181 Goldwin Smith Hall, Fridays @ 2:30pm *except November 11
SEPTEMBER 6
Mark-Georg Dehrmann (Modern German Literature, Humboldt University, Berlin)
Dimensions of the Modern Epic. The Example of Phantasmatic Orality
OCTOBER 18
Patchen Markell (Government, Cornell University)
Rereading Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 4:30pm, 160 GSH*
Jens Schröter (Cultural Media Theory, University of Bonn)
Money and Media Theory
NOVEMBER 22
Inka Mülder-Bach (Modern German Literature, Munich)
The Prose of Society. Narrative Forms and Social Communication in Goethe’s Conversations of German Refugees
DECEMBER 6
William Krieger (German, Cornell University)
Cogito ergo dumm: The Dilettante Humor of Dieter Roth’s Prose
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.
