Conferences

Friday - Sunday, November 5 - 7, 2004
The Long Shadows of the Berlin Wall: Fifteen Years after Its Fall
Presented by the Departments of Germanic Languages & Literatures and History

Friday & Saturday, February 25 & 26, 2005
Gender Issues & Women's Movements in the Enlarged European Union
The conference at the University of Pennsylvania is co-sponsored by Women's Studies, and the Departments of German and Sociology, the European Studies Program, and the German Academic Exchance Service (DAAD)
Free & open to the public

Saturday, March 19, 2005
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329 A (entrance next to Starbuck's Cafe corner)
"How Many Genders Has German" 2005 Graduate Student Conference
for more information please see Graduate Student Conference 2005

Lectures/Colloquia/Films

Wednesday Night German Film Series

• Wednesday, October 6, 2004
  5:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street)
  "Exotismus und Ethnologie in der deutschen 'Suedsee'-Literatur, 1770-1900"
  A talk by Dr. Gabriele Duerbeck, University of Rostock and International University Bremen
  
  
• Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - Delta Phi Alpha Fall Lecture
  4:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street)
  "Die biblische Sprache: Deutsche Sprachkultur von Juden in Europa, 1760-1930"
  A lecture by Professor Stephan Braese, Universitaet Bremen and Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
  
  
• Tuesday, October 19, 2004
  Faculty andGraduate Student Colloquium
  6:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street)
  Speakers will be:
  Violet Lutz, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, on "Rousseau, Herder and Martin Buber's Martyrs of Pavlysh"
  Professor Rolf Horstmann, Faculty of Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin and Penn visiting professor, on "The Einleitungsfunktion of Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit"
  
  
• Thursday, October 28, 2004
  4:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street)
  "Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin, Psychoanalysis, History"
  A talk by Professor Rebecca Comay, Department of Philosophy & Interdisciplinary Program in Literature, University of Toronto
  
  
• Thursday, November 4, 2004
  12:00 - 1:00 pm, Hillel, Steinhardt Hall (215 South 39th Street)
  Yiddish Sing-along
  Please join us. Everyone is welcome! Free kosher pizza.
  Sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies Program, and Hillel.
  
  
• Tuesday, November 9, 2004
  5:00 pm, Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.
  19th Annual Alexander Colloquium
  Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor of Western European Middle Ages, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  "A Matter of Matter: Two Cases of Blood Cult in Late Medieval Germany."
  The lecture will explore the subject of anti-Jewish host-desecration libels in the Middle Ages, and will shed new light on the emergence of this particular form of anti-Jewish propaganda, raising questions about its causes and context.
  Bynum is one of the most distinguished medievalists in the world. She has won numerous scholarly awards and prizes including a MacArthur Fellowship, and is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Holy Feast and Holy Fast, The Resurrection of the Body, and Metamorphosis and Identity. In l999, she was Jefferson Lecturer, the highest honor the Federal Government awards to a scholar in the Humanities.
  The Joseph Alexander Colloquium is sponsored by the Mackler Family. This lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania departments of Germanic Languages & Literature, History, and Religious Studies. For more information, e-mail, jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu or call, 215-898-6654. Lecture is free and open to public.

Monday, November 15, 2004
5:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street)
The Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures and the Theater Arts Program of the University of Pennsylvania present
"Today's German Theater in Its International Context: A Practioner's View" by Hans-Joachim Ruckhaeberle, Bavarian State Theater, Munich


• Thursday, November 18, 2004
  4:30 pm, 209 College Hall
  Belinda Davis, Rutgers University
  "How to Live a Life of Politics: The West German New Left, 1962-1983."
  hosted by the Annenberg Colloquium in European History
  
  
• Tuesday, November 30, 2004
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  6:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Ronald J. Granieri, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History
  "The Last Prussians? West German Conservatives between Europe and the Nation."
  Gordana-Dana Grozdanic, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
  "Der nahe Krieg: Juli Zehs Roman Adler und Engel"
   

• Tuesday, November 30, 2004
  Rainer W. Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (1979)
  Introduced by Timothy Corrigan, Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  Film Screening at 5:00 pm
  Theatre #3, The Bridge Cinema de Lux, corner of 40th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA
  Free and open to the public.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 1, 2005
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  5:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Silke Roth, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology
  "The German women's movement in the context of the European Union and Globalization"
  Lori Sundberg, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
  "The Indo-Germanic Myth in the works of August Strindberg and Hermann Hesse"
  
  
• Thursday, February 10, 2005
  4:30 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Beyond Rhetoric? The Performativity of Silence in Early Modern Literature"
  A lecture by Professor Claudia Benthien, Humboldt-University, Berlin
  
  
• Tuesday, March 1, 2005
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  5:30 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein, Lecturer in Yiddish and Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
  "Beyond the Purim Shpil: reinventing the Scroll of Esther in modern Yiddish poetry"
  Karolin Machtans, University of Hamburg
  "History and Memory: Saul Friedlaender and sein Erinnerungstext 'Quand vient le souvenir'"
  
  
• Thursday, March 3, 2005
  5:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Theatricality and Experiment: Identity in Goethe's 'Faust'"
  A lecture by Professor Jane K. Brown, University of Washington

 

• Tuesday, March 22, 2005
  12:00 - 1:00 pm, Hillel, Steinhardt Hall (215 South 39th Street)
  Yiddish Sing-along
  Please join us. Everyone is welcome! Free kosher pizza.
  Sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies Program, and Hillel.
  

• Monday, March 28, 2005
  4:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's corner)
  "Sholem Asch and the Christian Question"
  A lecture by Professor Anita Norich, University of Michigan
  Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Jewish Studies Program
  
  
• Tuesday, April 5, 2005
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  5:00 pm, Max Kade Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Dr. Frank Trommler, Professor of German and Acting Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "Space instead of Time: Recasting the New Paradigm"
  Alexander Pichugin, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "Augenblick und Ewigkeit: Zur Zeitproblematik in Goethe's West-oestlicher Divan"
  
  
• Thursday, April 7, 2005
  Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society Induction Ceremony
  5:00 pm, Max Kade German Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Satire als Kulturkritik: Karl Kraus und die Wiener Moderne"
  Professor Istvan Varkonyi, Temple University
  
  
• Wednesday, April 13, 2005
  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Schiller und Shakespeare aus der Perspektive Goethes"
  A lecture by Professor Dr. Dieter Borchmeyer, University of Heidelberg