Wednesday Night German Film Series

• Thursday, April 8, 2004
  Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society Induction Ceremony
  4:30 p.m. Meyerson Hall B13
  "Mies van der Rohe's Event Space. The New National Gallery In Berlin"
  Detlef Mertins
  
  
• Wednesday, April 7, 2004
  The Future of Europe: Lost in Translation or Lord of the Rings?
  Denis Chaibi, Member of the European Commission and 2003/04 EU fellow at Yale University
  4:15 p.m., Seminar Room, Fels Institute of Government
  3814 Walnut Street (next to the President's house)
  
  
• Tuesday, April 6, 2004
  6:15 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut St)
  Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
  
  
• Saturday, April 3, 2004
  German Projections / Foreign Reflections
  Graduate Student Conference
  Call for Papers
  
  
• Thursday, March 25, 2004
  Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian Sing-Along
  12-1 pm, Hillel
  
  
• Thursday, March 25, 5pm
  Dr. Ruth Westheimer in conversation with Richard Summers (Professor of Psychiatry, Penn Medical School.) Reception and book signing to follow
  Steinhardt Hall, Hillel Auditorium, 215 S. 39th Street
  
  
• Wednesday, March 24, 2004
  Rereading Derrida's: "Schibboleth -- pour Paul Celan"
  A Farewell Lecture in English by Visiting Professor Hendrik Birus, Founder and Chair of the Comparative Literature Program at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich.
  4:30 pm, Max Kade Center (3401 Walnut Street, Room 329A, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  
  
• Tuesday, March 2, 2004
  Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
  6:15 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut St)
  
  
• Thursday, February 19, 2004
  Reading by Peter Rosei
  5:00-6:30 pm, Kelly Writer's House, 3805 Locust Walk
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• Wednesday, February 11, 2004
  "Conversation with Hendrik Birus on German Hochschulreform"
  4:30 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut St)
  
  
• Wednesday, February 4, 2004
  "The Knowledge of the Sirens: A Motif in Adorno, Blanchot, Sloterdijk
  and Kafka."
  Lecture by Vivian Liska, Prof of German, University of Antwerpen, Belgium
  4:30 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut St)
  
  
• Tuesday, February 3, 2004
  Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium
  6:15 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut St)
  
  
• Wedneday, December 3, 2003
  8:30pm, Class of 1925 Dorm
  Request Night
  send suggestions to schnader@sas.upenn.edu
  
  
• Wednesday, November 19, 2003
  8:30 pm, Class of 1925 Dorm
  Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt)
  Tom Tykwer, 1998, 81 minutes, German with English subtitles.
  
  
• Wednesday, November 19, 2003
  5:00 pm, Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor, VanPelt Library
  Lecture by Hermann Simon
  The Jewish Community in Berlin Before and After Unification: A
  conversation with Hermann Simon
  
  
• Tuesday, November 11, 2003
  12:00-1:00pm, Steinhardt Hall, 215 S. 39th St.
  Yiddish Sing-along
  
  
• Friday, November 7, 2003
  3:30-5:00pm, Smith Library, 6th Floor, VanPelt Library
  Workshop on Franz Werfel: Books and Manuscripts with Peter Stephan Jungk
  
  
• Friday, November 7, 2003
  6:30-8:00pm, Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor, VanPelt Library
  Reading of Recent Fiction by Peter Stephan Jungk
  
  
• Thursday, November 6, 2003
  7:00 pm, Steinhardt Hall, 215 S. 39th St.
  Bells and Trains, A Radio Play by Yehuda Amichai
  Performed by the One Little Goat Theatre Company
  A moving account of a German-born Israeli poet who returns to Germany to face the people of his past and discover unspoken secrets.
  
  
• Wednesday, November 5, 2003
  8:30 pm, Class of 1925 Dorm
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang, 1927, 118 minutes, silent film with English subtitles
  2002 restored version of the Weimar-era classic.
  
  
• Wednesday, October 22, 2003
  8:30 pm, Class of 1925 Dorm
  Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) Film Screening.
  Directed by Caroline Link, 2001.
  
  
• Wednesday, October 8, 2003
  8:30pm, Class of 1925 Dorm
  "Dubbed" Film Screening
  Experience hits such as The Matrix as most Germans do (excepts from films dubbed in German with English subtitles.
  
  
• Saturday, October 4, 2003
  12:30 to 6 in Stitler B6.
  
  "The challenges of Interpreting Nazi-Era Film: A Symposium."
  Guest speakers: Antje Ascheid (Georgia), Lutz Koepnick (Washington U), Linda Schulte-Sasse (Macalester). Includes screening of Leni Riefensthal's rarely seen film Tiefland (with subtitles).
  
  Call 215-898-7332 or write german@ccat.sas.upenn.edu for details.
  
  
• Wednesday, October 1, 2003
  4:30 pm, Kade Center, Room 329-A 3401 Walnut St.
  
  "De-Orientalizing Judaism: Moses Mendelsohn and the Frustrations of Oppositional Discourse"
  
  Lecture by Jonathan Hess,
  Department of German
  Director, Center for Jewish Studies
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  
  * Cosponsored by the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series
  
  
• September 10, 2003
  German Film Series presents: The Princess and the Warrior (Der Keidger und die Kaiserin)
  8:30 pm in Class of 1925 Dorm.