Keynote Address "The Untimeliness of Media: Intermediality Across Eras in German Literature Culture, and Art"

Professor Christopher Wood gives the talk "The Crime of Passion," on Dürer's drawing "The Death of Orpheus," homosexuality in the Renaissance, and Aby Warburg's pathos formula. The talk was delivered as the keynote address for the graduate student conference "The Untimeliness of Media: Intermediality Across Eras in German Literature Culture, and Art," hosted by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia on Feburary 18, 2016.

Christopher Wood is Professor of German at New York University and the author of Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (Chicago, 2008) and Anachronic Renaissance (ZONE Books, 2010: co-authored with Alexander Nagel). The recording for this talk was generously sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).To access the video please click HERE.