News & Events
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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Berkeley Book Chats Niklaus Largier- “Figures of Possibility”
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: ONLINE
Speaker: Professor Niklaus Largier (UC Berkeley)
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses Niklaus Largier BERKELEY BOOK CHATS Wednesday, Sep 14, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Online Click here to view the livestream. In a study ranging across medieval contemplation, the invention of aesthetic experience, nineteenth-century decadent literature, and early twentieth-century essays and film, Niklaus Largier (German and Comparative Literature) shows how mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries. Arguing for a new understanding of mystical experience, he foregrounds the ways in which devotion builds on experimental practices in order to reshape perception, cognition, and emotion. Figures of Possibility (Stanford, 2022) illuminates the ways…
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A Workshop: “Resonance and Serendipity: Figurations of Literary Connectivity”
Time: - 12:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Professor Anita Traninger (Free University of Berlin)
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Lecture: “The Unwanted Reader: Towards a Theory of Literary Resonance in a Global Perspective”
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Professor Anita Traninger (Free University of Berlin)
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Mosse Lecture (in English): “The Utopian Prerogative.”
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: David Brower Center
Speaker: Ilija Trojanow (Novelist)
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Lecture in German: “Populärer Realismus. Vom International Style gegenwärtigen Erzählens.” Ein Vortrag von Prof. Moritz Baßler
Time: Date: Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Populärer Realismus. Vom International Style gegenwärtigen Erzählens In der Gegenwart hat sich international ein leicht lesbarer, gut übersetzbarer Erzählstil durchgesetzt, der Literatur nicht als Sprachkunst im engeren Sinne praktiziert (der Murakami-Kehlmann-Knausgård-Ferrante-Komplex). Der Vortrag fragt, welche Rezeptionsformen und Stilgemeinschaften diesen Populären Realismus tragen. Vor allem aber spürt er den Verfahren vermeintlicher und tatsächlicher Sinngebung nach, die dieser Literatur bleiben, von reiner Unterhaltung über alte und neue Spielarten des Midcult bis hin zu offenen Erzählformen des Kalkülromans. In Zusammenhang mit der publizistischen Schreibwerkstatt Kritisch kreativ bietet der Vortrag eine Vorschau auf Moritz Baßlers neues Buch Populärer Realismus: Vom International Style gegenwärtigen Erzählens, das am 15.…
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Workshop (in German) Journalistische Schreibwerkstatt “Kritische-Kreativ” on “Diversiifying German Studies”
Time: - 12:00 AMDate: - 08/26/2022 Location: 3401 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Organizers: Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley) and Michaela Predeick (Universität Köln); Guests: Moritz Baßler (Universität Münster) and Ilija Trojanow (Autor und Publizist)
Vorläufiger Wochenplan & Lektüreliste Journalistische Schreibwerkstatt „Kritisch Kreativ“ 22. bis 26. August 2022 University of California, Berkeley Department of German 3401 Dwinelle Hall Organisiert von Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley) und Michaela Predeick (Universität Köln) Gäste: Moritz Baßler (Universität Münster) und Ilija Trojanow (Autor und Publizist) Ziel des Workshops: Anhand von Texten der Teilnehmenden soll gemeinsam daran gearbeitet werden, einen Gedanken kurz und prägnant zu formulieren und in Form eines kurzen Essays (Zeitungsartikel, Blogpost etc.) darzulegen. Dabei geht es um publizistisches Schreiben für ein nicht nur akademisches Publikum. Kulturelle Hierarchien in der Medienpraxis, Debatten um ästhetische Qualität und aktuelle Tendenzen der…
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German Cabaret: Verkehrte Zeiten
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April 19 & 20 – German Cabaret: Verkehrte Zeiten at 7:00 pm in B-4 Dwinelle Hall on April 19. A repeat performance will be held at 6:00 pm on April 20 in Dwinelle B-4. More details here.
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Poetic Jurists, Geniuses in Office, Romantic Bureaucrats: Administration and Poetry in Early Modern Germany
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Prof. Albrecht Koschorke
PROF. ALBRECHT KOSCHORKE Poetic Jurists, Geniuses in Office, Romantic Bureaucrats: Administration and Poetry in Early Modern Germany Abstract According to Nicholas Boyle’s Very Short Introduction (2008) two things can be said about German literature before 1800. First: Early modern German literature is above all a Protestant phenomenon. Second: It is mainly written by civil servants. Putting Protestantism aside, the lecture will ask: What are the effects on the institution of civil service when an important part of the personnel clings to literary ambitions? In other words, the question is not only: What does bureaucracy do with poetry? But…
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Berkeley Book Chat
Time: - 1:00 PMDate:
Speaker: Karen Feldman
Karen Feldman discusses the new book “Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age,” with the authors, Prof. Paul Reitter and Prof. Chad Wellmon, who are alumni of our Department. 12-1 pm Online. More info here.
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BIG GIVE
Time: - 11:00 PMDate:
Big Give, our annual fundraising blitz, has been online since 2014 — including last year’s event, which took place March 2021, at the moment life changed around the world. On Thursday, March 10, 2022, we invite the Cal community to rally in a special Big Give for the continued excellence and influence of UC Berkeley’s global solutions, peerless students, and life-changing research. Please donate to the Department of German.