Past Events
German Events Archive by Year
2016
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
W.G. Sebald's Literary Remains:
Dr. Ulrich von Bülow (The German Literary Archive) |
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
The Hannah Arendt Edition Series - Inaugural Lecture - Jerome Kohn: The Work of ArtOlin, Room 204 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5Lecture by Jerome Kohn (Hannah Arendt Literary Trust; The New School). Discussant: Thomas Bartscherer (Bard College) In this talk, the work of art is not employed as a synonym for an artwork. One of its references is to what artists do when they make artworks; another is to what spectators do when they preserve – through their apperception – artworks over periods of time. The unprecedented evil of the 20th century, according to Hannah Arendt, has left us with a “broken thread of tradition.” From the point of view of the world – though not of history – every end is a beginning, a beginning whose end is not known in advance. A matter of increasing wonder to Arendt was how and where we can realize a new beginning today. The Work of Art will explore this question in conversation with thinkers such as Plato, Kant, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Rilke, and several eminent visual artworks. In his talk, Jerome Kohn will for the first time present from his unpublished book manuscript “The Work of Art.” Jerome Kohn is the Trustee of the Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust. He has published several volumes of Arendt's uncollected and unpublished writing, such as Essays In Understanding, Responsibility and Judgment, The Promise Of Politics, and The Jewish Writings. He is currently preparing a new edition of collected unpublished texts by Hannah Arendt titled Thinking Without Bannisters. Thomas Bartscherer is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Bard College. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essay on Eros, Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts. He is currently completing a book titled Toward an Erotics of Tragedy and is co-editor of Arendt’s The Life of the Mind for the forthcoming Critical Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works. This event is co-sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, German Studies Program, Literature Program, and by the Philosophy Program Location: Olin 204 [MAP] Date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 Time: 6:00 p.m. Rsvp not required Free & open to the Public Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center Contact: |
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
Visual Attention as Ethical Action:
Thomas Pfau, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, Professor & Chair of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Duke Divinity School |
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Monday, September 12, 2016
"What Is Political Protest?" By Professor Christian VolkOlin, Room 204 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5Please join us for a special lecture hosted by the German Studies Program and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanites at Bard College on Monday, September 12. The rise of political protest movements in recent years has accentuated the need for an understanding of the meaning of political protest in and for modern democracies on the one hand, and to consider suitable criteria to distinguish between emancipatory and non-emancipatory forms of protest on the other. The talk seeks to address these needs by developing a fully-fledged concept of political protest. A special Q&A session will follow the lecture with Thomas Wild, Associate Professor of German, Director of German Studies Research Director at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Christian Volk is Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the University of Trier. He studied Politics, Economics and Economic and Social History at the RWTH Aachen University. Since mid-2011 he has headed the DFG research project "The concept of sovereignty in the transnational character". Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow and scientific coordinator of the research project "International dissidence" Goethe University (2010-2011) and the DFG Research Training Group "Multilevel Constitutionalism" of the Humboldt University of Berlin (2009-2010).The discussion following Prof. Volk's presentation will be moderated by Thomas Wild, Associate Professor of German, Director of German Studies and Research Director at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Date: Monday, September 12 Location: Olin 204 Time: 5 PM Free & Open to the Public Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center Contact: cstanton@bard.edu |
Ongoing Events | |
Feb 29, 2016 – Dec 31, 1969
Every Monday German Evenings(Locations in description) Come weekly to the German Evenings and practice this beautiful language.1st Monday of the Month: Language Table (Kline President's Room) 2nd Monday of the Month: Games Night (Olin LC 203) 3rd Monday of the Month: *Movie Night (Olin LC 203) *English Subtitles 4th Monday of the Month: Singing (Olin LC 203) Sponsored by: German Studies Program Contact: Dennis King dking@bard.edu |