Past Events 2005-2006
Niklaus Largier will visit the Department of
German at UC Davis on November 9th, 2005. Largier, Professor of
German at UC Berkeley, will take part in two events:
1) He will join Professor Gerhard Richter’s
seminar on Walter Benjamin’s Trauerspiel-book
in 412B Sproul (1:10-4:00 p.m.).
2) He will deliver a lecture entitled “Against
Nature: The History of Sensation and the Phenomenology of Temptation” in 53A Olson at 5:00 p.m.
A light reception will follow. Free and open to
the public. Contact Gerhard Richter at grichter@ucadavis.edu
with questions.
Rodolphe Gasché will visit the Department of
German at UC Davis on February 9th, 2006.
Rodolphe Gasché, the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at SUNY
Buffalo, is one of today's leading philosophers and critics. He is the
author of numerous books, including, most recently, Inventions of
Difference: On Jacques Derrida (1994), The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de
Man (1998), Of Minimal Things: Studies on the Notion of Relation (1999),
and The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics (2003).
There will be two events on Thursday, February 9th:
1) Lecture: Europe, or the Form of the Concept¯ (12:00 noon, Davis
Humanities Institute, Voorhies 126)
2) Seminar for UC Davis faculty and students: 3:00-5:00 pm (Davis
Humanities Institute, Voorhies Hall). Our discussion will focus on Martin
Heidegger's analysis of Sophocles's Antigone in: Heidegger, Introduction to
Metaphysics, pp. 156-176. Readings are available in the Department of
German, 622 Sproul Hall.
Heidegger film "The Ister" on February 22nd, 2006.
The film will be shown on Wednesday, February 22, 2006, at 6:00 pm in ART 217. The University of California, Davis will host a campus screening of "The Ister" (Australia, 2004), the award-winning cinematic essay on Martin
Heidegger's controversial war-time lecture course on the poet Friedrich
Hoelderlin. The film is 189 minutes long and features philosophers Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Bernard Stiegler, as well as German film maker Hans-Juergen Syberberg. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Karen Feldman (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley), Jaimey Fisher (German, UC Davis), Gerhard Richter (German, UC Davis), Scott Shershow (English, UC Davis), Eric Smoodin (Film Studies, UC Davis), and Georges Van Den Abbeele (Humanities Institute, UC Davis).
Information on the film can be found at http://www.theister.com.
For futher information contact Professor Gerhard Richter
(grichter@ucdavis.edu).
David Farrell Krell will visit the Department of
German at UC Davis on March 1st, 2006.
David Krell, whose visit is co-sponsored by the Department of German, the
Davis Humanities Institute, and the Program in Comparative Literature, is
Professor of Philosophy and Founding Director of the Humanities Institute
at DePaul University in Chicago. One of the most distinguished scholars of
European thought working today, Krell also is an acclaimed translator
(primarily of Heidegger), a novelist, and writer of screen plays. Professor Krell will participate in two events:
1) A lecture on March 1 at 12:00 noon in 126 Voorhies: "One, Two, Four -
Yet Where Is the Third? Derrida's Geschlecht Series"
2) A seminar for UC Davis students and faculty on March 1 from 3:00-5:00 pm
in the Humanities Institute (Voorhies 228) on aspects of Heidegger's
war-time lecture course "The Ister." Readings are available free of charge
in the German Department, Sproul 622. Contact Gerhard Richter at grichter@ucdavis.edu
for further information.
Brad Prager will visit the Department of German at UC Davis on March 7th, 2006.
Brad Prager, University of Missouri, Columbia
Lecture: "The Victim's Escape: On the Liberation of Perpetrator Photographs in Holocaust Narratives"
March 7, 4:30 in Olson 53A
Abstract:
This essay examines the inclusion of photographs taken by Nazi
perpetrators and collaborators in Holocaust narrative fiction. It
considers the difficult implications of looking at such photos and aims
to differentiate between the pitfalls of nostalgic reverie and the
worthwhile aspirations of critical analysis. It considers this question
with special attention to the ontological status of the photograph (the
questions of motion and stasis, and that of the fantasies that viewers
or readers project onto such photos) with the goal of arriving at a
critique of theories that contend that such works retroactively
"liberate" the pictured victims. In its detailed readings, this essay
gives special consideration to the writings of W.G. Sebald and Roland
Barthes, as well as to those of critics such as Marianne Hirsch and
Ulrich Baer.
Brad Prager is currently an Assistant Professor of German in the
Department of German and Russian Studies at the University of Missouri,
Columbia. He also teaches in the program in film studies. He has been
awarded fellowships and grants from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum,
the DAAD, and the Research Board of the University of Missouri. He is
the author of the forthcoming books Writing Images: Aesthetic Vision
and German Romanticism and The Films of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic
Ecstasy and Truth. He has published articles on German literature and
culture in New German Critique, Seminar, Art History, Modern Language
Review, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Film Criticism, The Stanford
Literature Review and elsewhere.
Susanne Kord will visit the Department of German at UC Davis on April 4th, 2006.
Mein Titel: From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Enlightenment
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Sproul 912
4:30-5:30 pm
Susanne Kord has written books on 18th-century women peasant poets,
18th- and 19th-century women playwrights in Germany, women's anonymity and
pseudonyms, and images of femininity in Hollywood, as well as articles on many aspects of women's literary history and reception. In the interest of making some of the unknown literature by pre-twentieth-century women available to modern readers, she has edited two collections of plays by women and translated three dramas into English. She has also published poetry in several anthologies and journals, and read her poetry in many venues, including at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Susanne Kord has received numerous awards for her writing, among them
two book awards, one Honourable Mention, an award for her poetry, and the
Brentano-Preis awarded by the Freie Universität Berlin in 1997 for "outstanding achievements in the advancement of women and knowledge of women's history." She has served as Editor, among others, of The Lessing yearbook and The German Quarterly.
Currently, Susanne Kord is working on a book about female killers during the Age of Goethe.
Moishe Postone will visit the Department of German at UC Davis on May 22nd, 2006.
Moishe Postone will deliver a lecture and give a mini-seminar on May 22,
2006. Postone is Professor of Modern European History at the University of
Chicago. His research focuses on Modern European Intellectual History,
Twentieth-Century Germany, Critical Theories of Modernity, and
Anti-Semitism. His most recenent books include Catastrophe and Meaning: The
Holocaust and the Twentieth Century (co-edited with Eric Santner,2003) and
Deutschland, die Linke und der Holocaust--Politische Interventionen (2005).
His visit is sponsored by the UC Davis Center for History, Society, and
Culture, and co-sponsored by the Department of German, the Davis Humanities
Institute, and the Program in Critical Theory. Further details to be
announced soon. Dirk Oschmann to serve as Kade Professor Fall 2006
The Department of German at the University of California, Davis is pleased to announce that Professor Dirk Oschmann of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany) will serve as its Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in fall 2006. Prof. Oschmann specializes in modern and postmodern literature, the relationship between literature and philosophy, and literary theory. He has published widely on such authors as Kracauer, Benjamin, Schiller, Kleist, Lessing, Moritz, Johnson, Melville, and Kierkegaard, and on topics such as the concept of movement in late 18th century aesthetic theory, the sensualization of speech, and the philosophy of language. At UC Davis, Prof. Oschmann will offer an undergraduate course on GDR literature and a graduate seminar on Kafka and the history of modern theory.
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