The Paris School of Jewish Thought
Gilman 479 Lecture by Sophie Nordmann
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The Concept of Yiddish in the Art of Mel Bochner
Maryland 110 Lecture by Sunny Yudkoff. This lecture will explore the evolving manifestations of Yiddish in the work of the contemporary artist Mel Bochner. One of the founding figures of American conceptual art, Bochner has continuously re-examined the unstable nature of language. The following presentation investigates how Bochner’s postvernacular invocation of Yiddish calls into crisis […]
A Night of Horror: Nosferatu
Gilman 479Nosferatu poster
“Publicum”: The Theater as a Paradigm of the Public Sphere in 18th-Century Literature
Gilman 479A Lecture by Christian Moser (University of Bonn / Max Kade Visiting Professor JHU)
What Would Cervantes Do?
Gilman 479 A discussion with David Castillo and William Egginton on their latest book
Nudité(s)
The conference will be held in-person at Johns Hopkins University (Homewood Campus) in Baltimore. Professor Pierre-Marc de Biasi will be the keynote speaker. Paper proposals (approximately 300 words), written in French or English, accompanied by a brief biographical note (150 words maximum) should be sent, before 12/12/2022, to the following address: [email protected] How does one […]
Movie Screening – The Imported Bridegroom
Johns Hopkins Hillel 3109 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MarylandStudy Break with Snacks and Movie.
Botticelli’s Secret
Gilman 50 Synopsis: Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, an Italian painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, […]
Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature
Gilman 479Erica Weitzman (PhD, Comparative Literature, NYU, 2012) is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2015) and co-editor of the volume Suspensionen. Über das Untote (Fink, 2015). Her most recent book, At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism […]
Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten
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“Jewish Primitivism” – Samuel J. Spinner
Mergenthaler Room #426JHU Anthropology Department Fall 2023 Colloquium Series - Jewish Primitivism book by Dr. Samuel J. Spinner. In discussion with Clara Han (JHU), Andrew Brandel (University of Chicago), Talia Katz (JHU), & Naveeda Khan (JHU) Jewish Primitivism Please contact Jenny Clarke for the Introduction of the book at [email protected]