International Conference Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection (27-29 May 2015 Leuven, Belgium) (original) (raw)

The conference titled 'International Conference Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection' explores the concept of immunity within the context of modernity, discussing its implications in literature, philosophy, and the arts. Influential thinkers such as Niklas Luhmann, Donna Haraway, Ed Cohen, Jacques Derrida, Roberto Esposito, and Peter Sloterdijk contribute to understanding the ways communities attempt to protect themselves from modernity's displacing effects. The conference aims to clarify the complexities of immunity as both a protective and potentially disruptive mechanism, as well as its representation in various forms of art.