2017: Georges Didi-Huberman, “Endless Uprisings. The Image as a Medium for Desire”

Georges Didi-Huberman, “Endless Uprisings. The Image as a Medium for Desire”

Berlin Mosse Lecture
https://mosselectures.wisc.edu/berlin/

Thursday, 14 December 2017, 19:00 CET

Senatssaal of Humboldt University
Unter den Linden 6
1. Stock
10117 Berlin
GERMANY

Sponsored by:
[mosse] LECTURES an der humboldt-universität zu berlin
The Mosse Foundation
Global Mosse Lecture Series
Institut für deutsche Literatur
Humboldt University

Moderator: Ulrike Vedder (Humboldt University)
Respondent: Sigrid Weigel (Technische Universität Berlin)

Georges Didi-Huberman: French philosopher and art historian who has lectured at the School for Advanced Studies in Paris since 1990. He received the Adorno Prize in 2015 and is the author of numerous books.

Sigrid Weigel: An expert in literature, cultural theory, and intellectual history. She has taught at Hamburg, Zürich, Berlin, and Princeton. She is the author of over a dozen books, as well as several edited volumes. In 2026 she was awarded the Aby Warburg Prize of the City of Hamburg.

Professor of modern German literature at Humboldt University, Berlin, since 2009, Ulrike Vedder studies contemporary literature, gender studies, generations, and near-death experiences. Among other works, she is the author of Geschickte Liebe. Zur Mediengeschichte des Liebesdiskurses im Briefroman „Les Liaisons dangereuses“ und in der Gegenwartsliteratur (2002) and editor of Gender und Genre. Essayistik deutschsprachiger Autorinnen (2025). She also serves on the editorial board of Zeitschrift für Germanistik.