Events

Departmental News

Events

  • Noon Colloquium with Dewey, Mar 11

    March 1, 2003

    PhD Student Tonya Dewey will present a Noon Colloquium on “The Parable of the Dragon” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.

  • Kümmel Lecture, Mar 10

    March 1, 2003

    Albert Kümmel (Cologne, UCSB) will lecture on “Zöllner against Helmholtz: Academic Communication as Witchcraft” from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 123. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology, the Institute of European Studies and the German Department.

  • Noon Colloquium with Hacopian, Mar 4

    March 1, 2003

    Anastasia Hacopian (Humboldt University) will give a colloquium talk titled, “Kafka’s Bed: Tracing the Bed Motif and the Significance of Spheres in his Novel Der Prozeß”  at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.

  • van Ittersum Lecture, Mar 3

    March 1, 2003

    “Hugo Grotius and the Spanish Black Legend: Rights Theories, Humanist Historiography and Hispanophobia in Seventeenth Century Holland” will be presented by Martine Julia van Ittersum (Department of History, Harvard University) at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.

  • Rethinking Diversity Workshop, Feb 28

    February 1, 2003

    Join us for a workshop on “Rethinking Diversity” from 2-5 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401. The workshop is being held in conjunction with German 268 (Professor Deniz Göktürk and Max Kade Distinguished Visitor Zafer Senocak).

  • Zafer Senocak Reading, Feb 27

    February 1, 2003

    Max Kade Foundation Distinguished Visitor Zafer Senocak will give a reading in German starting at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 117.

    The reading is co-sponsored by the Goethe Institut, SF.

  • de Vries Lecture, Feb 27

    February 1, 2003

    Join us to hear Marleen de Vries (Freie Universität Berlin) give a lecture on “Transforming the Public Sphere. Eighteenth Century Literary Societies and the Rise of a National Cultural Community”  at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.

  • Noon Colloquium with Katrin Pahl, Feb 21

    February 1, 2003

    Katrin Pahl (PhD student, Department of Rhetoric) will talk on “Ratten und Elfen die Helfen: The Fairy-Tale Logic of German Bildung." This installment of the Noon Colloquium will start at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 5303.

  • Lecture by Reinier Salverda, Feb 18

    February 1, 2003

    Reinier Salverda (University College London) will present a lecture titled, “Young Man, Go East! Investigating Colonial Topoi in Dutch Literature” at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 3119.

  • Barbara Mennel Talk, Nov 19

    November 1, 2002

    Barbara Mennel will give a lecture titled, “When History Meets Fantasy: Masochism in Literature and Film” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.

    Mennel is Assistant Professor of German Studies and International Cinema in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group on Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.