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spring semester 2013
Lecture
Thomas Meyer
(University of Munich)
From Kirchhain to Chicago: Leo Strauss's Intellectual Biography
April 12, 2013, 3:10 p. m.
Buttrick Hall 206
Lecture
Alexander Kosenina
(Distinguished Visiting Max Kade Professor of German,
Leibniz University Hannover)
Law and Literatur: The Rise of Crime Fiction in the 18th Century
March 22, 2013, 3:10 p. m.
room tba
Lecture
Amir Eshel
(Stanford University)
Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past
March 21, 2013, 4:00 p. m.
Buttrick Hall 123
Lecture
Johannes Endres
(Vanderbilt University)
On the Anticipation of Posterity
in Modern Time Capsules
Feb. 22, 4:10 p. m.
Furman Hall 217
Lecture
Nicholas Vazsonyi
(University of South Carolina)
What is Isolde Inhaling?
Modernity, Meaning & Wagner’s Music
Feb. 8, 3:10 p. m.
Buttrick Hall 206
Lecture
Monika Nenon
(University of Memphis)
The German Reception of Rousseau
Jan. 25, 3:10 p. m.
Buttrick Hall 206
Lecture
Thomas Meyer
(Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
"From Hegel to Nietzsche"?
Some Reflections on Continental Philosophy
in the 19th and 20th Century.
Jan. 18, 3:10 p. m.
Philosophy Department
fall semester 2012
Lecture
Irina Paperno
(University of California, Berkeley)
""And that death is a dream—of that there is no doubt:"
Leo Tolstoy and his philosophy of death.
Oct. 10, 4:10 p. m.
Buttrick Halll 206
Lecture
Roland Kamzelak
(Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach)
The German Literary Archive: A Rollercoaster Ride
Sept. 7, 4 p. m.
Buttrick Halll 206
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The Center for Teaching awarded a Senior Teaching Fellowship to Jessica Riviere. Furthermore, Jessica just published an essay in New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. Volume 10, Spring 2013, p 51-62: “Challenging Generational Conflict in Short Stories by Sophie von La Roche and Therese Huber.” Congratulations!
Brett Sterling accepted a two-year position at the University of Arkansas. Congratulations!
Meike Werner's most recent publication, Eduard Berend und Heinrich Meyer. Briefwechsel 1938-1972, appeared with Wallstein publishers (Göttingen 2013) as vol. 10 of Marbacher Schriften.
Visiting Professor Thomas Meyer recently published a study on Jewish thought: Was heißt und zu welchem Ende studiert man jüdisches Denken? (Graz: Leykam Verlag 2013, Vorlesungen des Centrums für Jüdische Studien, vol. 6).
"Traum/a-Lektüren. Psychisches Trauma und literarischer Traumtext bei Heiner Müller, Ingeborg Bachmann, Franz Kafka und anderen" is the title of Alexandra Campana's essay that appeared in The German Quarterly 86.1 (2013), 4-24.
Tanya Doss received the competitive Foreign Studies and Area Studies Award that the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University grants to students whose dissertation topics are related to Luso-Brazilian and indigenous languages.
Christine Richter-Nilsson's translation of American novelist Teju Cole's Open City recently appeared with Suhrkamp publishers in Germany.
The German Graduate Student Association accepts paper proposals for next year's graduate student conference: From Page to Stage: Perspectives on Theatricality in Historical, Philosophical, and Literary Discourses. For more information and a detailed CfP visit the GGSA website.
The Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages is delighted to welcome Lutz Koepnick as a new member of its faculty. Professor Koepnick will join us as Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Chair of German, beginning in fall of 2013.
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