{"id":40499,"date":"2026-08-28T13:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/event\/konferens-de-delade-varldarnas-teater\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:21:02","slug":"conference","status":"publish","type":"calendar_event","link":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/en\/event\/conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: The Theater of Divided Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Conference: The Theater of Divided Worlds<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Peter Weiss\u2019s The Aesthetics of Resistance<\/em> and the Challenge of Critical Universality in the Twenty-First Century. An international conference organized by The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Link\u00f6ping University, and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Can The Aesthetics of Resistance <\/em>help us imagine new aesthetics of resistance today? What would that mean? This conference is organized in the hope, in spite of all, that Weiss\u2019s historical novel can still assist us in envisioning new futures, of unity and freedom. Such hopeful readings, however, cannot be abstract and utopian, but must be based in critical reassessments of the social reality of the book in relation to our own time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference takes place at Bonniers Konsthall on October 29 and at H\u00e4gerstens\u00e5sens Medborgarhus on October 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizers: <\/strong>Stefan Jonsson, Kim West and Samuel Richter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schedule \u2192 Thursday, October 29<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1:00 pm<\/strong> Stefan Jonsson, Samuel Richter, and Kim West open the first day of the conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:15 pm<\/strong> Seth Howes (University of Missouri), \u201c\u00dcber den Begriff der Zeit zu sprechen\u201d: Historical and Anthropological Strata in<\/em> Die \u00c4sthetik des Widerstands\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:15 pm<\/strong> Louis Hartnoll (University of Amsterdam) & Andreas Selg (Zurich), The Gloomy Day: Traversing Weiss\u2019s Antifascist World Landscape\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:15 pm<\/strong> Coffee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:00 pm<\/strong> Klaus M\u00fcller-Wille (University of Zurich), Word-things, the collective unconscious and maps: Early and late collage practices in the work of \u00d6yvind Fahlstr\u00f6m and Peter Weiss<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5:00 pm<\/strong> Julia Hell (University of Michigan), Brecht\u2019s Workshop or Weiss\u2019s Inter Textual Montage as Aesthetic Resistance\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6:00 pm<\/strong> End<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participation is free of charge. As the number of seats at Bonniers Konsthall is limited, we kindly ask you to register if you would like to attend the first day of the conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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H\u00e4gerstens\u00e5sens Medborgarhus
Schedule \u2192 Friday, October 30<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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9:45 am<\/strong> Stefan Jonsson, Samuel Richter & Kim West open the second day of the conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:50 am<\/strong> Sebastian Dahlqvist and Elof Hellstr\u00f6m introduce H\u00e4gerstens\u00e5sens Medborgarhus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00 am<\/strong> Magnus Bergh (Sweden), Weissian Irony\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:40 am<\/strong> Co\ufb00ee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:15 am<\/strong> Robert Buch (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Socialist (Sur-)Realism. Peter Weiss\u2019s<\/em> The Aesthetics of Resistance and the Novelists\u2019 International\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:15 pm<\/strong> Jenny Willner (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), With Alien Tongues: Splitting and Identification with the Aggressor in<\/em> The Aesthetics of Resistance\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:15 pm<\/strong> Lunch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:15 pm<\/strong> Danny Hayward (London), Hanoi-Tripoli-Stockholm-Rome: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Peter Weiss and Anti-Colonial Transposition\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:15 pm<\/strong> Kai Evers (University of California), Resisting \u201cthe perfectly composed massacre\u201d: Peter Weiss and the staging of mass murder from<\/em> The Investigation to<\/em> The Aesthetics of Resistance\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:15 pm<\/strong> Co\ufb00ee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5:00 pm<\/strong> Esther Leslie (University of London), Un-grounded Figures: The Force of Negating Aesthetics in Yesterday’s and Today\u2019s Glut of Sediment<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6:00 pm<\/strong> Dinner, bar and music<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the evening, an exhibition will open in the gallery of H\u00e4gerstens\u00e5sens Medborgarhus and a performance will start at 7:00 pm. After the performance the DJ-collective 1+1=3 will perform and the bar is be open until 10:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adress: H\u00e4gerstens\u00e5sens Medborgarhus<\/a>, Riksdalerv\u00e4gen 2, 129 32 H\u00e4gersten<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Image: Peter Weiss, Atelj\u00e9interi\u00f6r \/ The Studio of Dr. Faust, 1956. Courtesy Filmform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Registration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Free entrance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Participation is free of charge. As the number of seats at Bonniers Konsthall is limited, we kindly ask you to register if you would like to attend the first day of the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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