Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Liliane Weissberg has been selected to give the prestigious Fritz Thyssen Lecture in Israel this spring. The topic of her lecture, which will take place at Ben Gurion University in June, will be "Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing."
Dr. Weissberg, who is the Joseph Glossberg Term Professor
in the Humanities, is an expert in German, American, and
French literature; literary theory; aesthetics; and cultural
studies. Her most recent work focuses on Jewish women writers
of the early 19th century. Her distinguished scholarship
has earned her fellowships from the American Philosophical
Society, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Memorial Foundation
for Jewish Culture. Last year, Professor Weissberg received
a Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for
Distinguished Teaching.
This annual lecture series was begun last year and is sponsored by the Fritz
Thyssen Foundation.