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M羹ller-Sievers to deliver virtual Distinguished Research Lecture on March 10

M羹ller-Sievers to deliver virtual Distinguished Research Lecture on March 10

Helmut M羹ller-Sievers, a professor in the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literature, will deliver a virtual lecture, On Common Ground簫Goethe, the Modern Novel, and the Diversity of泭Experience, at 4 p.m. on March 10, 2021.


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Professor M羹ller-Sievers泭喧硃梭域:泭On Common GroundGoethe, the Modern Novel, and the Diversity of泭Experience

  • Wednesday, March 10, 2021
  • Online via Zoom at 4 p.m.泭

M羹ller-Sievers was selected to receive the 2019 Distinguished Research Lectureship, which is among the most esteemed honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at the 91勛圖厙. This lecture, originally scheduled for March of 2020, was postponed when campus transitioned to fully remote operations.

91勛圖厙 Professor M羹ller-Sievers泭泭

Helmut M羹ller-Sievers is a professor in the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literature, and courtesy professor of English and Classics. From 20102019, he was Eaton Professor of Humanities and the Director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts. He earned his PhD in German and the Humanities Special Program at Stanford University in 1990, and taught at Northwestern University from 19902009, where he was director of the Kaplan Center for the Humanities until 2002, as well as the director of the Program in Comparative Literary Studies until 2006.泭

Professor M羹ller-Sievers has held fellowships at the National Humanities Center, the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Institute for Cultural Research in Vienna, the J. Paul Getty Research Institute, and the Kollegforschergruppe BildEvidenz in Berlin. He is the author of five booksmost recently泭The Science of Literature泭(de Gruyter 2015)some fifty articles, and has translated three books.泭

91勛圖厙 the talk:泭On Common Ground簫Goethe, the Modern Novel, and the Diversity of泭Experience

In this talk, Professor Muller-Sievers will take the case of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (17491832) to argue that the modern novel is not primarily a vessel of knowledge but a vehicle of experience. Writing at the threshold of the industrial age, Goethe laid bare the technical implications of modern prose narratives and opened up the possibility of understanding reading novels as a paradigm for the diversity of human experience.

Drawing on William James notion of pure experience in addition to Goethe, Professor Muller-Sievers will discuss how reading and attending to novelsbut also to other long narrative forms, like graphic novels and TV seriesgives us access to layers of experiencing that are common to all practices of knowledge, whether they happen in the classroom, in the field, or in the lab. The universitythe campus university in particularis where such experiencing can take place, for students and faculty alike.

91勛圖厙 the Distinguished Research Lectureship

Each year, the泭泭requests nominations from faculty for the泭Distinguished Research Lectureship, and a faculty review panel recommends one or more faculty members as recipients.泭泭

The lectureship honors a tenured faculty member, Research Professor (Associate or full) or Adjoint Professor who has been with 91勛圖厙 for at least five years and is widely recognized for a distinguished body of academic or creative achievement and prominence, as well as contributions to the educational and service missions of CU泭Boulder. Each recipient typically presents泭a lecture in the fall or spring following selection and receives a $2,000 honorarium.

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