Guest lecture, February 4: Professor Helmut Schneider: Transgressive Steps: Walking and the Emergence of the Modern Imaginary between European Enlightenment and Romanticism

February 4, 2016, 2:00 p.m., Odette Hall 323

Prof. HELMUT SCHNEIDER previously held positions at the University of California, Irvine (1983-1990), and Davis (1990-1993). A frequent visitor to the United States, he also has been a guest professor at Stanford University; University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Ohio State University, Columbus; University of Indiana, Bloomington; Harvard University; University of Washington, Seattle; Washington University, Saint Louis; Georgetown University. He has published books on German and European literature of the 18th/19th /20th centuries, in particular: the history of the pastoral and the German idyll; landscape and utopia; body paradigms in the classical age; Lessing, Kleist, and Goethe; classical drama and theater. In 2011 he published the book Genealogie und Menschheitsfamilie: Dramaturgie der Humanität von Lessing bis Büchner (2011).

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies.

If you have any accommodation needs, please e-mail german@chass.utoronto.ca five business days prior to the event, and we will do our best to assist you.