Past Events
Lectures/Conferences:
September 16, 2007,
5:00-7:00:
Dr. Glenn Winters -
"The Tales of Hoffmann"
Jefferson Hall
October 26, 2007,
2:00-4:00:
Professor Thomas Pfau
(Duke University) - "Towards an Interdisciplinary Theory of Bildung"
New Cabell Hall 341
November 16, 2007,
2:00-4:00:
Professor Lutz
Koepnick (Washington University, St. Louis) - "0:1 Riefensthal
and the Beauty of Soccer"
[this event was co-sponsored by the Max Kade German House and the Carl
H. and Martha S. Lindner Center for Art History]
New Cabell Hall 341
February 8 - 10, 2008
Graduate Student
Conference: "Visions of Sound: The Aural in German Literature
and History". February 8, 2008, Keynote lecture by Thomas
Schestag (Johns Hopkins University) - "Oui ... wie? Hebels
Wegweiser".
Minor Hall 125
February 22, 2008,
2:00-4:00:
Professor Julia Hell
(University of Michigan)
“Empires and
Ruin Gazers, or Hitler in Rome”
New Cabell Hall 341
March 13, 2008,
2:00-4:00:
Professor Manfred
Schneider (Ruhr University Bochum) - "Culture of Paranoia"
[presentation of TransCOOP project for the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, in connection with the Center for German Studies]
New Cabell Hall 341
March 14, 2008,
2:00-4:00:
Professor Manfred Schneider (Ruhr University Bochum) - "Reading
Assassins: A Critique of Paranoid Reason"
New Cabell Hall 341
March 21, 2008,
2:00-4:00:
Sabine Hake (University
of Texas) - "Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass
Society in Weimar Berlin" [this event was co-sponsored by the
Department of Architecture]
New Cabell Hall 341
April 11, 2008,
2:00-4:00:
Thomas Wegmann
(Humboldt University, Berlin) - "Artistik. Zur Genese einer
ästhetischen Kategorie aus dem Geist zirzensischer Künste"
November 14, 2009, 2:30, CAB 341
Lecture by Gabriele Dietze (Humboldt University, Berlin)
"Okzidentalistische Bilderpolitik. Neo-Orientalismus und Migration in deutscher visueller Kultur"
Departmental:
August 31, 2:00-4:00:
Welcome Reception
Newcomb Hall - Room 168
September 11, 2007,
7:00-9:00
German Social
Clark Mural
September 21, 2007,
2:00-4:00:
Dissertation Prospectus
- Brett Martz
New Cabell Hall 316
February 8 - 10, 2008
Graduate Student
Conference: "Visions of Sound: The Aural in German Literature
and History". February 8, 2008, Keynote lecture by Thomas
Schestag (Johns Hopkins) - "Oui ... wie? Hebels Wegweiser".
Minor Hall 125
March
26 - 28, 2008
External Reviewers
Meetings TBA
April 1, 2008
German Outreach Day
Newcomb Hall Ballroom
April 11, 2008, 2:00-4:00 PM
Professor Thomas Wegmann, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor
"Artistik. Zur Genese
einer ästhetischen Kategorie aus dem Geist zirzensischer
Künste"
CAB 341
April 12, 2008, 7:30 PM
Prose and Piano
Kaleidoscope Room-Newcomb Hall
April
18 & 19, 2008
German 322 - The German
Play presents Frühlings Erwachen (Spring's
Awakening)
Maury Auditorium (209) 7 pm
Performed
in German/Free Admission
April
23, 2008, 4:00-6:00
End-of-Year Reception
PAV VIII
April
29, 2008
Last Day of Classes
May
18, 2008
Final Exercises
Reception: Fair Weather: PAV II, Lower Garden -- Inclement Weather: Wilson Hall 301
November 14, 2009, 2:30, CAB 341
Lecture by Gabriele Dietze (Humboldt University, Berlin)
"Okzidentalistische Bilderpolitik. Neo-Orientalismus und Migration in deutscher visueller Kultur"