The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke
Please join the WLC Department for our final colloquium of the semester. It will feature a conversation with Joe Metz about his new monograph: The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke, (Cornell University Press, 2025).
Event Categories: Colloquia. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Campus Wide Event: No.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Thanksgiving
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
Day After Thanksgiving
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
University Closure Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, December 24, 2025.
Christmas Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, December 25, 2025.
University Closure Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, December 26, 2025.
New Year's Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
The Gordon B. Hinckley Lecture in British Studies
The Fate of the Foundling, or, being undocumented in Twentieth-century Britain
by Nadja Durbach, Professor
Co-Editor, Journal of British Studies
Department of History, College of Humanities
University of Utah
A cultural and social historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, Professor Durbach's research focuses on the history of the body and its relationship to the state, the nation, and the empire. She is currently working on a book entitled Registration Nation: Identity, Privacy, and the Recording of Persons in Modern Britain. This project explores how the British state’s attempts to register different populations opened up a range of contentious questions about race, sex, class, legal status, personhood, health, ability, freedom, citizenship, and ultimately the relationship among the individual, the family, the state, the nation, and the empire.
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Cost: Free. Transportation / Parking: Union Parking Lot. Contact Name: John Boyack. Contact Phone: 801-587-7351. Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
For more info visit british-studies.utah.edu.