Prof. Dorothee Ostmeier will deliver a lecture in honor of beloved UW Prof. Diana Behler.
 
In literary Romanticism to AI tales, portals, called heterotopias by Foucault, mediate change between concrete and virtual, human and non-human realities. This lecture straddles the fringes of realty shifts in the Brothers Grimm and ETA Hoffmann’s tales, inserting literary German discourses on the imaginary into the vibrant questions asked by anthropologists (Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing) and cultural critics (Latour and Timothy Morton) and engineers of digital virtuality (Ray Kurzweil).  All diversely investigate possible futures beyond our anthropocentric minds and psyche.
For Seattleites listening to the weather harp in Douglas Hollis Sound Garden, Magnussen Park, will be a great introduction to the theme of this lecture.