Past Events

Lectures/Conferences:

April 20 & 22
The German Play

April 17 & 18: Manfred Bansleban (University of Washington, Seattle)
17th - 2:30-4:30 - NHL 481 - Presentation
18th - 10:00-1:00 - Clemons 407 - Workshop

April 16, 2009, Rotunda Dome Room, 4:30 pm
"The Transatlantic Agenda: A German Perspective"
His Excellency Klaus Scharioth
the Ambassador of Germany

April 3, 2009, CAB 332, 2:30 pm
"The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness and the Invention of Aesthetic Experience"
Niklaus Largier (University of California, Berkeley)

March 20, 2009, CAB 332, 2:30 pm
"German Cinema in Transnational Perspective: Wilhelm Dieterle's Biopics and German Exile Cinema"
Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College)

February 20, 2009, CAB 332, 2:30 pm
"Beyond the 'Victims Debate': Representations of Expulsion and Relocation in Contemporary German Literature"
Friederike Eigler (Georgetown University)

February 13-15, 2009
16th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
"Eat, Drink and be Merry:  Questions of Consumption and Celebration
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November 22, 2008, 9:30-1:00
Weimar and Beyond--Radicalism, Contingency and Desire Workshop -- Roundtable

November 14, 2008, 2:30 pm
Gabriele Dietze (Humboldt University, Berlin), Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor
"Okzidentalistische Bilderpolitik.  Neo-Orientalismus und Migration in deutscher visueller Kultur"

October 25, 2008, 2:00-4:00 pm Lecture by Josef Joffe

October 24, 2008, 2:00-5:00 pm
Josef Joffe (Editor and publisher of Die Zeit)
Center for German Studies launching event: roundtable discussion

October 17, 2008, 6 - 9 pm - Bice House
Oktoberfest at the German House

October 17, 2008, 4:30 pm - CAB 341
Simon Strick lecture
"Master(ing) Pain in the 19th Century: Contexts for a History of Pain and Subjection"

September 24, 2008, 4:00-6:00 pm
Center for German Studies Reception
PAV VII, Colonnade Club

September 19, 2:00-4:00
Prospectus Presentation by Barbara Rieger
CAB 341

September 18, 7:00-10:00 pm
Pizza Night
Clark Hall (Mural Room)

September 5, 2008, 2:30 pm
Leslie Adelson (Cornell University)
"Experiment Mars: Imaginative Ethnoscapes and the New Futurism in Contemporary German Literature"


Departmental:

April 23, 2009, 4-6 pm, PAV VIII Garden (Rainsite: NHL 168)
End of Year Reception

March 24, 2009
German Outreach Day

February 13-15, 2009 16th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference Eat, Drink and be Merry: Questions of Consumption and Celebration

October 17, 2008, 2:00-4:00 Publication Workshop presented by Professor Lorna Martens and graduate students CAB 523

September 12, 2008, 2:00-4:00 Job Market Workshop presented by Lorna Martens, Laura Heins, and Chad Wellmon CAB 523

August 29, 2008, 4:00-6:00 Welcome Reception PAV VIII Garden Rainsite: Newcomb 168

August 26, 2008
First Day of Classes