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Departmental Events 2008/9

Fall 2008:
 
 
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)"
 
Thomas Schestag, Northwestern:
"Moons of Heidegger"
 
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:
"The Torture and the Narrative: On Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless and the Form of the Novel."

 
Susan Bernstein, Brown:
"Gothic Revival and its Failure: Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften"
 
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"