January 26, 2016

Among the most important components of The Magnes' pictorial holdings is a collection of nearly one thousand posters acquired worldwide since the 1960s. This diverse and fascinating group of works has been acquired via a broad network of paper and print collectors, purchased in museum stores, or simply taken off ...read more

January 23, 2016

Thirty-first Meeting, January 23, 2016
University of California, Berkeley
Seaborg Room, Faculty Club

9:20 Scott Shell (UC Berkeley): “On the Semantic Extension of the Word wight”

9:40 Ellen McCracken (UC Santa Barbara): “The Fashion System: Homologous Structures of Text and Paratext”

10:00 Mark Riley (CSU Sacramento): “The Art of the Blurb in the ...read more

January 20, 2016

Did you know that Germany offers excellent and affordable higher education? Are you interested in spending some time at a German university during the summer, for a semester or to get a degree supported by DAAD scholarships and grants? DAAD representatives will give you an overview of the German university ...read more

December 2, 2015

Koret Professor of Jewish History at UC Berkeley, John Efron will read from his new book, German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic in conversation with Steven Zipperstein, the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. The book explores the special place accorded to ...read more

November 23, 2015

The American Primer for Grown-up Germans. An Attempt to Explain What Has Not Been Understood (Amerika-Fibel für erwachsene Deutsche. Ein Versuch Unverstandenes zu erklären), written by the German-American journalist Margret Boveri, was an influential reaction to the American policy of occupation and some of its most apparent elements, denazification and ...read more

November 17, 2015

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November 15, 2015

In this lecture, Jeroen Dewulf presents his latest research on America's little-known Dutch-speaking black community. Although it is estimated that as late as the mid-eighteenth century some sixteen to twenty percent of the slaves in New York and New Jersey spoke (some) Dutch, very little research has been done on ...read more

November 3, 2015

International House and the Haas School of Business cordially invite you to an evening of classical music featuring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Enjoy Enjoy Mozart's Exquisite String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515 & No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516, performed by Lisa Grodin on Viola, Carla Moore ...read more

November 2, 2015

This lecture examines the representation of female MPs on permanent parliamentary committees in the German Bundestag between 1990 and 2013. Taking insights from theories on gender socialization and traditional gender hierarchies, it explores to what extent women tend to be overrepresented on committees handling so-called typical female issues such as ...read more

October 30, 2015

Aus der Literatur und der Alltagssprache kennen wir viele Formen des Lachens, das diabolische, das hysterische, das irre Lachen, wir lachen uns tot etc. Kant hat es als einen Affekt beschrieben, „der die Eingeweide und das Zwerchfell bewegt“. Als ein non-verbaler Ausdruck des Körpers hat das Lachen Philosophen von Aristoteles ...read more