June 17, 2016

Bay Area Premiere!
Featuring Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Viktoriya Korotkova, Chulpan Khamatova.

“Everything is in chaos,” fittingly notes a character in Aleksey German, Jr.'s science-fiction look at a not-so-futuristic Russia. The film is set exactly one hundred years after the Russian Revolution amid a ruined, unfinished skyscraper, where assorted souls wander in ...read more

April 26, 2016

Illusion and reality, art and nature, cuss word and sonnet, Merkel and Trump, postmodern philosophy and the realities of​ everyda​y​ life:​ UC Berkeley's annual German student cabaret presents a poetic mix of comedy and tragedy, ​​reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable. ...read more

April 16, 2016

Find out why students who have studied abroad think it's one of the best experiences of their lives! Hear students describe how you can fulfill academic requirements, learn languages, and complete independent-study projects or internships on your road to becoming a global citizen. ...read more

April 15, 2016

Presented by the Department of German in the context of Professor Deniz Göktürk's Graduate Seminar on “Framing Migration” and the Multicultural Germany Project

April 15, 2016, 2-5 p.m.

3335 Dwinelle Hall

Marco Jacquemet
What's in a Name? Asylum Hearings in the Age of Suspicion

Using ethnographic evidence from asylum hearings in various European states (Italy, ...read more

April 15, 2016

Europe is facing a refugee crisis, and Germany has opened its doors to people fleeing the war in Syria and rippling effects of the crisis in surrounding Mideast nations. As the EU's economic leader, Germany has the capacity to support large numbers of refugees but the current influx is virtually ...read more

April 12, 2016

It is a truism of linguistics that the grammars of native speakers are DISCONTINUOUS, which alludes to the principle of language competence encompassing the idea that no two persons have exactly the same grammar of the language they share as native speakers. To a very large extent, precisely what is ...read more

April 7, 2016

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were witness to the rise of theodicy as an attempt to justify the rational and providential workings of God in a world full of plagues and disasters. Likewise, today's liberal theory of markets and, most notably, financial markets claims that the current economy has brought ...read more

April 6, 2016

Turkey has experienced a dramatic reversal of fortune in the last few years. Once a model Islamic democracy with a booming economy, Turkey now faces challenges on many fronts: the renewal of PKK-linked violence, the arrival of millions of Syrian refugees, deep engagement in the Syrian civil war, a bitter ...read more

April 2, 2016

Invited Speakers:

David Bamman, University of California, Berkeley
Frans Plank, University of Konstanz
Henning Reetz, University of Frankfurt
Theo Vennemann, University of Munich
Joseph Voyles, University of Washington

BERKELEY GERMANIC LINGUISTICS ROUNDTABLE
FACULTY CLUB, SEABORG ROOM
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Friday, April 1, 2016

8:00 am Registration

Morning Session: Thomas Shannon, Chair

8:20 am Scott T. Shell (Univ. of California Berkeley)
...read more

April 1, 2016

Invited Speakers:

David Bamman, University of California, Berkeley
Frans Plank, University of Konstanz
Henning Reetz, University of Frankfurt
Theo Vennemann, University of Munich
Joseph Voyles, University of Washington

BERKELEY GERMANIC LINGUISTICS ROUNDTABLE
FACULTY CLUB, SEABORG ROOM
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Friday, April 1, 2016

8:00 am Registration

Morning Session: Thomas Shannon, Chair

8:20 am Scott T. Shell (Univ. of California Berkeley)
...read more