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Events
The Department of German hosts and co-sponsors a range of events throughout the year, including conferences, lecture series, and weekly/biweekly colloquia and social activities.
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An Assessment of Current Political Issues in Europe: A Fireside Chat with Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: Location: 201 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: Wolfgang Petritsch
Sponsor(s): Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Austrian Studies Program, Institute of International Studies, German Department Join us for a discussion with President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Wolfgang Petritsch, moderated by Jeroen Dewulf, Director of the Institute of European Studies, and John Connelly, Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Topics of discussion will include contemporary politics in Austria, Central Europe, the EU, and transatlantic relations. Speaker: Wolfgang Petritsch, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Moderator: Jeroen Dewulf, Institute of European Studies Moderator: John Connelly, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Contact Info:rsavord@berkeley.edu Access Coordinator: Ray Savord, rsavord@berkeley.edu, 510-642-4555
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Lecture entitled Occupied Germany & Japan after WWII from Global Cultural History Perspectives (Besatzungsalltage/senryōka nichijō)
Time: - 12:00 PMDate: Location: 201 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: Robert Kramm (Freigeist-Fellow, LMU Munich)
Sponsor(s): Institute of European Studies, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, Center for Race and Gender, Institute of International Studies, German Department, History Department The postwar occupations of Germany and Japan were significant periods for the history of Europe and East Asia alike. They have both been thoroughly researched on their own right, yet until to date historical scholarship has hardly ever considered putting the history of both occupations into conversation, whether from comparative or entangled history perspectives. Our understanding of both occupations thus remains embedded into the national success stories of postwar Germany and Japan, and both nations’ respective relations to…
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Noon Colloquium
Time: - 1:30 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Dr. Manuela Gerlof (Vice-President of Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences at De Gruyter)
A Workshop with Manuela Gerlof Hinter den Kulissen des Lektorats: Publizieren in den German Studies In diesem Workshop bietet Manuela Gerlof Einblicke in die Verlagspraxis und vermittelt alles, was Autorinnen und Autoren wissen sollten, die vorhaben, ihr erstes oder nächstes Buch im Bereich German Studies zu veröffentlichen: Wie finde ich den richtigen Verlag in einer sich ständig verändernden Publikations–landschaft? Wie verwandle ich meine Forschungsergebnisse in eine Buch–publikation? Was muss ich tun, um meine Lektorin zu überzeugen, mein Buch ins Programm zu nehmen? Und was passiert eigentlich danach? Manuela Gerlof leitet als Vice President die geistes- und sozial–wissenschaftlichen Lektorate des…
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The Museum Next Door: Living with Art in Nineteenth Century Prussia
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: Location: 223 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: Alice Goff, Assistant Professor of German History and the College, University of Chicago
Sponsor(s): Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, UC Berkeley Department of History, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley Can public art museums transform society? Those who answer yes have often drawn on an early nineteenth century German aesthetic tradition which identified art as a source of personal and collective liberation in an age of revolutionary conflict. Drawing on Goff’s forthcoming book, The God Behind the Marble (University of Chicago Press, 2023), this talk charts the material struggles that accompanied the philosophical faith in art’s transformative powers in a time of looting, secularization, and war. It argues that these struggles– between…
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Kaffeeklatsch
Time: - 3:30 PMDate: Location: 5401 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Kaffeeklatschteam
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…
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“Cura/Care: Die zwei Gesichter der Sorge”
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Cornelia Zumbusch (Hamburg)- Visiting Max Kade Distinguished Professsorr
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‘Harlem in Germany’: Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: Location: 201 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: Lauren Stokes, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
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…
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“Premodern Space: Space, Raum, Topos”
Time: - 5:00 PMDate: - 08/25/2023 Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Professors Tanja Michalski (Biblioteca Hertziana Rome), Kate Heslop (UC Berkeley), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford), Jesse Rodin (Stanford), Marisa Galvez (Stanford), Saskia Quené (Universität Tübingen), Klaus Krüger (FU-Berlin), Niklaus Largier (Berkeley), Diliana Angelova (UC Berkeley), Emily Zazulia (UC Berkeley),
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COMMENCEMENT SPRING 2023
Time: - 11:00 AMDate: Location: Zellerbach Playhouse
Speaker: Professor Karen Feldman
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
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Noon Colloquium
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Philip Reich
Title: “Ad ultimos. Differences, Peripheries, and Horizons as Generators of the Adventurous around 1200 CE”