Markus Kupferblum teaches opera directing and acting at Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts. He has lectured at Yale University, CUNY, and Columbia University, among others, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and Rutgers University. In 2013 he published (in German) The Birth of Curiosity from the Spirit of Revolution: The Commedia dell'Arte as Political Popular Theater and, in 2023, The Beauty of Helena: A Guide to the Art of Acting. In 2012 he founded the annual European Theatre Day of Tolerance....
Jonas Rosenbrück, Assistant Professor of German at Amherst College, will present "Common Scents: On Brecht's Revolution of the Senses." Professor Rosenbrück is currently completing his first book, titled Common Scents: Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution of the Senses, which traces the various poetological functions of smell and its erasure in the modern age through Hölderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Brecht, and Ponge. His work has been published in Comparative Literature, CR: The New Centennial Review, and The Germanic Review...Read more about Jonas Rosenbrück, "Common Scents: On Brecht's Revolution of the Senses"
A graduate student workshop on epistolary poetics and practice, with scholars Frauke Berndt, Daniel Carranza, Joel Lande, Dorothea von Mücke, and David Wellbery. Pre-registration required: please email dcarranza@fas.harvard.edu. Workshop schedule here.
An Interdepartmental Graduate Student Conference by the German Departments of Brown, Harvard, NYU, and Yale. Graduate students and faculty from all four universities are warmly invited to attend.
Organized by Therese Shire and Nicole Sütterlin
Sponsored by Harvard’s Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Brown University, New York University, and Yale University.
The Eighth Annual Bernard Blume Lecturer will be Barbara Vinken, speaking on "Fashion Queers: From Chanel to Maison Margiela."
For over a century, Western fashion has been practicing a juxtaposition of gender stereotypes and sexual desires: cross-dressing is now a fundamental structure for contemporary fashion. Its cognitive potential and its revolutionary potency lie in this harsh yet delightful discordance. The grammatical categories of “male” and “female,” shaped through the clothing regime, are juxtaposed. Clichés of femininity and masculinity are not cemented...
The German Studies Seminar presents Alexander Sorenson, speaking on "For Love of the World: Rilke's Ecology of Praise and Transience." Professor Sorenson (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2019) teaches German and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. His research and teaching interests center upon interdisciplinary themes and issues related to the environmental humanities, such as the interface between philosophy, literature, art, and the history of science. His first book project, The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism...
Alice Lacoue-Labarthe, a former visiting student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, is affiliated with the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, as part of a Belgian-French joint PhD program. She is also an associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, a French-German research center in Berlin.
The German Studies Seminar presents Professor Sophie Johanna Schweiger, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center.
Sophie Schweiger completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University with a dissertation on the role of gestures in literature, film, and performance in 2021 and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University for one year before moving to Yale. Her research focuses on theater, drama theory and the study of performance, inter- and trans-mediality, (post-)apocalyptic...