Date: 	 Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:26:36 -0500 (EST)
From: "Thomas Y. Levin" <tylevin-AT-phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Princeton Frankfurt School Colloquium



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For anyone in the New York-Philadelphia region, I wanted extend an
invitation to attend the annual German Department Colloquium which takes
place this weekend and is devoted to the Frankfurt School.  The outgrowth
of a graduate seminar which I taught with Michael Jennings on "Frankfurt
School Cultural Theory," it is an event which brings together more senior
scholars such as Andy Rabinbach, Peter Hohendahl, Heinz Steinert and Tony
Vidler with graduate students from the seminar to explore a set of common
concerns.  All talks are free and open to the public. Please call the
German Dept. at (609) 258-4141 with any questions about directions,
lodgings etc.  Do come if you can: it should be an interesting event.

					Tom Levin

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MARGINS OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL

German Department Colloquium
Princeton University

January 17-18, 1997
McCormick 106



FRIDAY, JANUARY 17

7:30PM
Opening Lecture:
Peter Uwe Hohendahl (German and Comparative Literature, Cornell)
"From the Eclipse of Reason to Communicative Rationality: 
On the History of the Frankfurt School after World War II"

Reception to follow



SATURDAY, JANUARY 18

9:30 AM
COFFEE


10:00 AM-12:00 PM
SESSION I
Anson Rabinbach (History, Princeton)
"Outwitting the Historical Dynamic: Mimesis and Cunning in 
_The Dialectic of Enlightenment_"

Nicola Gess (Music, Princeton)
"Adorno on Music and/as Inscription"


12:00-1:00 PM
LUNCH


1:00-3:00 PM
SESSION II
Tony Vidler (Architecture, Art & Planning, Cornell)
"The Space of Distraction: Walter Benjamin and the Architectural
Unconscious"

James McFarland (German, Princeton)
"Between Spiel and Zeug: The Place of Toys in Walter Benjamin's Thought"


3:00 PM
COFFEE


3:30-5:30 PM
SESSION III
Heinz Steinert  (Sociology Dept., Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt a.M./NYU)
"Adorno  Marginalities"

Stefan Siegel (History, Princeton)
"Anthropological Materialism in Adorno and Benjamin"


5:30-6:30 PM
Concluding Reception



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Additional funding generously provided by the German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD), theSChool of Architecture, the Committee for European
Studies, and the Departments of History, Music, and Sociology at Princeton
University.