Conferences and Lectures 2012-13
- 9/14/12 – Workshop: “Circulating Humor: Nonsense Politics”
- 9/20/12 – Lecture by Uwe Wirth (Universität Giessen): “Erzählen im Rahmen der Herausgeberfiktion: Wielands Agathon”
- 9/25/12 – Lecture by Anja Lemke (Universität Köln): “Ästhetische Erziehung als Arbeit am Selbst – Schillers Bildungsprogramm aus der Perspektive postmoderner Kontrollgesellschaften”
- 10/26/12 – Lecture by Kathryn Starkey (Stanford): “Late Medieval Realism? Neidhart’s Poetry.”
- 11/9/12 – Workshop: Büchner’s “Woyzeck”
- 11/10/12 – Colloquium: From “Woyzeck” to “Wozzeck”
- 1/12/13 – History and Theory of New Media Lecture: Stefan Andriopoulos (Columbia)
- 1/23/13 – Lecture by Dietrich Krusche (LMU Munich): “Zum Wandel des Interesses an fremder Kultur”
- 1/26/13 – Semiotic Circle of California
- 2/1/13 – Workshop with Stefan Andriopoulos: “Media Archeology”
- 2/15/13 – Lecture by Jane Newman (UC Irvine): “Erich Auerbach’s Philosophical and Theological Sources”
- 2/28/13 – Lecture by Carol Jacobs (Yale): “Sebald’s Excesses: Opening and Closing of the Rings of Saturn”
- 3/1/13 – Lecture by Sigrid Weigel (Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin): “Walter Benjamin: The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Time of the Image”
- 3/7/13 – Workshop with Alessandro Triulzi (U Naples l’Orientale) and Deniz Göktürk (Berkeley): “Moving Europe: Migrant Archives”
- 3/8/13-3/10/13 – 21st Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
- 3/13/13 – Lecture by Michel Chaouli: “Twitching: Kleist and the Emergence of Thought
- 3/20/13 – Lecture by Anselm Haverkamp: “Resurrected from Ruin: Blumenberg, Jauß, and the Foundation of Poetics vs. Hermeneutics”
- 4/3/13 – “Robert Walser: Intersections of Life and Literature, Art and Psychiatry” International Conference
Noon Colloquium Series 2012-13
This series provides a regular forum for graduate students and faculty to present their current work in German literary, cultural and linguistic studies. The colloquium is organized and run by graduate students, and occurs at noon in Dwinelle 282 on the date listed.
- Friday, September 21: Erik Born (UC Berkeley): “Forget Hildegard: A Media Archaeology of the Medieval Visionary”.
- Friday, September 28: Yael Almog (UC Berkeley): “‘Hebrew Reminiscences’ – the Secularist Legacy of a Universal Ethos”.
- Friday, October 5: Christiane Schwab (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): “Urban Inclusion. The City as a Particular Context of Migration and Diversity”.
- Friday, April 12: Begegnung mit dem Schweizer Autor Rolf Lappert.