BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seismographies – Alexander Kluge’s Polymorphous Urgencies: A Workshop and Tribute Symposium DTSTART:20261105T220000Z DTEND:20261106T230000Z UID:https://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/11/seismographies-alexander-klug es-polymorphous-urgencies-a-workshop-and-tribute-symposium/ DESCRIPTION:\n\n Open to the public.This two-day event honors the work of the late writer\, philosopher\, and filmmaker Alexander Kluge (1932–202 6). Inviting Kluge’s collaborators in art\, philosophy\, and literature to Princeton\, and further drawing on archival holdings as our working mat erial\, the format alternates between film screenings and roundtables arou nd topics including Kluge’s relationship to critical theory\; his multim edia and collaborative praxis\; and his intertwined understandings of hist orical experience\, meaning\, and political emotion. The event features fi lm screenings of Kluge’s award-winning Abschied von gestern (1966) and S arah Morris’s Finite and Infinite Games (2017). Two further sessions wil l feature a seminar-style close reading of Kluge’s prose fiction and a w orkshop on Kluge’s recent approach to digital tools and video work. Open to the public\, the event honors the life and legacy of a seminal thinker whose friendship and collaboration with Princeton spanned decades. It als o aims to open his work to new audiences—and to lay up material for the Kluge scholarship still to come.Thursday November 5Location: East Pyne 010 5 pm – Film Screening: Yesterday Girl / Abschied von gestern (dir. Kluge \, 1966)\, with introductory remarks by Michael W. Jennings and post-film discussion led by Thomas Y. LevinFriday November 6Morning: Workshops & \; Film ScreeningLocation: Princeton University Art Museum\, room 134 (Tut tle Lecture Hall)9 am – “Constellative Collections: Orientations in Al exander Kluge'\;s Video Work”: an archival workshop led by Kizer S. Walker10:30 am – Close reading breakout sessions11:30 am – Film Screen ing: Finite and Infinite Games (dir. Morris\, 2017)\, with an introduction by Sarah Morris Afternoon: Symposium featuring invited speakers:Location: Senate Chamber\, Whig Hall2 pm – Panel I. Kluge &\; critical theory4 :30 pm – Panel II. Atlas: Kluge’s multimedia practice\, from architect ure to AIInvited speakers: Juan-Jacques Aupiais (Ohio State University)\; Michael W. Jennings (Princeton University)\; Gertrud Koch (Freie Universit ät Berlin/Leuphana University Lüneburg)\; Richard Langston (University o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\; Sarah Morris (New York)\; Irina Simova (Wesleyan University)\; Joseph Vogl (Princeton University/Humboldt-Univers ität Berlin)\; Kizer S. Walker (Cornell University)Co-sponsorsHosted by t he Princeton University Department of German. Co-sponsored by the Center f or Digital Humanities\; Committee for Film Studies\; Department of Art &am p\; Archaeology\; Department of Comparative Literature\; Department of Eng lish\; Department of Philosophy\; Forum for the History of Political Thoug ht at the University Center for Human Values\; Princeton Humanities Initia tive\; Princeton University Humanities Council\; Program in Contemporary E uropean Politics and Society\; Program in European Cultural Studies\; Prog ram in Media and Modernity\; Program in Political Philosophy.Further Infor mationThis event is open to the public and to all regardless of identity. Sponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented. For fur ther event details\, please check the Princeton German Department website \, https://german.princeton.edu/whats-on/events/upcoming or the event webs ite\, https://sites.google.com/princeton.edu/kluge. Event contact: mljames @princeton.edu.\n\n\nhttps://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/11/seismographi es-alexander-kluges-polymorphous-urgencies-a-workshop-and-tribute-symposiu m/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR