REJECTING CLOSURE

International research workshop, 3–4 July 2025, University of Hildesheim, DFG Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice"

This research workshop was dedicated to writing’s forms and their aesthetic forces that are often overlooked or marginalized as 'experiments' by the control mechanisms of academic discourse. Drawing inspiration from poet Lyn Hejinian’s observation that “form is not a fixture, but an activity,” the workshop focused on the practice-based exchange among researchers, writers and artists, understanding the engagement with form and with the wide range of aesthetic and literary practices as a continued re-working of knowledge hierarchies in (academic) discourse and related institutional politics (cf. Ahmed 2012, Harney & Moten 2013, Doyle 2024).

With contributions by Ko-Le Chen, Anne Hölck, Omar Kasmani, Wilma Lukatsch, Karolin Meunier, Masoud Morgan, Zuleika Bibi Sheik.

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