Events in the Department of German
April 1, 2017
EGON SCHIELE IN THE CLINIC: MEDICINE, MOTHERHOOD, AND VIENNESE MODERNISM
Alys George
New York University
"Pathological" was a damning term frequently applied to the visual art of Viennese modernism. Yet while the nudes of Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, and others diverged sharply from the classical pictorial tradition, they emerged alongside a contemporaneous trend: the increasing presence of medical imagery in the city's visual vernacular. In the decades after 1900, the bodies of working-class Viennese-women and children, in particular - came to occupy a central place in films, lectures, exhibitions, and popular literature. The medicalized gaze of "pathological" portraiture, this lecture argues, was fostered by a complex Viennese social network of physicians, artists, writers, and politicians - all of whom staked their claims on the mother's body to vastly different ends.
The event will take place:
Monday, APRIL 3 in Kresge Hall 2-350 (Kaplan Humanities Institute)
at 5:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Science in Human Culture Program, Global Avant-garde and Modernist Studies cluster and by the Departments of German and Art History. Download the announcement here.
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"KAFKA, BLANCHOT AND THE SILENCE OF THE SIRENS"
Zakir Paul
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Zakir Paul is working on a manuscript about the reception of intelligence in French literature and thought, with a special focus on Bergson, Proust, and Valéry. His articles and reviews have appeared in Athenäum, JML, Critical Inquiry, Germanic Review, and L'ésprit créateur. He has translated and introduced Blanchot's Political Writings 1953-1993 (Fordham, 2010) and Ranciére's Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art (Verso, 2013). Download the announcement here.
The event will take place:
Tuesday April 18, 2017 in Kresge 3410
from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
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WHY IS NIOBE PUNISHED?
Astrid Deuber-Mankowski
Ruhr-University of Bochum
In Discussion with Peter Fenves and Samuel Weber