FRIAS_UFreiburg<p>“Literature gives us pleasure — not superficial enjoyment, but a profound pleasure that broadens our minds. Literature allows us to revisit what we know from a new perspective. Literature brings us news — not merely facts, but deep human truths. Literature reassures us that how we feel is shared. It reminds us of our shared humanity.”</p><p>📚🎙️On 24 June, Abdulrazak <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Gurnah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gurnah</span></a>, recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a>, delivered the 32nd Hermann Staudinger Lecture at the University of Freiburg <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/@unifreiburg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>unifreiburg</span></a></span>. His talk reflected on understandings of “togetherness,” historically, literally and as humans. </p><p>You can now watch the video recording online: <a href="https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/32-staudinger-lecture-abdulrazak-gurnah/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">uni-freiburg.de/frias/32-staud</span><span class="invisible">inger-lecture-abdulrazak-gurnah/</span></a></p>