Please register for the event by using the following link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iw84K5C-T4eMuVBXZNGglw Karen Feldman, Department Chair, Professor, Department of German, UC Berkeley If individuals have a conscience, can corporations such as Apple, nations such as the United States, and movements such as #MeToo have a conscience too? How do we communicate and visualize conscience in narratives, and symbols? How does conscience evolve, and how do narratives and symbols change to reflect these evolutions? Join noted UC Berkeley theorist Prof. Karen Feldman to explore the rhetoric of conscience, and how it was conceptualized and visualized through the ages. Karen Feldman is a critical theorist who studies the methods by which political power manifests in societies. She is Department Chair of and a Professor in the German Department and her areas of specialization include hermeneutics and phenomenology, the Frankfurt School, German Idealism, literary theory and aesthetics. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago (1989) and her Ph.D. from DePaul University (1998). Her current research concerns aesthetics and historiography from Kant to Benjamin. Prof. Feldman spent 2010-2011 in Berlin on a grant with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She was a Fulbright scholar at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and in Berlin (1998-2000); and a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduiertenkolleg “Repräsentation, Rhetorik, Wissen.” She is the author of Binding Words: Conscience and Text in Hobbes, Hegel and Heidegger (Northwestern University Press, 2006) and co-editor of Continental Philosophy: An Anthology(Blackwell, 1998). She has published articles on German Romanticism, German Idealism, the history of rhetoric, and literary theory in MLN, the Germanic Review, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Word and Image, Angelaki, Philosophy Today, and in edited collections. Her book Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality” is appearing in 2019 with De Gruyter Press. -------------------------- Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design. Technical support and presentation offered by UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities. For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu/thursdays.