Drawing on her forthcoming monograph, Theatre of Anger: Radical Transnational Performance in Berlin, Olivia Landry’s lecture offers an account of anger as a form of knowing, of energizing, of empowering, and of caring. It makes its way through a history and philosophy of anger, which begins with Aristotle and leads all the way to the Black Lives Matter movement via Black feminist theory, with particular attention to the resonating voices of Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Sara Ahmed.... Read more about Olivia Landry (Lehigh University) on "Anger Now: Philosophy, Social Justice, and Theatre"
In cases as various as Goethe, Hegel, Nietzsche, and beyond, recent scholarship on modern German thought has shown that there is a great deal to learn in understanding how a wide range of figures position themselves with respect to Spinoza—a great deal to learn...
Benjamin Lewis Robinson (A.B. Harvard, MPhil Oxford, Ph.D. Northwestern) is University Assistant in the Department of German at the University of Vienna. He is the author of Bureaucratic Fanatics: Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization (De Gruyter...
Workshop for Germanic Languages and Literatures graduate students. Presented by Professors Frank Johnson and Eric Rentschler. See GLL Updates for link.
Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University and holds secondary appointments in Germanic Languages & Literature and the Divinity School. He is the author of some fifty essays and of Wordsworth’s Profession (Stanford 1997), Romantic...
The lecture brings Jewish, German-language poet Paul Celan into dialogue with Afro-German poet May Ayim and contemporary German-Jewish poet Max Czollek to consider how poetry in the wake of the Holocaust orients readers toward responsiveness to the past and responsibility in the present...