Friday, September 23, 2016
7:00-9:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Literati is delighted to partner with the University of Michigan's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures to celebrate new work by their esteemed faculty. Authors include:
Johannes von Moltke is Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures and Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema and the editor of two volumes of writings by and about Siegfried Kracauer. His most recent book is The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America.
Helmut Puff is Professor of German and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the co-editor of Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond.
Scott Spector is Professor of History and German studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Violent Sensations: Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914.
Silke-Maria Weineck is particularly interested in the many ways in which classical literature and philosophy continue to reverberate in the modern world. Her first book, The Abyss Above traces the figure of the mad poet through writings by Plato, Hölderlin and Nietzsche. The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West looks at the tensions that have characterized the concept of fatherhood from Sophocles and the Bible over Hobbes to Kleist and Freud. Our Ancient Wars, co-edited with Victor Caston, explores the presence of classical war writing in contemporary cultural production. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Irony Monster: First and Last Deity.
Johannes von Moltke is Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures and Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema and the editor of two volumes of writings by and about Siegfried Kracauer. His most recent book is The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America.
Helmut Puff is Professor of German and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the co-editor of Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond.
Scott Spector is Professor of History and German studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Violent Sensations: Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914.
Silke-Maria Weineck is particularly interested in the many ways in which classical literature and philosophy continue to reverberate in the modern world. Her first book, The Abyss Above traces the figure of the mad poet through writings by Plato, Hölderlin and Nietzsche. The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West looks at the tensions that have characterized the concept of fatherhood from Sophocles and the Bible over Hobbes to Kleist and Freud. Our Ancient Wars, co-edited with Victor Caston, explores the presence of classical war writing in contemporary cultural production. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Irony Monster: First and Last Deity.
| Building: | Off Campus Location |
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| Location: | Literati Bookstore, 124 E. Washington Ann Arbor, MI 48104 |
| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Books |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Comparative Literature |
