Conference: The Theater of Divided Worlds
—
Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance 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), Linköping University, and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm.
Can The Aesthetics of Resistance 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’s 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.
The conference takes place at Bonniers Konsthall on October 29 and at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus on October 30.
Schedule → Thursday, October 29
1:00 pm Stefan Jonsson, Samuel Richter, and Kim West open the first day of the conference
1:15 pm Seth Howes
2:15 pm Louis Hartnoll & Andreas Selg
3:15 pm Coffee
4:00 pm Klaus Müller-Wille
5:00 pm Julia Hell
6:00 pm End
In English.
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.
Organizers: Stefan Jonsson, Kim West and Samuel Richter.
Image: Peter Weiss, Ateljéinteriör / The Studio of Dr. Faust, 1956. Courtesy Filmform.
Registration
Free entrance
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.
-
The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026
26 Aug→
08 Nov 2026