Cassirer Lecture. Cornelia Zumbusch. Shaping Energies: Aby Warburg and the Forces of Art.

Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 5:30pm

February 20 & 21

Cornelia Zumbusch, Professor of German Literature at the University of Hamburg; Codirector at the Warburg-Haus, Hamburg; Codirector of the Centre of Advanced Studies ›imaginaria of force‹, Hamburg. 2012/13 Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna. 2010-2012, Supplementary Professor, University of Konstanz; 2009 venia legendi (Habilitation) in German Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. 2006 scholar’s prize of the Aby Warburg Foundation; 2003 PhD, Freie University Berlin.

Teaching and Research topics include 18th- and 19th-century German Literature, Literature and Science, Cultural Philosophy, Theories of prose and narration, Aesthetics and Affectivity.

Books: Weimarer Klassik. Zur Einführung, Stuttgart: Metzler 2019; Handbuch Literatur & Emotionen (ed. with Martin von Koppenfels), Berlin: De Gruyter 2016; Die Immunität der Klassik, Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag 2011; Pathos. Zur Geschichte einer problematischen Kategorie (ed.), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2010; Wissenschaft in Bildern. Symbol und dialektisches Bild in Aby Warburgs Mnemosyne-Atlas und Walter Benjamins Passagen-Werk, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2004.

See also the Friday workshop, The Life of Forms.