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Narrating Knowledge:!
Literature, Storytelling, and Epistemology
Friday, April 10
A Workshop at the Center for the Humanities
at Tufts University (CHAT)!
1:30-2:00 Welcome and Coffee
2:00-2:20 Introduction: Doreen Densky (Tufts University)
“Who Speaks? Who Sees? Who Knows?: Storytelling and Epistemology”
2:30-5:15
Panel I (Moderator: Markus Wilczek, Tufts University)
Matthias Rothe (University of Minnesota)
“Critique through Presentation: Brecht’s ‘Economic’ Fragments Dan Drew and Jae Fleischhacker in Chicago”
Christiane Arndt (Queen’s University) “‘nach zwei Jahren wird die Kurve flach’: Narrating Statistics in Wolfgang Herrndorf's Arbeit und Struktur ”
Arne Höcker (University of Colorado Boulder)
“‘Everybody makes it until they don’t’: A Beginner’s Guide to Survival” April 10-11, 2015
Saturday, April 11
10:00-12:45
Panel II (Moderator: Anh Nguyen, MIT)
Elisabeth Strowick (Johns Hopkins University) “Goethe’s Aggregate” (in German)
Michael Saman (College of the Holy Cross)
“‘Ein Verhältnis, welches man auszusprechen kaum wagen darf’: On the
Venue: Fung House (48 Professors Row)
Contact: Doreen Densky (Organizer):
[email protected] Embodiment of Intuitive Understanding in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre”
Andrea Krauss (Johns Hopkins University)
“Hegel’s Hamann” (in German)
12:45-2:30
Supported by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages
and Literatures (Charles Smith Endowment Fund), the Program of International Literary and Visual Studies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Lunch Break
2:30-4:30
Panel III (Moderator: David Pister, Harvard University)
Leif Weatherby (New York University)
“Police Psychology: Hoffmann's Technological Narration”
Matthew Handelman (Michigan State University)
“Unmitte(i)lbar: Gershom Scholem and the Dream of Pure Language”
4:45-5:15
Brainstorming Session
Reception
Image: Oliver Charles’ 3D Vision of the Stockholm Public Library

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