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German Studies: New Perspectives

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Chairs: Peter Burgard, John Hamilton

Through a comparative study of German conceptions of the Kulturwissenschaften and American versions of “German studies,” the seminar aims to initiate a new phase in the debate on the function and scope of...

Wickerwork: On Poetic Translation

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKERS: Richard Sieburth (New York University), Christian Lehnert (University of Leipizig) Richard Sieburth will present his translations and engage in discussion with Christian Lehnert. About the Speakers Richard...

The Birth of "Einfühlung" from the Spirit of Materialism: Necromantic Empathy in Nineteenth-Century German Aesthetics

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Joseph Metz, University of Utah The concept of “empathy” and German aesthetic theory share a complexly interwoven, if sometimes forgotten, history: the word Einfühlung, translated as the English neologism “empathy...

Ungeheuer ist viel: Heidegger on Technology, Convenience, and Monstrous Transformation

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: John Hamilton, Harvard University A reconsideration of Martin Heidegger’s engagement with archaic Greek texts, specifically the Fragment of Anaximander and the first stasimon from Sophocles’ Antigone , challenges...

“What can I hope?”: Race, Abyssal Aesthetics, and the Failure of Beauty

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Jessica Ruffin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This talk addresses the function of the beautiful in accounts of aesthetic and ethical intersubjectivity. Immanuel Kant’s racialized ideal of human beauty and...

Zur Wunde Christi: Caravaggios doppelsinniger Naturalismus

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Peter J. Burgard, Harvard University Was macht Caravaggios Naturalismus aus? Was macht Caravaggio mit seinem Naturalismus? Was macht Caravaggios Naturalismus mit uns? In diesem Vortrag geht es erstens um den...

Practice Situations: Franz Erhard Walther and the Werkkunstschule

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Gregory Williams, Boston University The 2019 centennial celebration of the founding of the Bauhaus, Germany’s legendary school of craft and fine art, has generated numerous books and exhibitions about art and...

Far-reaching Similarities: Freud, Jensen, Gradiva

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Sina Dell' Anno, University of Basel / Visiting Prof, Yale University A reconsideration of Freud's Delusion and Dreams in W. Jensen’s “Gradiva” with particular attention to the role of paraphrase in psychoanalytic...

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

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Elisabeth Strowick, New York University How To Join Please add your name and email address to this registration page. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode to the event...

"The Visual Rhetoric of a Crisis: Of Refugees, Border Patrols, Bystander Effects and Affects

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Heidi Denzel, Dartmouth College Heidi Denzel is Visiting Associate Professor in German at Dartmouth College. Research interests include: Border and Migration Studies /Comparative Literature and Film Studies...

Graduate Student Views on German Studies: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES PANEL: Graduate Student Views on German Studies: Where We Are and Where We're Going Juan-Jacques Aupiais (A.B., Princeton University; M.A., Cornell University) is a Ph.D. candidate in German Studies at Cornell University...

Castrating Classicism: Karoline von Günderrode's Don Juan

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GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Frauke Berndt, University of Zürich How To Join Please add your name and email address to this registration page. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode to the event. If...