EN) Jakub Gorecki – Between Trauerspiel and Arcades Project: Allegory, Commodity and Unleashing of…

PANEL 1: MOURNING AND MELANCHOLY Gabriele Guerra (Sapienza University of Rome), Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle) Starting out, as a general suggestion in cultural-historical terms, from Freud’s 1917 essay, this section is devoted to the recurrence and application of the two terms in Walter Benjamin’s entire thought, both as psychic labels with respect to his intellectual existence, and as concepts directly inherent to his thought, from the essay on German Baroque Drama to the theses on the concept of history; both…

Denken heißt Segel setzen – Migration und Flucht. Walter Benjamin Woche 2025   Samstag, 5. April 2025, Marseille Marseille 10:00 – 12:00 Uhr Stadtführung durch Marseille auf den Spuren von Walter Benjamin mit Natalie Meissner (deutsch) Anmeldung über Goethe-Institut Marseille Montag, 7. April 2025, Barcelona Universitat de Barcelona, Sala de professors de Filologia i Comunicació. Edifici Josep Carner, Carrer d’Aribau, 2, Barcelona 09:45 – 10:00 Uhr Offizielle Eröffnung der Walter Benjamin Woche 2025 ‘Denken heißt Segel setzen – Migration und…

****Deutsche Version unten**** Title: Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution Date: 17-20 September 2025   Location: Sapienza University of Rome (Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies), Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4, 00185 Rome   The next biennial conference of Walter Benjamin scholars will be held in Rome, 17-20 September 2025, organised by the Associazione Italiana Walter Benjamin (https://associazionewalterbenjamin.it/). The occasion is offered by the book’s centenary on the Trauerspiel, marked by Benjamin’s stay in Capri and his Marxist turn, thanks to his…

Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal, Eingang Meierottostr. 8, 10719 Berlin; Walter Benjamin Archiv, Luisenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin Organisiert von Marcus Döller (Universität Erfurt), Florian Telsnig (Universität Wien)   Revolutionen scheitern an der Revolutionierung ihrer selbst. ›1917, 1968 und kommende‹ (Bini Adamczak) Revolutionen haben gemeinsam, dass sie in ihrem revolutionären Handeln gleichzeitig Kräfte der Entpolitisierung hervorbringen, insofern sie nicht die konstitutive Suspendierung des Politischen und ihr Scheitern in der politischen Organisationsform einzuholen vermögen. Ausgehend von Walter Benjamins Analysen möchte…