Judd.A and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Scienes • Northwestern University
GRADUATE SPEAKER SERIES 2011-2012Previous Speaker Series: 2008-2009 / 2009-2010 / 2010-2011 / 2011-2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Kresge 2-425Howard Eiland
Literature at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness”Howard Eiland has been involved since the late nineteen-eighties with the multi-volume Harvard University Press edition of the works of Walter Benjamin, an influential German writer who died in 1940 while in flight from the Nazis. He co-edited three volumes of Benjamin's Selected Writings and co-translated Benjamin's massive Arcades Project. He has also translated Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900 and his On Hashish. His recent publications include work on film and jazz. He is presently collaborating on a biography of Benjamin.
Friday, May 11, 2012
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Harris 108RAINER RUMOLD COLLOQUIUM
Presentations around the work of Rainer Rumold
on early twentieth-century avant-garde art and literatureColloquium speakers include:
• Sebastian Zeidler (Yale University)
• Joyce Cheng (University of Oregon), and
• Mark Haxthausen (Williams College.Rainer Rumold is the author of The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde. From Expressionism to Postmodernism (Northwestern University Press, 2001), of Gottfried Benn und der Expressionism: Provokation des Lesers, Absolute Dichtung (Athenaeum/Scriptor, 1982), of Sprachliches Experiment und Literarische Tradition. Zu den Texten Helmut Heissenbuettels, (Stanford Series in German Studies, 1975). He is , together with O.K Werckmeister, editor of The Ideological Crisis of Expressionism (Camden House, 1992) and, together with Andreas Kramer, editor of Eugene Jolas’s autobiography, Man from Babel (Yale University Press,1998).
Professor Rumold has written numerous articles on avant-garde and modernism in literature and the visual arts, with German expressionism as a focal point for international relations, on Gottfried Benn, Carl Sternheim, Carl Einstein, Zurich and Berlin Dada, the dadaist text, the history and theory of Dada in Central Europe, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Bert Brecht, Georg Grosz, Eugene Jolas (translation and documents), Helmut Heissenbuttel, Gunter Kunert, etc.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
4:00 p.m. in Kresge 2-500Peter Szendy
University of Nanterre, Paris, France
Title TBAPeter Szendy was born in Paris in 1966. He teaches aesthetics and philosophy at the University Paris X (Nanterre) and is musical advisor for programmes at the Cité de la musique in Paris. His publications include: Listen, A History of Our Ears, Fordham University Press, 2008, and Sur écoute. Esthétique de l'espionnage (Listened in on. An aesthetic of espionage) (Minuit, 2007).
