AGYA-Lecture: Critical Culture and Civil Society. Aesthetic Perspectives

25 October 2019, 6 - 8 p.m.
BBAW, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin

Rashida Triki, emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetic at the University of Tunis, understands critique as a set of practices that manifest, in particular through symbolic acts, a mode of breaking with
the dominant culture in a given society. One of the privileged fields of critical practices is artistic creation which inscribes in a significant way the difference in the socio-cultural habitus. The lecture focuses on the Tunisian revolution and analyzes not only its artistic dimensions but also the limits of artistic practices confronted with new counterrevolutionary cultural forms.

The lecture is part of the series "Contemporary Women Philosophers in Arab Countries. Intellectual Portraits" which aims to be an intellectual and philosophical contribution to the debate on Arab philosophy in a global perspective and, in particular, Arabic-speaking women philosophers.
It is a project of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) brings together excellent Arab and German scholars to face shared challenges and develop solutions through research cooperation.

The lecture will be presented in French with German translation.
The talk will be followed by a welcome reception.

Please register for the event via e-mail (pluszeit@bbaw.de). More information is available here.