April 1, 2014

Dr. Anne Schreiter (Universität St. Gallen) will give a Noon Colloquium titled "Between Remembrance and Transformation. Germany's Third Generation East" at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.

April 1, 2014

Henning Trüper (Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) will give a Noon Colloquium on "Realphilologie and Aesthetics in German Orientalism, ca. 1900."

April 1, 2014

Rebecca Carbery (Universität Klagenfurt) will give a Noon Colloquium talk titled "Trans* and Inter*: Beyond transgender and intersex through German- and English-speaking new digital media" at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282. This presentation deals with ways in which trans* and intersex portray themselves in both German- and English-speaking new digital media. The emerging digital climate has become an essential aspect of social movements for change in society and discourse as it allows wider representation of self on a variety of platforms. As Jay Prosser said in his paper (Jan. 2012) at the conference Transgender and Intersex in the Arts, Science and…

February 1, 2014

Jill Bühler (Université de Genève) will present a Noon Colloquium talk titled "Der 'Gegenstand des sinnlichen Triebs' in der Kriminalpsychologie um 1800 und in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Die Elixiere des Teufels."

December 1, 2013

Graduate student Tara Hottman (Berkeley) will give a Noon Colloquium talk on "Remixing Werner Herzog: The Auteur in the Digital Age."

November 1, 2013

Visiting Assistant Professor Erica Weitzman will present a Noon Colloquium titled "'Nichts als den Widerspruch': Kierkegaard and Vischer’s Comic Ontologies."

November 1, 2013

Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde University, Denmark) will give a Noon Colloquium talk on "Virtues of History: German Scholarship and the Past of Critical Education."

October 1, 2013

Yael Almog (Berkeley) will present a Noon Colloquium on "Friedrich Schlegel, the Matrimonial Speech-act, and the Gay Marriage Aporia."

October 1, 2013

Gilad Sharvit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will present a Noon Colloquium talk on "Freud and Hobbes on the Limits of Freedom in the State of Nature."

September 1, 2013

Graduate students Ashwin Manthripragada and Erik Born present their papers for the upcoming GSA conference. Ashwin on "Postcolonialism in the Midst of Viennese Modernism" and Erik on "Mapping the Vision of God: Perspectival Space and the Geometric Gaze."