Departmental Research Forum, Apr 20: Reingard Nethersole

Thursday 20 April 2023, 4:10 – 5:30 pm
Odette Hall 323
In-person and Zoom (Meeting ID: 849 3546 2671, Passcode: 610924)

“Wechselseitig. Reading Goethe’s Concept in the Global South”

“In today’s planetary world nothing seems more urgent than ethical
interaction between cultures divided by language, custom and tradition.
Goethe’s notion of /reciprocivity/ offers answers.”

Prof. Nethersole has published on the humanitites, comparative Literature
and multiculturalism, emerging literatures, postcolonial theory, as well
as Goethe, Agamben, Ricoeur, Coetzee, and more. She was the founding
director of Comparative Literature and African Literature at the
University of the Witwatersrand.