In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years’ War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today’s Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims …read more
Helmut Müller-Sievers (Colorado) Responses: Albrecht Koschorke (Konstanz) …read more
DAAD Information Session with Hanni Geist (Information Officer) and Andrea Sinn (Visiting Professor). Undergraduate Session- 2-3pm Graduate Session- 3-4pm …read more
In the 17th-century, the Thirty Years’ War and wars with the Turks, recurring at multiple fronts across Eastern and Central Europe, were formative forces. Military battles went along with the drawing of ideological and confessional boundaries, which continue to take effect in today’s Europe. Against this backdrop, the seminar aims …read more
PARTICIPATING DEPARTMENTS: CELTIC STUDIES, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN STUDIES PROGRAM, SCANDINAVIAN, SLAVIC and SPANISH & PORTUGUESE …read more
The UC Berkeley German Department presents Spruch und Widerspruch German Cabaret A poetic cocktail mixing literature, comedy, and music, including but not limited to alliterations and allegories, poets in love, mind numbing tongue twisters, an ode to the cell phone, a very pragmatic guide for dealing with sadness, a linguistic quest for identity, a culinary delight from Austria, and, yes, a thunderstorm! In German! Tuesday, April 29, 7 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall Friday, May 2, 7pm @ Excelsior Center, Oakland Thursday, May 8, 7pm @ Goethe Institute San FranciscoFree and open to the public.
Dr. Anne Schreiter (Universität St. Gallen) will give a Noon Colloquium titled “Between Remembrance and Transformation. Germany’s Third Generation East” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.
The German Film Club presents Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games” (1997).
Henning Trüper (Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) will give a Noon Colloquium on “Realphilologie and Aesthetics in German Orientalism, ca. 1900.”
Professor Burkhardt Wolf (Berlin/Santa Barbara) will give a talk titled “Compasso. Poetic orientation in modernity’s ‘grand sea of being'” from 4-6 p.m. in Dwinelle 282. ABSTRACT For centuries, perhaps since the emergence of poetry itself, Western culture has engaged in the project of “writing the sea,” or hydrography, and within this project the compass has played a fundamental role. The talk serves as a brief introduction into the cultural history of the compass and shows how, ever since its first use, the compass has guided specific techniques of writing and notation and has been both poetically and epistemically productive. It…