Join us this Monday, September 18 for the FIRST Kaffeeklatsch of Fall 2023!    We’ll be in the library of the German Department  (Dwinelle 5401) with coffee, cookies and casual conversation in German from 2:00 pm – 3:30pm! The event is open to all levels of language proficiency, faculty, current, former, and future students, and anyone interested in German. Wir freuen uns auf euch!   Subsequent Kaffeklatsch sessions will occur at the same time and place EACH MONDAY until Thanksgiving. This is in contrast to the last two years, when Kaffeeklatsch was a fortnightly affair.  If you feel like helping us reduce waste, bring your own coffee mug.    Please feel free to forward…

Sponsor(s): Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, UC Berkeley Department of German, UC Berkeley Department of History, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Berkeley Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender As West Germans discussed “difference” after 1945, they sought out a self-consciously “Western” and liberal way to discuss difference. The talk examines different examples of how US social science on race shaped policies on migration in West Germany, including how invoking “Harlem” as a racialized space shaped urban housing policy for migrants in…

Spring 2023 Commencement for German Bachelor’s (majors), Master’s, and Ph.D. students: Monday May 15, 2023   9-11am Zellerbach Playhouse Reception immediately following the ceremony, Ishi Court. PARTICIPATING DEPARTMENTS Celtic Studies, Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies, French, German, Italian Studies, Scandinavian, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Spanish & Portuguese

Title: “Ad ultimos. Differences, Peripheries, and Horizons as Generators of the Adventurous around 1200 CE”

ein seufzer kommt niemals allein …   berkeley german student cabaret     april  18 & 19, 6 pm b-4 dwinelle hall free and open to the public (april 19 reception sponsored by Excelsior German Center, Oakland) UC Berkeley’s students of German once again present a mixture of poetry, skits, and music in their annual cabaret program with texts and songs by Fred Endrikat, Karl Valentin and many others, including, yes, Herder and Fontane. A humorous, poetic, and playful celebration of the German language featuring, among others, a provocative ballad of a terrorist being brought to justice, a poem about a…

Title:  “Femininity in Goethe`s Stella”

Title:   “Gendergerechte Sprache in Texten für medizinische Laien – Diskursanalyse zur Darstellung von „anormalen“ Symptomen bei Frauen am Beispiel des Myokardinfarkts und dem Einfluss gendergerechter Sprachformen”  

Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics Lecture | March 14 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Speaker: Willibald Steinmetz, Bielefeld University Moderator: Akasemi Newsome, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, German Historica Insitute Washington (Pacific Office, Berkeley), Department of History Professor Willibald Steinmetz will give a work-in-progress report on a book he is currently writing about ‘outrageous comparisons’, i.e. comparisons that create public outrage or other strong emotional outbursts such as hatred, disgust, or long-lasting resentment. Polemical equations of someone with Hitler or the Nazis, or analogies to the Holocaust, are the most salient cases in point, but by…