Primitive Enriques Varieties

In this talk, which will be based on joint works with F. Denisi, Á. D. Ríos Ortiz and Z. Xie, I will introduce the class of primitive Enriques varieties, whose smooth members are so-called Enriques manifolds. In particular, I will present the basic properties of these geometric objects as well as some examples of (smooth and singular) primitive Enriques varieties. I will also discuss a termination statement for Enriques pairs and various deformation-theoretic results concerning primitive Enriques varieties.