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2008

March 28: 

Sylvia Rieger 

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Digital Realities:  The Interactive Documentary in Intermediate and
Advanced Language Courses

Friday, March 28, 2008
3:10-4:30 p.m.

BUTTRICK HALL 202

WITH RECEPTION IN EUS CONFERENCE RM
2nd floor Buttrick Hall immed. after

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March 13/14:


Thinking with Franz Rosenzweig
(details click)

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February 29:


Suspicion: Signs of Modernity , Workshop 
(details:click)

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Feb 28:

Prof. Dr. Marianne Schuller, Universitaet Hamburg:

"Zu Gericht sitzen. Koerper und Sprache in Kleists Lustspiel 'Der zerbrochne Krug'"

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Feb. 7

Jan N. Lorenzen, author and director

SNEAK-PREVIEW, Film Screening at Vanderbilt University

Bartok's Requiem (2008)
[working title]
(MDM, Hoferichter&Jacobs Berlin, Quality-Pictures Budapest, 90 Min.)

Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008 Meet-The-Artist-Reception, 6pm, Buttrick 222
Film Screening and Discussion, 7pm, Buttrick 102





2007

Regensburg Reunion    
Vanderbilt in Germany Reunion

Kaffeestunde
10.12.07 | 2-4:00pm | 123 Furman Hall

Cocktail Supper
10.12.07 | 6-10:00pm | Dr. Sevin's Home



Delta Phi Alpha

german honors society
induction ceremony
4.19 | 7:00pm | McTyeire Lounge
reception to follow
     
 
Irmela von der Luehe
Charlotte Beradt: Das dritte Reich des Traums
4.19 | 4:30pm | Furman 123
reception to follow
    
   
Helga Schütz
reads from her new book: Knietief im Paradies
3.19 | 12 noon | Furman 123
reception to follow
     
     
William Donahue (Duke)
Fantasies of Africa:
Ethics as Literature in Elias Canetti’s The Voices of Marrakesh
2.8| 4:00 pm
reception to follow            
   

Laurie R. Johnson (Urbana-Champaign)
Uncanny Love and the Principle of the Past in Schelling's Clara
1.12 | 3:10 pm | Furman 217
reception to follow



2006

           
screening of
Stanislaw Mucha's Die Mitte
11.17.06 | 7 PM | Sarratt Cinema
reception to follow
sponsored by: the Goethe Institute NYC, Deutsche Welle, the Swiss Embassy in Washington DC, the Max Kade Center and our department
       

Susanna Piontek
reads from her new book Rühlings Erwachen
11.13.06 | 4:10 pm | Furman 217
reception to follow
     
 
Lutz Koepnick (Washington University)
Speed and Stillness: Tom Tykwer and the Aesthetics of Deceleration
11.10.06 | 3:15 PM | 217 Furman Hall
reception to follow
     
 
Ulrike Zeuch (Wolfenbüttel, Göttingen, Berlin)
Catastrophe Discourse and the Problem of Theodicy in the 18th Century
3.30.06 | 3:10 PM | 217 Furman Hall
Reception to follow
       

Sander Gilman (Emory University)
Jews and Alcoholism: Race (AGAIN) and Medicine (AGAIN)
2.10.06 | 4:00 PM | 123 Buttrick Hall
Reception to follow
       

Jeffrey Sammons (Yale University)
The Glory Before the Fall: Kuno Francke’s Edition of the German Classics (1913-14) as a Final Monument
1.13.06 | 3:15 PM | 217 Furman Hall
Reception to follow



2005


Roberto Simanowski (Brown)
Digital Literature/ Art
a lecture in cooperation with Art & Art History, Philosophy, Spanish & Portuguese and The European Studies Program
3.30.05 | 3:30pm | Wilson 112
reception to follow
   
    
Barbara Hahn
To Write a Book? ...Walking
inagural lecture for our Distinguished Professor of German
3.24.05 | 4pm | Wilson 103
reception to follow
       

Marianne Schuller
Schnee - tabula rasa - Erzählen. Zum späten Stifter
a talk with our visiting Max Kade Professor of German
3.3.05 | 4:10 pm | Furman 123
 

Marianne Schuller
Kafka's Animals: Beyond Darwin
a talk with our visiting Max Kade Professor of German
2.24.05 | 4:10pm | Furman 217
reception to follow