29. - 30.10.2024: Workshop "Inheritance"
On October 29 and 30, 2024, a workshop about the topic "Inheritance" was hosted in the grand conference room of the Philologicum at the LMU.
A variety of thematics were treated, such as inheritance in history, law, and culture, and degeneration theories and their reception. A diverse selection of literary texts, German and English, were a part of the programme:
- Thomas Piketty, "Verdienst und Erbschaft auf lange Sicht" (2015)
- Riccardo Nicolosi, "Degeneration erzählen. Literatur und Psychiatrie im Russland der 1880er und 1890er Jahre" (2017)
- Jenny Willner, "Das Problem mit dem Erbe. Ferenczis Organologie und die Politik der Bioanalyse" (2021)
- Rudolf Borchhardt, "Die Geschichte des Erben" (1956)
- Stefan Willer, "Erbfälle. Theorie und Praxis kultureller Übertragung der Moderne" (2014)
- Ulrike Vedder, "Destructive Legacies: Thomas Bernhard’s Literary Critique of Inheritance" (2023)
The workshop was accompanied by literary and Germanistic scientist Prof. Dr. Ulrike Vedder and Prof. Dr. Stefan Willer from the Institute of German Literature.