Academic Workshops

German Department Academic Workshops bring together a scholar from the profession with students and faculty of the German Department and other departments at Georgetown to explore a topical and methodological area in order to broaden the intellectual horizon of the program. They combine a public lecture and a half day workshop the following day. They are held annually.  

2007: Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz): Memory and Gender

2006:  Rolf Goebel (University of Alabama - Huntsville): Urban Topography and Cultural Memory from Walter Benjamin to Durs Grünbein

2005: Gregor Hens (Ohio State University): Pop Literature

2004: Helmut Schneider (Universität Bonn,  Harvard University): Entzug der Sichtbarkeit: A Workshop on Kleist's 'Penthesilea.'

2002: Peter Arnds (Kansas State University): Günter Grass and Bakhtin

2001: Stefan Schindler (Washington University, St. Louis): Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Lacan