Wednesday, 9 October 2024, 7.30 pm, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery
Workshop with
Michael Marder
– PLEASE NOTE: The workshop is now fully booked. –
The polymath mystic Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) is currently (once again) rediscovered as a thinker for our time. But if, in the latter half of the twentieth century, Hildegard was praised – often with new-agey leanings – for her medicine, her mysticism or her recipes, or – often with a historicist inclination – for her music, the Saint we meet today is yet another, different Hildegard: a strong female thinker (and political actor), but also some strange sort of queer ecofeminist avant la lettre.
Recently, Huw Lemmey’s Unknown Language has paid hommage to this other Hildegard, as has Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo’s bingenTV, shown at diffrakt on 4 September. Approaching Hildegard from another different but related perspective, this workshop with Michael Marder will invite participants to discover her ecological thinking, entangled as it is in botany, theology, medicine, music and mysticism.
Participation in the workshop is limited. To register and receive the reading materials, please send a brief message to mail@diffrakt.space.
The event takes place with the generous support of the Institute for Global Reconstitution, and Michael Marder will also speak (about “Being Neophyte”) at their Annual Interdisciplinary Conference Constituens et Naturans at Humboldt-Universität on 10 October 2024, at 10 pm. Please visit the IGRec’s website for further information.
