“Hugo Grotius and the Spanish Black Legend: Rights Theories, Humanist Historiography and Hispanophobia in Seventeenth Century Holland” will be presented by Martine Julia van Ittersum (Department of History, Harvard University) at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.
Join us for a workshop on “Rethinking Diversity” from 2-5 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401. The workshop is being held in conjunction with German 268 (Professor Deniz Göktürk and Max Kade Distinguished Visitor Zafer Senocak).
Max Kade Foundation Distinguished Visitor Zafer Senocak will give a reading in German starting at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 117. The reading is co-sponsored by the Goethe Institut, SF.
Join us to hear Marleen de Vries (Freie Universität Berlin) give a lecture on “Transforming the Public Sphere. Eighteenth Century Literary Societies and the Rise of a National Cultural Community” at 12:30 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.
Katrin Pahl (PhD student, Department of Rhetoric) will talk on “Ratten und Elfen die Helfen: The Fairy-Tale Logic of German Bildung.” This installment of the Noon Colloquium will start at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 5303.
Reinier Salverda (University College London) will present a lecture titled, “Young Man, Go East! Investigating Colonial Topoi in Dutch Literature” at 4 p.m. in Dwinelle 3119.
Barbara Mennel will give a lecture titled, “When History Meets Fantasy: Masochism in Literature and Film” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401. Mennel is Assistant Professor of German Studies and International Cinema in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group on Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.
Claus Leggewie (Gieβen) will present on “Immigration into a national past? German-Turks and collective memory” at 12 p.m. in Dwinelle 3401.
Stefan Andriopoulos (Columbia University) will speak about “The Dead Hand: Trusts and Vampires.” This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature. 3:00 p.m. in Dwinelle 3335.
Walter H. Sokel (Columbia University) will give a talk titled, “The Myth of Power and the Self: Approaches to Reading the ’Metamorphosis’” at 3:30 p.m. in Kroeber 155.