Speaker Series Archive
Walter Benjamin: The Novel, A Lecture by Kevin McLaughlin (Brown)
February 7, 2024, 5:30pm
Kevin McLaughlin’s new book, The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin’s Critical Program (Fordham University Press, 2023), traces the development of a theory of literature and a method of criticism in Benjamin’s early interpretations of a nexus formed by the poetry of Hölderlin, the criticism of the German romantics, and Goethe’s novel, Elective Affinities. McLaughlin’s lecture will focus on one strand in Benjamin’s approach to Goethe in order to show how this early “philology of life
Dr. Silke Roesler, “Smart Fashion and Subveillance”
December 5, 2023, 12:00pm
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"Transparentism: The End of Critique?" - A Lecture by Professor Emmanuel Alloa
November 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Director Hubert Sauper, "Darwin’s Nightmare and Epicentro"
October 25, 2023, 6:00pm
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What is Critical Theory? Professor Rahel Jaeggi, Humboldt University
October 23, 2023 to October 25, 2023, 9:00am
Professor Rahel Jaeggi, Humboldt University, will be giving a series of morning seminars and an afternoon lecture: October 23 - October 25.
Seminars: “Introduction to Critical Theory”
A Case for Hope in Hopeless Times: German Grassroots Activism as New Utopianism, A Book Talk with Professor Jennifer Allen
October 11, 2023, 5:30pm
By most accounts, the twentieth century was not kind to utopian thought. The violence of two world wars, Cold War anxieties, and a widespread sense of crisis after the 1973 global oil shock appeared to doom dreams of a better world. The eventual victory of capitalism and, seemingly, liberal democracy relieved some fears but exchanged them for complacency and cynicism.
Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher A Conversation with Barbara von Bechtolsheim and Paul North
October 9, 2023, 5:30pm
Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher
A conversation about the philosophical couple
Barbara von Bechtolsheim and Paul North
“Rosa’s Casket: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Toward a Critique of Violence’”
September 15, 2023, 12:00pm
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Als Ob: Vaihingers Fiktionalismus in Literatur und Literaturtheorie
September 11, 2023, 5:30pm
NOTE: This lecture will be given entirely in German
Young Scholars in German Speaker Series - Fumi Okiji
March 1, 2023, 5:30pm
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Young Scholars in German Speaker Series - Zakir Paul
February 27, 2023, 5:30pm
This talk considers the practice and poetics of gleaning from Baudelaire to Agnès Varda. Varda’s idiosyncratic film, The Gleaners and I (2000) is often considered as a turning point both in her work and in digital filmmaking. It explores figures of gleaning from the visual arts to politics and law, as well as contemporary practices of repurposing, recuperation, and recycling.
Young Scholars in German Speaker Series - Annie Pfeifer
February 22, 2023, 5:30pm
Between 1933 and 1939, the lesbian, anti-fascist Swiss-German writer and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach sought refuge in Iran to escape both a serious mental depression and her wealthy, Nazi-sympathizing family.
This talk exploresSchwarzenbach’s narcopoetics as a trip in a double sense: an escalating morphine addiction and an Orientalist expedition on the brink of World War II that unwittingly mirrors the drug trade routes between Central Asia and Europe.
Lecture. Jane O. Newman (Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine). Auerbach’s Counter-Enlightenment: Vico versus Descartes
September 19, 2019, 6:00pm
Auerbach’s Counter-Enlightenment: Vico versus Descartes
Please note the time change: This lecture will be presented at 6pm.
Graduate Student Conference 2018. Sharing Subjects: Reading – Talking – Observing
April 19, 2018 to April 20, 2018, 1:30pm
Graduate Student Conference 2018
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Keynote Speaker: Kristina Mendicino, Brown University
“Allein zu essen ist für einen philosophierenden Gelehrten ungesund
[…] erschöpfende Arbeit, nicht belebendes Spiel der Gedanken.”
— Immanuel Kant, Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht
Lecture Series: Julia Ng
November 3, 2016, 5:30pm
Lecture Series: Alexander García Düttmann. Can a Philosopher Have Dirty Hands? – Sartre, Adorno, Badiou.
September 14, 2016, 5:30pm
After growing up in Barcelona, Alexander García Düttmann studied in Frankfurt am Main with Alfred Schmidt and in Paris with Jacques Derrida. Since 1992, he has lived in San Francisco, New York, Melbourne, and London, and he has taught at Stanford University, The University of Essex, Monash University, New York University, Middlesex University, Goldsmiths College, and the Royal College of Art. What are García Düttmann’s most recent publications, and what are they about?
Lecture Series: Mark Gelber. A Place for Kafka after the Trial and Judgement in Tel Aviv
April 21, 2016, 5:30pm
Lecture Series: Mark Gelber. A Place for Kafka after the Trial and Judgement in Tel Aviv
Thursday April 21, 5:30, WLH 309
Lecture Series: Jocelyn Holland. Kant, Quantified. The Mechanics of Kant’s Humanism
April 7, 2016, 5:30pm
Jocelyn Holland, Lecture Series: Kant, Quantified. The Mechanics of Kant’s Humanism
Thursday April 7, 5:30 PM, WLH 309
Lecture Series: Bruce Clarke, The Problem with Intelligence: The Disunity of the Sciences in Stanislaw Lem's Fiasko
March 29, 2016, 5:30pm
Lecture Series: Bruce Clarke, The Problem with Intelligence: The Disunity of the Sciences in Stanislaw Lem’s Fiasko
NOTE THE DATE/TIME CHANGE: TUESDAY March 29, 5:30pm, WLH 309
German Department Speaker Series: David Ferris, “Gerhard Richter and Francis Bacon: Painting, Photography and the Fact of Appearance.”
November 20, 2013, 5:30pm
David Ferris, (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Previously he held concurrent positions in Comparative Literature, English, and German at the Graduate School and in Comparative Literature at Queens College of the City University of New York, in Comparative Literature and English at Yale University, and in English at Haverford College. His research and teaching emphasizes modern literature and critical theory. His recent work in