This series provides a regular forum for graduate students and faculty from the Berkeley campus to present their current work in German literary and cultural studies. The Colloquium is organized and run by graduate students. This year's organizer is Melissa Etzler.

Sept. 30
Jeremy Brett, Doctoral Candidate in German Literature and Culture
"Hölderlin's Homecoming [slash] Lessing Out Loud (Laokoon)"

Oct. 7
Jóhanna Bar›dal, Visiting Scholar in the Linguistics Department
"Construction-specific properties of "oblique" subjects in Icelandic and German"

Oct. 14
Priscilla Layne, Doctoral Candidate in German Literature and Culture
"Is the Berliner Republic Ready for Left-Wing Skinheads: Leftist Skinheads in Berlin/Brandenburg"

Oct. 21
Melissa Winters, Doctoral Candidate in German Literature and Culture
"Was erblick' ich!' Teichoskopia in the Dramas of Heinrich von Kleist"

Oct. 28
Don Bachman, Doctoral Candidate in German Literature and Culture
"The Implications of Freud‚s Rome on the Suicide of Paul Celan: Searching for Evidence Through Celan‚s Images of Catastrophe"

Nov. 18th
Dr. Holland (UCSB)
"The poet as artisan: Novalis' Werkzeug and the making of Romanticism"
282 Dwinelle

Nov. 22nd
Andrea Albrecht, Visiting Scholar
Literary and Historical Thick Descriptions: Uwe Timm, Christopher R. Browning and Walter Benjamin
5303 Dwinelle

Nov. 30th
Dr. Krimmer (UCDavis)
"Theirs Was Not to Reason Why? Body Talk and Victim Discourse in Erich Maria Remarque‚s 'Im Westen nichts Neues' "
370 Dwinelle