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Past Events
Summer Seminar -- June 15-July 24, 2009
Narratives of Modernity from Lessing to Luhmann
2009 DAAD Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in German Studies for Faculty and Recent Ph.D.'s
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Director: David E. Wellbery
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Transatlantic Seminars 2009 -- April 2-10, 2009
Transatlantisches Seminar I: 
Auftrittsformen in der Komödie (April 2-4, 2009)
directed by David Levin (University of Chicago), Juliane Vogel (University of Konstanz), and Christopher Wild (University of Chicago)
Seminarprogramm (.pdf)
Transatlantisches Seminar II:
Lyrik als Paradigma der Moderne. Sondierungen zu einer verdichteten Diskursform (April 8-10, 2009)
directed by David E. Wellbery (University of Chicago), Albrecht Koschorke (University of Konstanz), and Rüdiger Campe (Yale University)
Seminarprogramm (.pdf)
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Lecture -- Monday, February 16, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
Lutz Koepnick, Washington University in St. Louis
"Open Shutter: Photography and the Art of Slow Seeing"
(On German photographer Michael Wesely)
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Discussion -- Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.
Discussion with Lutz Koepnick, Washington University in St. Louis
"In Kracauer's Shadow: Physical Reality and the Digital Afterlife of the Photographic Image."
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Lecture -- Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 4:45 p.m
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Christian Kiening, University of Zürich
"The Absolute Medium"
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Discussion -- Friday, January 23, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion with Christian Kiening and Helmut Puff, University of Michigan
"Media Studies: Pre-Modern/Post-Modern"
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Lecture -- Monday, December 1, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. 
Nikolaus Wegmann, Princeton University
"An Ort und Stelle. Zur Geschichte der Konkreten Literatur in der DDR"
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Discussion -- Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
Discussion with Nikolaus Wegmann
"Klassiker der Literatur als Problem der Philologiel"
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Lecture -- Monday, November 17, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. 
Marcel Lepper, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach/ University of Wisconsin
"Quellenpoetik, Quellenphilologie? Hölderlins Donauhymnen"
Discussion -- Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:30 a.m.
Discussion with Marcel Lepper
"Research at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach"
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Lecture -- Monday, October 6, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. in Foster 505
Bernd-Alexander Stiegler, Universität Konstanz
"Montage as Cultural Technique: From Teniers to Chaplin"
Discussion -- Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in Wieboldt 206
Discussion with Bernd-Alexander Stiegler of his essay
"Miniaturreisen. Reisen durch die ferne Nähe des Alltags" (.pdf copy available here)
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Conference -- October 4-6, 2007
Kultur-Schreiben als romantisches Projekt:
Ethnographische Praxis im Spannungsfeld von Imagination und Wissenschaft (1750-1850)
David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago
Einführung in das Thema
Roland Borgards, Universität Gießen
"Der Affe als Mensch: Ethnographische Theriotopologie bei Schnabel, Hoffmann, Hauff und
Flaubert."
Michel Chaouli, Indiana University
"Human Voices and the Voice of Humanity in Kant's third Critique."
Andrea Polaschegg, Humboldt Universität Berlin
"Die Physikalische Ethnographie der Vergangenheit."
Stefan Andriopoulos, Columbia University
"Ethnographie des Jenseits. Teilnehmende Beobachtung in Justinus
Kerners Die Seherin von Prevorst und Edgar Allan Poes Tatsachen im
Fall Valdemar."
Albrecht Koschorke, Universität Konstanz/University of Chicago
"Imaginationen der Kulturgrenze. Zu Ludwig Tiecks Erzählung Der blonde
Eckbert."
Christiane Frey, University of Chicago
"Ursprungsfabeln: Fontenelle, Vico, Herder."
Alexander Honold, Universität Basel
"Karl Philipp Moritz und seine Abhandlung Anthusa oder Roms Alterthümer
(1791)."
Frauke Berndt, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main/University of Chicago
"Frankfurt - ethnographisch. Goethes Brief an Schiller, 16./17. August
1797."
Sabine Schneider, Universität Zürich
"Zeichenfetische, Wortdinge, infektiöse Bilder: Phänomene einer Magie
der Medien bei Goethe und Kleist (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, Familie
Schroffenstein, Penthesilea, Der Findling)
Gerhard Neumann, Universität München
"Kleists ethnologisches Experiment: Zur Fetischisierung der
Erkennungs-Szene in der Penthesilea."
Markus Dauss, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
"Schreiben der Kultur – Lesen der Natur:
Die Schlüsselfunktion der Architektur in Goethes Italienischer Reise."
Oliver Simons, Harvard University
"Jean Pauls imaginäre Epistemologie."
Ralph Ubl, University of Chicago
"Delacroix' Marokko-Reise."
Günter Oesterle und Ingrid Oesterle, Universität Gießen
"Friedrich Schlegels ethnographischer und geophilosophischer
Gegenentwurf Europas zu der „capitale de l’univers“ Paris."
Co-sponsored by the Stiftung für Romantikforschung. Please click here for a detailed schedule (.pdf).
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Transatlantisches Blockseminar III -- April 10-12, 2007
Form denken.
Aspekte einer fundamentalen Kategorie in Philosophie, Ästhetik und Literatur
This seminar is co-directed by Professors Rüdiger Campe (Johns Hopkins University), Albrecht Koschorke (Universität Konstanz), and David E. Wellbery (University of Chicago). Participants are doctoral students from the Graduiertenkolleg Die Figur des Dritten at the University of Konstanz and from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Chicago.
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Lecture -- February 27, 2007
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University:
‘Begriffsgeschichte’ and Historical Semantics
Sponsored in collaboration with the Workshop on Historical Semantics at the University of Chicago.
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Reading/Lecture -- February 15 and 16, 2007
POEM PRESENT: Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Ashes for Breakfast (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, tr. Michael Hoffman) and a collection of essays. His work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won at age 33. Grünbein's collections of poetry include Grauzone morgens and Schädelbasislektion. In 1995, he received the Peter Huchel Prize for Poetry. He has also published several essay collections and new translations of plays from antiquity, among them Aeschylus' The Persians , and Seneca's Thyestes. His work, which also includes contributions to catalogues and a libretto for opera, has been translated into many languages. He has lived in Berlin since 1985.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies
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Conference -- November 3-4, 2006
Signatures of Thought:
Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793)
Christiane Frey, University of Chicago
"Moritz' Anton Reiser; A Paradigmatic Case Study"
Erdmann Waniek, Emory University
"Sehnsucht, Glücksmomente und autonomes Ich. Moritz in England"
Elliot Schreiber, Vassar College
"Thinking inside the Box. Moritz's Logic for Children and Others"
Anthony Krupp, University of Miami
"Moritz's Distinction: Heteronomy/Autonomy"
Rüdiger Campe, Johns Hopkins University
"Preposition, Pronoun, 'Being,' Moritz's Grammar between Metaphysics and Epistemology"
Hans Adler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Moritz' Ästhetik und der universale Metabolismus: Ein Fall 'tragischer' Mereologie?"
Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State University
"The Psychology of Aesthetic Autonomy, Moritz's 'Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen'"
Chenxi Tang, University of Chicago
"Figurations of Universal History in Moritz"
Kelly Barry, Columbia University
"Moritz's Sermons"
Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania
"Moritz's God"
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Opening Conference of the Sawyer Seminar -- October 6-8, 2006
The Problem of Non-Discursive Thought from Goethe to Wittgenstein
Eckart Förster, Johns Hopkins University
"Intuitive Understanding in Plato’s Phaedrus"
Hannah Ginsborg, Berkeley
"Aesthetic Judgment and Perceptual Normativity"
Joseph Vogl, University of Weimar
"Goethe on Colors"
Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University
"Hegelian Life Forms"
Joel Snyder, University of Chicago
"Francis Galton and Etienne-Jules Marey: Photographing Genres and Laws of Nature"
Eli Friedlander, University of Tel Aviv
"The Measure of the Contingent: Walter Benjamin’s Dialectical Image"
John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh
"Conceptual Capacities and Perception"
Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
"Ordinary Self-Knowledge in James’s What Maisie Knew"
Michael Thompson, University of Pittsburgh
"Practical Knowledge"
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Conference -- March 31 and April 1, 2006
Robert Musil: Fiction, Science, Philosophy
David E. Wellbery, University of Chicago
"At the Window: On a Narrative Operator in Musil"
Gerhard Neumann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
"Die Vollendung der Liebe - Zur Konstruktion von Musils Erotologie"
Judith Ryan, Harvard University
"On Musil's 'Grigia'"
Christiane Frey, University of Chicago
"Genie, Charakter, Stimmung in Musils Mann ohne Eigenschaften"
Dieter Thomä, Universität St. Gallen
"Spuren von Musils früher Emerson Lektüre im Mann ohne Eigenschaften"
Inka Mülder-Bach, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
"Von Fall zu Fall, Über Anfänge und Enden im Mann ohne Eigenschaften"
Stefan Jonsson, Stockholms Universitet
"Musil's Masses: From the Psychology of the Crowd to the Intelligent Collective"
Andreas Gailus, University of Minnesota
"A Theater of the Infinitesimal: Musil, Dilettantism, and the Limits of Exactitude"
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Workshop -- April 1-2, 2005
Concepts of Bildung / Concepts of the Humanities
Eckart Förster, Johns Hopkins University
Alexander Kosenina, University of Bristol
Peter Gilgen, Cornell University
Hinrich C. Seeba, Berkeley
Silke Weineck, University of Michigan
Thomas Pfau, Duke University
Brigid Doherty, Princeton University
Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
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