January 5, 2011

26th Meeting of the Semiotic Circle of California 1/22/2011, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Faculty Club, Seaborg Room Morning Session 9:00 a.m. Meredith Kolar (UC Berkeley): "Beer and Bewilderment: Decoding the Other Brew" 9:20 a.m. Gabe Trop (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "The Dissonances of Perfection: Perception and Temporality in Hölderlin’s Last Poems" 9:40 a.m. William Pencak (Penn State Univ.): "Michael Beer and Meyerbeer: The Jewish Influence on L’Africaine" 10:00 a.m. Jenna Ingalls (UC Berkeley): "Some Kinds of Blue: Blue in Itzik Manger’ s Poetry" 10:20 a.m. W. G. Kudszus (UC Berkeley): "'Disiecti membra poetae': On Hamann’s Translatology" 10:40 a.m. Eric Savoth (UC Berkeley): "Outside Thought: Meillassoux, Uexküll, Peirce"…

April 1, 2010

Weimar Culture I. The Role of Experience (Moderator: Martin Jay) 9:30-10:15 a.m. Michael Minden: "From 'Erlebnis' to 'Erfahrung'" 10:15-11:00 a.m. David Midgley: "'Entzauberung' – as an instrument of investigation and a bone of contention in the interpretation of Weimar Culture" 11:00-11:15 a.m. Break 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Niklaus Largier: "'Another state' of experience: Musil’s 'Moeglichkeitssinn' in context" 12:00-1:30 p.m. BreakII. The Body Reconstituted (Moderator: Niklaus Largier) 1:30-2:15 p.m. Andrew Webber: "Back to Balazs: body parts in Weimar film" 2:15-3:00 p.m. Annika Orich: "Otto Rippert’s Homunculus on ARTificial reproduction" 3:00-3:45 p.m. Christopher Young: "Rethinking Weimar sports history: university sport and the student body"…

April 1, 2010

Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable *** Friday, April 9, 2010 8:00 a.m. Registration Morning Session: John Askedal (Chair) 8:20 a.m. P. Bennett, M. Durrell, S. Scheible, J. Whitt. (Univ. of Manchester, UK): "Grammaticalization, Prescriptivism, and the Status of the würde + Infinitive Construction in Early Modern German: Evidence from the GerManCorpus" 8:40 a.m. Murielle Etoré (Univ. of Paris IV-Sorbonne): "Research on Verbs of Motion in German and English Economics Language" 9:00 a.m. Adams LaBorde (Univ. of Texas): "Redefining Three Old Saxon Prepositions" 9:20 a.m. Toshihiro Oda (Fukuoka University, Japan): "Another Early Schwa: The Underlying Vowel of Old English Syllabic Consonants" 9:40…

March 15, 2010

The New Man / Der neue Mensch 2010 Conference of the BTWH International Working Group on the Emergence of German Modernity Presentations and discussion in English and German. *** Thursday, April 1 - 370 Dwinelle Hall 5:00-6:00 p.m. Film Screening. Films by Hans Richter, Fernand Léger, Viking Eggeling, and Leni Riefenstahl. 6:00-7:00 p.m. Keynote Presentations. Siegfried Mattl (Vienna), "Der 'Neue Mensch' und die aktive Passivität bei Otto Neurath"; and Klaus Müller-Richter (Tübingen), "Ingenieur – Neuer Körper – Neue Zeichen: Zur Semiotik in G." Friday, April 2 - 370 Dwinelle Hall 10:00-11:30 a.m. Panel 1: G for Gestaltung. Moderator: Michael Cowan…

March 1, 2010

The Use of History 18th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference University of California, Berkeley March 12-14, 2010 *** Friday, March 12 - B4 Dwinelle Hall (Level A) 6:00 p.m. Screening of "The Baader-Meinhof Complex" (dir. Uli Edel, 2008). A pre-screening talk will be given by Carrie Collenberg (California State University, Long Beach). Saturday, March 13 – 370 Dwinelle Hall (Level F) 9:00-10:30 a.m. Panel I: The Use and Abuse of History Josiah Simon (University of Oregon): "Der kritische Sammler" Ulrike Wagner (Columbia University): "The Migration of the Muses: Historical Scholarship and Transnational German Romanticism" Carolin Rocks (Washington University in St.…

March 1, 2009

The Threat and Allure of the Magical in Literature, Language, Philosophy, History and the Arts 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference Dating back to the 9th Century Old High German Merseburg Incantations (die Merseburger Zaubersprüche) and their influence on the fairy-tale world of the Brothers Grimm, references to the magical boil forth from a wide range of cultural forms, from Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) in music to Werner Herzog’s Invincible in film. In silent film, modern literature and the arts, magic both heralded and haunted an artistic revolution in which the avant-garde and the occult recurrently intersected. In…

January 5, 2009

2009 Semiotic Circle of California.

September 1, 2008

Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? September 25-27, 2008 Istanbul is one of many world cities that turn to culture to establish a place on the world map. It is also the site of a unique debate on European integration entwined with the memory of earlier Orientalist representations. The selection of Istanbul as one of the Cultural Capitals of Europe in 2010 highlights the social and spatial tensions of staging cities and imagining citizens as consumers of culture. Taking this spectacle in the making as a departure point, this conference brings new research on technologies of government, carried out in…

March 1, 2008

Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art 16th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference University of California, Berkeley *** Friday, March 7 5:00-6:00 pm. Reception in the German Library, 5337 Dwinelle Hall (Level E) 6:00-8:00 p.m. Film Screening in B4 Dwinelle Hall (Level A): Peter Zadek’s "Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame" (1968) Saturday, March 8 – 370 Dwinelle Hall (Level F) 8:00-8:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries 8:30-8:45 a.m. Introductory Remarks (Priscilla Layne and Melissa Etzler) Panel I: REVOLUTION AND FAILURE 8:45-9:10 a.m. Thomas Brady (University of California, Berkeley): "1525 and All That: The German Peasants’ War in Modern Memory" 9:10-9:35 a.m. Dayton Henderson…

April 1, 2007

“For God’s Sake: Religious Upheaval in Politics and Society in the West” 223 Moses Hall & Faculty Club International Conference Thursday, April 12 – Friday, April 13 Around the world, religion seems to be gaining currency in public life. This is true not only in traditionally religious societies, but also in many countries long considered secular. Clear examples of a return of the religious within international politics abound: the debates prompted by Pope Benedict’s speech at the University of Regensburg, the prominence of evangelicals on the neo-conservative right wing in both the domestic and foreign policy of the United States,…