German Studies: New Perspectives

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Andreas Kilcher, ETH-Zürich Franz Kafka's texts are among the most enigmatic in world literature. Andreas Kilcher proposes a new approach to understanding them: less through interpretation and more through an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Kristina Mendicino, Brown University “Speech” and “reason” are displaced in favor of a “riddle” ( Rätsel) in Martin Heidegger’s numerous commentaries on Heraclitus’ lógos. Following the signs that he gleans from...

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Roberto Simanowski, Independent Scholar and Freie Universität Berlin If language is the "house of our being," as Martin Heidegger once asserted, then artificial intelligence has undoubtedly broken into that house...