Upcoming Events
Monday, October 10: Dr. Barbara Gügold
“Germany Today: Not Separate, Yet Not Quite Unified"
2:00-4:00, South Meeting Room, 3rd Floor
Friday, October 21: Stefanie Arend (University of Rostock)
“Spaziergang durch Bilder. Im Spielraum des Emblems”
2:30-4:00, Nau 242
Friday, October 31-Nov 4th: Do Deutsch Event Week
Saturday, November 12: Stefanie Arend (University of Rostock)
CGS workshop: “Die Pegnitzschäfer - Nürnberger Barockdichtung”
10:00am-2:00pm, Minor 130
Thursday, November 17: Hans Joas (University of Freiburg, Institute for Advanced Studies / University of Chicago, Sociology)
"The Sacredness of the Person: On the Origins of Human Rights"
3:30pm-5:00pm, Watson Manor
event co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Department of Sociology, and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Thursday, December 1: special mid-Atlantic premiere screening of the new German comedy Almanya, Welcome to Germany (Yasemin Samdereli, 2011)
7:00pm, Vinegar Hill Theatre, 220 West Market Street, Charlottesville, VA
film shown in 35mm with English subtitles and *free admission* (free tickets available at the door until the theater is full)
event co-sponsored by the Center for German Studies at the University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University School of Law, The German Law Journal, and the German Embassy in Washington D.C.
Saturday, December 3: Center for German Studies workshop on Kleist: "The Afterlife of Heinrich von Kleist"
3:00-6:00pm, Minor 130
Friday, February 17 - Saturday, February 18: "Wasted Spaces": Annual Graduate Student Conference
Keynote address: Rochelle Tobias (Johns Hopkins University)
"Rilke and the Landscape of the Heart"
Friday, February 17, 5:00pm, Nau 101
Friday, February 24: Cathy Caruth (Cornell University)
"Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights (A Reading of Dorman's Death and the Maiden)"
2:30-4:00, Nau 211
Friday, March 23: Andrew Webber (Cambridge University, UK)
“Threshold Conditions: Benjamin, Schnitzler and the Sleeping Disorders of Modernism”
2:30-4:00, Nau 211