Conferences

• The Practice of Style
  An international, interdisciplinary conference exploring style as a concept that extends across disciplines and brings German cultural history into productive dialogue with contemporary Anglo-American cultural studies.
  Presented by Penn's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Penn Humanities Forum.
  March 23-25, 2001
• Graduate Student Conference
  From Gutenberg's Printing Press to Everyone's Cyber Space. Media and the Arts from 1500 to the Present.
  Co-sponsored by the Graduate Students of the History of Art Department
  March 3-4, 2001
  Call For Papers
  Conference Schedule

Lectures/Colloquia/Films

• Yiddish Sing-along
  An hour of traditional Yiddish songs led by Yiddish faculty.
  Sponsored by Penn's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies Program, and Hillel.
  April 24, 2001
• German Film Series: Request Night
  April 24, 2001

• Lecture by Gershon Shaked, Prof. of Modern Hebrew Literature,
  Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2000-01 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
  "The Narrative of the Holocaust and its Literary Interpretation"
  Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminars Series, and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.
  April 19, 2001

• Lecture by John McCarthy, Professor of German, Vanderbilt University
  "The Nature of Evil" (in English)
  April 18, 2001

• German Film Series: B-GLAD Double Feature Night - Contemporary Hits
  April 10, 2001
• Dutch Studies Program Lecture: Appel is Forever
  Therapist and Holocaust survivor Suzanne Mehler Whiteley. Her book, Appel is Forever, appeared in 1999.
  Co-sponsored by the Dutch Studies Program, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Jewish Studies Program.
  April 3, 2001
• Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
  Dr. Frank Trommler: "Targeting the Reader: Interpretive Strategies for Modern German Literature"
  Bilge Özel: "Der Dialog in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur des 18. Jahrhunderts"
  April 3, 2001
• Yiddish Poetry and Prose Slam
  An hour of readings of Yiddish poetry and prose in the original Yiddish and in translations.
  March 27, 2001
• Leon Botstein, Viennese music scholar, President of Bard College, and editor of Musical Quarterly.
  Sponsored by The Penn Humanities Forum and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.
  February 27, 2001
• German Film Series: Classics Night
  February 27, 2001
• Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
  Jeffrey Kallberg, Professor of Music and German (Swedish): Sibelius, Skogsraet, and the History of Sexuality
  Alex Rehdling, Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Humanities Forum: Monument or Ruin? -- Remembering Beethoven in 1845
  February 20, 2001
• Reading and book signing for two new books by Penn Jewish Studies faculty:
  Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein and Dr. David Ruderman
  Sponsored by Penn's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies Program, Kelly Writers House
  January 25, 2001
• Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
  Dr. Simon Richter: Got Milk? Sophie von La Roche's "Erscheinungen am Oneida See" and the Discourses of the Breast
  Gordana-Dana Grozdanic: Der gefesselte Dichter: Ernst Toller's "Der entfesselte Wotan" als satirische Selbstbespiegelung
  January 23, 2001
• Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
  German Studies: Reflections on Early 20th Century
  Dr. Silke Roth (DAAD Professor) "Between Goethe and Buchenwald -- Weimar, Cultural Capital of Europe 1999"
  Deborah Shapple (Comparative Literature) "'Ein neu gedeutetes Objekt':
  The Place of African Art in Carl Einstein's 'Formal Realism'"
  November 21, 2000
• Commemoration of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) with Berlin-based author Jeannette Lander speaking on "German-Jewish Life Today." This annual commemoration is jointly sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Jewish Studies Program.
  November 9, 2000
• Berlin-based author Jeannette Lander reads from her recent works entitled "Robert" and "Überbleibsel" in German.
  November 8, 2000
• Germanic Studies Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
  "Reading Art, Reading Film"
  Dr. Larry Silver (History of Art and German)
  Stephen Hock (Comparative Literature)
  October 17, 2000

• Colloquium: "From the Archive to the Cinema and Beyond: New Perspectives on Franz Kafka"
  Papers presented by Stanley Corngold (Princeton and author of Kafka translation used in Penn Reading Project), Mark Anderson (Columbia), Peter Beicken (Maryland), and Judith Ryan (Harvard).
  Sponsored by Penn's Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures and School of Arts and Sciences.
  October 20, 2000
• Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Freud's treatment of Dora. Guest speaker, Patrick Mahony: "Freud's Unadorable: A Case History Terminable and Interminable." Respondents, Ruth Fischer, David Sachs, and Liliane Weissberg. Sponsored by the Department of English; the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory; the Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; the School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry; the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society; and the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis.
  September 23, 2000
• Presentation and Discussion for undergraduate and graduate students
  "How Gregor Samsa came to Brooklyn and other Tales of Travel"
  Stanley Corngold (Princeton University), translator of Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and author of the novel "Borrowed Lives," and Susan Bernofsky (Bard College), translator of Robert Walser's "The Robber."
  Co-sponsored with Penn's Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Kelly Writers House.
  September 20, 2000
• Slavoj Zizek. "A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism."
  Co-sponsored with Penn's Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Dept. of English, Dept. of History, Dept. of Religious Studies, Kelly Writers House. Co-sponsored by the French Institute, and Philadelphia Lacan Study Group.
  September 18, 2000

Workshops

• KafkaFest
  An afternoon of workshops, movies and a panel discussion.
  Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Penn Reading Project, The Max Kade Foundation, SAS Film Studies Committee, and School of Arts and Sciences.
  October 21, 2000
• Translation Workshop for undergraduate and graduate students
  "Uneasy Pieces: Translating Franz Kafka and Robert Walser"
  with Susan Bernofsky, Bard College
  Co-sponsored with Penn's Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Kelly Writers House.
  September 20, 2000