German Department Talk

Tracy Graves, Michigan State, presents. Berlin’s Pergamon Altar and Museum -- linchpins for German cultural and political identification -- provide the backdrop for negotiations between Germany’s actual and imagined pasts and its envisioned and hoped-for futures. Representations of spectatorship such as Peter Weiss’s and Thomas Struth’s invite readers and viewers to step inside, forge their own connections, and discover new associations between the personal, the aesthetic, and the political.