May 1, 2004

2nd Annual Berkeley Yiddish Conference: “On the Borders of Yiddishland.”

May 1, 2004

Professor W. Daniel Wilson will present a lecture on “Queering the Devil: Homoerotic Discourses in Goethe’s Faust” at 5 p.m. in Dwinelle 370.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures. There will be a small reception following the lecture.

April 1, 2004

Ingo Zechner (Vienna) will give a Noon Colloquium talk on “Deleuze and the Language of Cinema” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 5303. Ingo Zechner is a Visiting Scholar in our department this spring ’04 semester. He is a member of the Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien research group.

April 1, 2004

We welcome author Gregor Hens for a Lesung und Gespräch (in German & English) at 4:00 pm in Dwinelle 3335 and at 7:30 pm, Goethe-Institut Auditorium, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco. One of Germany’s finest young authors, Gregor Hens, professor of German at Ohio State University, will read from his works, which have earned high praise from German critics. Himmelsturz (2002), acclaimed by Die Welt as the “best debut novel” of the year, tells the story of a German-American professor whose perfect marriage is called into question when he and his spouse hire an architect to build their dream house. Transfer Lounge (2003),…

April 1, 2004

Kenneth Weisinger Lecture in German and Comparative Literature, “The Aboutness of Poems: Things and Things’ Selves in Rilke” by William Waters at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 3335. William Waters is the author of Poetry’s Touch: On Lyric Address, published in 2003 by Cornell University Press. This book is a study of poetic address and of the formal ways in which poetry engages and appeals to readers. Taking as its central thread the poetry of Rilke, the book also examines the workings of address in the works of Keats, Dickinson and Ashbery. This is the inaugural Kenneth Weisinger Lecture in German and…

April 1, 2004

Zizek: The Documentary preview screening, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in 10 Evans Hall. “Zizek!” – the second feature length production of the New York based Documentary Campaign – is a documentary exploring the eccentric personality and esoteric work of the “wild man of theory”: the incomparable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. An unconventional and intimate portrait, “Zizek! ” trails the thinker from New York City to Buenos Aires and back to his home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. All the while Zizek compulsively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through his unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture. Erudite…

April 1, 2004

We are pleased to announce the eighth University of California Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe. The goal of the colloquium is to organize and sustain an annual interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty of the University of California system who work on any aspect of late medieval and early modern Central Europe. While the primary focus is on the German-speaking world, contiguous areas including the Low Countries, Bohemia, and northern Italy (roughly the extent of the Holy Roman Empire) are considered as well. The era addressed extends from the fourteenth into the nineteenth century. For more information interested…

April 1, 2004

As part of the Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe, Hartmut Lehmann (Director of the Max Planck Institute for History, Goettingen, Germany) will give a keynote lecture on “Miracles within Catastrophes. Some Examples from Early Modern Germany” at 5 p.m. in the Morrison Library.

A related colloquium will take place on Saturday, April 17, and Sunday morning, April 18, see next event listed.

This lecture is sponsored by the library, the Institute of European Studies, the Department of History and the Berkeley Reformation Seminar in conjunction with the 8th UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe.

April 1, 2004

We welcome Esther Dischereit (Berlin) for a Lesung und Gespräch (reading in German) at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 370. Co-sponsored by the Institute of European Studies.

April 1, 2004

Hugo Loetscher will give a lecture titled “Swiss Mythology and Cultural Identity” at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 3335.