CHRC 8th Annual Heritage Lecture - Changing Concepts of the Future and the 'Ethics of Repair'
Submitted by Marina Herriges on 29 Jan 2025
2025 Annual Heritage Lecture: Changing Concepts of the Future and the 'Ethics of Repair'
Professor Aleida Assmann, Professor of English Literature and General Literary Studies, Universität Konstanz
Abstract: Over the last decades, the Western concept of ‘future’ has changed radically. The lecture will focus on this change in the larger framework of “the decline of the time regime of modernity”. As sociologist Andreas Reckwitz has just argued in a recent study, the decline of the promise of continuous progress is responsible for a wide-spread “sense of loss” in middle-class society. But this is not the whole story. It has also opened up the space for alternative forms of imagining the future and new perspectives for the politics of remembering, forgetting and dealing with the past. One of them is an “ethics of repair” that is being proposed as a new framework for dealing with heritage in the context of modern architecture.
The event is free but registration is required.
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Date:
Friday, 28 February, 2025 - 18:00 to 20:00
Contact name:
Alyssa Walton
Contact email:
alyssawalton97@gmail.com
Event location:
Frankopan Hall, West Court, Jesus College, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BQ