Paul Dobryden
“Casting Weimar: Selection, Surplus, and the Film Actor”
Event Details
Date
Friday, October 16, 2026
Time
1-2:30 p.m.
Location
1418 Van Hise Hall
Description
This presentation tracks modern discourses of human selection as they converged in discussions of film acting in Weimar Germany. Paul Dobryden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, and the author of The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder (Northwestern University Press, 2022).
Cost
Free
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-265-8040 (voice only) or email europe@international.wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Friday, October 2, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.