September 20, 2003

We will hold a memorial for recently deceased Professor Kenneth Weisinger on Monday, September 22nd, from 4-6 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Faculty Club.

July 28, 2003

We lament the loss of our friend and colleague, Professor Kenneth Weisinger, who died Monday, July 28, after losing a long battle against cancer. He will be sorely missed. Widely respected as a colleague and loved as a teacher, Professor Weisinger taught at Berkeley since 1972, holding a joint appointment in Comparative Literature and German. He is best known for his work on Goethe, Hölderlin and Weimar Classicism, and was especially fond of teaching the history of the lyric. His stunning erudition in classical philology, literature and music as well as his genuine enthusiasm for teaching have been inspiring to all…

April 1, 2003

Michel Chaouli (Indiana University) will speak about "Laokoon’s Skin." This lecture is co-sponsored with Comparative Literature. The lecture will start at 4 p.m.; room TBA.

April 1, 2003

PhD Alumnus Robert Clarke will give a Noon Colloquium titled, “Eine Teufelsneurose im 20. Jahrhundert: Sigmund Freuds Begegnung mit dem erblindeten Spiegel” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.

April 1, 2003

Todd Kontje (UC San Diego) will lecture on “Gendered Geographics: Early Romantic Dreams of Empire." The lecture time and place TBA.

March 1, 2003

The German Department will host an Open House for the following participating high schools: Berkeley High, Castro Valley HS and Foothill HS.

March 1, 2003

Max Kade Visiting Scholar Zafer Senocak will give a lecture titled, “Beyond the Language of the Land” at 1 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall 220.

March 1, 2003

During the 11th annual German Studies Conference, "Speaking Between: Language and Intersubjectivity", Keynote Speaker Mark Turner will give a talk called "Speech Blends." The talk will take place at 1 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall 220.

March 1, 2003

Each year the graduate students of the department organize and host a two-day conference on a specific interdisciplinary theme. The conference offers students and faculty from the U.S. and abroad an opportunity to present their research on such diverse topics as: “Finite Subjects: Mortality and Culture in Germany” (2002), ”Self-Made Germans: Authenticity, Authority and Self-Fashioning” (2001), “The German Soldier” (2000), “Reading Turn-of-the-Century Culture at the Turn of the Century” (1999), “Building Memory: City Space and Urban Experience” (1998), and “Conquering Women: Gender and War” (1997). Our recent conferences have received great praise from faculty and students both at Berkeley and around…

March 1, 2003

We welcome Ernst van Alphen (Department of Literary Studies, University of Leiden) for a lecture on “Dutch Obsessions: The Representation of Space and the Space of Representation” at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.