April 1, 2004

We welcome author Hugo Loetscher (Zürich) for a “Lesung und Gespräch” (reading in German) with Prof. Jeroen Dewulf (Universidade do Porto, Portugal), followed by a reception hosted by the Swiss Consulate, San Francisco. The event will begin at 3 p.m. in the Morrison Library. This event is also co-sponsored by the UCB Library. Swiss author Hugo Loetscher is, according to the Paris newspaper Le Figaro, “a writer in the European mold”, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hails him as “the most cosmo-political of all Swiss writers.” Born in 1929 in Zurich, Loetscher studied political science, economics, sociology and literature in Zurich…

April 1, 2004

Screening of “Der junge Törless” (based on a novel by Robert Musil), and discussion with filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff (in English) in Dwinelle 370.

Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

** PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. DUE TO A BROKEN LEG MR. SCHLöNDORFF IS UNABLE TO TRAVEL AT THIS TIME.

April 1, 2004

“Volker Schlöndorff: New German Cinema–Then and Now” at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco.

Panel discussion with Volker Schlöndorff and Yuksel Yavuz following the film screening of Yuksel Yavuz’ film “Kleine Freiheit”.

** PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. DUE TO A BROKEN LEG MR. SCHLöNDORFF IS UNABLE TO TRAVEL AT THIS TIME.

April 1, 2004

The Faculty Club University of California, Berkeley Friday, April 2 8:00 a.m. Registration (Faculty Club: Seaborg Room) Morning Session: Rex A. Sprouse (Indiana Univ.) 8:30 a.m. John Durbin (Indiana Univ.): "Are Modals a Form of Passivization? Evidence from Dutch moeten/mogen + van" 8:55 a.m. Donald Steinmetz (Augsburg College): “The Germanic Gender Shift and its Consequences in Yiddish: Order in the Chaos?” 9:20 a.m. Ana Krzic (Indiana Univ.): “Pronoun Address System in German” 9:45 a.m. Charles M. Barrack (Univ. of Washington): “Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law: From Typology to Trajectory” 10:10 a.m. Mark Southern (Middlebury College): “Metonymic and Linguistic Inheritances in Old Saxon: Betrayal, Protection, Death,…

March 1, 2004

Jeffrey Grossman (University of Virginia) will lecture on “Bildung and its Critics: Heinrich Heine, Berthold Auerbach, and the Question of a German Jewish Subculture” at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 3335.

March 1, 2004

There will be two lectures with author Martin Goldsmith on March 18. The Kulturbund: German-Jewish Relations During the Third Reich 5303 Dwinelle Hall Martin Goldsmith is the author of “The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany.” Hailed as “a literary journey reminiscent of Art Spiegelman’s in ‘Maus,’” the book tells the riveting story of the Jewish Kulturbund, an all-Jewish performing arts ensemble maintained by the Nazis between 1933 and 1941, an ensemble that included Mr. Goldsmith’s parents. Mr. Goldsmith newest book, part of the “Turning Points” series published by John Wiley & Sons, is called…

March 1, 2004

Germany and the Imagined East 2004 German Studies Conference UC Berkeley Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall *** March 13, 2004 8:00-9:00 a.m. Breakfast 9:00-9:15 a.m. Introductory Remarks (Lee M. Roberts, UC Berkeley) Panel I: Philosophical Views on the East (Moderator: Gabriel Trop, UC Berkeley) 9:15-9:40 a.m. Tomislav Zelic (Columbia): “Habermas and His Balkans” 9:40-10:05 a.m. Nicholas Martin (University of St. Andrews): “Inviting Barbarism: Nietzsche’s Will toRussia” 10:05-10:30 a.m. Jeffrey Librett (Loyola University): “Friedrich Schelling’s Defense of ‘Oriental’ Pantheism: From the Freiheitsschrift to the Philosophie der Mythologie” 10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee break Panel II: Eastern “Germanies” (Moderator: Sabrina Rahman, UC Berkeley) 10:45-11:10 a.m. Wendy Graham (IndianaUniversity):…

March 1, 2004

PhD student Jeremy Brett will give a Noon Colloquium talk on “Nicht Schlecht Papier: Poem Writes Heart (Günther 1724)” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 5303.

March 1, 2004

Professor Bluma Goldstein will give a Noon Colloquium on “Reflections of Cultural Identity: German Jews or Jewish Germans? or Whose Story is This?” at 1 p.m. in Dwinelle 5303.

February 1, 2004

New Research and Writing in Modern German History A University of California Workshop February 27-29, 2004 The workshop will be held in the Regents Room at the Hotel Durant, 2600 Durant Avenue, Berkeley 94704. The conveners are professors Gerald D. Feldman and Christina von Hodenberg. Program: Friday, February 27 1:00-2:30 p.m. Introduction and Keynote Lecture: William Hagen (UC Davis) on "German History Beyond the Sonderweg: New Grand Narratives? New Narrative Styles?" Coffee Break 3:00-5:30 p.m. Session I: New Work on Post-1945 Germany (Chaired by James Sheehan of Stanford University) Robert Moeller (UC Irvine), "What Did You Do in the War, Mutti? Courageous Women,…