Departmental News
Lectures
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Stefan Willer Lecture, Nov 15
November 1, 2012
Stefan Willer (Berlin) will lecture on "Figurations of Future Knowledge in Herder and Goethe."
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Kathryn Starkey Lecture, Oct 26
October 1, 2012
Kathryn Starkey (Stanford) will give a lecture on "Late Medieval Realism? Neidhart’s Poetry."
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Anja Lemke Lecture, Sept 25
September 1, 2012
Anja Lemke (Universität Köln) will lecture on "Ästhetische Erziehung als Arbeit am Selbst – Schillers Bildungsprogramm aus der Perspektive postmoderner Kontrollgesellschaften."
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Uwe Wirth Lecture, Sept 20
September 1, 2012
Uwe Wirth (Universität Giessen) will give a talk on "Erzählen im Rahmen der Herausgeberfiktion: Wielands Agathon."
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Dieter Thomä Lecture, Apr 17
April 1, 2012
Dieter Thomä (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) will present a lecture on "Passion Lost, Passion Regained: Reflections on Heidegger and Arendt."
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Vosskamp Lecture, Mar 20
March 1, 2012
Professor Wilhelm Vosskamp (University of Cologne) will give a lecture on "Hegel als Romanleser."
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John McCumber Lecture, Feb 4
February 1, 2010
Professor John McCumber (UCLA) will lecture on "The Übermensch: Homeric Origins, Hegelian Fate."
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Wachter and Jud Lecture, Nov 19
November 1, 2009
Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud will give a lecture called "Tear Down This Wall! Internet Art Circumventing Censorship and Unveiling Secret Prisons." The talk will be moderated by Professor Deniz Göktürk (German and Film Studies). Focusing on walls in global scale, internet artists Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud will present their projects on sites ranging from "The Valley of the Clueless" in Dresden/East Germany to Guantanamo Bay and Chinese Internet Cafés. Their work demonstrates how the world wide web remains heavily regulated by institutional barriers and national laws. The discussion will focus on questions of access and participatory spectatorship. There will…
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Anja Lemke Lecture, Oct 6
October 1, 2009
Anja Lemke (Köln) will give a lecture titled, "Zur Architektur der Erinnerung bei Walter Benjamin und Sigmund Freud."
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Brokoff Lecture, Sept 22
September 1, 2009
Professor Jürgen Brokoff (FU Berlin) will give a lecture on "Die Geburt der Literaturtheorie aus dem Material der Sprache: Avantgardistische Kunstpraxis und der Formalismus."