To Embrace Failure? A Multi-Disciplinary Re-Thinking

Panelists Juliette Cherbuliez, Nancy Luxon, Christina Schmid, and Margaret Werry convene to discuss the concept of failure in art and scholarship through the lens of Bertholt Brecht, and whether or not failure itself can be its own aim. This panel will bring together scholars from different disciplines who have thought about “failure” and endorsed its re-conceptualization: political science, art, comparative literature and theater. In this panel we are asking; Is it possible to disentangle failure and success? Can failure be a method/tool of inquiry? Can failure be productive and as such “employed” and consciously assumed? Is failure gendered?

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