November 1, 2012

From "Woyzeck" to "Wozzeck"

September 1, 2012

Alumna Priscilla Layne (UNC Chapel Hill) will speak with the department’s current graduate students about "The First Year as a Professor."

April 1, 2012

The European Union Center of Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley presents a colloquium on: The Specter of Separatism: Political Fragmentation in the European Union April 11, 2012 – 370 Dwinelle – UC Berkeley The last four decades have witnessed an acceleration of globalization processes that have knitted the world closer together. Yet, while in some respects the world is becoming a village, this village is increasingly fragmenting. In Europe, we see the same tension between concurrent trends of unification and fragmentation. The ongoing process of Europeanization within the E.U. has stirred reactions within several countries aimed at reversing the devolution…

April 1, 2012

Professor Marco Abel (University of Nebraska) will give a seminar titled "Current German Cinema and Its Notion of Germany: On the Berlin School."

April 1, 2004

We are pleased to announce the eighth University of California Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe. The goal of the colloquium is to organize and sustain an annual interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty of the University of California system who work on any aspect of late medieval and early modern Central Europe. While the primary focus is on the German-speaking world, contiguous areas including the Low Countries, Bohemia, and northern Italy (roughly the extent of the Holy Roman Empire) are considered as well. The era addressed extends from the fourteenth into the nineteenth century. For more information interested…

April 1, 2004

Screening of “Der junge Törless” (based on a novel by Robert Musil), and discussion with filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff (in English) in Dwinelle 370.

Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

** PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. DUE TO A BROKEN LEG MR. SCHLöNDORFF IS UNABLE TO TRAVEL AT THIS TIME.