Events

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Events

  • Seminar: Baroque Orientalism, Sep 5-Oct 3, 2014

    September 19, 2014

    In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years' War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today's Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims ...read more

  • Lecture by Albrecht Koschorke: Ideology in Execution: On Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Sep 17

    September 17, 2014

    A striking number of twentieth century dictators were writers, and many founded their regimes in their books' cult followings. Hitler, with his manifesto Mein Kampf, was among the first. The lecture will consider primarily the work's introductory chapters and analyze how its author communicates on two levels. For uninitiated readers, ...read more

  • Book Talk with Peter Schneider: Berlin Now: “The City after the Wall”, Sep 12

    September 12, 2014

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  • Seminar: Baroque Orientalism, Sep 5-Oct 3, 2014

    September 12, 2014

    In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years' War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today's Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims ...read more

  • Colloquium: “Goethes Wanderjahre”, Sep 10

    September 10, 2014

    Helmut Müller-Sievers (Colorado)
    Responses: Albrecht Koschorke (Konstanz) ...read more

  • DAAD Information Session, Sep 10

    September 10, 2014

    DAAD Information Session with Hanni Geist (Information Officer) and Andrea Sinn (Visiting Professor).

    Undergraduate Session- 2-3pm
    Graduate Session- 3-4pm ...read more

  • Seminar: Baroque Orientalism, Sep 5-Oct 3, 2014

    September 5, 2014

    In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years' War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today's Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims ...read more

  • Commencement 2014, May 19

    May 19, 2014

    PARTICIPATING DEPARTMENTS: CELTIC STUDIES, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN STUDIES PROGRAM, SCANDINAVIAN, SLAVIC and SPANISH & PORTUGUESE ...read more

  • German Kabarett, Apr 29, May 2, May 8

    April 4, 2014

    The UC Berkeley German Department presents Spruch und Widerspruch German Cabaret A poetic cocktail mixing literature, comedy, and music, including but not limited to alliterations and allegories, poets in love, mind numbing tongue twisters, an ode to the cell phone, a very pragmatic guide for dealing with sadness, a linguistic quest for identity, a culinary delight from Austria, and, yes, a thunderstorm! In German! Tuesday, April 29, 7 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall 
    Friday, May 2, 7pm @ Excelsior Center, Oakland
    Thursday, May 8, 7pm @ Goethe Institute San FranciscoFree and open to the public.

  • Noon Colloquium with Schreiter, Apr 25

    April 1, 2014

    Dr. Anne Schreiter (Universität St. Gallen) will give a Noon Colloquium titled "Between Remembrance and Transformation. Germany's Third Generation East" at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.