Guest Lectures as Part of the Colloquium: Romance Literature and Cultural Studies, with a Focus on Theory and Aesthetics
During the 2026–2027 winter semester, we cordially invite you to a series of guest lectures. All events will take place as part of the colloquium led by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wild (Romance Literature and Cultural Studies, with a focus on theory and aesthetics). Our guests include researchers from Messina, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Bonn, Geneva, and Siegen. Topics range from Pasolini and Gramsci to Proust and Dante, and on to Petrarch, Chateaubriand, Duras, and contemporary cinema.
| Oct. 15: Francesco Mancuso (Messina) “Is and Is Not.” Furio Jesis’s Mythological Machine and the Question of Who Speaks for a Missing People |
| November 5: Ingo Pohn-Lauggas (Vienna) Subalterns and Philosophical Folklore. Concepts of the “Popular” in Antonio Gramsci (Pasolini Lecture) |
| November 19: Atélier populaire Figuring Pasolini in cooperation with the SFB Transformations of the Popular fusion lab | Sandstr. 22A, 6:00–8:00 p.m. |
| Nov. 26: Simon Kienzl (Munich) Writing Naples: Anna Maria Orte’s Stories from an Unreal Life |
| Dec. 3: Cora Rok (Siegen) Spaces That Enable the First-Person Narrative: Narrative Situation and Function of the Frame Story in Chateaubriand, Duras, and Constant |
| Dec. 10: Jennifer Müller (Siegen) Analysis of Documentary Gaze Regimes as Forms of Representation of Marginalized Subjects in the Work of Alice Diop |
| Dec. 17: Hanna Sohns (Munich) Infernal Nymphs (Proust & Dante) |
| January 7. Erika Marzano (Bonn) The Failed Man: Masculinity, Failure, and Male Adulthood in the Cinema of the D’Innocenzo Brothers |
| January 14: Fabien Vitali (Siegen) Pasolini on Glow: The Life and Afterlife of a Luminary |
| January 21: Julia Dettke (Berlin) Après la parole: Subordinate Narrative as a Poetological Challenge, as Exemplified by Patrick Chamoiseau’s *Solibo Magnifique* |
| Jan. 28: Sarah Carlotta Hechler (Paris) Agitation, Representation, and Mediality: Connections Between Leo Löwenthal’s Studies of the Techniques of U.S. Agitators in the 1940s and His Research on Popular Culture |
| Feb. 4 Pablo Valdivia Orozco (Geneva) Perspectives on a Political Poetics Based on Petrarch’s *Secretum* |
