Past Events Archive

The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable meets biennially in even-numbered years. In 2002 it will meet on Friday and Saturday, April 5-6. 2002 BERKELEY GERMANIC LINGUISTICS ROUNDTABLE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY PROGRAM  Friday, April 5 8:30 Registration (Faculty Club: Seaborg Room) Morning Session: John H. McWhorter (UC Berkeley)  9:00 Sang Hwan Seong (Univ. of Bonn): “Transitive Constructions and Prominence Typology in English, Dutch, and German”  9:25 Gergely Toth (UC Berkeley): A Strong West Germanic MP Competitor: The Case of Hungarian”  9:50 Anatoly Liberman (Univ. of Minnesota): “Some General Principles of Etymology”  10:15 Lee M. Roberts (UC Berkeley): “When Form Defines Content”…

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: “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 the country. They familiarize students with…

As part of the 2001-2002 Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series, Theo Vennemann will speak on “Why are German and English different?” German and English are different languages; as such they may be expected to be different. The real question–and the question to be addressed in the presentation–is: Why are German and English so very different? After all, English is, like Dutch and Low German, genetically a variety of Coastal West Germanic and thus very closely related also to Inland West Germanic, i.e. High German; and Dutch and Low German are entirely within the limits of linguistic similarity or dissimilarity that is to…

Professor Niklaus Largier will speak on “Cultures of Arousal and the Control of the Imagination” at 12 p.m. in 282 Dwinelle Hall.

Author Cees Nooteboom will give a reading     at 4 p.m. in the Morrison Room at the Main Library.

The Department of German will host an Open House on Monday, March 18.

Tanja Nusser on “Solange wir uns an ihre Gesetze halten, stehen wir unter ihrem Schutz: Die Begegnung mit den Anderen in Ulrike Ottingers Film” at 12 p.m. in 282 Dwinelle Hall.

Film Studies Symposium titled, “Look Who’s Talking Now: Globalization, Film, Media, & the Public Sphere.” The symposium will take place from 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. in 142 Dwinelle Hall.

Tina Campt, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at UC Santa Cruz, will speak on “Transnational Travels in Black: Afro-Germans and the Crowded Space of Diaspora” as part of the 2001-2002 Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series.

The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Circle of California will be held in the Faculty Club, on Saturday and Sunday, January 26-27, 2002. As customary, the meeting is an open-topic research paper meeting. Schedule 8:45 am: Registration (coffee/tea breaks, luncheon, closing pastry / wine): students $20; others $40 Morning Session: Winfried Kudszus (UC Berkeley), Chair 9:00 am Denis J. Brion (Washington & Lee Law School): “Illegitimate Politics in Bush v. Gore” 9:30 am Richard John Ascarate & Tonya Kim Dewey (UC Berkeley): “Cracking the Nut: The Translation of Prose to choreography and Gesture in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Tales” 10:00 am…