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2022-2023
Lecture
Ahasver, the Wandering Jew:
Between History and Literature
Yair Mintzker
Princeton University, Department of History
October 3, 2022
Monday
4:30 pm
205 East Pyne
Graduate Student Workshop
“A Short Story about a Jew Named Ahasverus”: Re-reading the 1602 Pamphlet that Gave Birth to the Legend of the Wandering Jew
Yair Mintzker
Princeton University, Department of History
October 4, 2022
Tuesday
12:00 pm
Princeton Center for Language Study - 011 East Pyne
Lecture
Cancelled - “Untying Things Together”
Eric L. Santner
The University of Chicago
October 11, 2022
Tuesday
5:00 pm
School of Architecture N107
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Cancelled
Lecture
The Epidemic Sublime: Reflections on the Representation of Collective Suffering
Johannes Türk
Indiana University, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
October 24, 2022
Monday
4:30 pm
205 East Pyne
Graduate Student Workshop
The image of the roi thaumaturge in Kleist and Gros
Johannes Türk
Indiana University, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
October 25, 2022
Tuesday
12:00 pm
301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
Lecture
Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code
Wolfgang Schäffner
Director of the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Techniques
November 1, 2022
Tuesday
5:00 pm
School of Architecture N107
Workshop
Hardware, Everywhere.
An Invitation to a New Field of Media Materialism
Wolfgang Schäffner
Director of the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Techniques
November 2, 2022
Wednesday
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building - 102 Conference Room C
Lecture
Romanticism and the Material Fragment
Catriona MacLeod
University of Chicago, Department of Art History
November 7, 2022
Monday
4:30 pm
205 East Pyne
Graduate Student Workshop
“Paper, Speaking for Itself. Helmina von Chézy’s Belated It-Narrative.”
Catriona MacLeod
University of Chicago, Department of Art History
November 8, 2022
Tuesday
12:00 pm
Princeton Center for Language Study - 011 East Pyne
Lecture
The Kid’s Aren’t Alright: Afro-German
Afrofuturism and the Fight for Futurity
Priscilla Layne
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Associate Professor of German
December 5, 2022
Monday
4:30 pm
205 East Pyne
Graduate Student Workshop
What is the Future of (Black) German Studies?
Priscilla Layne
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Associate Professor of German
December 6, 2022
Tuesday
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Princeton Center for Language Study - 011 East Pyne
2021-2022
Lecture
“Composition!”: On Parts and Wholes in Poetics (ca. 1800)
Carlos Spoerhase
Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Department of German -Fall 2021
September 13, 2021
Monday
4:30 pm
Livestream Zoom
October 8–9, 2021
Friday – Saturday
VIRTUAL Zoom
Lecture
Realität ist schlichtweg das Unverdächtige: On Blumenberg and Critical Affect
Karen Feldman, Professor and Chair
Department of German, University of California, Berkeley
November 1, 2021
Monday
4:30 pm
VIRTUAL Zoom
Workshop
Critical affects: Suspicion and its others in the ‘Post-critical turn’
Karen Feldman Professor of German, Department Chair
University of California, Berkeley
November 2, 2021
Tuesday
4:30 pm
VIRTUAL Zoom
Lecture
Apprenticeships as Experiments of Form. Configurations of Possibility in the Novel around 1800
Anja Lemke
Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Cologne
November 29, 2021
Monday
4:30 pm
VIRTUAL Zoom
December 8, 2021
Wednesday
4:30 pm
VIRTUAL Zoom
Lecture
Near Eastern Studies Lecture
From Compilation to Indexing: Tracing the Practice of Early Modern Orientalist Scholarship
Paul Babinski
University of Copenhagen
February 16, 2022
Wednesday
12:00 pm
Webinar
Departmental Event
Tom Levin, Director of Undergraduate Studies
March 15, 2022
Tuesday
4:30 pm
207 East Pyne
Lecture
After 1989, or a Modernist Poetics of History?
Lilla Balint
Assistant Professor of German, University of California, Berkeley
April 18, 2022
Monday
4:30 pm
EP 012
Graduate Student Conference
The Automated Condition. Manifestations and Narratives in Art, Literature and Culture
May 11–13, 2022
Wednesday – Friday
EP 012
May 23, 2022
Monday
2:00 pm
East Pyne - Upper Hyphen
2020-2021
Lecture
Reading Benjamin Politically. The Historical Materialist
Massimiliano Tomba
Professor in the History of Consciousness Department
October 5, 2020
Monday
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Livestream Zoom
Lecture
With presentations by:
Paul Fleming (Cornell University) and
October 16, 2020
Friday
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Livestream Zoom
Info Session
Summer Work Program Information Session
November 10, 2020
Tuesday
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Livestream Zoom
Lecture
Threshold-Language: Paul Celan, Parmenides
Kristina Mendicino
Brown University
November 16, 2020
Monday
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Save the date details to follow.
Lecture
A System of Scars:
Adorno and Klein on Ego Integration
Amy Allen
Penn State University
February 17, 2021
Wednesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Livestream Zoom
Conversation
Conversation with Anne Anlin Cheng on Ornamentalism
Princeton University
Professor of English and American Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Committee on Film Studies
March 2, 2021
Tuesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Livestream Zoom
Open House
German Department Sophomore Open House
Johannes Wankhammer
Director of Undergraduate Studies
March 17, 2021
Wednesday
4:30 pm
Livestream Zoom
2019-2020
September 9, 2019
Monday
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Frick Chemistry Lab
September 11, 2019
Wednesday
8:00 – 9:30 am
207 East Pyne
September 17, 2019
Tuesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
TBA
2019 Fall Lecture Series
“A monster in its breadth and length”: Schiller’s Wallenstein and the Poetics of Scale, 1798–2007
Carlos Spoerhase
Bielefeld University
September 26, 2019
Thursday
4:30 pm
205 East Pyne
Graduate Student Workshop
Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, and the Nobel Prize: Examining the Archival Record
Carlos Spoerhase
Bielefeld University
September 27, 2019
Friday
12:00 – 1:30 pm
205 East Pyne
2019 Fall Lecture Series
Writing Prose: Narrative Forms and Social Communication in Goethe’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
Professor em. Inka Mülder-Bach
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
October 10, 2019
Thursday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Summer Work Program
SWP 2020 Information Session
October 10, 2019
Thursday
6:00 pm
011 East Pyne
Performance
An Evening of Beethoven’s Chamber Music
October 10–13, 2019
Thursday – Sunday
Workshop
A Historiography of the Trend
T’ai Smith
University of British Columbia
October 22, 2019
Tuesday
12:00 – 1:20 pm
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
2019 Fall Lecture Series
Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock
November 5, 2019
Tuesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
East Pyne Upper Walkway
2019 Fall Lecture Series
Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism
Professor Robert B. Pippin
Univeristy Of Chicago
November 6, 2019
Wednesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Fall 2019 Concert Series
Music from Theresienstadt [Terezín]
November 9, 2019
Saturday
7:00 – 10:00 pm
Chancellor Green Rotunda
Keynote Lecture
Storyworlds: Open-ended Story Universes Across Time, Cultures, and Media
Ann Marie Rasmussen
November 15, 2019
Friday
5:00 – 5:30 pm
012 East Pyne
Workshop
Storyworlds: Open-ended Story Universes Across Time, Cultures, and Media
November 16, 2019
Saturday
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
2019 Fall Lecture Series
“1809: A Genealogy of the Present”
Benjamin Morgan
Worcester College - University of Oxford
December 3, 2019
Tuesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Roundtable Discussion
Online Teaching at Universities: Challenges, Opportunities, Strategies
February 28, 2020
Friday
1:30 – 3:00 pm
330 Frist Campus Center
2020 Spring Lecture Series
“The Nineteenth-Century German Recitation Anthology and the Fortunes of Weltliteratur”
Mary Helen Dupree
Georgetown University Associate Professor German
March 5, 2020
Thursday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center
The Flying Dutchman
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) 2hrs 25mins
March 27, 2020
Friday
7:30 pm
Metropolitan Opera House - Lincoln Center Plaza - New York City
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Cancelled
2020 Spring Lecture Series
“King Arthur in the Middle Ages: A Storyworlds Approach”
Ann Marie Rasmussen
Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies Germanic & Slavic Studies University of Waterloo Ontario, Canada
April 21, 2020
Tuesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Cancelled
2018-2019
September 10, 2018
Monday
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Frick Chemistry Lab
September 25, 2018
Tuesday
5:00 – 8:00 pm
Princeton Center for Language Study – 011 East Pyne
Berlin in Film Series
Wolfgang Becker; 121 minutes
September 27, 2018
Thursday
7:30 – 9:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Fall 2018 Lecture Series
Speaking With Arendt: TV and the Theatricality of Interviewing on “Zur Person”
Stefanie Diekmann
Institut für Medien, Theater und Populäre Kultur, Universität Hildesheim
October 1, 2018
Monday
4:30 pm
205 East Pyne
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Cancelled
Conference
Domestic Violence: The Limits and Possibilities of a Concept
Organized by Barbara Nagel
October 4–5, 2018
Thursday – Friday
Betts Auditorium
Lecture
Concept and Object: Adorno’s Critique of Kant
Jay Bernstein
Distinguished Professor Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
October 11, 2018
Thursday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
008 Friends Center
Graduate Student Workshop
Principles of Lesson Plans and Classroom Dynamics
October 16, 2018
Tuesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
October 18, 2018
Thursday
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Keller Center Princeton Entrepreneurial Hub, New York City
Berlin in Film Series
Sun Alley
Leander Haußmann; 101 minutes
October 18, 2018
Thursday
7:30 – 9:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Fall 2018 Lecture Series
Gendered Objects: Literarische Ding- und Geschlechtercodierungen im 19. Jahrhundert
Ulrike Vedder
Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
October 22, 2018
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Info Session
SWP Fall Reception and Information Session
October 24, 2018
Wednesday
6:00 – 7:30 pm
Princeton Center for Language Study – 011 East Pyne
1968/2018: Cities on the Edge
Investing in Insurrection: The Arts & Education Infrastructure of West Berlin’s Red Decade
Shane Boyle
School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London
November 6, 2018
Tuesday
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
School of Architecture – South Gallery
Lecture
What is Psychoanalysis? A Philological Speculation
Marcus Coelen
Visiting Professor, Psychoanalytic Studies Program, Columbia University
November 7, 2018
Wednesday
3:30 – 5:00 pm
127 East Pyne
Symposium
Comparative Memory and Justice: The Holocaust and Racial Violence in America
November 8–9, 2018
Thursday – Friday
010 East Pyne
Graduate Student Workshop
Approaches to Teaching German Grammar
Adam Oberlin
Senior Lecturer
November 13, 2018
Tuesday
3:30 – 5:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Berlin in Film Series
Run Lola Run
Tom Tykwer; 82 minutes
November 14, 2018
Wednesday
7:30 – 9:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Fall 2018 Lecture Series
“I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” The Problem of Narrative Continuity in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Helmut Müller-Sievers
University of Colorado at Boulder
November 15, 2018
Thursday
3:30 – 5:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Workshop
The God Behind the Marble: Transcendence and the Art Object in the German Aesthetic State, 1794–1848
Alice Goff
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago
November 16, 2018
Friday
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
201 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Workshop
An Evening of Paper-Cutting
Sonja Andersen
Princeton University
November 26, 2018
Monday
5:15 – 7:00 pm
Labyrinth Books
Performance
Schubertiade: An Evening of Song, Stories, and Philosophy
Princeton Chamber Music Society
December 1, 2018
Saturday
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Chancellor Green Rotunda
Berlin in Film Series
Bliss
Doris Dörrie; 112 minutes
December 5, 2018
Wednesday
6:30 – 8:30 pm
TBA
Add to Calendar
Cancelled
Fall 2018 Lecture Series
Entropy and Constructed Worlds: Paul Kammerer’s “Law of the Series”
Kirk Wetters
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
December 6, 2018
Thursday
3:30 – 5:00 pm
205 East Pyne
December 10, 2018
Monday
3:30 – 6:30 pm
A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building
Field trip
Don Giovanni at The Metropolitan Opera
February 9, 2019
Saturday
3:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera House – Lincoln Center Plaza – New York City
Lecture
Re-Thinking Ideology: A Practice-Theoretical Account
Rahel Jaeggi
Humboldt University Berlin
February 11, 2019
Monday
3:30 – 5:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Lecture
The Operations of Culture: Ernst Kapp’s Elements of a Philosophy of Technology
Jeffrey West Kirkwood (Art History/Cinema, SUNY Binghamton) and Leif Weatherby (German, NYU)
February 19, 2019
Tuesday
4:00 – 5:30 pm
School of Architecture N107
Book Presentation
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic – An Intellectual Life
Stanley Corngold
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
February 27, 2019
Wednesday
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Labyrinth Books
March 7–9, 2019
Thursday – Saturday
130 Corwin Hall
Lecture
Sprachgewalt – Luthers Lust an Paradoxien (Die Heidelberger Disputatio)
Jochen Hörisch
Mannheim, German Studies and Media Analysis
March 11, 2019
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Lecture
Queer Procreation: Reading Kleist Plantwise
Katrin Pahl
Johns Hopkins University
April 1, 2019
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
April 4, 2019
Thursday
4:30 – 5:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Graduate Student Symposium
Spring 2019 Graduate Student Symposium
April 5, 2019
Friday
2:30 – 5:00 pm
Rocky/Mathey Theater
Performance
Marc Decitre ’18
Translator
April 6, 2019
Saturday
8:00 pm
McCarter Theatre Center – Berlind Theatre
Princeton Preview
Explore the Languages of East Pyne
April 9, 2019
Tuesday
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Chancellor Green – Upper Hyphen
Orientation Session
Princeton in Munich Accepted Student Orientation
April 12, 2019
Friday
11:45 am – 1:30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Concert
An Evening of Beethoven’s Chamber Music
Princeton Chamber Music Society
April 13, 2019
Saturday
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Chancellor Green Rotunda
Princeton Preview
Explore the Languages of East Pyne
April 15, 2019
Monday
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Chancellor Green – Upper Hyphen
Works in Progress
Images and Objects in Modern Europe
Brooke Belisle
April 18, 2019
Thursday
12:00 – 1:15 pm
The Index of Medieval Art A6
Conference
Anger: A Concept of the Moment
April 20, 2019
Saturday
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Lecture
The Form of the Sonnet: Petrarch, Schlegel, Pastior
Jörg Kreienbrock
Northwestern University
April 22, 2019
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Lecture
Rebecca Comay
University of Toronto
April 24, 2019
Wednesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
Book Presentation
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville
Katie Chenoweth, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Walter Johnston, Barbara Nagel, Peter Szendy
April 25, 2019
Thursday
6:00 – 7:00 pm
Labyrinth Books
May 7, 2019
Tuesday
4:30 – 6:30 pm
East Pyne – Upper Hyphen
Graduate Student Symposium
Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Modernity – A Symposium
May 10, 2019
Friday
10:00 am – 6:30 pm
205 East Pyne
Graduate Student Workshop
Histories of Sexuality and Erudition: Institutions, Texts, Practices
May 10, 2019
Friday
1:30 – 5:00 pm
211 Dickinson Hall
June 3, 2019
Monday
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Chancellor Green – Upper Hyphen
June 13, 2019
Thursday
4:30 – 5:00 pm
207 East Pyne
2017-2018
September 11, 2017
Monday
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Frick Chemistry Lab
September 19, 2017
Tuesday
5:00 – 8:00 pm
Weimar Cinema Series
Das Kabinett Des Dr. Caligari (1919)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene; 75 minutes
September 19, 2017
Tuesday
7:00 – 9:00 pm
010 East Pyne
Lecture
Reading the Social: Lenz, Moritz, Karsch
Nacim Ghanbari
Assistant Professor, Univeristy of Siegen; Visiting Professor, Princeton University
September 20, 2017
Wednesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
Weimar Cinema Series
Nerves
Robert Reinert; 110 minutes
September 26, 2017
Tuesday
7:00 – 9:00 pm
010 East Pyne