Department of German

Recent Conferences:

Graduate Student Conference
April 3-4, 2009

Interdisciplinary Symposia

The German Department Interdisciplinary Symposia highlight an area of research by a German faculty member and relate it to research in other departments at Georgetown University and other institutions. The symposia offer an in-depth exploration of on-going research for the Georgetown academic community.

Recent Symposia:

Early Germanic-Christian Literature and Artifact, Oct 2, 2009
October 2, 2009
7th in a Series of Interdisciplinary Symposia sponsored by the German Department, and co-sponsored by the departments of English, History, and Theology, by the Medieval Studies program and the Jesuit Community. Please download the flyer here.

European Cosmopolitics
September 20, 2008
with presentations by Michael Brenner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University), Fatima El-Tayeb (University of California), Randall Halle (University of Pittsburgh), Bala Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin), Azade Seyhan (Bryan Mawr College)

Inter/Disciplinary Approaches to Memory: Transformations of the Past in Contemporary German Literature and Culture
May 8-9, 2004
with presentations by Katharina Gerstenberger (University of Cincinnati), Eric Langenbacher (Georgetown University), Leslie Adelson (Cornell University), Karen Remmler (Mt. Holyoke College), Stephanie Harris (Northwestern University, Chicago), Friederike Eigler (Georgetown University), Deborah Schiffrin (Georgetown University), Joanna Kedzierska Stimmel (Hunter College CUNY)

On the Development of the Notion of Grammar and Its Multiple Uses from the 19th Century to the Present Day
March 11, 2002
with presentations by Kurt R. Jankowsky (German, Georgetown University), Douglas Kibbee (French, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champagne), David Lightfoot (Linguistics, Georgetown University), Margaret Thomas (Slavic and Eastern Languages, Boston College)

Cultural Memory in Literature and Film at the Millennium
April 12, 2000
with presentations by Sylvie Durmelat (French, Georgetown University), Friederike Eigler (German, Georgetown University), Azade Seyhan (German, Bryn Mawr College), Frank Stern (History, Ben Gurion University, Israel)

The Holy Grail in Three Medieval Traditions
December 3, 1999
with presentations by Carol Dover (French, Georgetown University), Peter Meister (German, University of Alabama, Huntsville), G. Ronald Murphy (German, Georgetown University), Kelly Wickham (English, Georgetown University)