The year-long CTL Seminar features research presentations from faculty, students and invited speakers.

Christiane Voss, CTL Associate and Professor of Audiovisual Media/Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge and Contemporary Philosophy, University Paris 1 Sorbonne "How Fiction Can Be Made True" Philosophy has always been suspicious of fiction. In the philosophical tradition, fiction has often been equated with a lie, or at least a form of false speech. This is a consequence of philosophers' fictional […]

Ben Morgan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford “How updating Frankfurt School political economy changes the way we think about a critical theory of culture in the 21st-century” The lecture shows the transformed potential of the interdisciplinary project of the Frankfurt School when the framework of economic thinking […]

Jon Auring Grimm, PhD Candidate, Aarhus University "The Musicality of Nature and Cosmic Ornamentation: Poetic knowledge and ecological imagination in Inger Christensen" The entire web of relationships among all existing phenomena that constitutes our world must lead to an increasingly refined understanding that our cultural forms, all human-made expressions, including the diverse forms of poetry, […]