181 Goldwin Smith Hall, Fridays @ 2:30pm
SEPTEMBER 7 Carl Niekerk (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Buffon, Blumenbach, Herder, and the Origins of Modern Anthropology
NOVEMBER 2 Vance Byrd (German, Grinnell College) Intermediale Selbstthematisierung: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Periodicals, Panoramas, and Commemoration
NOVEMBER 16 Matthew Stoltz (German, Cornell University) Lessing, Novalis, and the Redemption of the Image
NOVEMBER 30 Samuel Frederick (Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures, PennState) Collecting. A Poetics
Advance copies of each paper will be available at the Dept. of German Studies, 183 Goldwin Smith. For more information, please contact Olga Petrova at ogp2@cornell.edu.