PhD Alumnus Robert Clarke will give a Noon Colloquium titled, “Eine Teufelsneurose im 20. Jahrhundert: Sigmund Freuds Begegnung mit dem erblindeten Spiegel” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.
Todd Kontje (UC San Diego) will lecture on “Gendered Geographics: Early Romantic Dreams of Empire.” The lecture time and place TBA.
The German Department will host an Open House for the following participating high schools: Berkeley High, Castro Valley HS and Foothill HS.
Max Kade Visiting Scholar Zafer Senocak will give a lecture titled, “Beyond the Language of the Land” at 1 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall 220.
During the 11th annual German Studies Conference, “Speaking Between: Language and Intersubjectivity”, Keynote Speaker Mark Turner will give a talk called “Speech Blends.” The talk will take place at 1 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall 220.
Each year the graduate students of the department organize and host a two-day conference on a specific interdisciplinary theme. The conference offers students and faculty from the U.S. and abroad an opportunity to present their research on such diverse topics as: “Finite Subjects: Mortality and Culture in Germany” (2002), ”Self-Made Germans: Authenticity, Authority and Self-Fashioning” (2001), “The German Soldier” (2000), “Reading Turn-of-the-Century Culture at the Turn of the Century” (1999), “Building Memory: City Space and Urban Experience” (1998), and “Conquering Women: Gender and War” (1997). Our recent conferences have received great praise from faculty and students both at Berkeley and around…
We welcome Ernst van Alphen (Department of Literary Studies, University of Leiden) for a lecture on “Dutch Obsessions: The Representation of Space and the Space of Representation” at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.
PhD Student Tonya Dewey will present a Noon Colloquium on “The Parable of the Dragon” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.
Albert Kümmel (Cologne, UCSB) will lecture on “Zöllner against Helmholtz: Academic Communication as Witchcraft” from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 123. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology, the Institute of European Studies and the German Department.
Anastasia Hacopian (Humboldt University) will give a colloquium talk titled, “Kafka’s Bed: Tracing the Bed Motif and the Significance of Spheres in his Novel Der Prozeß” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 282.