Events

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)

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)

Reshaping the Humanities and Sciences: The Berlin Lautabteilung in the 1920s

Four Documentaries (1931–1934)

Menschen Am Sonntag: Ein Film Ohne Schauspieler (1929)

Anders Als Die Andern! §175 [Different from Others] (1919)

La Pudeur ou L’Impudeur (1991)

Will there still be singing – A Hanns Eisler Cabaret

M: Eine Stadt Sucht Ein Mörder (1931)

Holiday Reception

De cierta manera (1977)

Summer Work Program Workshop Series

Obedient Agency: Concept and Narrative

A Poetry Reading by Michael Speier

Kuhle Wampe Oder: Wem Gehört Die Welt? (1931)

Mechanics of the Brain (1926)

Das Testament Des Dr. Mabuse (1931)

Auerbach’s Augustine: Existential Realism and the Low Style

Aesthetic Ecologies: Air and the Space of Art around 1900

On the Job Market

An evening of Kammermusik

Deadlines (literally)

Testament of the Revolution (Walter Benjamin)

The Spirit, the Letter, and the Life of the Text: Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics Revisited

Sexuality as failure: Psychoanalytic concepts, cultural perspectives

Sophomore Open House

Summer Work Program Workshop Series

Goethe Workshop

Why a Student is a Willing Termite rather than an Irish Elk: Karl Escherich and the (De)Nazification of Universities and Social Insects

Spring 2018 Graduate Student Symposium

How Literatures Begin: A Comparative Approach to Problems and Methods

Superstition and Magic in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

The Magical and Superstitious Past as a Foreign Country

To / From: Hanne Darboven and Sol LeWitt

Hanne Darboven’s Address – Place and Time

A Baroque Tale of Male Erasure

End of Year Reception

Summer Sessions Begins

Class Day

Synesthesia Of Law – An International and Trans-Disciplinary Conference

Johann Friedrich Cotta: Publisher-Statesman-Entrepreneur

Goethe’s Autograph Collection/Goethe’s Hands

Alexander Kluge: A Narration

Inversion: On Some Poetics and Politics in the Discourse of the Sublime

The Great War and the Ancient World