Virtual Berlin: A Walk Through German History (part two)
11:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

This presentation concludes a Web-aided “walk” through German history that focuses on the city of Berlin and its various changes over time.

Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English and chair of German and Russian Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author of The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900, published in 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press, and the editor of a collection of essays on contemporary political philosophy forthcoming next spring from the University of Minnesota Press. He has also written numerous essays on European intellectual history, Marxist and psychoanalytic theory as well as German literature and film. Currently, he is completing a manuscript on The Aesthetics of New Media: Art and Politics in the Digital Age.