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"