Events

2012-2013

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Toolbox
The Theory Toolbox

Kafka, Metaphor, and More

Stanley Corngold; Christiane Frey
April 3, 2013
Wednesday
6:30 pm
Mathey College Private Dining Room
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Wallenstein: Herzog von Friedland, kaiserlicher Kriegsrat und Kämmerer, Allerhöchster Obrist von Prag und ebensolcher General. Kupferstich 1625/28
Lunchtime Talk

Wallensteins Größe

Michael Gamper
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, Hannover
April 16, 2013
Tuesday
12:30 pm
205 East Pyne
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Detail of Paul Klee, Introducing the Miracle, 1916
Workshop

The Miracle of the Dancing Ball

Hent de Vries
Johns Hopkins University
April 17, 2013
Wednesday
12:00 pm
Joseph Henry House
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Wolfgang Schäuble
Lecture

Governance for the 21st Century: The European Model

Wolfgang Schäuble
Federal Finance Minister of Germany
April 17, 2013
Wednesday
4:00 – 5:30 pm
McCosh 50
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Walter Benjamin at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1937
Lecture

The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Time of Image

Sigrid Weigel
Visiting Professor, Department of German, Princeton University
April 18, 2013
Thursday
5:00 – 6:30 pm
School of Architecture N107
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Sculpture of Moses by Michelangelo
Lecture

On Hesitation

Joseph Vogl
Humboldt University, Berlin; Princeton University
April 22, 2013
Monday
5:00 – 6:30 pm
School of Architecture N107
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Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story "Descent into the Maelstrom" by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), published in 1919.
Lecture

In Defense of Speed: A Non-Hermeneutical Approach to Fast Forward Media Techniques

Harun Maye
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
April 23, 2013
Tuesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
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Jenner, An inquiry into the causes & effects. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY

Literature and the Language of Immunology

Johannes Türk
Indiana University, Bloomington
April 25, 2013
Thursday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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On Schlusskraft: Kleist and the End of the 18th Century

Oliver Simons
Columbia University
May 1, 2013
Wednesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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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