German Studies: New Perspectives

2024 Apr 25

Theater and Politics: Productions and Audiences in the German-Speaking World

4:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 133
GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: Markus Kupferblum, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

Émile Durkheim said “the rituals of humanity confirm...
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2024 Apr 11

Common Scents: On Brecht's Revolution of the Senses

4:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 133
GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: Jonas Rosenbrück, Amherst College

Modernity has often been understood as an age of “deodorization” where the dominance of...
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2024 Feb 29

For Love of the World: Rilke’s Ecology of Praise and Transience

4:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 133

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: Alexander Sorenson, Binghamton University

Among the many gripping features of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino...
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2024 Feb 01

Conserving Conversation: Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Indiscrete Machine

4:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 133

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: Sophie Schweiger, Yale University

When composing the dramatis personae for his play Der Schwierige (...
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2023 Nov 30

CANCELED: Visceral Poetry: Antonin Artaud, Unica Zürn, and the (Un)Sensing of the Letter

4:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 359 (Nebel Room)

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

This event has been canceled.

SPEAKER: Nadine Schwakopf, Independent Scholar

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) and Unica Zürn (1916-1970) have left us...
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2023 Mar 21

Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultural Evolution

4:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 359 (Nebel Room)

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: Ben Morgan, Oxford University

In 1931, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplinary research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures function and might function better. He...
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2022 Dec 01

Posthuman Intimacy: Processes of Dis-individuation and Amalgamation in Alfred Döblin’s "Berge Meere und Giganten"

4:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 359 (Nebel Room)

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: Christian Struck, Harvard University

In his 1924 novel Berge Meere und Giganten, Alfred Döblin conceives of a world up to the 28th century in which humans act in accordance with the...
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2022 Oct 27

From Metaphor to Memory: Nietzsche’s “Anschauungsmetapher”

5:30pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 359 (Nebel Room)

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: Anne Dymek, Harvard University

In “Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne” (1873), Friedrich Nietzsche offers a fascinating but convoluted theory of the ontogenesis of language. I contend...
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2022 Sep 29

"Schreibzeit" as "Sudelbuch": Learning Machines and Distributed Consciousness from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg to Hanne Darboven

3:00pm
Location:
Barker Center, Room 359 (Nebel Room)

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: William Stewart, Harvard University

Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) once described her artistic practice with language as cryptic as it is pidgin: “Ich schreibe Buch.” Given the byzantine...
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2022 Mar 10

"Eco-Scenarios of Darkness (Arno Schmidt, Werner Herzog)"

4:00pm
Location:
Zoom Meeting

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES

SPEAKER: Elisabeth Strowick, New York University

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