2015—2018
The changes and disruptions of the past hundred years have shaped our conception of reality, our thought, and our language. The Dictionary of Now series reflects on the capacity of language to both depict and create reality. Since the modern age this has gone hand in hand with the search for universal truths and codified usages. The Dictionary of Now confronts this assertion of linguistic universalism with specific contemporary positions.
Lectures, discussion May 24, 2018
Lectures, discussion Apr 19, 2018
Lectures, discussions Mar 21, 2018
Lectures, talk, interventions by the Chor der Kulturen der Welt Dec 12, 2017
Talk and reading Nov 14, 2017
Mon Jun 12, 2017 7pm
Reading, lectures, talk, May 11, 2017
Thu, Nov 03, 2016 8 pm Friedrich-Kopsch-Auditorium at the Institut für Anatomie of the Charité hospital, Berlin
Mon, Oct 10, 2016 7pm Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Dictionary of Now: Wole Soyinka & Manthia Diawara – Truth Wed, May 4, 2016