Events

• Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
• Lecture: "The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 Years After, a Roundtable Discussion"
• Speaker: Moderated by Stephan Schindler

• Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Lecture: "Herder and the Origin of Rock and Roll"
• Speaker: Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania

• Wednesday, April 8, 2009
• Lecture: "The Leipziger Literaturinstitut: History, Function, Prospects "
• Speaker: Hans Ulrich Treichel

• Tuesday, April 7, 2009
• Lecture: "Haunted Heimat: The Specter of Male Violence in Postwar West German Film "
• Speaker: Jennifer Kapczynski, Fellow for the Humanities; German Department, Washington University

• Friday, April 3, 2009
• Lecture: "Urban Imaginaries, the Modernist Miniature, and the Feuilleton "
• Speaker: Andreas Huyssen, Columbia UniversityIrene Kacandes, Dartmouth College

• Tuesday, March 24, 2009
• Reading: "Daddy's War "
• Speaker: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College

• Monday, March 23, 2009
• Lecture: "Traumatic Memories of the Second world war and their Narrative Transformations "
• Speaker: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College
• Wednesday, March 4, 2009

• Panel Discussion: "The Bologna Reforms and the Future of the German University: German and American Perspectives"
• Speakers: Walter Erhart (Bielefeld); Alexander Kosenina (Hannover); Paul Michael Lützeler (German, Washington University); Wolfram Schmidgen (English, Washington University); Priscilla Stone (IAS, Washington University)
• Friday, February 20, 2009
• Title: "Mobilisierung der Natur: Anmerkung zur romantischen Landschaft"
• Speaker: Helmut Schneider, Distinguished Visiting Professor
• Tuesday, February 17, 2009
• Title: "A Conversation With Lisa Hock" (Pedagogy Initiative Lecture)
• Speaker: Lisa Hock, Wayne State University
• Wednesday, February 11, 2009
• Title: "Aktueller Radio-Journalismus"
• Speaker: Kristina Pfoser, Max Kade Critic in Residence (Vienna)
• Wednesday, January 28, 2009
• Title: "The Role and the Growth of Germanistik in China"
• Speaker: Prof. Xiaohu Feng, Beijing
• Wednesday, November 19, 2008
• Title: "A Literary Scholar's Transatlantic Literary Experience"
• Speaker: Prof. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University
• Wednesday, October 1, 2008
• Title: "Literature and Literary Events in Austria"
• Speaker: Dr. Britta Steinwendtner, Salzburg
• Tuesday, April 22, 2008
• Title: "Prekäres und unverhofftes Glück Anmerkungen zur klassischen deutschen Literatur"
• Speaker: David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. & Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago
• Wednesday, April 2, 2008
• Title: "Orte und Praktiken religiöser Gewalt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg: Konfessionelle Unterschiede und ihre Wahrnehmungen im Spiegel von Selbstzeugnissen "
• Speaker: Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
• Wednesday, March 26, 2008
• Title: "Historical Event and Contemporary Experience: the Capture and Destruction of Magdeburg in 1631"
• Speaker:Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
• Tuesday, March 25, 2008
• Title: "Rückkehr des Autors? Literatur und kulturelle Autorität in der interkulturellen Kommunikation"
• Speaker:Doris Bachmann-Medick
• Monday, March 24, 2008
• Title: An informal discussion with Dr. Maxim and German department graduate students
• Speaker: Dr. Hiram Maxim, Department of German Studies, Emory University
• Wednesday, March 19, 2008
• Title: "The Thirty Years War as Experience and Memory: Microhistorical Views of a Macrohistorical Event"
• Speaker: Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
• Tuesday, March 18, 2008
• Title: "Writing in the Web of Words"
• Speaker:Yoko Tawada, Max Kade Writer
• Wednesday, March 5, 2008
• "Der Dreißigjährige Krieg und die Krise des 17. Jahrhunderts: Historiker-Interpretationen im Licht zeitgenössischer Selbstzeugnisse"
• Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Göttingen
• Wednesday, February 6, 2008
• Wien-Zürich: Als Wiener Kulturkorrespondent bei der Neuen Zuercher Zeitung
• Paul Jandl, Max Kade Critic for Spring semester
• October 16, 2007
• Workshop: Poststructuralism, Trauma, and Cultural Memory
• by: Harald Weilnböck (University of Zurich/Berlin); and Erin Mcglothlin, Stephan Schindler, and Lutz Koepnick (Washington University)
• October 1, 2007
• Gesetze der Form - Gottfried Benn 1933
• Eva Geulen, universität Bonn
• Apr. 19, 2007
• "Mittelwärts"
• Ursula Krechel, Max Kade Fellow, Berlin
• Apr. 19, 2007
• "Ohnehin. Roman"
• Doron Rabinovici, Max Kade Writer in Residence, Vienna
• April 2, 2007
• Die Gruppe 47, von heute aus gesehen
• Wilfried Barner, Professor of German, University of Goettingen, Germany
• March 29, 2007
• 1943: The Jewish World at Ground Zero
• David G. Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture, Professor of Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary; 2006-7 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, U.S. Holocaust Museum
• March 29, 2007
• Turkish-German Constellations in Literature and Film
• Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Professor of German, University of Münster/Germany
• March 29, 2007
• The 'Conquest of Nature': Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany
• David Blackbourn, Harvard University
• March 9, 2007
• SALON WORKSHOP: Counting on God: Economic Providentialism in Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's Autobiography
• Co-sponsors: SALON; Comparative Literature
• Richard Gray, University of Washington
• March 8, 2007
• Deep Pockets: The Economics and Poetics of Excess in Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemil
• Co-sponsors: SALON; Comparative Literature
• Richard Gray, University of Washington
• Feb. 7, 2007
• Die internationale Verbreitung österreichischer Literatur
• Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York
• Nov. 15, 2006
• Jurek Becker und Amerika
• Christine Becker, Writer and Editor
• Nov. 8, 2006
• Meine Arbeit als Literaturredakteur beim 'Spiegel'
• Volker Hage, Max Kade Fellow, Kritik, Der Spiegel
• Oct. 26, 2006
• Exercises in Being Jewish, Poems and Prose
• Esther Dischereit, German-Jewish Writer from Berlin
• Oct. 24, 2006
• Extensive Reading in the Foreign Language Classroom
• Richard Day, Chair and Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
• Oct. 23, 2006
• Extensive Reading Belongs in the Foreign Language Curriculum
• Richard Day, Chair and Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
• Oct. 13, 2006
• Dr. Patrizia McBride, Associate Professor of German, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
• "Modernism and the Ethos of the Humanities"
• October 4, 2006
• Tendenzen der Gegenwartslyrik (Grünbein, Petersdorff, Hartung, Kling, Runge und andere)
• Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
• September 27, 2006
• Wiederkehr der Traditionen - im Modus der Komik (Erhardt, Rühmkorf, Gernhardt und andere
• Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
• September 20, 2006
• Sprechen und Schweigen bei Paul Celan
• Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
• September 13, 2006
• Brecht und China: Taoismus in seiner Lyrik
• Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
• April 14, 2006
• Attention, Awareness, and Consciousness-Raising in Second/Foreign Language Teaching
• Richard Schmidt, Director of National Foreign Language Resource Center; Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
• April 13, 2006
• Findings and Implications from Second Language Acquisition Research
• Richard Schmidt, Director of National Foreign Language Resource Center; Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
• April 12, 2006
• Travel Literature & Enthography: A.V. Thelen, H. Fichte and B. Vesper
• Diedrich Diederichsen, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany
• Feb. 17, 2006
• How Jewish Is It? Translations of Jewish Memory in Contemporary German Culture (Pedagogy Lecture) and Workshop: German Studies/Jewish Cultural Studies/Diaspora Studies: The 'Place' of Germany
• Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota
• Feb. 8, 2006
• Das Ende der Literaturkritik in den Medien
• Hans-Joachim Steinert, Max Kade Critic in Residence
• Nov. 16, 2005
• Screening of short documentary film by Yale Strom: A Man from Munkacs: The Gypsy Kelzmer
• Yale Strom, Director, Composer, Musician, Writer & Photographer
• Nov. 16, 2005
• A Wandering Feast: A Journey through the Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe
• Yale Strom, Director, Composer, Musician, Writer & Photographer
• Nov. 15, 2005
• Moving from Research to Classroom and Task Design and Talk in Tasks (Pedagogy Lectures)
• Susan Gass, Michigan State University
• Oct. 14, 2005
• Task-Based Materials Design and Current Issues in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) (Pedagogy Lectures)
• Michael Long, University of Maryland
• Sept. 21, 2005
• Das phantastische Bureau. Kafkas Datenverarbeitung
• The phantastic office. Kafka's data processing.
• Benno Wagner, University of Siegen
• Apr 19, 2005
• 'Milliarden neuer Sterne'. Ein New York Buch
• Angela Krauß, Leipzig, Max Kade Writer in Residence
• Apr 18, 2005
• Pedagogy Workshop: Technology, Language and Literacy: The New Pedagogical Challenge
• Lecture: Post 9/11: Foreign Languages Between Knowledge and Power
• Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley
• Apr 11, 2005
• Eros, der alles begonnen. Bemerkungen zur Liebesthematik in Goethes Faust
• Per Øhrgaard, University of Kansas, Visiting Max Kade Professor of German
• Apr 7, 2005
• Violent Women: Searching for Xena in the 19th Century
• Nancy Richardson, Graduate Student (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
• Mar 16, 23, 30, and April 6
• Lectures on German Literature and Culture: Women and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Germany and Western Europe
• Heide Wunder, Kassel, Distinguished Visiting Professor
• Mar 1, 2005
• Literatur und Radio
• Stephan Krass, Freiburg, Max Kade Critic in Residence
• Feb. 24, 2005
• Werner Sollors, Professor of Afro-American Studies and English, Harvard University
• "A Foreign Affair: Notes Toward a Cultural History of the American Occupation of Germany after World War II"
• Feb. 21, 2005
• 'Vernichtendes Gefühl': Zur Affektdynamik von Scham und Schuld in Schillers Jungfrau von Orleans und Kleists Penthesilea
• Claudia Benthien, Berlin
• Feb. 17, 2005
• A Medievalist Investigates the most Famous Murder of 1286
• William Layher, Washington University in St. Louis (Brown Bag Lecture Series)
• Feb. 15, 2005
• Als Kulturkorrespondentin der NZZ in New York
• Andrea Köhler, Zürich, Max Kade Fellow
• Feb. 2, 2005
• The People's War: Constructing the Home Front in 1940s American Cinema
• Jennifer Kapczynski, Washington University in St. Louis (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
• Jan. 25, 2005
• Germanistik aus koreanischer Sicht
• Chin-Gil Chang, Visiting Professor
• Nov 18, 2004
• Pedagogy Workshop: L2 Vocabulary Learning: Rehearsal Regimes, Student Awareness and Dictionary Use
• Jan Hulstijn, Amsterdam
• Nov 17, 2004
• Pedagogy Lecture: Second-language Vocabulary Learning
• Jan Hulstijn, Amsterdam
• Nov 5, 2004
• Pedagogy Lecture: Theory and Practice in Reading Chinese and Japanese as Foreign Languages: Contemplating Well-Worn Paths and Future Directions and Pedagogy Workshop: Applying Current Reading Theory to the Chinese/Japanese Language Classroom
• Michael Everson, University of Iowa
• Nov. 4, 2004
• Public Art and Social Sculpture
• Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock, Berlin
• Oct. 25, 2004
• Die Frau im Text. Wunschprojektion oder gefährliche Kreatur? Zwei Straßburger Drucke aus dem 16. Jahrhundert
• Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Växjö
• Sept. 2, 2004
• Pedagogy Lecture: Discussing his book Auf Geht's
• Lee Forester, Hope College
• Apr. 19, 2004
• Reading: Der Spaziergang von Rostock nach Syrakus
• Friedrich Christian Delius, Berlin
• Apr. 1, 2004
• 19th Century German Crime Stories
• Michael J. Divine, Graduate Student (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
• Mar. 3, 2004
• Als Schriftsteller in Krisengebieten der 'Dritten Welt'
• Hans Christian Buch, Berlin, Max Kade Fellow
• Mar. 1, 2004
• Fetish Holocaust: Reflections on a theme in contemporary discourse
• Doerte Bischoff, University of Münster
• Feb. 26, 2004
• A Reading of His Works
• Hugo Loetscher, Zürich
• Feb. 25, 2004
• Grosskritiker und kleine Popjungs: Zur aktuellen deutschen Literatur und Filmkritik
• Gregor Dotzauer, Berlin, Max Kade Critic in Residence
• Feb. 11, 2004
• Deutsche Denkmäler im 19. Jahrhundert: Paulskirche, Bavaria, Völkerschlachtdenkmal
• Wilfried Schoeller, Frankfurt am Main, Max Kade Fellow
• Jan. 30, 2004
• A Roundtable on An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New (New York Univ. Press 2004)
• Werner Sollors, Harvard University
• Jan. 29, 2004
• Multi-Lingual American Literature: What difference does it make?
• Werner Sollors, Harvard University
• Oct. 28, 2003
• "Spoils of War: Building Libraries in the 17th Century"
• Dr. Gillian Bepler, Director of Fellowships, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
• Oct. 27, 2003
• "Traveling and Posterity: The Archive, the Library, and the Cabinet"
• Dr. Gillian Bepler, Director of Fellowships, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
• Oct. 22, 2003
• "Germanistik in India"
• Pramod Talgeri, Professor of German, Nehru University, New Delhi
• Oct. 21, 2003
• "The Internet as a Resource and a Tool: Developing cultural activities for the language classroom"
• Franziska Lys, Associate Professor of German, Chair, Council on Language Instruction, Northwestern University
• Oct. 2, 2003
• "Expressionist Architecture: The Work of German Modernist Bruno Tant"
• Iain Boyd Whyte, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh, Senior Program Officer, Getty Grant Program
• Sep. 29, 2003
• "Speaking in Tongues: Religious Excitement and Working Class Germany, 1880-1914"
• Christoph Ribbat, The University of Bochum
• Apr. 16, 2003
• "Judentum und Antisemitismus- Karl Kraus und Heinrich Heine"
• Dietmar Goltschnigg, Professor of German, University of Graz
• Apr. 8, 2003
• "Paarweise": Lesung und Diskussion
• Lilian Faschinger, Max Kade Writer in Residence
• Mar. 26, 2003
• "Written Capitals: Washington D.C. and Berlin"
• Walter Erhart, Professor of German, University of Greifswald
• Feb. 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2003
• "Lectures on German Literature and Culture: Diskurse über die Liebe in der Literatur des Mittelalters"
• Ingrid Kasten, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Free University of Berlin
• Nov. 21, 2002
• "Text und Bild"
• Wilhelm Vosskamp, Professor of German, University of Cologne
• Nov. 7, 2002
• "The Third Sex: Emancipated Women and Homosexuals at the Turn of the Century"
• Robert Tobin, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of German, Whitman College
• Apr. 11, 2002
• A Reading of His Works with Philip Boehm, Freelance Writer and Translator
• Perikles Monioudis
• Feb. 19 and 26, Mar. 12, 19 and 26, Apr. 2 and 9, 2002
• "Lectures on German Literature and Culture: One Hundred Years of German Film"
• Gertrud Koch, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Humboldt University
• Oct. 16, 2001
• "Gender and Interaction in the Language Classroom"
• Dr. Monika Chavez, Associate Professor of German and Applied Linguistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Oct. 15, 2001
• "Das Eine, das Andere, und das Dazwischen- Österreichische Literatur 2000“
• Klaus Zeyringer, Professor of German and Austrian Literature, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers, France
• Oct. 3,2001
• "The Debate over National Missile Defense: The European Perspective": Luncheon Discussion in cooperation with The American Council on Germany St.Louis Wartburg Chapter
• Elizabeth Pond, Foreign Correspondent and Author
• Oct. 1, 2001
• "Verdinglichung und Objektivierung- Zur Form des Erzählens in Bertolt Brechts ’Dreigroschenroman’“
• Klaus-Detlef Müller, Professor of German Literature, University of Tübingen
• Sep. 24, 2001
• "In flagranti. Die literarische Darstellung Ent-deckter Ehebrüche“
• Alfred Ebenbauer, Professor of Medieval German Language and Literature, University of Vienna
• Sep. 20, 2001
• "The Nature of Evil: From the Simple to the Complex“
• John A. McCarthy, Professor of German and of Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University
• Sep. 4, 2001
• "Nibelungischer Zorn und sein höffisches Regulativ: Affekt und Affektkontrolle im ‘Nibelungenlied’.“
• Dr. Irmgard Gephart, The University of Bonn
• Apr. 30, 2001
• A Reading of His Works
• Ingo Schulze, Author of 33 Augenblicke des Glücks and Simple Stories
• Nov. 27, 2000
• "Looking the Other Way: Goethe and Political Conflicts in Classical Weimar"
• Daniel Wilson, Professor of German, The University of California, Berkeley
• Oct. 8, 2000
• Commentary on Texts: Liederabend, featuring: Franz Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock and music of Brahms, Strauss, and Wolf
• Paul Michael Lützler, Rosa May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Washington University
• Apr. 17, 2000
• "Dort sein, wo Geschichte stattfindet. Schriftsteller in Berlin/ Schriftsteller und Berlin"
• Brigitte Burmeister, Author, Berlin

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