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Max Kade Institute Director

Max Kade Institute Director

Daniel L Purdy

German and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Mobilizing the Archive in Support of Colonialism during the Kaiserreich, Seminar – A Journal of Germanic Studies, 2017

Recent trends in fashion scholarship, Germanic Review, 1997

Text and Textile Symposium, Yale University, Beinecke Library, New Haven

National Conference – “The Enlightenment’s Reception of Chinese Culture: (Dis-) Trust in Jesuit Writing”, American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Emperor of China, The Maid of Amsterdam: Early Dutch Book Illustrations of East Asia, Bryn Mawr College

Annual Meeting ACLA – World Literature and Defeat, American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht, The Netherlands

85th General Meeting of the Goethe Society in Weimar – Goethes Zeitschrift „Ueber Kunst und Alterthum“ als Kontext seiner Idee der Weltliteratur, Goethe Society in Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Networks @ 1800 – “Global Goethe,”, Bowdoin College

Seminar on Religion and Writing – “Publishing over Preaching: Jesuit Missionaries and Chinese Print Culture in the Seventeenth Century,”, Columbia University, New York

German Studies Association Conference – “World Literature and Defeat”, San Diego

National Bards and National Literatures – Habsburg Language Policy and National Poets, Penn State University

Vermischung – Vermischte Atmosphären: Ästhetische Fragen aus dem achtzehnten Jahrhundert, Technical University-Berlin

Archives and Epiphanies: China in the early modern republic of letters, Penn State University

World Literature, Translation, and the Jesuit Mission to China, University of California, Davis

The Future of Graduate Education in German, German Studies Association, Washington, D.C.

Seminar on (Re)tracing Cosmopolitanism: Weltliteratur, Weltbürgertum, Weltgesellschaft – Long-Distance Empathy and The Secret Origins of Cosmopolitanism,”, German Studies Association, Washington, D.C.

University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference – World Literature, Translation, and the Jesuit Mission to China

Goethe, World Literature, and the Chinese Novel, University of Louisville

Wisconsin Workshop of the Department of German – The repetition/circulation in early modern media and the timeless image of China, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Authentiziät als transdisziplinuares Phänomen, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft

China in the Republic of Letters, University of Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies

The European City as Shopping Arcade, PSU Institute for Arts & Humanities

Annual Convention – The European City, Urban Design, and Migration, American Comparative Literature Association, New York, NY

Annual Convention – Ethical Decisions at the MLA Job Market, Modern Language Association, Chicago

Annual Convention – Goethe’s Engagement with China, Modern Language Assoication, Chicago

Radical Enlightenment – “Chinese Missionaries to Europe: Practical Philosophy from Asia,”, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Annual Convention – “Dismantling Globalization in the European City,”, German Studies Association, Denver, Colorado

Globalization and the European City, Penn State University Institute for Arts and the Humanities

China in the Republic of Letters, University of Toronto

Defending the European City: Globalization, Media and the Public Sphere, Ohio State University, German Department

Modern Language Association Annual Convention – “The European City as a Defense against Globalization,”, Modern Language Association, Boston, MA

German Studies Association Annual Convention – “Reviving the Baroque, Defending Goethe: Literary Periodization between Kittler and Wellbery,”, German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI

Empathy and Architecture–ten years after 9/11, Columbia University, NY

Literature and Criticism in the Public Sphere – Market and Media in der europäischen Stadt: City Planning and the Public Sphere, German Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Central PA AATG – Teaching Berlin’s New Architecture: More Local than Global, Penn State German Department, State College, PA

Annual Convention – Science or Art: Architecture’s Place among the Disciplines, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Winston-Salem, NC

German Studies Association National Convention – A New City for the Merchant Class: Urban Planning and World Mercantile Trade, German Studies Association, Oakland, CA

Penn State-Freiburg Workshop – Goethes Begriff von Weltliteratur, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany

Inside/Out: Dress and Identity in German Literature, Performance and Art, – Stores and Stories: The Spaces of German Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth-century,”, German Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

German Studies Association National Convention – Monuments as Subversive Architecture: Goethe and Hegel’s Gothic Connection, German Studies Association, Washington, D.C.

Annual Conference – The Architecture of Systems: Kant’s debt to Renaissance building, International Society for Intellectual History, Verona, Italy

German Studies Association National Convention – Hegel’s Architectural Transcendence, German Studies Association, St. Paul, Minnesota

MLA National Convention – Goethe’s House: Architecture as latent Mythology in Benjamin, Modern Language Association, Chicago

Architectonics,” Kolloquium für Architekturtheorie, Architectural Theory Seminar, Technical University-Berlin, Germany

German Studies Association National Convention – The Private Life of Clothes, Wilhelm Meister and the End of Circulation, German Studies Association, San Diego

German Studies Association National Convention – Discourse Analysis and the failed Erasure of Literary Autonomy, German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA

Sophie Mereau verdichtet- Werk-Zeit-Raum – Overlooking Gender: Sophie Mereau’s Portrayal of Bildung, Sonderforschungsbereich–Ereignis Weimar, Jena, Germany

German Studies Association National Convention – Watching Buildings with Goethe and Benjamin, German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI

Annual Conference – Is that all there is?” Architectural Drawing and the Disappointing Site, Goethe and Palladio, International Association of Word and Image Studies, Philadelphia, PA

Annual Convention – Empathy in Italy: Glory Regained through Architectural Tourism, American Comparative Literature Association, State College, PA

Philosophy of Architecture/ Architecture of Philosophy – The Architectonic of Knowledge in Kant and Vitruvius, Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for Cultural Analysis Theory and History, University of Leeds, Bradford, UK

Mode, Modernität und geschichtliches Bewußtsein im neunzehten Jahrhundert, University of Dortmund

Annual Convention – Berlin Hochhäuser and the Liveable City, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Philadelphia, PA

The Building in Bildung: Architectural Spectatorship in Goethe and Benjamin, Institute for German Cultural Studies, Ithaca, NY

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference – From Architecture to Autonomy: Renaissance Beauty in neo-Classical Aesthetics,”, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Roman Excursions and Architectural Wonders: Eighteenth-Century Travel and German Aesthetic Theory, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

From Mainhattan to Manhattan, Architecture and Style in Trans-Atlantic Dialogue – Urban Experience Below the Towers of Potsdamer Platz, German Historical Institute & Columbia University, New York, NY

Annual Convention – From Architecture to Autonomy: Renaissance Beauty in neo-Classical Aesthetics, Modern Language Association, New York, NY

Annual Convention – Austro-Hungarian Ethnicity and the Cosmopolitan Dandyism of Adolf Loos, Modernist Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin

German Studies Association National Convention – Goethe as Architectural Spectator, German Studies Association, San Diego, CA

Seventh International Cultural Studies Symposium – Exile or Sentimentalism: “Heimat” and the Threat of Internationalism in 19th Century Germany, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

Annual Convention – The Absolute English Gentleman: Adolf Loos’s codification of Dandyism, American Comparative Literature Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Enlightenment, University of California, Long Beach,

Style Over Fashion: High Modernism’s Affinity with Weimar Classicism, German Department, Stanford University, Palo ALto, CA

Humanities Annual Theme on Style – Style Over Fashion: High Modernism’s Affinity with Weimar Classicism, German Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Annual Convention – The Plastic Art of Dressing in the Nude: Herder and the Sculpted Soldier, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Study, St. John’s College, Oxford, UK

Annual Convention – The Plastic Art of Dressing in the Nude: Herder and the Sculpted Soldier, Mid-West American Association of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Das Journal des Luxus und der Moden: Kultur um 1800 – Die Modernität Bertuchs Fassung der Mode, Sonderforschungsbereich Kolloquium, Jena, Germany

Annual Convention – The Alienation of Adornment in Goethe’s Early Lyric, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, PA

Annual Convention – Utopia and Masculine Beauty in Stifter’s Brigitta, Modern Language Association

Before Ethnicity: Enlightenment Patriotism in German-American Almanacs of the Early Republic, Université de Versailles ,, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

Annual Convention – Mode als Geschichte: Cosmopolitan Self-Consciousness in Mass Culture Criticism, German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA

Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment – The Emperor’s New Clothes: Beauty and Discipline in Male Dress, Dublin, Ireland

Schumann and Goethe’s Faust, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

Object-Oriented Advertising in the Weimar Republic, Poster Auctions International, New York, NY

Classicism and the Origins of German Consumer Culture, Bryn Mawr College

Paranoid Geography and the European Dispersion of Fashion, Anthropological Association of Ireland, St. Patricks College, Maynooth, Ireland

Annual Convention – Weimar Fashion and the Fear It Provoked, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Memphis, TN

The Birth and Denunciation of Consumer Culture in Weimar, Davidson College Symposium, Davidson, NC

Annual Convention – The Tyranny of Fashion: An Allegory’s Domestication, Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C.

Annual Convention – Fashion in Eighteenth-Century German Culture, Mid-West Modern Language Association, Minneapolis,MN

Annual Convention – Mode and “Luxus”: Constituting the Fashionable Commodity within Germany’s Consumer Discourse, Mid-West American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indianapolis, IN

Faculty Seminar on the History of the Book – Eighteenth-Century Fashion Journals and the Acceleration of Style, Columbia University, New York, NY

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference – The Discipline of Elegance, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Annual Convention – Sophie Mereau and the Support of Domestic Feminism, Modern Language Association, Chicago

Annual Convention – A Night at the Opera or a Quiet Evening at Home: The Panopticon was never this much Fun, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ottawa, Canada

De Bartolo Conference– The Eighteenth-Century Male – English Country Dress and Prussian Discipline, University of South Florida

German Colloquium – Signs of Discipline: Clothing and Male Identity via Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Brown University, Providence, RI

Contesting Grounds: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to German Studies – Signs of Discipline: Clothing and Male Identity via Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Annual Convention – Fashion and the Enthusiastic Reception of Sentimentalism, German Studies Association

Nature, Spaces, Landscapes: Images and Concepts of Space in Intercultural Perspective – Literary Fantasy and the Construction of Luxurious Interiors in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Nußknacker und Mausekönig, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Friendship as the Introduction to America: Percy Adlon’s Baghdad Cafe and Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA

E.T.A. Hoffmann, Narrative and the Formation of Consumer Desire, Columbia University, New York, NY

Restoring the Revolutionary: Heinrich Heine’s Political Romanticism, Bucknell University

Nietzsche’s Politics, Mid-South Philosophy Convention, Memphis, TN

„Es hat also jede Sache ihren Gesichtspunkt …“ – Neue Blicke auf Justus Möser (1720-1794) – „In dieser schrecklichen Vermischung …“: Mode, Idylle und eine Landesuniform bei Möser, Voss und Goethe, Landschaftsverbandes Osnabrück & Institute for Early Modern History, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Annual Convention – Asian Travel Writing and Enlightenment Race Theory, German Studies Association

Globally Engaged Humanities–A Penn State-Nanjing Dialogue – An Imperial audience on Free Trade: The First European Prints of Chinese Cities, Luce Foundation, Nanjing, China

PhD Committees

Dissertation Advisor for Adam Toth – PERFORMING THE LETTER OF THE LAW: THE ROLE OF ORIENTALIST RACE THEORY IN KAFKA’S WRITINGS 2017

Committee Member for Katherine Anderson – Foreign Writing Agency: Abbas Khider and María Cecilia Barbetta Writing Towards Catharsis in German as a Foreign Language After Trauma 2017

Committee Member for Lea Pao – Informational Practices in German Poetry: Ernst Meister, Oswald Egger, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2017

Dissertation Advisor for Jacob VanderKolk – THE SELF-DESTRUCTING TEXT: HERMANN BROCH’S DER TOD DES VERGIL AND THE LIMITS OF AVANT-GARDE NARRATIVE 2017

Committee Member for Jeffrey Horton – In Service Of The State: Desertion, Discipline, And Army Life In The Habsburg Monarchy, 1753-1781 2016

Committee Member for Kristen Fisher – Sites of Romantic Medievalism in the Writings of William Wordsworth, Germaine de Staël, and Lord George Gordon Byron 2016

Dissertation Advisor for Nicole McInteer – Writing the Edge of Empire: Joseph Roth’s Galicia 2016

Committee Member for Juliane Schicker – The Concert Hall as Heterotopia: Sounds and Sights of Resistance in the Leipzig Gewandhaus 1970-1989 2015

Committee Member for Joey Balay – The Relevance of the Beautiful in Martin Heidegger 2014

Committee Member for Katja Stuckatz – a Contribution to Modern World Poetry Ernst Jandl and the International Avant-garde 2014

Committee Member for Toby Svoboda – Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Approach to Environmental Ethics 2012

Dissertation Advisor for Yasemin Mohammad – Dissident Stories of Travel and Displacement: Middle Eastern Heritage German Writers’ Interventions into the Nationalist Imagination 2012

Committee Chair for Beate Brunow – DRAMATIC INQUIRIES: ENCOUNTERING DISCOURSES ON WOMEN ARTISTS’ CREATIVE CONFLICTS 2011

Committee Member for Ipek Kismet Bell – Rampant Modernism and its Cityscapes: Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü 2011

Committee Chair for Jameson Kismet Bell – From Allegory to Emblem: Uncovering the Brain in Lorenz Fries’ Spiegel der Artzney and Hans von Gersdorff’s Feldtbuch der Wundartzney 2011

Committee Chair for Vladislav Rozanov – The Real and the Imaginary in the literary works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph Eichendorff, and Vladimir Odoevsky 2011

Committee Chair for Tejashri Chindhade – Presenting and Comparing early Marathi and German women’s feminist writings (1866-1933): Some findings. 2010

Committee Chair for Rebecca Zajdowicz – Engaging with the Nation: German Women Writers of the Vormärz and Constructions of National Identity 2010

Committee Chair for Michael Wallo – INTOXICATION, REJUVENATION, COMMUNITY: LITERARY EXPRESSIONISTS AND RADICAL WEIMAR CONSERVATIVES IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMANY 2010

Committee Chair for Imke Brust – Narrating the Imagination of Unified Nations in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Wall Germany 2009

Committee Member for Kyle Grady – The Discipline of Genius: Nature, Freedom and the Emergence of the Idea of System in Kant’s Critical Philosophy 2008

Committee Member for Dirk Lehmann – German in Every Particular? From Historic Settlement to Theme Towns: Examples of “Little Germanies” in America. 2007

Committee Member for Reuben Rose-Redwood – Governmentality, the Grid, and the Beginnings of a Critical Spatial History of the Geo-coded World 2006

Committee Member for Ying Tang – CHRISTA WOLF: THE MAKING OF AN INTELLECTUAL WOMAN 2006

Committee Chair for Theresa Ganter – HEINER MÜLLER AND THE GESCHICHTSDRAMA: SEARCHING FOR A NEW GERMAN IDENTITY IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II (GERMANIA TOD IN BERLIN) AND POST-REUNIFICATION ERAS (GERMANIA 3 GESPENSTER AM TOTEN MANN) 2005

Committee Chair for Birger Sachau – Individual Psychology in the Teaching of Foreign Language and Literature: A New Approach in Foreign Language Pedagogy and an Adlerian Interpretation of Selected Works by Theodor Storm 2004

Masters Committees

Thesis Advisor for Lan Ma – An Analysis of Beijing’s Hutongs and Siheyuans: An Urban Tree Approach 2014