Professor Pahl will offer an additional colloquium that focuses on the emotionality of paragraphs 166 through 196 of Hegel’s "Phenomenology of Spirit". For more information or scans of these passages, please send an email requesting copies to grmndept@pitt.edu. Cookies and drinks will be provided.

Professor Pahl approaches the German literary and philosophical canon from a queer-feminist perspective, with the arc of her research situated in affect and emotion studies. She edited the Modern Language Notes 2009 issue on Emotionality, and she was awarded the Best Article in Feminist Scholarship Prize from the Coalition of Women in German for “Transformative Translations: Cyrillizing and Queering.” In this lecture, Pahl will explore Heinrich von Kleist's “Anekdote aus dem letzten Kriege” (“Anecdote from the Recent War”). The lecture is in English.

This is one of "Mysteries of Human Evolution," a three-part lecture series on discoveries that challenge the long-held and widely believed story of human evolution.

This is one of "Mysteries of Human Evolution," a three-part lecture series on discoveries that challenge the long-held and widely believed story of human evolution.

Neil Larsen is the author of several important books in critical theory: “Determinations: Essays on Theory, Narrative and Nation in the Americas” (2001), “Reading North by South: On Latin American Literature, Culture and Politics” (1995) and “Modernism and Hegemony: a Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies” (1990), as well as of numerous essays and critical introductions. He is currently working on two books that will seek to establish what he terms “an advanced, methodical introduction to the workings of Marxian critique in the literary and cultural sphere.”