Reading Benjamin Politically. The Historical Materialist
Blumenberg’s Moment
Summer Work Program Information Session
Threshold-Language: Paul Celan, Parmenides
A System of Scars:
Adorno and Klein on Ego Integration
Conversation with Anne Anlin Cheng on Ornamentalism
German Department Sophomore Open House
Paper Battlefields: Remembering and Forgetting the Stakes of War
The Silent Girl and the Furies: The National-Socialist Underground on Trial
A Conversation on Derrida and Post-Phenomenology
2019 Academic Expo
Department Breakfast
Welcome Back Reception
“A monster in its breadth and length”: Schiller’s Wallenstein and the Poetics of Scale, 1798–2007
Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, and the Nobel Prize: Examining the Archival Record
Writing Prose: Narrative Forms and Social Communication in Goethe’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
SWP 2020 Information Session
An Evening of Beethoven’s Chamber Music
A Historiography of the Trend
Places of Remembrance
Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism
Music from Theresienstadt [Terezín]
Storyworlds: Open-ended Story Universes Across Time, Cultures, and Media
“1809: A Genealogy of the Present”
Online Teaching at Universities: Challenges, Opportunities, Strategies
“The Nineteenth-Century German Recitation Anthology and the Fortunes of Weltliteratur”
Der Fliegende Holländer
Idyll and Utopia
“King Arthur in the Middle Ages: A Storyworlds Approach”
2018 Academic Expo
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Speaking With Arendt: TV and the Theatricality of Interviewing on “Zur Person”
Domestic Violence: The Limits and Possibilities of a Concept
Concept and Object: Adorno’s Critique of Kant
Principles of Lesson Plans and Classroom Dynamics
Ruhr Fellowship
Sonnen Allee (1999)
Gendered Objects: Literarische Ding- und Geschlechtercodierungen im 19. Jahrhundert
SWP Fall Reception and Information Session
Investing in Insurrection: The Arts & Education Infrastructure of West Berlin’s Red Decade
What is Psychoanalysis? A Philological Speculation
Comparative Memory and Justice: The Holocaust and Racial Violence in America
Approaches to Teaching German Grammar
Lola Rennt (1998)
“I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” The Problem of Narrative Continuity in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
The God Behind the Marble: Transcendence and the Art Object in the German Aesthetic State, 1794–1848
An Evening of Paper-Cutting
Schubertiade: An Evening of Song, Stories, and Philosophy
Glück (2012)
Entropy and Constructed Worlds: Paul Kammerer’s “Law of the Series”
Holiday Reception
Don Giovanni at The Metropolitan Opera
Re-Thinking Ideology: A Practice-Theoretical Account
The Operations of Culture: Ernst Kapp’s Elements of a Philosophy of Technology
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic – An Intellectual Life
Queer Marxism
Sprachgewalt – Luthers Lust an Paradoxien (Die Heidelberger Disputatio)
Queer Procreation: Reading Kleist Plantwise
Sophomore Open House
Spring 2019 Graduate Student Symposium
Phèdre
Explore the Languages of East Pyne
Princeton in Munich Accepted Student Orientation
Images and Objects in Modern Europe
Anger: A Concept of the Moment
The Form of the Sonnet: Petrarch, Schlegel, Pastior
Lumpendialectic
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville
End of Year Reception
Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Modernity – A Symposium
Histories of Sexuality and Erudition: Institutions, Texts, Practices
Class Day
2017 Academic Expo
Das Kabinett Des Dr. Caligari (1919)
Reading the Social: Lenz, Moritz, Karsch
Nerven (1919)
Appearance: Fragments of a Political Phenomenology
On contemporary art practices
Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie Des Grauens (1922)
Films by Jack Smith
On Adorno
The Hart of London (1970)
Der Heilige Berg (1926)
Summer Work Program
El Otro Lado (2004)
Berlin Consortium
Die Freudlose Gasse (1925)
On Technology and Academic Workflows
Abstronics
Berlin, Die Sinfonie Der Grossstadt (1927)
Playback
Metropolis (1927)
A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)
Die Büchse Der Pandora (1929)
