Lectures & Workshops
Dr. Rainer Godel
(Martin-Luther-Universität Halle)
"Aufklärung und Vorurteil – Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse"
Monday, April 20, 2009
Prof. James Martin
(Washington College)
”Walking Through the Publication Process with W.G. Sebald”
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Prof. Feng Xiaohu
(University of International Business and Economics, Beijing)
Lecture on "Germanistik in China"
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Felicitas Hoppe (writer in residence)
Reading: "Literarische Reisen durch die Geschichte"
Monday, September 22, 2008
Prof. Michael Brenner
(Universität München)
"Jews in Post-War and Post-Wall Germany"
Saturday, September 20, 2008
BMW Center and German Department
"Cosmopolitanisms" Symposium
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Dominik Finkelde, S.J.
"The Particular [Josef K.] and the Universal [Law]: Zizek, Agamben and Santner in dispute on Paul the Apostle and Franz Kafka"
Friday, September 7, 2007
Dominik Finkelde, S.J.
"The Unconscious in Collections - Stifter, Benjamin, and W.G. Sebald"
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Prof. Aleida Assmann
(Universität Konstanz)
"Memory and Gender"
A Workshop
Friday, April 20, 2007
Prof. Jan Assmann
(Universität Heidelberg)
"Memory, Narration, and Identity:
Exodus as a Political Myth"
December 4, 2006
Prof. Jeffrey Anderson (Government & SFS) presented a lecture on German foreign policy in the Grand Coalition.
This lecture was part of the "German in Disciplinary Contexts II" organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer.
November 13, 2006
Prof. David Collins, S.J. (History) presented a lecture on magic and spreading bad news in early modern Germany.
This lecture was part of the "German in Disciplinary Contexts II" organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer.
October 27/28, 2006
Prof. Rolf Goebel (University of Alabama - Huntsville) presented a lecture (Friday) and a seminar (Saturday) on Urban Topography and Cultural Memory from Walter Benjamin to Durs Gruenbein.
October 23, 2006
Prof. Alan Mitchell (Theology) presented a lecture on P. Alfred Delp, S.J., a priest hanged at Berlin-Ploetzensee.
This lecture was part of the "German in Disciplinary Contexts II" organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer.
September 25, 2006
Prof. James Shedel (History) presented a lecture on the dynastic state and identity in Habsburg Austria.
This lecture was part of the "German in Disciplinary Contexts II" organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer.
September 21, 2006
Mark Lauer (a PhD candidate in the Dept. of German) presented a colloquium entitled "Writing under pressure(s): Autobiographical approaches and cultural politics in the German Democratic Republic."
This was part of the FLL Graduate Colloquium Series.
April 5, 2006
Dr. Alfred Obernberger (Emeritus) delivered a lecture entitled
"Vienna Coffee Houses Around the Turn of the Century"
April 3, 2006
Prof. G. Ronald Murphy presented a lecture on "Searching for -- and finding -- the Holy Grail"
This lecture was a part of the "German in Disciplinary Contexts" lecture series organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer.
March 27, 2006
Prof. Julia Lamm (Georgetown - Theology) presented a lecture on the theologian and philosopher Friederich Schleiermacher translating Plato and developing hermeneutics.
March 24, 2006
The Department celebrated the release of two new faculty publications:
Gedachtnis und Geschichte in Generationenromanen seit der Wende
(Berlin:Erich Schmidt Verlag)
by Prof. Friederike Eigler
The Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics
Oxford: Elsevier Science
Biographies Editor: Prof. Kurt Jankowsky
March 13, 2006
Prof. Holger Wolf gave a lecture on the German labor market. This was part of the German in Disciplinary Contexts lecture series organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer.
February 27, 2006
Prof. Charles King (Government & SFS) gave a lecture on how the Circassians became sex slaves of the Sultan. This was part of the German in Disciplinary Contexts lecture series organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer.
February 13, 2006
Prof. Terry Pinkard (Philosophy) gave a lecture on the poet Heinrich Heine and the legal philosopher Eduard Gans. This was part of the German in Disciplinary Contexts lecture series organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer. January 30, 2006 Prof. Roger Chickering (History & SFS) gave a lecture on humor and theater in Freiburg at a time of total war. This was part of the German in Disciplinary Contexts lecture series organized by Prof. Peter C. Pfeiffer. January 27, 2006 Prof. Susanne Rinner (German) gave a lecture entitled "Gaining a Voice: Remembering and Forgetting the Sixties in Germany". This talk explored the representation of the sixties student movement in novels published in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
November 22, 2005
Carolin Brinkmann, currently a MAGES/PhD student at Georgetown University, presented a lecture entitled "Durch die Wand! The Integration of (Im)Migrant Literature into German Studies."
November 2, 2005
Gregor Ohlerich (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin) gave a lecture entitled "Practicing the Upright Walk: Ernst Bloch and the utopian concepts in the literature of the early GDR".
October 24, 2005
Roth Inauguration Ceremony Dr. Heidi S. Byrnes was inaugurated as George M. Roth Distinguished Professor of German.
April 25, 2005
Alfred Pfoser (the current Director of Public Libraries in Vienna) discussed Arthur Schnitzler and Vienna circa 1900 in a lecture entitled "Metropole: Wien."
April 14, 2005
James Hardin, founder of Camden House Publishing, and Friederike Eigler, editor of The German Quarterly, had a conversation on the role of literature in the academic press.
April 7, 2005
Fatima El-Tayeb (University of California, San Diego) introduced the film Everything is Fine (dir. Angelina Maccarone, 1998) as part of the Queer European Cinema series. Dr. El-Tayeb was one of the creators of the film.
March 17, 2005
Jenneke Oosterhoff (University of Minnesota) introduced the film Zus en Zo as part of the Queer European Cinema Series organized by Katrin Sieg.
March 16, 2005
Simon Richter (University of Pennsylvania) explored the role of literature in cultural studies as part of the Department of German's On Literature Series in a lecture entitled "The Errors of our Ways: The Relationship of Literature and Culture in Goethe's Faust."
March 10-13, 2005
Heidi Byrnes served as the conference chair for the Georgetown University Round-Table (GURT) on Languages and Linguistics. The GURT 2005 theme was "Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities: Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment."
February 17, 2005
Tiina Rosenberg (University of Stockholm) introduced the film Show Me Love (dir. Lukas Moodysson, 1998) as part of the Queer European Cinema Series organized by Katrin Sieg.
February 5, 2005
A seminar with Gregor Hens on pop literature.
February 4, 2005
Peter Schneider, George Roth Writer in Residence, Georgetown University, and Gregor Hens, novelist and professor of German, Ohio State University, in a conversation entitled "Why literature?"
February 3, 2005
Maedchen in Uniform (dir. Leontine Sagan, Germany, 1932) was shown as part of the Queer European Film Series organized by Katrin Sieg.
Barbara Mennel, University of Florida, introduced the film.
November 5 - 6, 2004
The On Literature series of events continued with a lecture and an academic workshop with Helmut Schneider (Universität Bonn/
October 28, 2004
The On Literature series of events began with a lecture by Katie Trumpener (Yale University) entitled "Between Literature, Cinema, and Social History."
October 8, 2004
German historian, lecturer, and novelist Sten Nadolny, author of The Discovery of Slowness, The God of Impertinence, and Er Oder Ich, read from his latest novel, Ullsteinroman.
May 8-9, 2004
Inter/Disciplinary Approaches to Memory: Transformations of the Past in Contemporary German Literature and Culture
Organizer: Friederike Eigler
May 9-11, 2003
Time, Space, Gender: German Women Writers of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Organizer: Astrid Weigert
Click here for program (this file is in pdf-format and requires Acrobat Reader)
April 13, 2003
National Culture/Global Frames
Organizer: Katrin Sieg
One-day symposium co-sponsored by the BMW Center for German and European Studies and the German Department
Upcoming Events
- Nov 23, 11:15am-12:30pm: The 60th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift
