Events

2012-2013

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Thomas Mann's desk in Princeton
Conference

Exiled Writers in Princeton 1933–1945: Cultural Transfer and Dialogue

May 10–12, 2013
Friday – Sunday
Princeton University

2011-2012

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Manuscript
Conference

Schrift: Writing & Image-Character in the Work of Walter Benjamin

Biennial Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society
Organized by Michael Jennings (Princeton University) and Karl Solibakke (Syracuse University)
November 3–6, 2011
Thursday – Sunday
Princeton University
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Works in Progress

Technologies of the Self: Mood Management circa 1800

Christiane Frey
November 11, 2011
Friday
1:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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engraving
Political Theologies and Jewish Writing

Persecution and the Art of Writing: Spinoza to Strauss

Thomas Meyer
Munich/Chicago
November 21, 2011
Monday
5:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Mladen Gladic
Works in Progress

Keine Schlachtbeschreibung: Peter Handke’s Yugoslavian Poetics of Delay, Detour, and Repetition

Mladen Gladic
December 9, 2011
Friday
1:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Joel Lande
Lecture

Plautus in der Wunderkammer: Szenographien um 1770

Joel B. Lande
February 24, 2012
Friday
1:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Lecture

Vertiginous Life: Goethe, Bones, and Italy

Andrew Piper
McGill University
February 27, 2012
Monday
3:30 – 5:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Lecture

Rusty Rails & Parallel Tracks

Leslie Adelson
Cornell University
March 12, 2012
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Workshop

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

March 28, 2012
Wednesday
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Nassau Inn – University Colonial Meeting Room
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Topologies of Reading graphic
Graduate Student Conference

Topologies of Reading

March 30, 2012
Friday
8:30 am – 6:45 pm
010 East Pyne
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Keynote Lecture

Extrinsic Curvature: On the Topology of 19th Century Narrative Prose

Helmut Müller-Sievers
University of Colorado at Boulder
March 30, 2012
Friday
1:45 – 3:15 pm
010 East Pyne
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drawing of Carl Schmitt
Lecture

Carl Schmitt’s Defense of Democracy

William Rasch
Indiana University
April 2, 2012
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Open House

Spring Open House

April 3, 2012
Tuesday
4:30 pm
207 East Pyne
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Works in Progress

Freud on the Court: Child Pornography Law & Super Ego Construction

Matthew Birkhold
April 13, 2012
Friday
2:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Painting by Jacques-Louis David
Faber Lecture

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

Ulrich Raulff
Director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach
April 16, 2012
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
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Thomas Levin
Lecture

Spatial Elusions. On Datamoshing as Narrative Form

Thomas Y. Levin
June 17, 2012
Sunday
8:30 pm
Rocky/Mathey Theater
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Rocky Theater
Film Program

Spaces of Media

Curated by Laura Frahm
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
June 19–22, 2012
Tuesday – Friday
Rocky/Mathey Theater
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Ben Kafka
Lecture

On Shallow Interpretation

Ben Kafka
June 21, 2012
Thursday
8:00 pm
Rocky/Mathey Theater

2010-2011

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Works in Progress

TBA

Alana King
March 11, 2011
Friday
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Chancellor Green
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Conference

Media Histories: Epistemology, Materiality, Temporality

March 25–27, 2011
Friday – Sunday
Columbia University
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Faber Lecture

Inverse versus Dialectical Theology (Adorno, Horkheimer, Barth)

Hent de Vries
Philosophy and Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins
March 31, 2011
Thursday
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Off-Campus
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Conference

Rhetorics of Religion in German, 1900–1950

Organized by Leora Batnitzky, Michael Jennings, and Sarah Pourciau
April 1–3, 2011
Friday – Sunday
Princeton University
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Works in Progress

TBA

Cornelius Reiber
April 15, 2011
Friday
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Chancellor Green