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Episode 27: Das erwartet Sie in der heutigen Episode von Mitgeschnitten (English version below):
Viel Spaß beim Mithören!
On the occasion of the inauguration of the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society, Premesh Lalu speaks on the second leitmotif of the LIAS research programme "Thinking Across Hemispheres".
Premesh Lalu, research professor and founding director of the Centre for Research in the Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, reflects on his recently published monograph "Undoing Apartheid", that humanities scholars develop a practice of thinking beyond geo-political and cultural boundaries such as North-South or East-West.
In the lecture, he refers to three plays - Faustus in Africa, Woyzeck on the Highveld and Ubu and the Truth Commission - by William Kentridge, Lesego Rampolokeng, Jane Taylor and the Handspring Puppet Company. Theatre, Lalu argues, offers an opportunity to reflect on the fundamental 'fictions of race' that have found expression in apartheid, revealing the workings of a sensual order and its simultaneous suspension through an aesthetic education, such as that of Friedrich Schiller. Above all, "Undoing Apartheid" calls for thinking across hemispheres, both geopolitically and in terms of divisions of the sensual.
Following the lecture Paula Banerjee, also a member of the LIAS advisory board, comments on and critically engages with Premesh Lalu’s paper. Susanne Leeb moderates questions from the audience.
Have fun listening to »Mitgeschnitten«!
By Leuphana Universität LüneburgEpisode 27: Das erwartet Sie in der heutigen Episode von Mitgeschnitten (English version below):
Viel Spaß beim Mithören!
On the occasion of the inauguration of the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society, Premesh Lalu speaks on the second leitmotif of the LIAS research programme "Thinking Across Hemispheres".
Premesh Lalu, research professor and founding director of the Centre for Research in the Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, reflects on his recently published monograph "Undoing Apartheid", that humanities scholars develop a practice of thinking beyond geo-political and cultural boundaries such as North-South or East-West.
In the lecture, he refers to three plays - Faustus in Africa, Woyzeck on the Highveld and Ubu and the Truth Commission - by William Kentridge, Lesego Rampolokeng, Jane Taylor and the Handspring Puppet Company. Theatre, Lalu argues, offers an opportunity to reflect on the fundamental 'fictions of race' that have found expression in apartheid, revealing the workings of a sensual order and its simultaneous suspension through an aesthetic education, such as that of Friedrich Schiller. Above all, "Undoing Apartheid" calls for thinking across hemispheres, both geopolitically and in terms of divisions of the sensual.
Following the lecture Paula Banerjee, also a member of the LIAS advisory board, comments on and critically engages with Premesh Lalu’s paper. Susanne Leeb moderates questions from the audience.
Have fun listening to »Mitgeschnitten«!