November 1, 2002

Claus Leggewie (Gieβen) will present on “Immigration into a national past? German-Turks and collective memory” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.

October 30, 2002

Stefan Andriopoulos (Columbia University) will speak about "The Dead Hand: Trusts and Vampires." This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature.

3:00 p.m. in Dwinelle 3335.

September 1, 2002

Walter H. Sokel (Columbia University) will give a talk titled, “The Myth of Power and the Self: Approaches to Reading the ’Metamorphosis’” at 3:30 p.m. in Kroeber 155.

August 1, 2002

Monday, August 19: Professor Niklaus Largier will present: “Who Am I, What Am I? Imagining the Self Before Modernity.” (2-3 p.m. in Dwinelle 370.) Wednesday, August 21: Professor Eli Katz will talk about, “Why Yiddish?” (1-2 p.m. in Dwinelle 83.) Thursday, August 22: Professor Deniz Göktürk will speak on " Kafka Goes to the Movies” (2-3 p.m. in Dwinelle 142.) Friday, August 2: Professor Hinrich Seeba will present: “Strangers to Themselves: National versus Personal Identity in German Culture.” (10-11 am in Dwinelle 370.) Friday, August 23: Language Coordinator Lynne Frame and Graduate Student Tes Skogmo will give a lecture called,…

May 1, 2002

In the final installation of the 2001-2002 Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series, Barbara Wolbert will speak on May 3 about “Museum Wars: Art and Memory in the New Germany”. Barbara Wolbert is a cultural anthropologist, working on the anthropology of art and visual culture. She has conducted fieldwork in Germany and Turkey, specializing on the analysis of narration, photography and video practices in the context of migration studies. In this field she has published two books, Migrationsbewältigung [Coping with Migration] (1984) and Der getötete Paβ [Killing the Passport] (1995), as well as various radio documentaries and articles. She is currently pursuing a…

April 7, 2002

As part of the Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series, Stephan Jaeger will speak on “The Artistic Writing of History: Performances of the Past on the Edge between Historiography and Literature”. Stephan Jaeger has studied German and English literature at the University of Bielefeld and written his dissertation with Karl Heinz Bohrer on the theory of poetry. He has taught at the universities of Bielefeld, Giessen, and Szczecin (formerly Stettin, Poland), and he is spending this academic year as research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current research deals with the aesthetics of writing history in 18th century British and German historiography.…

April 1, 2002

As part of the 2001-2002 Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series, Theo Vennemann will speak on “Why are German and English different?” German and English are different languages; as such they may be expected to be different. The real question–and the question to be addressed in the presentation–is: Why are German and English so very different? After all, English is, like Dutch and Low German, genetically a variety of Coastal West Germanic and thus very closely related also to Inland West Germanic, i.e. High German; and Dutch and Low German are entirely within the limits of linguistic similarity or dissimilarity that is to…

February 1, 2002

Tina Campt, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will speak on "Transnational Travels in Black: Afro-Germans and the Crowded Space of Diaspora" as part of the 2001-2002 Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series.

December 1, 2001

Fall 2001 BLC fellows Karina Sliwinski and Lynne Frame will present their Instructional Development Research Projects.

Sliwinski's talk is titled “Researching the Role of Performance in the Teaching of Dürrenmatt’s ‘Der Besuch derr alten Dame’ in German 3," and Frame's talk is called “Wiring Business German for Culture and Communication”.

3-5 p.m. in 370 Dwinelle Hall

December 1, 2001

James Schultz (UCLA) will speak on “Courtly Love of the Courtly Body” at 5 p.m. in 370 Dwinelle Hall.

Schultz is the second speaker in the 2001-2002 series of lectures on Experience and Imagination in the Middle Ages organized by the Program in Medieval Studies.