November 1, 2012

Büchner’s "Woyzeck"

September 1, 2012

Circulating Humor: Nonsense Politics 14 September 2012, 4 – 7 pm Institute for International Studies, 223 Moses Infotainment rules. Year-end television ratings in 2011 confirmed that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had drawn more viewers than Fox News, the most watched news channel in the US. What does this tell us about the state of democracy and participation? In this year of another “electoral theater,” it appears timely to analyze politics as comedy and comedy as politics. Humor constitutes a stage for performances that forge and disrupt rituals of community. German comedian Martin Sonneborn, former editor of the…

August 25, 2011

Fictions of the Human/Fiktionen des Humanen Munich-Berkeley Joint Workshop September 1-3, 2011 Fiction(s) of the Human: The Reinvention of Man Since the Enlightenment Fiktion(en) des Humanen: Die Neuerfindung des Menschen seit der Aufklärung *** September 1 9.00-11.00 Britta Herrmann (Munich): "Man as Departure a Work of Art. The Invention of the (Post-)Human in the 18th Century" Niklaus Largier (Berkeley): "Reconfiguring the Senses" 11.00-11.15  - Coffee Break 11.15 a.m.-12.15  - Paul Rabinow (Berkeley): "Streitschrift: What Science? What Art? What Life?" 12.15-13.45  - Lunch Break 13.45-15.45 Anja Lemke (Cologne): "The Artist’s Work as Production of Humanity – Schiller’s 'Letters on the Aesthetic Education…

October 1, 2009

Richard Kern will present a workshop on "Making Connections Between Film and Literacy." Kern is an Associate Professor of French and Director of the Berkeley Language Center.

This workshop will focus on critical, cultural, and creative connections between film and written texts. Both kinds of media express culture through the stories they tell and through the particular ways they tell them, and the interpretive skills students learn in one medium can often be adapted to the other medium. Participants will learn how film and written texts can be integrated in tasks and activities that support a broad-based foreign language literacy.

April 1, 2008

Workshop: Robert Walser with Walo Deuber 4/10/2008, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM in B-4 Dwinelle Hall Thursday, April 10th at 4:30pm: Film Screening and Workshop with the award-winning Swiss filmmaker Walo Deuber! Prof. Deuber will screen and discuss his most recent film, “Er, der Hut, sitzt auf ihm, dem Kopf: Robert Walser Geschichten” – Ein Sehbuch (documentary-visual book). This innovative form of the “visual storybook” combines image and sound to present the viewer with a unique, new perspective on seven recently discovered love stories by Robert Walser. Created 50 years after the author’s death, this film proves that Walser’s work can…

March 1, 2007

The German Department’s Language Program presents a workshop with Harald Zils titled, "Heißer Sand: Exotismus in der westdeutschen Unterhaltungsmusik der 50er und 60er Jahre." Ein DaF-Workshop für Deutschlehrende.

Harald Zils is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German und DAAD Lektor at Binghamton University, SUNY.

January 5, 2007

Professor Jan-Dirk Müller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

September 1, 2006

DaF in den USA: Grundzüge und Perspektiven UC Berkeley / DAAD Workshop 2006 September 22-23, 2006 **Registration has ended, we can not accommodate additional participants at this time.** Workshop Schedule Friday, September 22 (282 Dwinelle Hall) (Participants arrive at Hotel Shattuck Plaza) 13:00 - Welcome; Overview of Workshop Components 13:15 - Language Learning Autobiographies 13:30 - Video Presentation and Discussion: “Good” vs. “Bad” Teaching 14:45 - Coffee Break 370 Dwinelle Hall 15:00 - BLC Lecture by Prof. Janet Swaffar, UT Austin, title to be announced 17:00 - Reception / Distribution of Microteaching Assignments TBA 19:00 - Dinner Saturday, September 23…

September 25, 2004

Career Workshop for German majors.

February 1, 2004

New Research and Writing in Modern German History A University of California Workshop February 27-29, 2004 The workshop will be held in the Regents Room at the Hotel Durant, 2600 Durant Avenue, Berkeley 94704. The conveners are professors Gerald D. Feldman and Christina von Hodenberg. Program: Friday, February 27 1:00-2:30 p.m. Introduction and Keynote Lecture: William Hagen (UC Davis) on "German History Beyond the Sonderweg: New Grand Narratives? New Narrative Styles?" Coffee Break 3:00-5:30 p.m. Session I: New Work on Post-1945 Germany (Chaired by James Sheehan of Stanford University) Robert Moeller (UC Irvine), "What Did You Do in the War, Mutti? Courageous Women,…