German Studies: New Perspectives Seminar

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...

If language is the "house of our being," as Martin Heidegger once asserted, then artificial intelligence has undoubtedly broken into that house. Who, then, is the speaker in AI-generated texts? According to whose principles and values are these texts...

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...

German Studies: New Perspectives - Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar

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...

The distinction between poetry and information, perhaps most visibly articulated in Wittgenstein’s famous statement that although a poem “is composed in the language of information, [it] is not used in the language-game of giving information,” has haunted...

Kristina Mendicino is Professor of German Studies and Chair of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism, Announcements: On Novelty, and Passive Voices (On the Subject...

This paper will re-read Durs Grünbein’s 2005 Porzellan: Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt. This is a book length cycle consisting of forty-nine ten-line rhymed poems written over a decade: a lament for the poet’s hometown of Dresden destroyed in the Allied...

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...