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Please find details below of King’s German Studies research seminar series; our next seminar will take place on Wednesday 15 November 2017 from 4.15pm, when Prof Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin) will speak about Michael Wesely’s time photography. Please note the change of room; we will now meet in Room 6.01 in the Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway. All very welcome!


Áine


Wednesday 15 November 2017: 4.15-6.30pm - Virginia Woolf Building, Room 6.01

Joint Modern Languages Seminar

Anne Fuchs, University College Dublin

‘Time Works: Michael Wesely’s Slow Photography’



Much contemporary art is profoundly concerned with the exploration of slowness as an aesthetic experience in the age of acceleration. Slowness in this sense is more than a binary term in opposition to speed: it is an aesthetic art practice that may include the employment of digital or analogue technologies; slow diegesis and narrative; the gallery or cinema as a contemplative exhibition or reception space; and a responsive spectatorship. As Karl Schoonover has put, in slow art “seeing becomes a form of labor” that requires effort and an attentive viewing practice on part of the spectator.

    My paper discusses select works by the German photographer Michael Wesely who is renowned for his radical experiments with exposure times. His photographs of urban spaces and landscapes defy the very premise of the photographic medium, namely that the photograph freezes a single moment in the flow of time. I will show how Wesely creates a new visual representation of time as a layered experience that also destabilizes linear and chronological time.



Wednesday 22 November 2017: 12.30-2pm (Room 5.29)

Pardaad Chamsaz, British Library/University of Bristol

‘The Secret of Creation: Stefan Zweig’s manuscript collection and the materiality of reading’


Wednesday 29 November 2017: 4.15-6.30pm – Virginia Woolf Building (Room 1.34)

Joint Modern Languages Seminar / Language Acts & Worldmaking

Simon Coffey, King’s College London

‘The Construction of Modern Languages as a Subject for the Middle Classes’


Wednesday 6 December 2016: 12.30-2pm (Room 5.29)

Tobias Becker, German Historical Institute

‘Writing the “Nostalgia Wave”: A History of Popular Pasts in the 1970s and 1980s’



Term 2:


Wednesday 7 February, 2018: 12.30-2pm (Room 5.29)

Stephan Ehrig, Durham University

‘“mir scheint, [die Architektur] trägt in gleichem Maße zur Seelenbildung bei wie Literatur...” Approaching Modernist Space through German and British Literature and Film’


Wednesday 28 February, 2018: 12.30-2pm (Room 5.29)

Daniele Vecchiato, King’s College London

‘Legal Cultures and Literary Trials in the Age of Goethe. Presentation of the VehmeLit Project’


Wednesday 14 March, 2018: 12.30-2pm (Room 5.29)

Barbara Agnese, Université de Montréal

‘Ingeborg Bachmann und Nelly Sachs: der Briefwechsel’





Unless otherwise stated, all seminars will take place in:
Room 5.29, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NR



Dr Áine McMurtry
Department of German
Level 5 Virginia Woolf Building
King's College London
22 Kingsway, London
WC2B 6NR, UK

tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2167