Events
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Oct 8Hilldale Lecture: Defining Enlightenment: Kant, Mendelssohn, Arendt
Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Science emerita and Professor of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies
Pyle Center Rm 226
What is Enlightenment? In 1783 Berlin monthly Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its readers to submit answers to this question, and both Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn sent essays to the journal. Their submissions, both published in 1784, offered very different responses. In 1933, shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, Hannah Arendt also reflected on Enlightenment. She would implicitly refer to Kant …
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Oct 12Catastrophic Belatedness (Celan, Darwish, Derrida)
Peter Makhlouf
Ingraham 206
Declarations on the fate of poetry after mass violence—enshrined most notably in Theodor Adorno’s indictment of “poetry after Auschwitz”—have tended to stress poetry’s impotence in the face of representing past destruction. Arriving too late to catastrophe constitutes the primordial belatedness of any poetics of witness. But what happens when we shift the locus of poetry from …
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Oct 15Maxi Obexer, Neil Blackadder and students: Scenic Reading of the Daughters of the Orestia
Maxi Obexer, Neil Blackadder and students
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Oct 16Casting Weimar: Selection, Surplus, and the Film Actor
Paul Dobryden
Van Hise Room 1418
This presentation tracks modern discourses of human selection as they converged in discussions of film acting in Weimar Germany. In the early years of narrative cinema and beyond, the question of how to select actors for films—the question of casting, in other words—preoccupied filmmakers, actors, critics, and audiences. I trace this question to features of …
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Oct 16Maxi Obexer and Neil Blackadder: Translating for Theater
Maxi Obexer and Neil Blackadder
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Oct 29Maxi Obexer, Katrin Sieg, Sonja Klocke: Maxi Obexer’s Oeuvre
Maxi Obexer, Katrin Sieg, Sonja Klocke
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Nov 18From Near Obscurity to Iconic Works: Bach’s Cello Suites
Edward Klorman, Cellist Matthew Zalkind
Hamel Music Center, Collins Recital Hall, 740 University Ave.
A Focus on the Humanities Lecture and Performance with Edward Klorman with Matthew Zalkind The six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach—once dismissed as mere curiosities—are now revered as iconic works. They are performed worldwide by cellists of all ages, and they are moreover prominently used in pop culture such as film and television as …