2010
Thomas Wild
Nach dem Geschichtsbruch. Deutsche Schriftsteller um Hannah Arendt
12.15.10 | 4:30 PM | Furman Hall 123
Erdmut Wizisla (Director of the Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin Archives at the Academy of Fina Arts, Berlin)
The Walter Benjamin Archive and the New German Edition of His Works
4.8.10 | 12.15 PM | Buttrick Hall 206
Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Frankfurt on the Atlantik: Siegfried Kracauer as a New York Intellectual
4.6.10 | 4:10 PM | Buttrick Hall 112
2008
Peter Demetz
Sterling Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature
at Yale University will read from his forthcoming book
Prague in Danger. Culture, History and Memories:
The Years of German Occupation, 1939-1945
4.4.08 | 4:00-5:30 PM | Buttrick Hall 101
Helena Goscilo (Russian topic)
Fade from Red: the Cold War Ex-Enemy on Screen (1990-2005)
SECOND TALK
4.4.08 | 11:00 AM | Buttrick 205
Sylvia Rieger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Digital Realities: The Interactive Documentary in Intermediate and
Advanced Language Courses
3.28.08 | 3:10-4:30 PM | Buttrick Hall 202
Thinking with Franz Rosenzweig (
click)
A Symposium marking the 20th Anniversary of the
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Suspicion: Signs of Modernity , Workshop (
click)
A Symposium organized by
Elisabeth Strowick
Marianne Schuller (Universitaet Hamburg)
"Zu Gericht sitzen. Koerper und Sprache in Kleists Lustspiel 'Der zerbrochne Krug'"
Jan N. Lorenzen (Author and Director)
Film Screening
Bartok's Requiem (2008) [working title]
(MDM, Hoferichter&Jacobs Berlin, Quality-Pictures Budapest, 90 Min.)
Meet-The-Artist-Reception
6 PM | Buttrick 222
Film Screening and Discussion
7 PM | Buttrick 102
2007
Delta Phi Alpha
German Honors Society
Induction Ceremony
4.19.07 | 7:00 PM | McTyeire Lounge
reception to follow
Irmela von der Luehe
Charlotte Beradt: Das dritte Reich des Traums
4.19.07 | 4:30 PM | Furman 123
reception to follow
Helga Schütz
reads from her new book: Knietief im Paradies
3.19.07 | 12 noon | Furman 123
reception to follow
William Donahue (Duke)
Fantasies of Africa:
Ethics as Literature in Elias Canetti’s The Voices of Marrakesh
2.8.07 | 4 PM
reception to follow
Laurie R. Johnson (Urbana-Champaign)
Uncanny Love and the Principle of the Past in Schelling's Clara
1.12.07 | 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 | 3:30 PM | Wilson 112
reception to follow
Barbara Hahn
To Write a Book? ...Walking
inagural lecture for our Distinguished Professor of German
3.24.05 | 4 PM | 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 | 4:10 PM | Furman 217
reception to follow
