The Medieval Institute presents The 2018 Annual Conway Lectures. The lecture series brings together senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines.
Niklaus Largier is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair in the Humanities. He has published on medieval mysticism, the history of ascetic practices, prayer, and aesthetic experience. His books include an edition of the works of Meister Eckhart (Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1993); In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal (Zone Books, 2007), and Die Kunst des Begehrens: Dekadenz, Askese und Sinnlichkeit (C. H. Beck, 2007). In a number of recent essays he discusses medieval practices of contemplation, the stimulation of sensation and affect, and the emergence of aesthetic experience. He is currently working on a book on figuration, tentatively entitled Figures of Possibility.
Lecture dates for 2018:
October 2 "The Poetics of Prayer"
October 4 "Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical Voice"
October 9 "Henry Suso - Between Speculation and Affect"
All are welcome.
Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.