German Studies: New Perspectives Seminar

The German Studies: New Perspectives Seminar presents Andreas Kilcher, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Franz Kafka's texts are among the...

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...

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 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, 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...

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...

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...

German Studies: New Perspectives - Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar

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...