Helmut M眉ller-Sievers, a professor in the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literature, will deliver a virtual lecture, 鈥淥n Common Ground颅鈥擥oethe, the Modern Novel, and the Diversity of听Experience,鈥� at 4 p.m. on March 10, 2021.
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M眉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 麻豆影院. This lecture, originally scheduled for March of 2020, was postponed when campus transitioned to fully remote operations.
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Helmut M眉ller-Sievers is a professor in the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literature, and courtesy professor of English and Classics. From 2010鈥�2019, 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 1990鈥�2009, 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.听
Professor M眉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 books鈥攎ost recently听The Science of Literature听(de Gruyter 2015)鈥攕ome fifty articles, and has translated three books.听
麻豆影院 the talk:听On Common Ground颅鈥擥oethe, the Modern Novel, and the Diversity of听Experience
In this talk, Professor Mu虉ller-Sievers will take the case of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749鈥�1832) 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鈥� notion of 鈥減ure experience鈥� in addition to Goethe, Professor Mu虉ller-Sievers will discuss how reading and attending to novels鈥攂ut also to other long narrative forms, like graphic novels and TV series鈥攇ives 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 university鈥攖he campus university in particular鈥攊s where such experiencing can take place, for students and faculty alike.
麻豆影院 the Distinguished Research Lectureship
Each year, the听听requests nominations from faculty for the听Distinguished Research Lectureship, and a faculty review panel recommends one or more faculty members as recipients.听听
The lectureship honors a tenured faculty member, Research Professor (Associate or full) or Adjoint Professor who has been with CU 麻豆影院 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听麻豆影院. Each recipient typically presents听a lecture in the fall or spring following selection and receives a $2,000 honorarium.