April 1, 2005

The German Film Club presents Tom Tykwer's "Der Krieger und die Kaiserin" (2000).

April 1, 2005

Graduate Student Sabrina Rahman will give a Noon Colloquium about "Austria on Parade: Staging Ethnicity in the 1908 Imperial Jubilee."

April 1, 2005

Paula Diehl (Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin) will give a talk as part of the Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series.

March 1, 2005

The German Film Club Presents Zak Penn's "Incident at Loch Ness" (2004).

March 1, 2005

Chistopher Young (Cambridge University) will present the next Noon Colloquium. Christopher Young’s teaching and research focuses on medieval German literature with additional interests in the history of the German language and the sociology of sport. He is the author of “Narrativische Perspektiven in Worlframs Willehalm” and the co-editor of “Blutezeit” (both Tubingen 2000). In 2000-2001 he was awarded a fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and spent a year researching at the University of Cologne. His work there – an edition, translation and commentary of Ulrich von Liechtenstein’s Frauenbuch – will be published by Reclam. He is currently completing a…

March 1, 2005

Finding the Foreign 2005 Dwinelle 370 This conference aims to explore constructions of the ‘foreign’ in the German-speaking context throughout the centuries. Etymology reveals that ‘friend’ was once related to family; ‘foe’ was related to strife. Situated between friend and foe one finds the stranger or the foreigner – ‘der Fremde’- potentially inspiring curiosity or fear, potentially a friend or a foe, potentially a source of insight about oneself. Who or what is foreign? What tropes or techniques create a sense of the foreign, and how do they serve to position the foreign on the spectrum from friend to foe? How have…

March 1, 2005

Alumna Jennifer Kapczynski will give a Noon Colloquium presentation titled "Being There: On Making the Transition from Graduate School to the Tenure Track."

March 1, 2005

The German Film Club presents Fatih Akin's "Gegen die Wand" (2004).

February 3, 2005

Graduate student Richard John Ascarate will present a Noon Colloquium talk on "Cannibalizing History: Traditions of the Exotic in Werner Herzog’s South American Films."

February 1, 2005

Tonya Dewey will present a Noon Colloquium talk on "Word Order in Germanic Alliterative Verse."