Events: Lectures

22 September 2011

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema Studies

are pleased to announce a lecture

“Battle Choreography on the Hollywood Screen:
D-Day and its cultural survival”

by

Professor Elisabeth Bronfen
Englisches Seminar
Universität Zurich, Schweiz

Thursday, September 22, 2011
5:00 p.m.


24 October 2011

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
is pleased to announce a lecture

“Novel, Media. Max Frisch's "  Mein Name sei Gantenbein"
(will be held in English)

by Professor Barbara Naumann
Professor for New German Literature, University of Zurich

27 October 2011

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
is pleased to announce a lecture in German
(an English translation will be made available)

“MEDEA. Eine deutsch-jüdische Erinnerungsfigur in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts.”

by Professor Inge Stephan, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

7 November 2011

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
is pleased to announce a lecture in German

Der Zauberer raucht. Zu einer Medientheorie des Rauchens
(Thomas Mann:”Mario und der Zauberer”)


by Professor Stefan Boernchen, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Universität zu Köln, Germany

10 November 2011

Lecture: "The People of the Book. The Politics of Writing in Jewish Modernity"

Andreas Kilcher
, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, ETH Zurich