Thursday, April 20th | Norris Center 208
10 AM - 12 PM
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (ICI Berlin): "On
Benjamin's Concept of Cosmic Experience and
his Philosophy of Technology around 1930”
Respondent: Eleonora Giannisi (Northwestern)
2 PM - 4 PM
Tamara Tagliacozzo (Rome 3): “Dream and
Awakening in Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber,
and Furio Jesi”
Respondent: Ariel Weiner (Northwestern)
Friday, April 21st | University Hall 201
10 AM - 12 PM
Peter Fenves (Northwestern): “An Epistemo-
Promotive Program”
Respondent: Hedy Cohen (Kingston University)
2 PM - 4 PM
Ilit Ferber (Tel Aviv): “Walter Benjamin and the
Acoustics of Childhood”
Respondent: Robert Ryder (Northwestern)
Theories of Technology and
Concepts of Experience
Around the Work of Walter
Benjamin
A Series of Workshops on
Sponsored by the Max Kade Foundation (New York), the Departments of
German and Philosophy, and the Programs in Comparative Literary Studies,
The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, and Critical Theory
The workshop are free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.