Martial Aesthetics: War, Scenarios, and the Securitization of the Novel
September 19 @ 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
![Ander Engberg-Pedersen standing](https://krieger.jhu.edu/humanities-institute/wp-content/uploads/sites/82/2024/08/Foto-Anders-KDVS-scaled.jpeg)
Critical Grove No. 3
Talk Title: “Martial Aesthetics: War, Scenarios, and the Securitization of the Novel”
Speaker: Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Director of the Nordic Humanities Center, and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies. Author of Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (Harvard University Press, 2015) and Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Date and Time: 19 September, 4:15 to 6 pm, Room 431 in Mergenthaler
Sponsors: the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and the Department of Political Science