Departmental Events
Spring 2012
Thursday, April, 12, 5:30
Lecture series:
Clemens-Carl Haerle (Universitá degli Studi di Siena):
"Wie Brecht den Tod gebildet."
Thursday, April 26, 5:30
Lecture series:
Christoph Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main):
“Art, Experiment, Life.”
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Past events 2011/2012
23rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University:
“Postscript: On Media after the Text.”
Keynote speech, Wolfgang Ernst [Humboldt Universität Berlin]:
SIGNALS AND SYMBOLS: A media-archeological approach to Textuality
Colloquium: Book presentation: Henry Sussman (Yale) presenting:
Around the Book. Systems and Literacy.
Judaic Studies Lecture:
Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania):
Freud’s Conversions.
Theresa Schenker (Michigan State University):
Research Topics.
Emily E. Jones (Harvard University):
Research Topics.
Colloquium: Seyla Benhabib (co-sponsored with the Modern European History Seminar): Arendt and Adorno. The Elusiveness of the Particular and the Benjaminian Moment.
Bettine Menke (University of Erfurt):
Kafka's Labyrinths.
Max Frisch-Year 2011
Barbara Naumann:
Novel, Media. Max Frisch's "Mein Name sei Gantenbein"
Max Frisch-Year 2011
Screening: Volker schloendorff "Homo Faber"
Invited by the graduate students:
Jan Mieszkowski:
Ich, Ach, Auch: Certain Also-Ran Languages of Jacques Derrida.
Colloquium:
Dirk Mende (University of Frankfurt/Oder, Viadrina):
Histories of Technicization.
On the relation of the history of concepts and metaphorology in Hans Blumenberg
2010/2011:
Conference at the Beinecke:
Hermann Broch. The Soul and Its Forms in Modern Times.
conference program as a pdf
Colloquium: Johannes Windrich (FU Berlin):
Wandrers Sturmlied - Überlegungen zu
Goethes hymnischer Dichtung.
22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University:
The Task of the Critic
conference website
Eva Geulen (Universität Bonn):
Goethe's Urpflanze and the Writings on Morphology
Colloquium: Sigrid Köhler (Universität Münster):
'Papierner Kitt' in der Romantik?
Zur Figur des Vertrags bei Adam Müller und Novalis.
New German Writing at Yale
with Dorothee Elminger, Andrea Grill, Antje Rávic Strubel, Julia Schoch,
Peter Weber and Andrea Winkler
event flyer as a pdf
Anselm Haverkamp (NYU):
Metaphorology. Blumenberg's Project
Avital Ronell: "What Was Authority: A Parasite's Report
(On the Defeat of Politics since Kafka)"
Khalid Al Maaly: "Übersetzte Jahreszeiten"
2009/10:
The Derridean Legacy: Architecture and its Other Disciplines
Interdisciplinary Conversations with Peter Eisenman
Vivian Liska: Kafka and the Other and the End
Colloquium: Hans-Thies Lehmann
Ellwood Wiggins: "The theory of 'Postdramatic Theatre': Aristotle for example
Jason Groves: "Text and performance in 'Postdramatic Theatre': Frank Castorf's
'Die Beleidigte und die Erniedrigte' for example"
The 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference
in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University:
SEM: Materializing Signs in Rhythm, Gravity, and Figures
conference website
Johannes Anderegg (Emeritus - University of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland):
Am Ende eine Groteske? Zur letzten Szene von Goethes "Faust."
Colloquium: Jürgen Brokoff
"Die Geburt der Literaturtheorie aus dem Material der sprachkünstlerischen Praxis. Avantgarde und Formalismus."
Conference hosted by the Yale department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University Interiority / Exteriority - Rethinking Emotions
conference website
Invited by the graduate students:
Joseph Vogl (Humboldt University, currently affiliate of the Department
of German at Princeton):
"Der Schrei"
Inka Mülder-Bach (University of Munich):
"on Musil, Man without Qualities"
The Yale Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures hosted:
"Talking Prose: Narrative and Autobiography in Heimito von Doderer" Organized by Kirk Wetters in cooperation with the Heimito von Doderer-Gesellschaft Speakers: Rüdiger Came, Vincent Kling, Elke Siegel, Gerald Sommer, Jan Claas van Treeck, Robert Walter, Kirk Wetters.
2008/09:
Marianne Schuller lecture, Professor Emerita of German literary studies from Hamburg University:
"On Clouds. With Respect to Goethe"
Invited by the graduate students:
Gisela Berns (St. Johns's College, Annapolis):
"Towards 'a new birth of freedom' - Tragedy and Comedy, 1786: Schiller's Don Carlos and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro"
Juliane Lorenz, head of the R.W. Fassbinder Foundation:
"On Rainer Werner Fassbinder"
The Annual Graduate Student Conference:
“Collecting and Collections in German Literature”
Spring Lecture Series:
- Markus Hardtmann: "'Amazed by the Continual Unrest of Things': The Digital Photographer Andreas Gursky Encounters the Novelist Robert Musil"
- Sarah Pourciau: "Welt-Kreis: Kleist's Marionettentheater and the Spherical Geometry of Grace"
- Paul North: "Short of Revelation: Kafka's Genesis around 1918."
- Christiane Frey: "A King's Whim. Sovereignty and the Caprice of the Law in Schiller's 'Don Carlos'"
The Yale Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures hosted the conference "Notes - Sketches - Scribbles: Writing and drawing as creative tools"
Christiaan Hart Nibbrig (Université de Lausanne)
"Vom sich wiederholenden Subjekt: Nietzsche, Proust, Handke" (in German!) Elisabeth Weber (UC Santa Barbara)
"'Torture was the essence of National Socialism.' Reading Jean Améry today." 2007/08
The 19th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
"The Essay as Form"
Hans-Joerg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institut Berlin):
"The Art of Exploring the Unknown"
Bettina Brandl-Risi (Freie Universität Berlin):
"Theory in Action. René Pollesch and the Politics of Virtuosity in German Theatre"
Marianne Schuller, Universität Hamburg:
"Gebrochene Strukturen: Zum Komischen bei Kleist"
Sam Weber (Northwestern University):
"From Reflexion to Repetition: Walter Benjamin's Early Theory of Media"
Brigitte Peucker, Yale University:
"Theatrically Unframed, Fassbinder and Poussin"
Kirk Wetters, Yale University:
"How to Change Your Mind: The Age of Opinion in Hölderlin's 'Das Alter'"
Cyrus Hamlin, (Professor Emeritus, Yale University):
"Hamlet among the Germans in the Age of Goethe."
Elisabeth Bronfen, Universität Zürich:
"Virginia Woolf's Nights and Days. Literature's conversation with philosophy."
2006/07
The 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
"Kafka Revisited "
Marina Münkler, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin:
"Melancholy and the Devil: On the Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587)"
Thomas Schestag, Northwestern:
"Moons of Heidegger"
Eric Downing, University of North Carolina :
"Classical Dirt: Archaeology and Identity in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva"
Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University:
"Scenes of Identification: Classicism and Realism"
Rüdiger Campe, Johns Hopkins:
"The Torture and the Narrative: On Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless and the Form of the Novel."
Susan Bernstein, Brown:
"Gothic Revival and its Failure: Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften"
Willi Goetschel, Toronto:
"Frankfurt School and Frankfurt shul: Heine and the Post-Contemporary"
2005/06
Anselm Haverkamp (Europa University/Viadrina) discusses "The Whispering of Nothing: Politics – A Winter's Tale"
Bettine Menke (University of Erfurt): "Holes and Excesses: Wit and the Joke in Kleist's 'Anecdote from the Last War'"
The 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
The Outsider Within: German Literature & the Topography of Perception
Screening and discussion with Ayse Polat (Berlin)
Reading and discussion with Ulrich Peltzer (Berlin)
J. Hillis Miller lectures on "Versions of Community"
A reading by Hans Joachim Schädlich
Beinecke Library Schiller Conference: "Aesthetic Theory and Dramatic Production: Anglo-American Perspectives After 200 Years"
Reiner Stach on his new book, Kafka: The Decisive Years, with respondents Leo Lensing (Wesleyan University) and Henry Sussman (Yale University)
2004/05
Florian Becker, Princeton.
"Imagined Bodies, Layered Voices: Speech Acts in the Practice of Theatre"
Rodolphe Gasché, SUNY Buffalo.
"Words and Life: On Walter Benjamin's 'Goethe's Elective Affinities'"
Winfried Menninghaus, FU Berlin.
"Hölderlin's Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male Pindaric Seer"
Marcio Seligmann, U. de Campinas, Brazil.
"Testimonies and the Politics of Memory: Rethinking the Literary Canon"
Elke Siegel, NYU.
"Remains of the Day. The Diaries of Rainald Goetz and Durs Grünbein"
Elisabeth Strowick, Humboldt Fellow.
"Poetik der Ansteckung in Thomas Bernhards Autobiographie"
Markus Wilczek, Johns Hopkins.
"The Rhetoric of SUffering. Lessing-Sophocles-Heiner Müller"
The 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
"Re-Assessing GDR Literature + Film"
2003/04
Colin Benert.
"Music and the Estrangement of Time in E.T.A. Hoffmann and Theodor Adorno"
Judith Butler, UC Berkeley.
"A Critique of Ethical Violence"
Charitini Douvaldzi.
"Traumatic Narratives: Freud, Anton Reiser, and the Art of Memory."
Søren R. Fauth, Copenhagen.
"Raabe, Realismus, Modernität und Schopenhauer"
Werner Hamacher, Frankfurt.
"Fictions of Method: Poe, Valéry, Broch"
Gerhard Kurz, University of Giessen.
"Prinzipien der romantischen Hermeneutik"
Clark Muenzer, University of Pittsburgh.
"Goethe and the Question of the Global"
Eric Santner, University of Chicago.
"Historical Depositions: The Matter of Testimony in Sebald's Fictions"
Roger Stephenson, University of Glasgow.
"The Adventures of a Symbolic Form. Or, What Happened to the "Aesthetic Illusion" of Weimar Classicism?"
Kirk Wetters.
"Manifestations of the Public Opinion" (on Wieland, Forster and Kant)
W. Daniel Wilson, UC Berkeley.
"Why They're Still Washing Goethe's Dirty Laundry"
The 15th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
"Approaching W.G. Sebald"
2002/03
Rainer Nägele, Johns Hopkins.
Stanley Corngold, Princeton.
Ritchie Robertson, Oxford.
The 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
"Heroes and Villains
