Events

“Composition!”: On Parts and Wholes in Poetics (ca. 1800)

Idyll and Utopia 

Realität ist schlichtweg das Unverdächtige: On Blumenberg and Critical Affect

Critical affects: Suspicion and its others in the ‘Post-critical turn’ 

Apprenticeships as Experiments of Form. Configurations of Possibility in the Novel around 1800

Information Session 

Near Eastern Studies Lecture 

From Compilation to Indexing: Tracing the Practice of Early Modern Orientalist Scholarship

Sophomore Open House 

After 1989, or a Modernist Poetics of History?

The Automated Condition. Manifestations and Narratives in Art, Literature and Culture

Class Day 2022 

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

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

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

“King Arthur in the Middle Ages: A Storyworlds Approach”

2018 Academic Expo

Welcome Back Reception

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

An Evening of Beethoven’s Chamber Music

Explore the Languages of East Pyne

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

Welcome Back Reception

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)