Fall 2008: |
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Elisabeth Weber (UC Santa Barbara)
"'Torture was the essence of National Socialism.' Reading Jean Améry today." September 18th, 5:30pm WLH 309 |
| Christiaan Hart Nibbrig (Université de Lausanne) "Vom sich wiederholenden Subjekt: Nietzsche, Proust, Handke" (in German!) September 25th, 5:30pm WLH 309 |
| Previous Academic Years: |
| 2007/8 |
| Hans-Joerg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institut Berlin): "The Art of Exploring the Unknown" |
| Bettina Brandl-Risi (Freie Universität Berlin): "Theory in Action. René Pollesch and the Politics of Virtuosity in German Theatre" |
| Marianne Schuller, Universität Hamburg: "Gebrochene Strukturen: Zum Komischen bei Kleist" |
| Sam Weber (Northwestern University): "From Reflexion to Repetition: Walter Benjamin's Early Theory of Media" |
| Brigitte Peucker, Yale University: "Theatrically Unframed, Fassbinder and Poussin" |
| Kirk Wetters, Yale University: "How to Change Your Mind: The Age of Opinion in Hölderlin's 'Das Alter'" |
| Cyrus Hamlin, (Professor Emeritus, Yale University): "Hamlet among the Germans in the Age of Goethe." |
| Elisabeth Bronfen, Universität Zürich: "Virginia Woolf's Nights and Days. Literature's conversation with philosophy." |
| 2006/7 |
| Marina Münkler,
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin: "Melancholy and the Devil: On the Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587)" |
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Thomas Schestag, Northwestern: "Moons of Heidegger" |
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Eric Downing, University of North Carolina : "Classical Dirt: Archaeology and Identity in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva" |
| Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana
University: "Scenes of Identification: Classicism and Realism" |
Rüdiger Campe,
Johns Hopkins: |
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Susan Bernstein, Brown: "Gothic Revival and its Failure: Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften" |
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Willi Goetschel, Toronto: "Frankfurt School and Frankfurt shul: Heine and the Post-Contemporary" |
| 2005/6 |
| Anselm Haverkamp (Europa University/Viadrina) discusses "The Whispering of Nothing: Politics – A Winter's Tale" |
| Bettine Menke (University of Erfurt): "Holes and Excesses: Wit and the Joke in Kleist's 'Anecdote from the Last War'" |
| The 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference: The Outsider Within: German Literature & the Topography of Perception |
| Screening and discussion with Ayse Polat (Berlin) |
| Reading and discussion with Ulrich Peltzer (Berlin) |
J. Hillis Miller lectures on "Versions of Community" |
A reading by Hans Joachim Schädlich |
Beinecke Library Schiller Conference: "Aesthetic Theory and Dramatic Production: Anglo-American Perspectives After 200 Years" |
Reiner Stach on his new book, Kafka: The Decisive Years, with respondents Leo Lensing (Wesleyan University) and Henry Sussman (Yale University) |
| 2004/5 |
| Florian Becker, Princeton. |
| "Imagined Bodies, Layered Voices: Speech Acts in the Practice of Theatre" |
| Rodolphe Gasché, SUNY Buffalo. |
| "Words and Life: On Walter Benjamin's 'Goethe's Elective Affinities'" |
| Winfried Menninghaus, FU Berlin. |
| "Hölderlin's Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male Pindaric Seer" |
| Marcio Seligmann, U. de Campinas, Brazil. |
| "Testimonies and the Politics of Memory: Rethinking the Literary Canon" |
| Elke Siegel, NYU. |
| "Remains of the Day. The Diaries of Rainald Goetz and Durs Grünbein" |
| Elisabeth Strowick, Humboldt Fellow. |
| "Poetik der Ansteckung in Thomas Bernhards Autobiographie" |
| Markus Wilczek, Johns Hopkins. |
| "The Rhetoric of SUffering. Lessing-Sophocles-Heiner Müller" |
| The 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference: |
| "Re-Assessing GDR Literature + Film" |
| 2003/4 |
| Colin Benert. |
| "Music and the Estrangement of Time in E.T.A. Hoffmann and Theodor Adorno" |
| Judith Butler, UC Berkeley. |
| "A Critique of Ethical Violence" |
| Charitini Douvaldzi. |
| "Traumatic Narratives: Freud, Anton Reiser, and the Art of Memory." |
| Søren R. Fauth, Copenhagen. |
| "Raabe, Realismus, Modernität und Schopenhauer" |
| Werner Hamacher, Frankfurt. |
| "Fictions of Method: Poe, Valéry, Broch" |
| Gerhard Kurz, University of Giessen. |
| "Prinzipien der romantischen Hermeneutik" |
| Clark Muenzer, University of Pittsburgh. |
| "Goethe and the Question of the Global" |
| Eric Santner, University of Chicago. |
| "Historical Depositions: The Matter of Testimony in Sebald's Fictions" |
| Roger Stephenson, University of Glasgow. |
| "The Adventures of a Symbolic Form. Or, What Happened to the "Aesthetic Illusion" of Weimar Classicism?" |
| Kirk Wetters. |
| "Manifestations of the Public Opinion" (on Wieland, Forster and Kant) |
| W. Daniel Wilson, UC Berkeley. |
| "Why They're Still Washing Goethe's Dirty Laundry" |
| The 15th Annual Graduate Student Conference: |
| "Approaching W.G. Sebald" |
| 2002/3 |
| Rainer Nägele, Johns Hopkins. |
| Stanley Corngold, Princeton. |
| Ritchie Robertson, Oxford. |
| The 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference: |
| "Heroes and Villains" |