Gauss Seminars in Criticism
Named in honor of Dean Christian Gauss, The Gauss Seminars in Criticism were instituted in 1949 to provide a focus for discussion, study, and the exchange of ideas in the humanities.
Several seminars are held annually. The seminars may take different forms, but traditionally they have been conducted by guests invited to present material upon which they are working. Past seminar leaders have included Erich Auerbach, Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, Noam Chomsky, Roman Jakobson, Elaine Scarry, Joan Scott, and Raymond Bellour. Faculty and graduate students from Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the community at large participate in each seminar.
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Director:
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature
Committee Members:
Hal Foster, Art and Archeology
P. Adams Sitney, Program in Visual Studies
Susan Stewart, English
Michael Wood, English and Comparative Literature
Gauss Lecture Series 2012-2013
Thursday, November 29
Lecture Topic: "Hölderlin and Sophocles"
Professor Bernhard Böschenstein
University of Geneva
127 East Pyne (The room has been changed)
4:30 pm
Reception to follow
Friday, November 30, 2012
The Meridian Materials:
Five Papers on Paul Celan
106 McCormick Hall
10:00am - 10:15am
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism
Welcome
10:15am - 11:30am
Rainer Nägele , Germanic Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature, Yale University
The Sense of Poetry
11:30am - 12:45pm
Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb , English and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University
Two Meridians: Celan and Auden Around 1960
12:45pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:15pm - 3:30pm
Pierre Joris , English, University at Albany - SUNY
Meridian Into Meridian: On Translating Paul Celan
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Anna Glazova , Independent Scholar, Scholar/Writer in Residence, Rutgers University, Fall 2013
The Toil of Translation: Paul Celan’s Second Encounter with Ossip Mandelstam
4:45pm - 5:15pm
Break
5:15pm - 6:30pm
Bernhard Böschenstein , German and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva
The Meridian and Its Materials: Some Central Aspects of Celan's Poetology
Reception to Follow.
Symposium is free and open to the public.
“The Don Quixote Effect”
Professor Victor I. Stoichita
Université de Fribourg
Monday, October 15, 2012
Lecture Topic: “Don Quixote and the "Aesthetic Border"”
010 East Pyne Hall
4:30pm
Reception to follow
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Lecture Topic: “Murillo's Frames”
010 East Pyne Hall
4:30pm
Reception to follow
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Lecture Topic: “Minimal Zurbarán”
010 East Pyne Hall
4:30pm
Reception to follow
