Recent Speakers:

CARL NIEKERK (Professor of German, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "Mahler contra Wagner: The Philosophical Legacy of Romanticism in Mahler's Third and Fourth Symphonies." (April 17, 2001)

LUTZ KOEPNICK (Professor of German, Film and Media Studies, Washington University in ST. Louis): "Redeeming History? Foster's New Reichstag and the Political Aesthetic of the Berlin Republic." (March 30, 2001)

JEANETTE LANDER (Visiting Writer's Program, Washington University): "Jewish Life in Germany after the Holocaust." (February 13, 2001)

ROBERT C. HOLUB (Professor of German,  University of California at Berkeley):  "From the Pedestal to the Couch: Goethe,  Freud, and the Jewish Assimilation" (November 14, 2000)

KARIN M. FRANK-CYRUS (Geschäftsführerin der gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache in Wiesbaden, Visiting Professor of German, Penn State University): "Wortschatz als Kulturgeschichte. Die Wörter des Jahres und des Jahrhunderts." (April 3, 2000)

JANE BROWN (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, U of Washington): "Werther and Romanticism" (January 18, 1999)

AZADE SEYHAN (Fairbank Professor in the Humanities, Prof. of German and Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College): "Ethnographies of Memory: Women's Narratives on Modern Migrancy and Exile" (April 13, 1998)

JAMES HARDIN (Prof. of German and Editor-in-Chief of Camden House Publisher, U of South Carolina): "How I Got Into Publishing" (April 18, 1997)

UWE TIMM, (Author, Munich and Berlin): "Der Autor, das literarische Markt und die Oeffentlichkeit" (March 14, 1997)

THEDEL VON WALLMODEN (Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Wallstein Verlag, Goettingen): "Der Verleger und der Buchmarkt" (November 1996)

HANS RUDOLF VAGET (Professor of German, Smith College): "Thomas Mann und Bayreuth" (March 1996)

MARSHALL J. BROWN (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, U of Washington): "From the Transcendental to the Supernatural: Kant and the Gothic" (February 27, 1996)

WERNER SCHNEIDERS (Professor of Philosophy, Universitaet Muenster): "Enlightenment -- Reform -- Revolution" (Oct. 14, 1992)

FRANK TROMMLER (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, U of Pennsylvania): "American and German Modernity: Cultural and Political Interaction" (Oct. 23, 1992

Academic Conferences

The department periodically hosts professional conferences.  During the last ten years, we have hosted:

Lessing International: Lessing-Reception Abroad, October 28-31, 1999
For more information concerning the conference and its corresponding Lessing Yearbook Volume, please consult our conference Web site.

The Future of Germanistik in the USA: Changing our Prospects, October 13-16, 1994
If you are interested in purchasing the volume resulting from this stimulating conference, please contact the Vanderbilt University Press web site.

International Symposium on the Reception of German and Austrian Exile Literature, April 18-21, 1991