March 1, 2002

Film Studies Symposium titled, “Look Who’s Talking Now: Globalization, Film, Media, & the Public Sphere." The symposium will take place from 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. in 142 Dwinelle Hall.

February 1, 2002

Tina Campt, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will speak on "Transnational Travels in Black: Afro-Germans and the Crowded Space of Diaspora" as part of the 2001-2002 Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series.

January 20, 2002

The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Circle of California will be held in the Faculty Club, on Saturday and Sunday, January 26-27, 2002. As customary, the meeting is an open-topic research paper meeting. Schedule 8:45 am: Registration (coffee/tea breaks, luncheon, closing pastry / wine): students $20; others $40 Morning Session: Winfried Kudszus (UC Berkeley), Chair 9:00 am Denis J. Brion (Washington & Lee Law School): “Illegitimate Politics in Bush v. Gore” 9:30 am Richard John Ascarate & Tonya Kim Dewey (UC Berkeley): “Cracking the Nut: The Translation of Prose to choreography and Gesture in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Tales” 10:00 am…

December 1, 2001

Fall 2001 BLC fellows Karina Sliwinski and Lynne Frame will present their Instructional Development Research Projects.

Sliwinski's talk is titled “Researching the Role of Performance in the Teaching of Dürrenmatt’s ‘Der Besuch derr alten Dame’ in German 3," and Frame's talk is called “Wiring Business German for Culture and Communication”.

3-5 p.m. in 370 Dwinelle Hall

December 1, 2001

James Schultz (UCLA) will speak on “Courtly Love of the Courtly Body” at 5 p.m. in 370 Dwinelle Hall.

Schultz is the second speaker in the 2001-2002 series of lectures on Experience and Imagination in the Middle Ages organized by the Program in Medieval Studies.

December 1, 2001

Jennifer Kapczynski will speak on “Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus and the Roots of the German Disease” at 12:10 p.m. in 5303 Dwinelle Hall.

November 1, 2001

Stephen Hinton (Chair of the Department of Music, Stanford University) will speak on “From Whisky Bar to Lonely House: Kurt Weill’s Music of the City” at 4 p.m. in 370 Dwinelle Hall. This talk is part of the 2001-2002 Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series.

November 1, 2001

Medieval Studies luncheon with Sara S. Poor (Stanford), who will speak about “Tales and Prayers for Clever Women? Misogyny and Form in a 15th-century German Book” at 12 p.m. at the Faculty Club, Lewis/Lattimer Room.

November 1, 2001

The Theory Discussion Group will meet to discuss Gumbrecht's, “In 1926″.

Led by Prof. Niklaus Largier. 4:30 p.m. in 5310 Dwinelle

November 1, 2001

Christina Gerhardt will speak on “National History in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory” at 12:10 p.m in 3401 Dwinelle Hall.