ETH Global Lecture Series: In Conversation with Sepp Gumbrecht
12 June 2020 - Online Event - Prof. em. Sepp Gumbrecht, Stanford University and Dr. Chris Luebkeman, ETH Zurich discuss the impact of COVID-19 on society, and Gumbrecht's latest publication, "Crowds".
Professor em. Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht is a literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, semiotics, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday. He is shamelessly curious about why we do the things we do. Join us for what promises to be an amazing excursion exploring his thoughts on the short and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on presence, atmosphere, beauty and the body. We might get to delve into his latest publication entitled “external pageCrowds”.
Free public online event
Friday, 12 June 2020
16.00 - 17.00 Zurich (CET)
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht was a Stanford University's Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of French & Italian before his retirement in 2018. As a scholar, Gumbrecht focused on the histories of the national literatures in Romance language (especially French, Spanish, and Brazilian), but also on German literature.
Over the past forty years, he has published more than two thousand texts, including books, translated into more than twenty languages. In Europe and in South America, Gumbrecht has a presence as a public intellectual; whereas, in the academic world, he has been acknowledged by twelve honorary doctorates in six different countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, and Russia. He has also held a large number of visiting professorships, at the Collège de France, University of Lisbon, University of Manchester, and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, among others.