KL: Irene Kacandes: Future Perfect or New Europeans
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/ggkgcsc/events/semester-overview/previous/archive/winter-term-15-16/keynote-lectures/keynotekacandes
- KL: Irene Kacandes: Future Perfect or New Europeans
- 2015-11-24T18:00:00+01:00
- 2015-11-24T20:00:00+01:00
Nov 24, 2015 from 06:00 to 08:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
Phil I, GCSC, R. 001
In this talk, I will review my concept of co-witnessing (Kacandes Talk Fiction 2001) and then position us, vis-à-vis some trenchant examples, for a group discussion about the current “refugee” situation: Which stories, which traumas exactly, are in the news? who is authorizing him/herself or is being authorized to co-witness to those stories? Who is listening? What events and peoples are being left out altogether? And the culminating question behind my title: What is the future perfect—here I obviously mean in the grammatical sense, with a play on the words’ connotations—of that selective co-witnessing (or lack of it)? When such and such will have happened, what will Europe’s future be? A specific component that interests me passionately concerns whether some individuals will be allowed to have become “new Europeans.”