Eva Geulen, Karen Leeder: Multiple pathways into varied publics

“Session Four: Multiple pathways into varied publics” of the conference “Academics in the Public Sphere: Navigating the Political” organized by the Oxford/Berlin Research Partnership at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 7–8 Jul 2022

Chairs:

• Prof. Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature, Oxford
• Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen, Director, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung

9.00 The production and diffusion of academic knowledge

• Niko Pfund, President and Academic Publisher, OUP, New York
• Prof. Johannes Vogel, PhD, Director General, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Martin Rennert, Chair of the Executive Board, Einstein Stiftung
• Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott, Professor of Japanese Politics, FU Berlin
• Prof. Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford

10.45 Truth-telling, cultural performance and literature

• • Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz, President, UdK, Berlin
  • Ulrike Almut Sandig, Performance Poet
  • Dr. Samson Kambalu, Associate Professor of Fine Art and Director of Research, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford
  • Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte, Director, International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures,” Berlin

The literary scholar Eva Geulen is the Director of the ZfL, executive board member of the Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin, and Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory of the Humboldt University of Berlin.