ERC Minor Universality

ERC Consolidator Grant

MINOR UNIVERSALITY. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism

Principal Investigator: Professor Markus Messling
Project team: Elsie Cohen, M.A., Azyza Deiab, Dr Franck Hofmann, Clément Ndé Fongang, M.A., Dr Hélène Thiérard, Dr Jonas Tinius

The Minor Universality project aims to contribute to the debate on universality after Western universalism. Starting from the essential role narration plays in collective imaginaries, it seeks to understand how a new consciousness of universality is under way of being produced in contemporary social practices and cultural expressions such as oral transmissions and narrations of the self, literatures and archives, films and festivals, curatorial spaces and museums. 

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme – Grant Agreement Number 819931.