Nojang Khatami Postdoctoral Fellow Aufenthalt am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Oktober 2022 – Juli 2023Forschungsthema am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Aesthetics, Agency, and Democratic Imagination«Projektbeschreibung: The central question of my proposed post-doctoral project is: what innovative approaches can we take up to curb xenophobia and cultivate practices of solidarity in societies marked by deep diversity? In the current phase of my research, I aim to extend the theoretical knowledge of the political significance of artistic narratives in both historical and contemporary manifestations, and to suggest ways to apply this learning in societies across North America and Europe. This work entails reassessing the effects of aesthetic expressions on our consciousness and rethinking the conduits by which they can be put to work on our democratic imagination. I am motivated by questions such as: What do stories of the lives of others carry when they enter our minds? What effect do they produce when they engage us through artistic means? And how can we identify and nurture those narratives that enlarge our understanding of cultural others and develop them further in our institutions? These explorations, I believe, can be brought into fruitful conversation with critical theory, as aesthetic expressions across cultures are significant markers of the ways we become conscious of non-justifiable norms and respond to them through the practice of democratic agency. (Nojang Khatami) Zusammenarbeit: Nojang Khatami folgt einer Einladung von Rainer Forst, Professor für Politische Theorie an der Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, und dem an der Universität angesiedelten Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies, das von der Alfons und Gertrud Kassel Stiftung gefördert wird. Wissenschaftliches Profil von Nojang KhatamiNojang Khatami hat 2021 an der University of British Columbia mit einer Arbeit über »Rewriting the People: Narrative, Exilic Thinking, and Democratic Agency beyond the West« promoviert. Im Anschluss an seinen Aufenthalt am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften wird er die Position als Assistant Professor am Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft der Fordham University am Lincoln Center Campus in New York City aufnehmen.Website: Forschungsschwerpunkte: Vergleichende politische Theorie, Demokratietheorie, Dekolonialität, Ästhetik, Kulturwissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt Literatur und KinoVeröffentlichungen (Auswahl):
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