Alexander von Humboldt die ganze Welt, der ganze Mensch

'Die ganze Welt, der ganze Mensch' war der Name einer in der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften veranstalteten internationalen Konferenz zu Alexander von Humboldts 250. Geburtstag. Die Ergebnisse dieser Tagung versammelt der vorliegende Band, der ein Panorama der internationalen Humboldt-Forschung ist, so vielstimmig und mehrsprachig wie der Geehrte selbst.Mit Beiträgen von David Blankenstein | José Enrique Covarrubias | Ottmar Ette | Wessam Abdelaziz Farag Alieldin | Raquel Gil Montero | Alberto Gómez Gutiérrez | Tobias Kraft | Vera M. Kutzinski | Michelle Müntefering | Ulrich Päßler | Cettina Rapisarda | Bénédicte Savoy | Caroline Schaumann | Hans Joachim Schellnhuber | Paulo Soethe | Jürgen Trabant | Michael Zeusk

Liquid Conviviality in Chilean Documentary Film: Dynamics of Confluences and Counter/fluences

Guided by the concept of liquid conviviality, referring to the conflictual connectivity, interrelation, and interaction between human and nonhuman actors in aquatic ecosystems, this Working Paper focuses on the staging of aquatic, and especially fluvial, agency in three examples of recent Chilean documentary films produced between 2008 and 2021. Building on theoretical insights in the blue humanities and material ecocriticism, it scrutinizes the filmic strategies and procedures that frame water as an active player. Furthermore, within a broader perspective of aquatic agency, we ask to which extent the liquid poetics, aesthetics and materialities in these films perform counternarratives facing neocolonial forms of invasion such as extractivism and devastation of watery ecosystems in Indigenous territories. Here, dynamics of confluences and counter/fluences are revealed by performing acts of dissident power and by focusing peripheral knowledges, as well as strategies of resistance

Truths That Hurt: Socialist Affects and Conviviality in the Literary Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez and Ryszard Kapuściński

This working paper deals with narrative journalistic texts by Gabriel García Márquez and Ryszard Kapuściński about their journeys to the Eastern Bloc and Latin America, respectively, during the first two decades of the Cold War. García Marquez’s crónicas and Kapuściński’s reportages deliver ideas on socialism(s) and engage in affective workings of a travel experience through representations of convivial socialist spaces. By elaborating a philological approach towards socialist affects, the paper concentrates on affective narrative attunements to lived historical moments and aims at comparing both authors as they raise social and political issues pertinent to the conjuncture of the Cold War. The convivial aspect refers here not only to living together with and knowledge production about the Other as represented in the text, but also to the methodological approach with intercultural sensitivity and transregional and transnational awareness of the aesthetic developments in the hybrid field of global literary journalism