25.09.2019
Tilmann Heil - Public Lecture as part of the International Summer School „Problematizing Morality. Ethnographic Approaches to the Normative Dimensions of Everyday Life“
Wednesday, 25.09.2019, 18:00
Tilmann Heil - Dis/enchanting conviviality. On a mode that engages difference
This lecture addresses social situations imbued with difference in which neither moral or emotional common ground can be assumed, and which are increasingly politicized. Rather than provoking wonders of unquestioned togetherness, conviviality is a dis/enchanting mode of minimal sociality that engages difference, be it cultural, religious, ethnic or other. In situations we can call convivial, how is difference ethically and emotionally approached? Juxtaposing and intertwining two dissimilar ethnographic situations from Senegal and Brazil to discuss living with difference and its everyday struggles and justifications, Tilmann Heil concludes on the challenges that this might pose for certain Western understandings of morality, as community and even commonality is up for discussion.
The International Summer School is jointly organized by members of the Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology, the Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Order - Societies under Stress", and the Department of Sociology. It is funded by the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (ZUK 63), the University’s Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, and Universitätsbund Tübingen e.V.
Public Lectures at Schloss Hohentübingen (Hörsaal Klassische Archäologie/Ernst von Sieglin)