News -- Chronik

Recent and forthcoming contributions of faculty and students to the field of Germanic Studies.

Faculty:

• November 6-7, 2009. David Levin and Christopher Wild. Participants in the international research group on theatrical entrances and exits. University of Konstanz, Germany.
• November 5, 2009. David Wellbery. Lecture: "The Poetics of 'Geist' in Goethes 'West-östlicher Divan.' Conference: Europe and the Mediterranean World, 500-1500. Venice, Italy.
• October 30, 2009. David Wellbery. Lecture: "Der gestimmte Raum," Conference: Stimmung - Wiederkehr einer ästhetischen Kategorie. Universität Mannheim, Germany.
• October 24, 2009. David Wellbery. Lecture: "Who is Faust?" Humanities Day. University of Chicago.
• October 17, 2009. David Levin. Participant, with Martha Feldman (Music) and Roger Moseley (Music) along with the performance group Impromptu in a panel session on Opera & Laughter. Chicago Humanities Festival. Mandel Hall, University of Chicago.
• October 16, 2009. David Wellbery. Lecture: "Kafkas Wünsch." University of Konstanz, Germany.
• October 12, 2009. David Levin and Christopher Wild co-convened the newly established graduate workshop in Theater and Performance Studies, coordinated by Majel Connery (Music) and Mimmi Woisnitza (Germanic Studies). University of Chicago. Meetings every 2 weeks throughout the academic year. http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/theaterperformancestudies/
• October 8, 2009. Susanne Luedemann. Talk: "Beyond Visibility. Negotiations of Reality between Science and Literature." German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
• October 6, 2009. Robert Buch. Lecture/talk: "The Pathos of the Real. Francis Bacon." Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaft, Vienna, Austria.
• October, 2009: Eric Santner. Lecture and Seminar: "The People’s Two Bodies: Modernity and the Endgames of Sovereignty." University of Virginia.
• September 17-19. Susanne Luedemann. Talk: "Beautiful Soul - Beautiful State? On Charis and Charisma in Schiller's 'Demetrius.'" Conference: Idealism Matters. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• August and September, 2009: Eric Santner. Series of lectures and seminars at the University of Sidney, the Australian National University, Monash University, and the University of Melbourne, all dealing with his work on a new book project, The People’s Two Bodies: Modernity and the Endgames of Sovereignty. He was a keynote speaker at a conference at the Australian National University on the topic of the “Post-Human.”
• August 19-22, 2009. David Levin. Lecture: “All he needs is love? Richard Wagner and the scene of Need.” Bard Music Festival - "Wagner & His World." Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
• July 20, 2009. Catherine C. Baumann. Workshop: “Assessment and Curriculum.” Modern Language Department, University of Portland.
• July 5, 2009. David Levin. Roundtable with Lorenzo Fioroni (director) and Katharina John (Dramaturg) on the Deutsche Oper Berlin production of Puccini’s Turandot, as part of a day-long presentation of current research projects in music theater under the direction of Clemens Risi (Bosch Fellow at the University of Chicago, Spring 2009). Institute for Theater Studies, Free University Berlin, Germany.
  
  

Students:

• October 1, 2010. Bastian Reinert. Talk: “Narratio post mortem. Zur Anthropologie eines Sonderfalls; Die Sachen der Aufklärung.” DGEJ-Jahrestagung, Halle a.d. Saale, Germany.
• Spring 2010. Joel Lande. Publication: "Moritz’ Gods: Allegory, Autonomy, and Art” in Signatures of Thought: Karl Philipp Moritz, ed. Anthony Krupp (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010).
• Spring 2010. Bastian Reinert. Publication: “Metaleptische Gespräche. Wirklichkeit als Reflexionsprozess in Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Versepos Des Arztes Vermächtniß,” in Redigierte Tradition. Literaturhistorische Positionierungen Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs, ed. Claudia Liebrand, Irmtraud Hnilica und Thomas Wortmann (München: Fink, 2010).
• April 2010. Martin Baeumel and Tracy Graves: Selection, Translation and Editing for Jurek Becker, My Father, the Germans and I. Calcutta/London: Seagull.
• March 26, 2010. Bastian Reinert. Workshop Presentation: “Viva patria? Jean Amery's 'How Much Home Does a Person Need.’” NYU German Department, New York City.
• March 18-21, 2010. Martin Baeumel. Talk: “The Voice of Transcendence in Brockes’ and Goethe’s Poetry.” 41st ASECS Annual Meeting.
• December 28, 2009. Bastian Reinert. Talk: "Localization and Aberration. Ingeborg Bachmann's Philosophy of Language." Convention of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA.
• December 3-4, 2009. Joel Lande. Talk: "Das konfligierende Sein: Solgers Auffassung der Tragödie." Conference: Karl Sogler und die Berliner Universität um 1810 Idealistische Forschung und Lehre, Hochschulpolitik und intellektuelle Netzwerke. Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany.
• October 11, 2009. Joel Lande. Talk: “The Comic Figure in the Age of Enlightenment,” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
• October 10, 2009. Stephen Haswell Todd. Talk: "Kritik und Charakter, or, In the Boat with Kant, Foucault, and Diogenes." German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
• September 30, 2009. Joela Zeller (with Anja Neunddorf and Julian Zado). Publication: "Hochschulen im Wettbewerb." Berlin: Dietz Verlag.
• July 29, 2009. Martin Baeumel. Talk: “Der nüchterne erste Blick: Beobachtung und ihre Darstellung in Alexander von Humboldts Voyage aux régions équinoxiales.” Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Alexander von Humboldt Conference: Travels between Europe and the Americas. Freie Universität Berlin. The presentation was selected to be published in the conference proceedings in 2010. Martin also served as chair for three sessions on July 28, 2009
• July 7, 2009. Martin Baeumel. Workshop Presentation: “Pragmatik der Lyrik.” Colloquium Prof. Dr. Osterkamp, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.