Conferences

Thursday - Saturday, October 26 - 28, 2006
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk
North American Conference of Swedish Teachers
Sponsored by the Swedish Government and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Penn

Fall 2006 Penn Humanities Forum on Travel
Events free and open to the public. Pre-registration requested.

For complete schedule: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/calendar.shtml

Thursday - Friday, February 8 - 9, 2007
Uniting Sound & Text
2007 Graduate Student Conference
Program information

Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 8:00 pm, participants are invited to attend a Liederabend including the world premiere of a song by Alma Mahler, performed by mezzo-soprano Elif Ezgi Kutlu of the Curtis Institute of Music.

February 22-23, 2007
7th Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference
Keynote Speaker: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Professor of Performance Studies, New York University
Keynote address: "Old Histories, New Itineraries: Museum of the History of Polish Jews"

Program information



Friday, April 6, 2007
9:00 am to 5:30 pm, Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk, Penn campus

Symposium:

Reel Travel
Displacements of Film

Cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum in association with Penn's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies Program

Event free and open to the public.
Click here to register (required) and for more information, or call 215.573.8280.

In 1976, Wim Wenders’ Kings of the Road redefined the road film, and in the thirty years since, cinema and travel have existed in continuous dialogue. What energies, fantasies, and anxieties are released when film crosses a border or hits the road? How do movies respond to tourism, exile, migration, flight? How are ideas of "nation" and "foreignness" shaped by cinema and what part does it play in globalism?

Join noted film experts in a day of discussion and debate on reel travel.

Lectures/Colloquia/Films

Wednesday Night German Film Series

Monday Afternoon German Film Series

• Saturday, September 16, 2006
  12:00 - 4:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Oktoberfest in Bavarian tradition. A festive food event time to coincide with Muenchner Wies'nfest.
  $25.00; $8.00 children under 12. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org
  
  
  
• Monday, September 18, 2006
  

  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  
  "Empires, Ruins, and Ruin Gazers: Nazi Germany and the Reinvention of an Imperial Imaginary"
  A lecture by Dr. Julia Hell, University of Michigan
  
  
  
• Tuesday, September 19, 2006
  Graduate Student / Faculty Colloquium
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Catherine M. McCandless, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "Singspiel as Therapy in Goethe's Laune des Verliebten"
  
  Kerry Wallach, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "The Lie Closest to the Truth": Contradictions and Concealment in Barbara Honigmann's Ein Kapitel aus meinem Leben"
  
  
  
• Thursday, September 21, 2006
  4:30 pm, 231 Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut (corner of 34th & Walnut Streets)
  A talk (with film clips) by Thomas Koebner, Professor of Film Studies at University of Mainz, Germany
  "The Contemporary German Film Scene - A Generation's Lust for Everyday Life "
  Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania
  
  
  
• Monday, September 25, 2006
  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Going Underground: Reflections on Subway Windows and Visions"
  A lecture by Dr. Lutz Koepnick, Washington University
  
  
  
• Wednesday, September 27, 2006
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Informational meeting about Study-abroad in Germany
  Hans-Peter Soeder, Director of the Junior Year at Munich University
  
  
  
• Thursday, September 28, 2006
  12:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "In the Shadow of Empires: A History of the Baltic Between Germany and Russia"
  A lecture by Prof. Peter Krupnikow, University der Bundeswehr, Munich
  Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and LIteratures
  
  
  
• Sunday, October 1, 2006
  3:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Chamber music concert:
  Wister Quartet. Works by Mozart, Barber and Schubert.
  $20. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org
  
  
  
• Monday, October 2, 2006
  8:00 pm, Room 402, Logan Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
  "Exercises in being Jewish: Prose, poems, essays"
  A lecture by Esther Dischereit, German poet and writer
  Sponsored by the German Embassy and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  
  
  
• Tuesday, October 17, 2006
  6:00 pm, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
  Theorizing event:
  "Auerbach's Scar: Memos from the Besieged City"
  A lecture by Djelal Kadir, Penn State University

  Co-sponsored by the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, the English Department, the Department of Romance Languages, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Latitudes Reading Group, and the Kelly Writers House
  
  
  
• Wednesday, October 18, 2006
  5:00 pm, Logan 17, 249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
  21st Annual Joseph Alexander Colloquium on "Why Arendt Matters"
  A lecture by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, psychoanalyst in Manhattan and on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
  Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program in cooperation with the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Department of History; and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  Click here for Young-Bruehl flyer.
  
  
  
• Thursday, October 19, 2006
  7:00 pm, Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
  Freud, Franklin, and Beyond--
  "A City in Crisis? The Rise of Violence in Philadelphia"
  A Panel Discussion organized by the Collaborative Committee of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and the University of Philadelphia
  For more information: Panel Discussion October 19.doc
  
  
  
• Sunday, October 22, 2006
  3:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Classical music concert:
  Roberto Prosseda, Piano. "Mendelssohn Discoveries."
  Fugue in Eb Major; Sonata in F Minor; Capricio in Eb Minor; Fugue in D Minor; Three "Songs Without Words"; Fantasia in C Minor/D Major, and Adagio and Presto Agitato in Bb Minor.
  $20. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org.
  http://www.robertoprosseda.com/welcome.htm
  
  

  
  
• Thursday, October 26, 2006
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center, Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's
  Speakers will be:
  Dr. David Leatherbarrow, Professor of Architecture, Chair of Graduate Group in Architecture
  "Practically Beautiful." A talk on art, architecture, and everyday life in early 20th century Vienna.
  
  Curtis Swope, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "Architecture and Identity in the GDR Novel, 1949-1973"
  
  
  
• Friday, October 27, 2006
  4:30 pm, Stiteler B6
  Public reading by Yoko Tawada, a prize-winning Japanese--German author
  Presented in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, New York, with support from Kodansha America, Inc. and New Directions Publishing Corporations
  Co-Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Women's Studies
  
  
  
• Friday, October 27, 2006
  6:30 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Repertory film showing:
  "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" (Dir. Marc Rothemund, Starring Julia Jentsch, German with English subtitles, 2006 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film)
  $15. Includes a light meal.For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
  
• Friday, October 27, 2006
  4:00 pm, Philomathean Halls on the fourth floor of College Hall
  The Philomathean Society Presents:
  Afternoon Tea with Dr. Frank Trommler
  
  
  
• Thursday, November 9, 2006
  12:00 - 1:15 pm, at Hillel, Steinhardt Hall, 215 S. 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.
  
  
  
• Thursday, November 9, 2006
  4:30 pm, Stiteler Hall B6, 208 S. 37th Street
  "Pius XII, the Second World War, and the Jews"
  A lecture by Prof. Stewart Stehlin, Professor Emeritus of History, NYU
  In commemoration of Kristallnacht, aka Night of the Broken Glass
  
  Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Kutchin Seminar Series in the Jewish Studies Program, in cooperation with the Departments of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures.
  Lecture is free and open to the public.
  For more info: jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu or 215-898-6654 (no rsvp needed)
  
  
  
• Thursday, November 9, 2006
  6:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe "Ausgewanderte deutsche Woerter nach Russland und Amerika" Germanism im Ost-West-Vergleich in
  Boston-Chicago-Madison-Moskau-New York-Philadelphia-Polargebiet-Saratow-St. Petersburg-Woronesch
  A talk by Dr. Lutz Kuntzsch, Gesellschaft fuer Deutsche Sprache, Zweig Philadelphia
  Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  
  
  
• Friday, November 10, 2006
  6:30 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Repertory film showing:
  "Mephisto" (Dir. Istvan Szabo, Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, from a novel by Klaus Mann, German with English subtitles, 1982 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film)
  $15. Includes a light meal. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Thursday, November 16, 2006
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Goethe's Concept of Health"
  A lecture by Prof. Klaus Bergdolt, Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne
  Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Center for Bioethics, and the Department of History and Sociology of Science.
  
  
  
• Sunday, November 19, 2006
  3:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Chamber Music Concert:
  Wister Quartet with guest artist, Christoph Eschenbach, piano. Haydn, String Quartet in D Major Op. 76, No. 5; Schubert, Fantasy for Piano, Four Hands (with Davyd Booth); and Schumann, Piano Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 47.
  $30. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Monday, November 27, 2006
  5:15 pm, Lea Library
  History of Material Texts workshop:
  "Robinson Crusoe's Adventures in German"
  with Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  
  
  
• Thursday, November 30, 2006
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Freyda Spira, Department of the History of Art
  "Daniel Hopfer's St. Paul Preaching and the Question of Mediation"
  
  David James, Lecturer and Coordinator of Business German, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "Teaching Business German: Integrating Content-Based Instruction into the Foreign Language Curriculum"
  
  
  
• Saturday, December 2, 2006
  12:00 noon to 5:30 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Christmas Bazaar (Christkindlmarkt)
  Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee and cake, $4 adults; $2 children under 10); Sauerkraut and Kassler, (buffet style lunch, $12 adults; $6 children; Kitchen closes at 4 pm)
  Quilted, sewn, crocheted and knitted items; German home-baked good; Chocolates and Marzipan; Lebkuchen; Fresh, evergreen arrangements; Embroidered table covers; Tree ornaments; Attic treasures; Raffle; Silent Auction; Traditional "Sing-Along" of favorite German and English carols.
  For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Friday, December 8, 2006
  6:30 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Repertory film showing:
  "Tanz auf dem Vulkan" ("Dance on the Volcano." 1938), starring Gustaf Gruendgens and Sybille Schmitz, directed by Hans Steinhoff. A costume musical showcasing Gruendgens at the peak of his powers. In German--sorry, no English subtitles.
  $15. Includes a light meal. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Monday, December 18, 2006
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Mary Beth Wetli, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "(S)o will ich doch lieber meine Phantasien als facta verdorben haben."
  
  Ilinca Iurascu, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
  "Arresting the Letter: Wilhelm Raabe's Stopfkuchen and the Scandal of Realism"
  
  
  
• Sunday, December 31, 2006
  The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  New Year's Eve Celebration.
  Celebrate New Year's Eve in an authentic German Ratskeller. Buffet with international specialities; open bar; Midnight champagne toast; entertainment by Don Bitterlich and his accordion. Proceeds go to support the welfare and scholarship programs of the Women's Auxiliary of the German Society of Pennsylvania. Sunday, December 31, 2006. $60.
  For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Friday, January 12, 2007
  7:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Popular music concert:
  Night & Day: The Best of Cole Porter. An evening of Cole Porter songs, wonderfully and authentically performed by Nancy Fox, Wiliam Thorpe and Wiliam Merrill.
  $20. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, . www.germansociety.org, www.thorpemusic.com/coleporter/index.html.
  
  
  
• On exhibit January 16 - April 13, 2007
  Monday-Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday, by prior arrangement, 12:00 - 4:00 pm
  Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
  3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
  Reservations appreciated but not required - (800) 390-1829 or friends@pobox.upenn.edu
  The Art of Reinvention: Travel--Exile--Recuperation
  Presented in collaboration with the Penn Humanities Forum.
  
  Exhibition opening Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 5:30 pm
  Free and open to the public (please bring photo ID)
  
  
  
• Thursday, January 18, 2007
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Brian Chance, Department of Philosophy
  "From Belief to Religious Faith: the Place of Hume in Hamann's Socratic Memorabilia"
  
  Dr. Simon Richter, Professor of German, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "Sleeping with Goethe: Boudewijn Buech's Magnificent Obsession."
  
  
  
• Friday, January 19, 2007
  6:30 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Repertory film showing:
  "The Devil's General (Des Teufels General, 1955) starring Curt Juergens, directed by Helmut Kaeutner, German with English subtitles.
  $15; students, $10. Includes a light meal. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Monday, January 22, 2007
  German Film Series - Spring 2007
  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Film showing:
  The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Traenen der Petra von Kant)
  by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972
  
  
  
• Tuesday, January 23, 2007
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Genealogy of Mysticism: From Medieval Sources to Modern Remakings in Liberal Religious Culture"
  A lecture by Prof. Dr. Friedrich Vollhardt, Institut fuer Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
  
  
  
• Thursday, January 25, 2007
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Alles klar? The Metaphor of Transparency in the 'New Berlin'"
  A lecture by Dr. Eric Jarosinski , Rutgers University
  
  
  
• Monday, January 29, 2007
  German Film Series - Spring 2007
  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Film showing:
  Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit)
  by Wim Wenders, 1976
  
  
  
• Thursday, February 1, 2007
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Breathless Passages: The Ethical Stakes of Affect in Bachmann's "Ein Ort fuer Zufaelle."
  A lecture by Dr. Anna Parkinson, Cornell University
  
  
  
• Thursday, February 1, 2007
  7:00 - 9:00 pm, Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street
  Freud, Franklin, and Beyond--
  "Why Curse? Why Not? "
  An Interdisciplinary Forum on Mental Health and Society
  Sponsored by the Penn Department of Psychiatry and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
  For more information: Program
  http://philly.metro.us/metro/local/article/The_science_of_swearing/6747.html
  
  
  
• Sunday, February 4, 2007
  3:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Chamber Music Concert:
  Wister Quartet. Paganini, Notturno No. 4; Beethoven, String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2; and Brahms, String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 31, No. 1.
  $20. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, info@germansociety.org, www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Monday, February 5, 2007
  German Film Series - Spring 2007
  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Film showing:
  Stroszek
  by Werner Herzog, 1977
  
  
  
• Friday, February 9, 2007
  3:30 pm, Rich Seminar (201) Room, Jaffe Building
  Spring 2007 Colloquium
  "Rembrandt's Faith"
  Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor, History of Art
  
  
  
• Friday, February 16, 2007
  6:30 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Repertory film showing:
  "The One That Got Away (Einer Kam Durch)", with Hardy Krueger, directed by Roy Ward Baker, 1956. The true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war taken in Britain during the Second World War, who escaped from numerous British POW camps and got back to Germany. In German with English subtitles.
  $15, students, $10. Includes a light meal. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Monday, February 19, 2007
  4:00 pm, College Hall 209
  "The Post-Romantic Syndrome: German and Russian Anxieties in the 20th Century"
  A lecture by Dr. Galin Tikhanov
  Co-sponsored by the Departments of Slavic Languages & Literatures and Germanic Languages & Literatures
  
  
  
• Thursday, February 22, 2007
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  4:30 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Julia Walker, Department of History of Art
  "Visible memories of the building's past": The Reichstag Graffiti"
  
  Dr. Imke Meyer, Professor of German, Bryn Mawr College
  "Gender, Cultural Memory, and the Representation of Queerness in Ingeborg Bachmann's Narrative "Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha."
  
  
  
• Sunday, March 11, 2007
  3:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Chamber music concert:
  The Wister Quartet. Haydn, String Quartet in D Major (The Lark); Smith, String Quartet, Op. 3; Ravel, String Quartet in F Major.
  $20; students, $10. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Wednesday, March 14, 2007
  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  A talk by Dr. Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University
  "Ibsen and Hegel on Egypt and the Beginning of Great Art."
  
  
  
• Wednesday, March 21, 2007
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Chris Schnader, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "Busenfreunde, Musenfreunde: Schiller's Don Carlos and Wallenstein"
  
  Dr. Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of German and Comparative Literature
  "Arendt at the Movies"
  
  
  
• Sunday, March 25, 2007
  3:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
  Chamber music concert:
  Barbara Dever, mezzo-soprano with Jeffrey Uhlig, piano. Brahms, Vier Ernste Gesaenge Op. 121; Brahms, Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103; de Falla, Siete Canciones populares Espanoles.
  $20; students, $10. For more information, please contact The German Society of Pennsylvania (215) 627-2332, www.germansociety.org.
  
  
  
• Wednesday, April 4, 2007
  4:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  "Die Humanisten, Gutenberg und die neue Zeit"
  A lecture by Prof. Dr. Wilfried Barner, Professor für Neuere Deutsche Literatur, University of Goettingen
  
  
  
• Thursday, April 5, 2007
  7:00 pm, Terrasse Room, Logan Hall
  "Freud, Franklin, and Beyond"--
  "Closing Borders, Open Questions:
  Taking the Immigration Debate Beyond Politics"
  A Panel Discussion organized by the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalysis and the University of Philadelphia
  
  
  
• Friday, April 6, 2007
  9:00 am to 5:30 pm, Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk, Penn campus
  
  Symposium:
  
  Reel Travel
  Displacements of Film
  
  Cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum in association with Penn's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Cinema Studies Program
  
  Event free and open to the public.
  Click here to register (required) and for more information, or call 215.573.8280.
  
  In 1976, Wim Wenders’ Kings of the Road redefined the road film, and in the thirty years since, cinema and travel have existed in continuous dialogue. What energies, fantasies, and anxieties are released when film crosses a border or hits the road? How do movies respond to tourism, exile, migration, flight? How are ideas of "nation" and "foreignness" shaped by cinema and what part does it play in globalism?
  
  Join noted film experts in a day of discussion and debate on reel travel.

   

• Wednesday, April 11, 2007
  5:00 pm, 223 Houston Hall
  History, Politics, and Public Debate: "The Making of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin"
  A lecture by Dr. Sibylle Quack, former Director of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, and the current Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at NYU
  
  

• Tuesday, April 17, 2007
  Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society Induction Ceremony
  5:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Guest Speaker: Professor Dr. Philipp Gassert, University of Heidelberg, DAAD visiting Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
  "Grosser Bruder und Klassenfeind: Die Deutschen und Amerika seit 1945"
  
  

• Thursday, April 19, 2007
  Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
  4:15 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center (Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street, entrance next to Starbuck's)
  Speakers will be:
  Emily Shrader Hauze, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  "The Frustrated Listener: Acoustic Perception in Kafka's Narratives"
  
  Dr. Mark Butler, Department of Music
  "Playing with Something that "Runs": Relationships between Improvisation, Composition, and Technology in the Perfomances of Berlin-Based Laptop Musicians"