Neue Sachlichkeit: Seeing the World with Different Eyes

Andreas A Huyssen, Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Andreas Huyssen served as founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society (1998-2003) at Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on 18th-20th-century German literature and culture, international modernism, Frankfurt School critical theory, postmodernism, cultural memory of historical trauma in transnational contexts, and, most recently, urban culture and globalization. He still pursues his long-standing interest in the politics of memory, now in relation to human rights discourse, and he works on a book on contemporary visual artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic and their dual investment in memories of state violence and memories of modernism.