Theorizing Surveillance
The Aesthetic Turn: A New Concept of ‘Theory of Art’
The Specificity of Aesthetic Theory
How We Learn Where We Live: Thomas Bernhard and the Architectural Debates of the 1960s
Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in 19th-century French Painting
Spring 2013 Graduate Student Symposium
The Voracious Cannibal. A Medieval Thought Experiment and Its Methodological Function
Eine andere Zeit. Haunting Rhythm in German Realism
The Rhythm of Learning
Kafka, Metaphor, and More
Wallensteins Größe
The Miracle of the Dancing Ball
Governance for the 21st Century: The European Model
The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Time of Image
On Hesitation
In Defense of Speed: A Non-Hermeneutical Approach to Fast Forward Media Techniques
Literature and the Language of Immunology
On Schlusskraft: Kleist and the End of the 18th Century
Exiled Writers in Princeton 1933–1945: Cultural Transfer and Dialogue
Schrift: Writing & Image-Character in the Work of Walter Benjamin
Technologies of the Self: Mood Management circa 1800
Persecution and the Art of Writing: Spinoza to Strauss
Keine Schlachtbeschreibung: Peter Handke’s Yugoslavian Poetics of Delay, Detour, and Repetition
Plautus in der Wunderkammer: Szenographien um 1770
Vertiginous Life: Goethe, Bones, and Italy
Rusty Rails & Parallel Tracks
Workshop mit Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftlern aus Münster/Siegen und Princeton/Penn
Topologies of Reading
Extrinsic Curvature: On the Topology of 19th Century Narrative Prose
Carl Schmitt’s Defense of Democracy
Spring Open House
Freud on the Court: Child Pornography Law & Super Ego Construction
Rider, Reader, Soldier, Horse. Reinhart Koselleck & the End of the Equestrian Era
Spatial Elusions. On Datamoshing as Narrative Form
Spaces of Media
On Shallow Interpretation
TBA
Media Histories: Epistemology, Materiality, Temporality
Inverse versus Dialectical Theology (Adorno, Horkheimer, Barth)
Rhetorics of Religion in German, 1900–1950
