Lecture: Fairy Castles Gliding Like Swans: How Daydreaming Affects Writing and Analysis

Fairy Castles Gliding Like Swans: How Daydreaming Affects Writing and Analysis

Lecture in English by CAS-E Distinguished Fellow Prof. Michael Taussig (Columbia University), organized by DFG-Funded Center for Advanced Studies ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective‘ at FAU (CAS-E)

The lecture is free of cost. Registration prior is necessary: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1bakD1lBZfgejRyrwwLRmXkVrTCl1rV2fnY6CYwMyZ0NQ1A/viewform

“Let us consider the combined impact of drawing and daydreaming on our writing. I do this as I reflect on my book, Palma Africana, concerned with the rapid spread of an oil palm plantation in northern Colombia, enabled by paramilitary violence”.

Michael Taussig is Class of 1933 Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Columbia University, and author of several books including The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America; Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing; Mimesis and Alterity; Defacement; My Cocaine Museum; I Swear I Saw This; and Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown.

Colloquia series “Colloquia with Prof. Taussig”

CAS-E is proud to announce that Prof. Taussig will be in Erlangen from October to December as Distinguished CAS-E Fellow, where he will lead the special colloquia series “Colloquia with Prof. Taussig” to discuss some of his most salient works.

If interested in the series please contact Dr. Raquel Romberg (raquel.romberg@fau.de).

Location: Big Seminar Room, D1, Hartmannstr. 14, Erlangen

Dates: October 16, 23, 30; November 6, 27; December 4, 2024

Time: 11.15am–12.45pm

Language: English

Prof. Taussig’s residence at CAS-E signs the beginning of the Centre’s third year of existence. Starting its operations on April 1, 2022, CAS-E investigate practices aimed at predicting, managing, and manipulating contingent life events. By bringing together researchers and research projects from all over the world, CAS-E examines from a transcultural perspective these practices and their persistence despite social and cultural discourses delegitimizing them.

For more information contact: Dr. Monika Hirmer (monika.hirmer@fau.de) or Dr. Raquel Romberg (raquel.romberg@fau.de).