The Golem: The Artificial Anthropoid from Enlightenment Monster to AI
May 20, 2021
Lecture (virtual) | 12pm ET | Speaker: Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester)
This lecture is part of the (rescheduled) 2020 GHI Washington Spring Lecture Series “'The spirits that I called': Artificial Life from the Enlightenment to the Present.”
Cathy Gelbin is a film historian and cultural studies scholar with special interests in European life and its Jewish cultures. Her work on feature film, video testimony, literary texts and live art has focused on Holocaust representations and the dynamics of modern German-speaking Jewish culture. She has written The Golem Returns: From German Romantic Literature to Global Jewish Culture, 1808-2008 (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany).