The goal of this symposium is to provide students from across cohorts an opportunity to present their research, answer questions, and receive feedback on their work. It draws on the expertise of a variety of disciplines such as Romance studies, comparative literature, medieval studies, art history, visual and media studies, cultural studies, intellectual history and philosophy, gender studies, Jewish studies, and more.
Saturday, March 4th, A.D. White House
9:00 - 10:00am
Breakfast and Opening Remarks
10:00 - 11:30am
Latin and Romance Influence on the Development of Middle High German Literary Culture - Willow Groundwater-Schuldt
Critical Violence: The Negation of Judgment in Kafka’s In der Strafkolonie - Seth Thomas
‘Die Welt ist ein Schwindel.’ Schwindel in Emmy Henning’s Gefängnis - Nico Claesgens
12:00 - 1:00pm
The Dialogical Self – Mediating between Martin Buber, Vilém Flusser, and Hubert Hermans - Rajvi Thakore
The Refugee Who Stayed: The Forgotten Writings of Russian-German Poet Vera Lourié - Dennis Wegner
2:00 - 3:00pm
Travel narratives as a political tool: Imperial rhetoric in Frida von Bülow’s literary Production - Anna Reynders
Historicity and Catastrophe: Fredric Jameson, Octavia Butler, and the Crisis of Imagination - Martina Villalobos
3:30 - 5:00pm
Rehearsing the Body - Amparo Necker
Eros and Its Discontents - Dror Birger
Stadium Crowds: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht towards a positive phenomenology of the masses - Nicolau Spadoni
5:30 - 6:00pm
trying to speak/trying to speak/trying to speak - Special Performance by Esther Kondo Heller and Spencer Hadley
With generous support from the Department of German Studies, Institute for German Cultural Studies, Society for the Humanities, Department of History of Art & Visual Studies, Department of Government, Department of Music, Department of History, Medieval Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly.
