Familie - (K)ein Auslaufmodell? mit Daniel Tyradellis - Ringvorlesung Beziehungsweise Familie

In the organizer's words:

In the beginning, there was togetherness. But how is this togetherness structured?

Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights presents the family as the natural basic unit of society. It does not give a more precise definition of what this includes.

Reason enough to explore the concept of the family and its alternatives. What does it mean to be related to one another?

The interdisciplinary lecture series is the prelude to the Humboldt Forum's theme year of the same name, which starts in fall 2025.

Family is a vague collective term for the most diverse forms of togetherness. It stands for origin and belonging, but also for obligation and conflict. As a central building block of social life, the family conveys rules and norms, shapes desires, fears and goals. At the same time, there is no binding definition of what a family is. In different times and cultures, it can be understood and taken for granted in very different ways. The interdisciplinary lecture series "Beziehungsweise Familie" is dedicated to the contradictory reality of the nuclear family model that is widespread today, especially in Western industrialized countries, and asks for alternatives from a global perspective. Renowned scientists from various disciplines and subject areas will present current research for discussion, which deals with the potential of alternative family and kinship concepts with regard to their creative, ethical and innovative aspects.

The lecture series takes place in the Humboldt Forum as part of a cooperation of the institutional network.

Programmatic director of the cross-institutional cluster: Dr. Laura Goldenbaum

Daniel Tyradellis is a philosopher and curator. After studying philosophy and philosophy of science, he received his doctorate in 2003 from the chair of Friedrich Kittler with a thesis on the genesis of Husserl's phenomenology in the context of the mathematical crisis of foundations. He was a long-standing member of the DFG Research Training Group "Codierung von Gewalt im medialen Wandel" at the Humboldt University and part of the research group "Gewalt der Archive".

Since 1997, Tyradellis has worked parallel to his university activities as a leading curator of mostly transdisciplinary exhibitions in numerous museums, including the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. His research focuses on the close integration of the theory and practice of curating as a separate type of cultural studies research. He sees the exhibitions he conceives as experiments in thinking in space.

Since October 2021, he has held the chair of the Humboldt Forum Endowed Professorship for Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinary Curating, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Further dates:

11.12.2024 18:00-20:00: Digital kinship: Memes as a link in the culture of digitality for people of primary school age and older with Petra Anders

08.01.2024 18:00-20:00: Family, Care, State: Ideals of Belonging and Practices of Exclusion with Tatjana Thelen

- Free admission

- Duration: 120 min

- Language: German

- Room 3, ground floor

- Part of: Lecture series Beziehungsweise Familie