Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, in conversation with Eckart Goebel, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Universität Tübingen. Stories are much more than entertainment — they shape our world. They have inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, sparked our understandings of basic political and philosophical concepts, and given rise to religious beliefs. In this free talk, Martin Puchner, author of the bestseller The Written World (German: “Die Macht…