LLC11: Perspectives on Europe from the Periphery
About
This interdisciplinary Working Group investigates the effects of mobility on literature and visual arts in twentieth century Europe. We focus on intersections of language, place, artistic production, and cultural transfer between core and periphery.
Active since: 2015
Closed Group of Collaborators
- Syracuse University
- Cornell University
- Colgate University
Collaborative Goals
Our group aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts.
Following the publication of our forthcoming volume "Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, publication date: August 17, 2023), we want to invite a writer or speaker of international acclaim whose work focuses on borders and/as contact zones for an event in fall 2023. We want to host the guest speaker and all working group members here at Syracuse University and create a public event with a high impact, drawing attention to questions posed by borders inside and at the peripheries of Europe. Simultaneously, we aim to disseminate our work, the new book, and begin a new chapter of the working group. For this we plan a closed working group meeting in spring 2024.
Group Organizers
Karina von Tippelskirch
Associate Professor, German; German Program Coordinator, Syracuse University
Kathryn A. Everly
Professor, Spanish Literature and Culture; Modern Foreign Language Coordinator, Syracuse University
Patrizia C. McBride
Professor of Humane Letters Senior Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs, Cornell University
Group Members
- Ken Frieden, B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies and William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, English Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Religion, Syracuse University
- Matthew Miller, Associate Professor of German, Colgate University
- Irina Kogan; Assistant Professor of German, Colgate University
Activities
Works in Progress Meeting
Oct. 25, 2024, 1 p.m.
Elizabeth Otto on "Bauhaus under Nazism: Designers and the Holocaust"
March 22, 2024, 11 a.m.
Working Group Meeting
Nov. 11, 2023, 11 a.m.