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Sie findet vom 15.-19. August an der University of California, Berkeley, statt.

BIG GIVE — BE THE BERKELEY EFFECT –  NOV. 17

The Loops of Mig:ration workshop with José F. A. Oliver was a great success! It was wonderful to bring together colleagues from a range of disciplines. A special thanks goes to Jon Cho-Polizzi for organizing the workshop!

Emina Mušanović has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of German at Linfield College. Congratulations, Emina!

The 24th Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference “Focus in Distraction” was a great success. For a full schedule of the conference, please see the events calendar. A warm thanks to all the conference participants and the conference organizers Jarrett Dury-Agri, Ken Fockele, and Greg Smith.

“Aesthetic Possibilities: Literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy” – Berkeley-Köln Summer School

The Berkeley-Köln Summer School, established by the Anneliese Maier prize, offers graduate students the opportunity for intensive discussions focussed on aesthetics, rhetoric, and literary criticism with an international team of professors from Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and Media Studies. The goal is to work cooperatively on theoretical questions beyond disciplinary boundaries.

Big Give, Berkeley’s 24-hour fundraising blitz, is back – and bigger than ever! Just as the Cal community consistently reaches higher, aims farther, and imagines a better world beyond our own needs, the second annual Big Give is thinking even bigger: your gift of any amount this year makes an even bigger impact on students.

Semiotic Circle of California
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Call for Papers

The German Department at Berkeley welcomes this year’s Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, Professor Helmuth Lethen (IFK, Vienna). Professor Lethen is offering a compact seminar entitled “Brecht’s Hauspostille.” He will also participate in Prof. Kaes’ seminar on the Avant-garde throughout September.

The upcoming conference sponsored by the German Department aims to explore Freud’s place in current debates on secularism and post-secularism, featuring new research on the intersections of theology, Judaism and history in Freud’s psychoanalytic theories. Freud’s own attempts to suggest a new paradigm for thinking the religious, beginning with the place of monotheism and Judaism in his theories, will be brought into more general debates on the place of the secular in Jewish thought and in psychoanalysis.

Call for Papers:

Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable
Friday/Saturday, April 1-2, 2016
The Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley

Invited Speakers:
David Bamman, University of California, Berkeley
Frans Plank, University of Konstanz
Henning Reetz, University of Frankfurt
Theo Vennemann, University of Munich
Joseph Voyles, University of Washington