In anticipation of the conference, the organizers will be curating a small number of texts to be read and discussed throughout February. In the interest of interdisciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration and discussion, we welcome on-line contributions to a running blog to respond to the texts in addition to in-person meetings on Berkeley campus.

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If you would like to be added to our email list or contribute to the blog, please contact berkeleygermanconference[at]gmail.com.

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WORKING GROUP SCHEDULE

*All meetings Wednesdays in 282 Dwinelle Hall, 6pm

light snacks provided

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Wednesday, February 8

6:00pm - 7:00pm

282 Dwinelle Hall

Ernst Bloch, "Ungleichzeitigkeit und Pflicht zu Ihrer Dialektik"

(Nonsynchronism and the Obligations to its Dialectics, 1932)

German Version

English Version

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Wednesday, February 15

6:00pm - 7:00pm

282 Dwinelle Hall

Carol Levine, "Rhythm," Forms [Download]

Bernard Stiegler, "The Destruction of the Process of Psychic and Collective Individuation and the Question of Evil", Acting Out [Download]

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Wednesday, February 22

6:00pm - 7:00pm

282 Dwinelle Hall

Anna Gibbs, "After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication," The Affect Theory Reader [Download]

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