Past Events Archive

Sigrid Weigel (Director, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin) will speak on “The Martyr and the Sovereign: Scenes from a modern tragic drama read through Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt.” One of the best known and most inspiring critics in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies in Germany, Professor Weigel will discuss paradigms of political performance. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of German and the Institute of European Studies.

Goodbye Germany? Migration, Culture and the Nation State October 28-30 2004 Organized by the UC Berkeley German Department and the Goethe Institut – San Francisco, in collaboration with The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Institute for European Studies, The Pacific Film Archive, and The Townsend Center for the Humanities. Over the past half-century, mass migrations have challenged and changed nation states on a global scale. Contemporary German controversies epitomize many of the conflicts ascribed to immigration. As “guest workers” and asylum seekers stay to become residents, the concept of a national community based on ancestral lineage and cultural heritage has been called into question. For some, the…

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, with the generous support of The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Holocaust Studies, proudly sponsors the Fall 2004 Pell Lecture Series. Professor Steven Aschheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Beyond Borders: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad As time recedes, the interest and influence of a number of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals becomes, surprisingly, ever greater. This series will examine their resonance outside their German borders: in an attempt to recast Zionism and humanize nationalism; in creation of a new kind of cultural and intellectual history able to grasp National Socialism; and in the…

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, with the generous support of The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Holocaust Studies, proudly sponsors the Fall 2004 Pell Lecture Series. Professor Steven Aschheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Beyond Borders: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad As time recedes, the interest and influence of a number of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals becomes, surprisingly, ever greater. This series will examine their resonance outside their German borders: in an attempt to recast Zionism and humanize nationalism; in creation of a new kind of cultural and intellectual history able to grasp National Socialism; and in the…

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, with the generous support of The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Holocaust Studies, proudly sponsors the Fall 2004 Pell Lecture Series. Professor Steven Aschheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Beyond Borders: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad As time recedes, the interest and influence of a number of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals becomes, surprisingly, ever greater. This series will examine their resonance outside their German borders: in an attempt to recast Zionism and humanize nationalism; in creation of a new kind of cultural and intellectual history able to grasp National Socialism; and in the…

Career Workshop for German majors.

Kaushal Raju, one of our German majors (and Philosophy double-major), is presenting a version of his honors thesis titled: “A Rejection of Consequentialist Readings of Nietzsche’s ‘Immoralism'” at the 2004 McNair Symposium here on campus. You are all invited to attend his talk on Friday, August 13 from 4:10-5:40 p.m. in room 235 Dwinelle. His presentation will be for 20 mins (15 mins talk + 5 mins for Q&A), during the above mentioned session time. ABSTRACT: Despite the fact that Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) reacted strongly against John Stuart Mills version of Utilitarianism, scholars such as Steven Hales (1995) and Ivan…

2nd Annual Berkeley Yiddish Conference: “On the Borders of Yiddishland.”

Professor W. Daniel Wilson will present a lecture on “Queering the Devil: Homoerotic Discourses in Goethe’s Faust” at 5 p.m. in Dwinelle 370. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures. There will be a small reception following the lecture.

Ingo Zechner (Vienna) will give a Noon Colloquium talk on “Deleuze and the Language of Cinema” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 5303. Ingo Zechner is a Visiting Scholar in our department this spring ’04 semester. He is a member of the Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien research group.