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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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Noon Colloquium
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Qingyang Freya Zhou
For graduate students presenting their research (their proposed dissertation, conference papers, or current research project) For visitors (profs., postdocs, doctoral students) presenting their research For guests speakers In the Doctoral Colloquium of the Department of German at UC Berkeley, visitors, guest speakers, faculty, and doctoral students present the progress of their proposed dissertations, conference papers, or current research projects. Regular colloquia help to ensure that a collegial exchange is possible and that ideas, critical suggestions, and outstanding matters can be discussed. This is an opportunity for faculty, visitors, and doctoral students from various departments to share their ideas,…
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Crossing Borders, Drawing Lives: Barbara Yelin’s Graphic Novels
Time: - 1:30 PMDate: Location: PDT
Speaker: Barbara Yelin
A leading graphic novelist, Barbara Yelin has engaged with German history, in particular the Holocaust, and issues of migration. Born in Munich, she studied illustration at the Hamburg Institute of Applied Sciences and started publishing in France (le visiteur; le retard). Her graphic narrative Gift (2010, with Peer Meter) portrays the story of Gesche Gottfried, a female serial killer in nineteenth-century Bremen. Her graphic narrative Irmina deals with female complicity in the Third Reich. Unsichtbar addresses the travails of Kidane, an Eritrean refugee. Yelin has also drawn comic strips for German newspapers, including the Frankfurter Rundschau and Tagesspiegel, and worked…
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Belgium in World War I: the shaping of twentieth century warfare
Time: - 12:00 PMDate: Location: Hybrid - 201 Moses Hall and Zoom- Note change in date!
Speaker: Nel de Mûelenaere, Free University of Brussels; Peter Paul Rubens Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Flanders in the USA, BENELUX Studies Program, Dutch Studies Between 1914 and 1918, Belgium was the de facto testing ground for large-scale industrial armed conflict. From the brutal German invasion in August 1914 to the armistice in November 1918, the neutral, small state was the scene of some of the bloodiest innovations in technological warfare such as the introduction of aerial attacks on civilians, chemical weapons, rapid innovation in artillery systems and tanks. With the country split between active frontline and occupied territory, it saw four years of close civil-military interactions, propaganda wars and civilian coping strategies under occupation.…
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Noon Colloquium
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle
Speaker: Professor Dr. Sadhana Naithani
For graduate students presenting their research (their proposed dissertation, conference papers, or current research project) For visitors (profs., postdocs, doctoral students) presenting their research For guests speakers In the Doctoral Colloquium of the Department of German at UC Berkeley, visitors, guest speakers, faculty, and doctoral students present the progress of their proposed dissertations, conference papers, or current research projects. Regular colloquia help to ensure that a collegial exchange is possible and that ideas, critical suggestions, and outstanding matters can be discussed. This is an opportunity for faculty, visitors, and doctoral students from various departments to share their ideas, listen…
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Noon Colloquium
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Ana Lupu
Our next Noon Colloquium is this Friday! For graduate students presenting their research (their proposed dissertation, conference papers, or current research project) For visitors (profs., postdocs, doctoral students) presenting their research For guests speakers In the Doctoral Colloquium of the Department of German at UC Berkeley, visitors, guest speakers, faculty, and doctoral students present the progress of their proposed dissertation, conference papers, or current research projects. Regular colloquia help to ensure that a collegial exchange is possible and that ideas, critical suggestions, and outstanding matters can be discussed. This is an opportunity for faculty, visitors, and doctoral students…
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Elective Affinities: A Cultural History of Friendship among German Jews, 1888-1938
Time: - 7:30 PMDate: Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Philipp Lenhard-DAAD Associate Professor of History and German, UC Berkeley
Moderator: John Efron, Koret Professor of Jewish History, UC Berkeley Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of German, Department of History, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley Friendship is a key category for understanding what Jewishness meant to many German Jews in the late nineteenth century and up to the eve of the Holocaust. While Judaism in Germany had been transformed into a mere “community of faith,” that is, one shorn of any ethnic conception of Jewishness, this denominational concept of what it means to be Jewish faced a crisis in the age of secularization. For many Jews, Jewishness was…
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ARCHIVES OF MIGRATION: THE POWER OF FICTION IN TIMES OF FAKE NEWS
Time: - 1:30 PMDate: Location: TBD
Speaker: Deniz Utlu
Deniz Utlu Poster The Language of Archives: Deniz Utlu in conversation with Sultan Doughan and Deniz Göktürk Lecture | October 17 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Zoom Speaker: Deniz Utlu, Author Moderators: Sultan Doughan, Dr Thomas Zand visiting assistant professor of Holocaust pedagogy and antisemitism studies at Clark University; Deniz Göktürk, Professor in the Department of German at UC Berkeley Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Department of German, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, German Consulate General San Francisco, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, UC Davis Department of German Deniz Utlu is an author, playwright, editor, and human rights researcher. As founder of freitext, he edited the magazine from 2003…
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Kaffeeklatsch
Time: - 3:00 PMDate: Location: 5401 Dwinelle Hall (German Library)
Speaker: Ambika Athreya
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Feminist climate fictions working group first meeting
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: 5401 Dwinelle Hall (German Library)
Speaker: Elizabeth Sun and Verena Wolf
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Lecture on: “Walter Benjamin and Stefan George”
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Professor Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr University Bochum & ICI Berlin)