Date: 7. – 9. 10. 2024
Venue:
Akademické konferenční centrum (AKC)
Husova 4a/ Jilská 1, Praha 110 00
Abstract:
The emergence of social asymmetries, their maintenance, and also their disruption in connection with invective and invective modes of behavior will be the central theme of the interdisciplinary conference The Power of Asymmetry or the Struggle for Truth: Invective Practices in Premodern Europe, which will take place on 7–9 October 2024 at the Academic Conference Centre (Husova 4a, Prague 1).
The conference will reflect on the relationship between Reinhart Koselleck’s concept of asymmetrization and the power of words—or images—in specific historical situations, texts, and works of art from the Middle Ages and the early modern period. It will explore which groups were targeted at particular times, what kinds of rhetoric were employed, and how these processes relate to political, religious, national, and other identities. At the same time, it will ask whether invective practices are the only productive means of shaping such identities.
The event is organized by the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, TU Dresden, Universität Kassel, and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
