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Kristina Mendicino, '“Logos”: On Riddles, Gaps, and Remainders in Heraclitus, Heidegger, and Lacan'

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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...

Roberto Simanowski: "On the Future of Communication: Looking at AI through the Eyes of German Classics"

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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...

Markus Kupferblum, "Theater and Politics: Productions and Audiences in the German-Speaking World"

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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...

Jonas Rosenbrück, "Common Scents: On Brecht's Revolution of the Senses"

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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...

Alexander Sorenson, "For Love of the World: Rilke's Ecology of Praise and Transience"

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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...

Sophie Schweiger, "Conserving Conversation: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Indiscrete Machine"

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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...

Nadine Schwakopf: "Visceral Poetry: Antonin Artaud, Unica Zürn, and the (Un)Sensing of the Letter"

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German Studies: New Perspectives - Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar

Anne Dymek (Harvard) - ‘This Image is Sound’ — Nietzsche’s Anschauungsmetapher as a Theory of the Ontogenesis of Language

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In “Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne” (1873), Friedrich Nietzsche offers a fascinating but convoluted theory of the ontogenesis of language and the mentalia involved therein. I argue that his concept of Anschauungsmetapher (perceptual...

William Stewart (Harvard), "Schreibzeit" as "Sudelbuch": Learning Machines and Distributed Consciousness from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg to Hanne Darboven

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Elisabeth Strowick (NYU): "Eco-Scenarios of Darkness (Arno Schmidt, Werner Herzog)"

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The event is part of the German Studies: New Perspectives seminar series at the Mahindra Humanities Center. To register, please click on the following link - Register for Elisabeth Strowick Zoom Event