April 1, 2003

Michel Chaouli (Indiana University) will speak about "Laokoon’s Skin." This lecture is co-sponsored with Comparative Literature. The lecture will start at 4 p.m.; room TBA.

April 1, 2003

Todd Kontje (UC San Diego) will lecture on “Gendered Geographics: Early Romantic Dreams of Empire." The lecture time and place TBA.

March 1, 2003

Max Kade Visiting Scholar Zafer Senocak will give a lecture titled, “Beyond the Language of the Land” at 1 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall 220.

March 1, 2003

During the 11th annual German Studies Conference, "Speaking Between: Language and Intersubjectivity", Keynote Speaker Mark Turner will give a talk called "Speech Blends." The talk will take place at 1 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall 220.

March 1, 2003

We welcome Ernst van Alphen (Department of Literary Studies, University of Leiden) for a lecture on “Dutch Obsessions: The Representation of Space and the Space of Representation” at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.

March 1, 2003

Albert Kümmel (Cologne, UCSB) will lecture on “Zöllner against Helmholtz: Academic Communication as Witchcraft” from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 123. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology, the Institute of European Studies and the German Department.

March 1, 2003

“Hugo Grotius and the Spanish Black Legend: Rights Theories, Humanist Historiography and Hispanophobia in Seventeenth Century Holland” will be presented by Martine Julia van Ittersum (Department of History, Harvard University) at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.

February 1, 2003

Join us to hear Marleen de Vries (Freie Universität Berlin) give a lecture on “Transforming the Public Sphere. Eighteenth Century Literary Societies and the Rise of a National Cultural Community”  at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.

February 1, 2003

Reinier Salverda (University College London) will present a lecture titled, “Young Man, Go East! Investigating Colonial Topoi in Dutch Literature” at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 3119.

November 1, 2002

Barbara Mennel will give a lecture titled, “When History Meets Fantasy: Masochism in Literature and Film” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.

Mennel is Assistant Professor of German Studies and International Cinema in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group on Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.