intellectual life
conferences
Vanderbilt University offers tremendous opportunities for intellectual exchange through a myriad of conferences, workshops, and lecture series held across the campus. The German Department in particular has organized the following international symposia within recent years: Literary Experiments; Thinking with Franz Rosenzweig; Suspicion: Signs of Modernity; The Art of Dreams; Unanschaulichkeit: Towards an Ethics of Modern Literature; Imaging Europe: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent; The Reception of Georg Büchner; German and Austrian Exile Literature; Germanistik in den USA; and Lessing International.
In addition to formal conferences that include visiting scholars from across the country and around the world, the department runs a less formal and more intimate German Studies Colloquium, where graduate students and faculty share their work—either conference papers or works-in-progress—at regularly scheduled meetings during the year.
visiting scholars
The German Department hosts a Max Kade Visiting Professor each spring semester.
Recent and upcoming visiting professors include Marianne Schuller (Universität Hamburg), Christian Sinn (Universität Konstanz), and Elisabeth Strowick (Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin). Scheduled as our next visiting professors are Justus Fetscher (Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin), Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universität Berlin), and Barbara Wahlster (Freie Universität Berlin).
Each year the Department also invites several scholars to campus to give public lectures. Recent guests include Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Erdmut Wizisla (Benjamin-Archiv Berlin), Peter Demetz (Yale University), Sylvia Rieger (MIT), Irmela von der Lühe (Freie Universität Berlin), William Donahue (Duke University), Laurie R. Johnson (University of Urbana-Champaign), Ulrike Zeuch (Wolfenbüttel), Sander Gilman (Emory University), Jeffrey Sammons (Yale University) and Roberto Simanowski (Brown University). As a complement to our academic speakers, the Department also plays host to writers and filmmakers, including Jeanette Lander, Helga Schütz, Brigitte Burmeister, Stanislaw Mucha, and Jan N. Lorenzen.
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