Walter Benjamin Research Collective

A collective for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers working in the field of Benjamin studies. Monthly virtual gatherings for collaborative thinking.

[Walter Benjamin Research Collective @WBResearchColl]

Welcome to the official Walter Benjamin Research Collective twitter page. We are a group of early career researchers in the field of Benjamin studies, collaborating virtually across borders and timezones.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Sharing this book of graphic illustrations from Walter Benjamin's dreams, aphorisms, and notes with the little illustrator today . . . to see what it brings to her sketchpad.

[Translation at Warwick @Warwick_Transla]

You have one more week to submit your proposals for our conference: Afterlives of an Essay: 100 Years of Benjamin's #TaskOfTheTranslator"!

We are looking forward to reading your takes on the subject and welcoming you on campus in September!

[Goethe-Institut London @GI_London1]

Episode 16 of our podcast Talking Culture is now available 🎧Esther Leslie and Louis Porter join us to unpick the mind of Walter Benjamin in the context of modern cultural phenomenons 🎙️

To listen to the full episode 👇
https://t.co/hokXl1lfCF

#Podcast #TalkingCulture #Art

[Éditions Klincksieck @KlincksieckEd]

📰 PHILIPPE IVERNEL ET WALTER BENJAMIN, double sauvetage
Dans le recueil *Walter Benjamin. Critique en temps de crise*, l'auteur explore avec une rare perspicacité la posture intellectuelle que Benjamin voulait faire sienne.  Jérôme DUWA, Artpress

🔎  https://t.co/FZsuCNixn6

[New Books in German @newgermanbooks]

Villa Verde provides a rare and detailed examination of the life of Walter Benjamin’s first wife, Dora Sophie Kellner, in the context of the political upheaval and antisemitism of 1930s Germany. https://t.co/RI6iH7pM29 #NBGrecommendation

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Walter Benjamin's 'The Task of the Translator' considers what is obscured and what is elucidated through the process of literary translation.

The translators of his short stories approached the task beautifully, and their talents and insights mustn’t go uncelebrated!

[Big Sur Argentina @leemosBigSurArg]

📑 Dirección única de Walter Benjamin publicado por @UdpEdiciones.

Incluye un apéndice que contiene más de 40 textos que Benjamin consideró sumar en el caso de una eventual nueva edición.

https://t.co/bIo0ZrD3qm

[Florian Louis @flr_louis]

Nouvelles édition et traduction françaises, signées Gérard Raulet, des thèses Sur le concept d’histoire de Walter Benjamin à paraître le 13 janvier chez Klincksieck.

[The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy @MSCPhilosophy]

Course starting tonight 6:30pm (Melbourne Time)
Reading Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Concept of History” with lecturer: @thewastedworld (Gregory Marks)
https://t.co/lO2xP46HNs

[Brooklyn Institute @BklynInstitute]

Faculty Video: Walter Benjamin's The Storyteller | In which BISR faculty @xtinesmallwood, @materialist_jew, @suzy_schneider, novelist @hermionehoby, and translator Tess Lewis ask: what is communicable experience and why does Benjamin believe we lack it? | https://t.co/BUfsCWPyEK

[J. History of Ideas @JHIdeas]

In today's conference report, @ca__a___ and @sophia_m_buck look back on "Walter Benjamin in the East: Networks, Conflicts, and Reception" (@zflkomm). https://t.co/aAMxnm4G3k

[avldigital.de @AVLdigital]

1/2 "Chancen des Gelächters. Zur Ästhetik und Politik des Humors bei Walter Benjamin" – #CfP für eine Podiumsdiskussion und einen Workshop im Walter Benjamin Archiv (13.-15.04.2023).

🗓️Deadline Abstracts: 15.01.2023

📌Mehr dazu: https://t.co/nfWKSUPnWN @zflkomm @WBResearchColl

[David Hering @hering_david]

One of my all-time favourite book covers: the Penguin edition of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

[Jewish Review of Books @JRBooks]

The last desperate journey of Walter Benjamin, by @Samantharhill https://t.co/1HZuyHuNbI

[EXC Temporal Communities @EXC2020]

We are pleased to announce a new publication from cluster member Simon Godart (@Eigenlicht )! @PassagenVerlag has released "Ad plures ire. Über literarische Antizipation nach Walter Benjamin" this month. Want to know more? https://t.co/H5Xt1PXSa8

[ZfL Berlin @zflkomm]

Wir gratulieren!

Der Walter Benjamin Förderpreis für junge Forschende geht dieses Jahr an Szilvia Gellai (Wien) und Kevin Drews (Halle) mit dem Vorhaben »Chancen des Gelächters. Zur Ästhetik und Politik des Humors bei Walter Benjamin«.

https://t.co/A282LCVf1n

[Nathalie Raoux @RaouxNathalie]

A vos agendas - 15 novembre, 19h30 présentation de l'ouvrage de P. Ivernel en bonne compagnie + moi. Cet ouvrage a reçu le prix spécial Walter Benjamin 2022.