Department of German

Rider, Reader, Soldier, Horse. Reinhart Koselleck & the End of the Equestrian Era

Sean Piotrowski — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:10:52 +0000

Ulrich Raulff studied philosophy and history. Doctorate in Marburg (1977)and Habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin (1995). Since 1994, editor in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; since 1997, head of literature. Since 2001, senior editor with the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In the summer of 1996 Raulff a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Santa Monica (USA), in winter 2003/2004 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Since November 2004, Director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach and since November 2005 Member of the Presidium of the Goethe Institute. Winner of the Anna Krüger Prize of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin for nonfiction writing (1996), Hans-Reimer Award of Aby Warburg Foundation in Hamburg (1997) and the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2010 (nonfiction).

Selected Publications
“A historian of the 20th Marc Bloch century. ” Frankfurt / M, 1995, “The invisible moment. Concepts of time “in history. Göttingen 1999, “Wild energy. Four attempts to Aby Warburg, “Göttingen 2003rd Many translations, especially from French, including works by Michel Foucault, Jean Starobinski and Lucien Febvre. Publishers of texts Aby Warburg, Frederick and Hans Delbrück Gundolf, 1988-1993 Publication of the “little Cultural Studies library ‘(publisher Klaus Wagenbach), 1991 to 1993» Edition Pandora “(together with Helga Raulff, Routledge). Editor of “Letters from the 20th Century “(with A. Bernard), Frankfurt / M.: 2005, editors of” state by the artist. Aesthetic and political utopias, “Munich: Hanser, 2006;” circle without a master. Stefan George’s afterlife, “Munich: CH Beck, 2009.

Visiting Fellow Announced

Sean Piotrowski — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:01:13 +0000

Anna Tuschling, Junior Professor in the Media Studies Department at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, has joined the Department of German as a Visiting Researcher for the spring of 2012. After receiving academic training in Marburg, Bremen, and New York, Tuschling completed her PhD at the University of Basel in 2006 with a dissertation on gossip in the age of electronic communication. Her research and teaching focuses on 19th and 20th century media and its impact on science, cultural theory and the history of learning. She is currently completing a book on the history of mediality and anxiety. Recent publications include: medias in res. Media-cultural Positions (Bielefeld 2011, co-edited with Till A. Heilmann and Anne von der Heiden) and articles on “Deutungswahn und Wahnanalyse” and “The Discrete in Psychoanalysis,” among others.

In June 2012, Tuschling will be part of the faculty of the Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies.

For more information please visit
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ifm/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/prof_tuschling.html

Workshop mit Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftlern aus Münster/Siegen und Princeton/Penn.

Sean Piotrowski — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:31:34 +0000

Second Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies

Sean Piotrowski — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:33:47 +0000

Spaces of Media:
The Second Annual Princeton-Weimar
Summer School for Media Studies
Princeton University
June 17-23, 2012

Following the successful inauguration of the Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies at the International Center for Research into Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM)of the Bauhaus-University, Weimar in June 2011, the second annual Summer School in Media Studies will take place on the campus of Princeton University in June 2012 with a focus on the complex intersections of media and space.

Media Studies starts with Harold A. Innis’s exploration of the role of media in shaping the cultural and political spaces of societies. Yet the question of how to understand the ways in which spaces, localities, and modes of navigation in such domains are all generated by media remains an urgent challenge for media studies to this day. How much do we know, for example, about the history of navigation and its technologies and techniques, from maps, sextants and compasses to the latest GPS devices? How might questions of textual navigation raised by newer media be located within a broader account of navigating by and within files, books, and writing? Do we fully understand the ways in which the spatiality of the diagram contributes to the operations of the signifier, whether in the production of meaning or in the production of economic values, or of administrative control? Do we have an adequate grasp of the way in which media of distribution and circulation effect the constitution and control of geographic spaces? And what is the status today of those so-often invoked media utopias according to which space was effectively rendered insignificant by blazing data-transmission rates and minimal transaction costs? Does it even make sense to speak of the “spaces” of new media and, if so, how? These are just some of the issues that will be explored in the second Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies this coming June.

Reflecting the partnership between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (IKKM) and Princeton University’s Department of German, the summer school will again be an institutional collaboration in every respect. This year’s program will be directed by Bernhard Siegert (Weimar) and Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton) and the faculty, which will be drawn from Princeton and a number of other internationally renowned institutions, will include Jimena Canales (Harvard), Christoph Engemann (Weimar), Devin Fore (Princeton), Laura Frahm (Weimar), Mladen Gladic (Princeton), Ben Kafka (New York), Joel Lande (Princeton), Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton), Emily Thompson (Princeton), and Anna Tuschling (Bochum).

The first Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies took place in Weimar in June 2011. For six days, young scholars from seven countries (USA, Brazil, Israel, Canada, Iran, the Netherlands, and Germany) met at the Bauhaus University under the supervision of Princeton University’s Thomas Y. Levin and the Co-Director of the IKKM Lorenz Engell to engage in a sustained interrogation of state-of-the-art debates in both the practices and theories of surveillance. Together with a faculty that included Joseph Vogl (Humboldt/Princeton), Sam Weber (Northwestern), and Volker Pantenburg (Weimar), the thirteen students (selected from a very competitive international pool of over one hundred applicants) engaged in a series of spirited and high-level discussions, screenings and excursions. The numerous intellectual friendships forged through this intense critical immersion have had an extended afterlife, manifest for example in the “Post-Hermeneutical Reading Group” convened and run by three Summer School graduates from Princeton, NYU and Columbia.

Once again this June, the second annual Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies will provide a forum for a sustained and intensive engagement with the state of the art of contemporary German media theory and its North American critical theoretical reception. For further information go to: http://ssms.princeton.edu/

William Rasch – Carl Schmitt’s Defense of Democracy

Sean Piotrowski — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:13:50 +0000

Leslie Adelson – Rusty Rails & Parallel Tracks

Sean Piotrowski — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:58:49 +0000

Topologies of Reading

Sean Piotrowski — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:10:56 +0000

TOPOLOGIES OF READING
March 30, 2012
010 East Pyne Building

German Department Graduate Conference, Princeton University
Organized by Tanvi Solanki and Alice Christensen

Sponsored by the Department of German with generous support from PIIRS, Center for Human Values, School of Architecture, the Graduate School, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

Keynote Speaker: Helmut Müller-Sievers
“Extrinsic Curvature: On the Topology of 19th Century Narrative Prose”

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8:30-9:00AM Coffee

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9:00AM Opening Remarks

Tanvi Solanki and Alice Christensen (Princeton)
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9:15-10:45AM Mapping Passages

Chair: Nikolaus Wegmann

Betiel Wasihun (Oxford): The Impossibility of Progress – Architectural Absurdity in Kafka’s Der Process

Respondent: Mareike Schildmann

Stefan Hanß (FU-Berlin): Spatial Topologies of Reading in Classical Weimar? The Ducal Library, the Organization of Knowledge, and the Lending Library’s Users around 1800

Respondent: Carolina Malagon