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SUMMARY:Present Pasts: Historical Consciousness and the Experience of Moder
 nity
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will explore instances in which verbal, visual an
 d performative works compress the distance between their own cultural momen
 t and a particular configuration of the (recent or distant) past. Beginning
  with the early modern emergence of a sophisticated, differentiated sense o
 f historical periods, writers and other cultural producers have experimente
 d with mixing elements of different periods. Textual and material artefacts
  that (self-reflexively) imitate past styles can upset concepts of the line
 ar, chronological progress of time and produce a heightened temporal self-a
 wareness. Cultural forms of reenactment as well as various kinds of bodily 
 and oral performances – on the theatrical stage, in the courthouse, in the 
 political arena, etc. – can make the past fleetingly present. Capable of ev
 oking both the historical past and the past of concrete earlier performance
 s, these practices invite us to consider the role of the body, voice and se
 nsorium in providing experiential access to an earlier moment in time. Acro
 ss the centuries, texts and performances that engage with the construction 
 of historical distance and proximity and with the effects of anachronism an
 d temporal blending have served a dizzying variety of political, cultural a
 nd artistic ends. However, the premise of this workshop is that they tend t
 o share a fundamental concern with the idea and experience of modernity. Hi
 storically contingent ideas about what it means to be modern come under pre
 ssure whenever the past erupts in the present in literary and cultural arte
 facts. Representations of encounters between past and present raise the iss
 ue of how different forms of historical consciousness can bolster – or inte
 rrogate – a sense of modernity, as well as how the mediation and remediatio
 n of the past gives rise to debates about modern aesthetic and cultural pra
 ctices.
LOCATION:Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
DTSTAMP:20251111T140042Z
DTSTART:20160218T080000Z
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