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01Dec2020
Publications

The Age of Curiosity: The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Anglia Book Series, deGruyter, announced for August 2021
Challenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the ‘development’ of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them.

The Age of Curiosity ontributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy’s history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of ‘identity’ or ‘truth’, and its potential as cura, care for others and the world.  
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Academic Skills: An Introduction for English and American Studies (UTB)

New UTB book published 13 July, 2020.
An introduction to academic skills which leaves nothing to be desired – designed for students of English and American Studies, this companion will guide you through research, presentation, quoting and style, as well as the composition of essays and term papers. Acquiring these competences will not only equip you for the expectations of university studies but will also enhance your communication skills and promote your ability to think critically and
independently. The book is rounded off by strategies for exam preparation and plenty of practice exercises complete with solutions.
  
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20JUN  2020
Publication

Paragesellschaften. Imaginationen - Inszenierungen - Interaktionen. Berlin: deGruyter, 2021 (forthc.)

Editors: Agnes Bidmon, Simone Broders, Katharina Gerund, Teresa Hiergeist. To be published in 2021.
According to the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the term "parallel society" is associated in public debate with the notion of ethnically homogeneous population groups that are spatially, socially and culturally isolated from the Mehrheitsgesellschaft" (APUZ 1/2006). Contemporary literature and culture stage parallel and alternative societies as well as negotiate the fears, attitudes and behaviours associated with this demarcation in the political, social, religious, ideological, or ethnic spheres. 

In politischen und medialen Debatten werden unter dem häufig stigmatisierend gebrauchten Schlagwort ‚Parallelgesellschaften‘ Fragen gesellschaftlicher Homogenität und Heterogenität kontrovers diskutiert. Diesem reduktionistischen Gestus setzt der Band das offene Konzept der ‚Paragesellschaft‘ entgegen und ermöglicht dadurch eine differenzierte Annäherung an mediale Reflexionen des soziopolitischen und gesellschaftlichen Umgangs mit Diversität in verschiedenen Dispositiven der Gegenwart.
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14MAY 2020
Conference

Anglistentag 2021 

Limits of Knowledge -- Knowledge of Limits. The Productiveness of Ignorance, Non-Knowledge and Agnotology in Anglophone Studies, Literature and Culture.

Panel hosted by Anna Auguscik, University of Oldenburg, and Simone Broders.
Most recently, but also ensuing the crisis in the humanities, much has been written about knowledge in literature, fiction, or literary form. In this panel, we focus on how we speak - who and in which contexts - about limits of knowledge and knowledge of limits.

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Simone Broders is a member of academic staff (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. She specializes in English literature and culture of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century, contemporary writing in Britain, Digital Humanities, and in transfer processes between literature and other media, such as film, television and graphic novels.

Events

Tagung: Paragesellschaften. Imaginationen - Inszenierungen - Interaktionen (10.-11.02.2020)
Die Tagung analysiert Selbst- und Fremddarstellungen von Gruppen, die zwar innerhalb der territorialen, aber außerhalb der politischen, ökonomischen, sozialen, religiösen und/oder kulturellen Ordnung eines Gemeinwesens verortet werden, im Hinblick auf ihre Inszenierungsstrategien, narrativen Konstruktionen und ästhetischen Potenziale.
Conference Contribution: "The Curious Self: ISECS 2019, International Congress on the Enlightenment, University of Edinburgh, UK: Session 8, 244: Periodical Identities
Wednesday, 7 July 2019, 8 am to 9.30 am

Conference Contribution: "Von Hippies und Höllenfürsten: Toxische Glücksversprechen in Kim Newmans Jago". Tagung Glücks-versprechen. Inszenierungen und Instrumentalisierungen alternativer Lebensentwürfe in den Gegenwarts-kulturen. 19 September 2019, 13.45-14.30.