Lecture Markus Messling June 15, 2021
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Prof. Dr. Markus Messling: Small Universality. Narrative World-Fabrications in the Wake of Universalism
Poster on the occasion of the online lecture “Small Universality: Narrative World-Fabrications After Universalism” by Prof. Dr. Markus Messling on June 15, 2021.
The debate on world literature—one of the cultural debates of our time concerning global validity—is conducted in the Francophonie under the term “littérature-monde,” thereby addressing the problem of global relevance: The decline of Western universalism since 1990 has been accompanied by a return to realism. How to conceive of approaches to a new universality—without which knowledge and justice cannot be organized in global society—thus proves to be a problem of narrative world-building.
Markus Messling is a professor of Romance Cultural Studies at Saarland University. He was deputy director of the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin and has held visiting professorships and fellowships in Paris, Cambridge, London, and Kobe.
WHEN? June 15, 2021, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
WHERE? Online event; advance registration required at
You will receive the event link via email after registering. Participation is free of charge // registration required
An event organized by the Center for France | Francophonie (CFF) at the TUD Dresden University of Technology in cooperation with the publisher Matthes & Seitz Berlin.
Book Recommendation
Markus Messling: Universality After Universalism. On Contemporary Francophone Literatures, Matthes & Seitz 2019 · 222 pages · 24 euros · ISBN: 978-3957577252