Workshop Schedule
Winter Quarter 2025
All workshops will meet in Campus North 154 at 5:15 PM on the Thursdays listed below.
The entrance to the building is to the right of Fairgrounds Coffee Shop.
The workshop is a peanut-free event to accommodate a serious allergy. Please do not bring any products containing peanuts to the workshop.
January 30
“The Will of Nature: The Imagination of the City in Measure for Measure”
Ben Jeffery
Society of Fellows, University of Chicago
Respondent: Magnus Ferguson
Society of Fellows, University of Chicago
February 27
“Dissociative Narrating and Vigilant Reading in W.G. Sebald”
Yun Ha Kim
PhD Candidate, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
Respondent: Catriona Macleod
Vice Provost for the Arts; Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and the Department of Germanic Studies
Society of Fellows, University of Chicago
March 6
“Towards a Poetics of Passivity: Stanley Cavell’s Philosophy of Film”
Sam Lee
PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Respondent: Daniel Morgan
Director of Graduate Studies; Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College
Society of Fellows, University of Chicago
Fall Quarter 2024
Literature and Philosophy Workshop Fall Schedule
All workshops will meet in Campus North 154 at 5:15 PM on the Thursdays listed below.
The entrance to the building is to the right of Fairgrounds Coffee Shop.
The workshop is a peanut-free event to accommodate a serious allergy. Please do not bring any products containing peanuts to the workshop.
October 17
“Violent Naïveté: Reading Adorno’s Homer Excursus with Schiller”
Rachel Wong, PhD Candidate, Social Thought
Respondent: Andrei Pop
Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and the College
October 24
“Ludwig Hohl’s Elemental Poetics of Action”
Margareta Ingrid Christian, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
Respondent: Nicholas Andes, PhD Student, Germanic Studies
November 7
“Concepts of Mind in Poetry and Philosophy:
Apprehension and Idrāk Across Early Modern Eurasia”
Timothy Harrison, Associate Professor, English and Social Thought
Jane Mikkelson, Assistant Professor of the Humanities, Yale University
Respondent: Mark Payne
Chester D. Tripp Professor, Classics, Comparative Literature, Social Thought, and the College
November 14
“Buber, Rilke, Benjamin: Poetic Transformation and the Capacity for Responsiveness”
Alicia Badea, PhD Student, Germanic Studies
Respondent: Florian Klinger
Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College
November 21
“Kafka’s Martyrdom of Ridicule: On Hunger as Function and Ornament”
Simon Hajdini, Senior Research Associate, Philosophy, University of Ljubljana
Respondent: Kiki Lerer
PhD Student, English, University of Chicago
December 5
“Lessing’s Reception of Ibn Ṭufayl:
“The reception of Ibn Ṭufayl in the late German Enlightenment: Reading Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem and Lessing’s Über die Entstehung der geoffenbarten Religion”
Emir Faruk Kayahan, PhD Student, Germanic Studies
Respondent: Timothy Harrison
Associate Professor, English and Social Thought