German Studies: New Perspectives Seminar

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The event is part of the German Studies: New Perspectives seminar series at the Mahindra Humanities Center. Pre-registration is required. Register to attend this lecture by Heidi Denzel.

The event is part of the German Studies: New Perspectives seminar series at the Mahindra Humanities Center. More details to follow. Pre-registration is required. Pre-registration is required. Register to attend this lecture by Frauke Berndt.

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...

This panel discussion features graduate students from Cornell University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Chicago. The event is part of the German Studies: New Perspectives...

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...

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...

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...

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...