32ⁿᵈ Hermann Staudinger Lecture
Abdulrazak Gurnah has received the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. In the Hermann Staudinger Lecture, he invites the audience to reflect on who ‘together’ refers to in the statement 'Living together'. Our reflections will probably make us think of difference: in religion, language and social practice. It will probably also make us think of other associated tropes depending on dispositions and inclinations. So at least one way of understanding our topic is that it is an address to the question of living together with foreigners. In addition, ‘together’ implies mutuality, how we might live together, rather than how foreigners might learn to live with us. In this ongoing phenomenon with its changing troupe of actors playing out a ritual drama, where does literature stand?
About the Lecture Series
The Hermann Staudinger Lectures, initiated at FRIAS in 2008, bring international Nobel laureates to Freiburg to share their insights, offering a glimpse into their groundbreaking research and career paths. The events are among the highlights of the academic year. Abdulrazak Gurnah will become the first Nobel Laureate in Literature to deliver a Hermann Staudinger Lecture.
