Guest lecture, Feb 27: Stefan Willer: “A Room Secured on Every Side”: Terror, Safety, and Security in Franz Kafka

27 February 2020, 4 pm, Northrop Frye Hall 113

STEFAN WILLER is professor of modern German literature at Humboldt University Berlin. From 2010 to 2018 he was associate director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) Berlin. He has held visiting professorships at Munich, EHESS Paris, UNAM Mexico City, Stanford and UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include the literary epistemology of the future, the cultural history of generation and inheritance, theories of language and translation, and interrelations of literature and music. Select book publications: Oper und Film. Geschichten einer Beziehung (co-editor, 2019); Zukunftssicherung. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven (co-editor, 2019); Futurologien. Ordnungen des Zukunftswissens (co-editor, 2016); Erbfälle. Theorie und Praxis kultureller Übertragung in der Moderne (2014); Das Konzept der Generation. Eine Wissenschafts- und Kulturgeschichte (co-author, 2008); Das Beispiel. Epistemologie des Exemplarischen (co-editor, 2007); Poetik der Etymologie. Texturen sprachlichen Wissens in der Romantik (2003); Botho Strauß zur Einführung (2000).

This event is co-sponsored by the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (funded in part by the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office) and the Centre for Comparative Literature.

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