Departmental News
Events
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Noon Colloquium: “Rococo as Enlightenment Critique”, Oct 17
October 17, 2014
Between Thorns and Thistles: The Enlightenment Critique of the Rococo
“E tenebris autem quae sunt in luce tuemur” “Now we see out of the dark what is in the light” (Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, IV, 337)
Categorizing, contemplating, and critiquing the dark shadows of culture remained a key component of the Age ...read more -
German Film Club, Oct 13
October 13, 2014
Film screening of "Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam," classic silent horror film from 1920. ...read more
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Lecture by Daniel Fulda (Halle):”Time travels: The colonization of the past by the present in popular historical novel”, Oct 10
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Lecture by Magdalena Hack: “The German Literature Archive – collections, exhibitions and research programs”., Oct 8
October 8, 2014
"The German Literature Archive is one of the most eminent literary institutions worldwide. On the basis of its collections it arranges and explores important records pertaining to the history of literature, ideas, and scholarship from the 19th up to the 21st century. Regionally, it acts as a centre of literary ...read more
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Workshop: Allegory as Production of Evidence (Albrecht Koschorke and Niklaus Largier), Oct 5
October 5, 2014
Since Walter Benjamin's influential study on Baroque tragedy, the term „allegory“ has been tightly associated with melancholic readers who despair of the unreadability of signs. This approach, however, tends to obscure the fact that allegorical illustration of abstract and complex circumstances was a prominent means of producing knowledge and evidence ...read more
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Seminar: Baroque Orientalism, Sep 5-Oct 3, 2014
October 3, 2014
In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years' War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today's Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims ...read more
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Noon Colloquium mit Eva Esslinger: Fremde Heimkehr, Sep 29
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Lecture: Manuel Braun (Stuttgart) on “New Approaches to Minnesang”, Sep 26
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Seminar: Baroque Orientalism, Sep 5-Oct 3, 2014
September 26, 2014
In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years' War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today's Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims ...read more
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Conference: “Zweig in the World”, Sep 24
September 24, 2014
In August 2014, the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. It was the beginning of the end of what the Austrian Jewish author Stefan Zweig would later call Die Welt von Gestern (The World of Yesterday). In commemoration of this watershed moment ...read more