The End of Secular Utopias
Wednesday 12 May 18:00 until 19:30
University College, London, Pearson Lecture Theatre (North East Entrance)
Speaker: Prof. Sigrid Weigel (Berlin), Prof. Michael Löwy (Paris), moderated by Prof. Christian Wiese
Part of the series: Sussex Berlin Dialogues on Jewish History and Contemporary Issues (co-organised by the Centre for German-Jewish Studies and the Jewish Museum in Berlin)
Panel Discussion between Prof. Sigrid Weigel (Berlin) and Prof. Michael Löwy (Paris), moderated by Prof. Christian Wiese (University of Sussex)
Sigrid Weigel is Director of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung and Professor at the Institute for Literary Studies at the Technical University Berlin. She is a Member of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association. She has been a visiting professor at Basel, Berkeley, Cincinnati, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford. Her publications include Body- and Image Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin (1996); Ingeborg Bachmann: Hinterlassenschaften unter Wahrung des Briefgeheimnisses (1999); Walter Benjamin: Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder (2008); Märtyrer-Portraits: Von Opfertod, Blutzeugen und heiligen Kriegern (ed. 2007).
Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher. He is presently the emerited research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). His publications include Redemption and Utopia: Libertarian Judaism in Central Europe (1992); The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (2005); Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History' (2005).
By: Diana Franklin
Last updated: Tuesday, 2 March 2010