Upcoming Events
Friday, September 28: Beatrice Waegner and Charles Taggart (PhD candidates, University of Virginia)
Dissertation Prospectus Presentations
2:00-4:00, Clemons 407
Friday, October 19: Manfred Schneider (Ruhr University Bochum / Max Kade Visiting Professor)
"Verstummen und Schweigen. Heinrich Heines politische Poetik"
2:30-4:00 p.m., Monroe 134
Friday, October 26, 2012: Center for German Studies workshop: "The Future of German Studies in the United States"
2:30-5:30pm, Monroe 122
- 2:30 - 3:45pm: Christian Kohlross (American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington DC): "A Discipline under
Threat: Germanistik in the United States"
- 3:45-4:00pm: coffee break
- 4:00-5:30pm: Hartmut Rastalsky (University of Michigan): "Recruitment and Retention: Student-Friendly Instruction at the University
of Michigan"
Friday, February 22, 2013: Richard Newhauser (Arizona State University)
“The Peraldus Project: The Edition, Translation, and Transmission of the Summa de vitiis”
5:00 p.m., Monroe 130
Friday, March 1, 2013: B. Venkat Mani (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Shelf-Lives of Books: Libraries and the Institutionalization of World Literature"
2:30-4:00 p.m., Gibson 242
Russell Miller (Washington and Lee University)
Germany vs. Europe: The Principle of Democracy in German Constitutional
Law and the Struggle for European Integration
Friday, March 22, 2013
3:00-4:00 pm
Monroe Hall 124.
Helmut Schneider (University of Bonn; currently Max Kade Professor of German Studies at Georgetown University)
"Empathy, Theater, and the Production of Imaginary Collectives in the 18th Century"
Friday, April 12th, 2013
2:30-4:00 p.m., Gibson 242
The Center for German Studies: "Cases and Examples: The Scientific Paradigm in Art,
Media, and Literature Between 1750 and 1900"
Minor Hall 125 9:00-11:30
Monroe Hall 124 2:30-6:00
Saturday
Monroe Hall 124 10:00-1:00
Monroe Hall 124 3:00-6:00