1999-2000 Events

 

Conferences

 

• Exchanges Between German and Religious Studies: The Sixth Annual Intersections Graduate Student Conference, March 4-5, 2000.

Lectures/Colloquia/Films

• James Shapiro of Columbia University
  
"Passion and History in Oberammergau "
April 12, 2000
• Former skinhead, now Task Force Against Hate leader

"The Making of a Skinhead."
April 10, 2000
• Ernesto Laclau, a professor at Essex University

"Hegemony: What's in a Name."
April 6, 2000
• Durs Grünbein, the 1995 recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize

(Germany's highest literary honor)
reading from his "Poetic Lessons at the Turn of the Millennium."
March 2, 2000
• Frank Stern, a professor at Ben Gurion University

"From Lubitsch to Levi: German-Jewish Cinema From 1914 to 1999."
February, 23, 2000
• Lisa Lewenz, film director

a screening of her film A Letter Without Words and join in a conversation to commemorate Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass). Her film was shown at the Sundance, Berlin, San Francisco and other film festivals to great acclaim. This event was cosponsored with the Jewish Studies Program.
November 9, 1999
• Goethe Fest 1999

A celebration of Goethe's birthday for high school students, area college and university German majors, and the general public. 
November 5-6, 1999
• Christoph König (Literature-Archiv Marbach)

"Hofmansthals Modernisierung der Antike in seiner Elektra"
October 26, 1999
• Thomas Schneider of Universität Osnabrück
  "Ein militanter Pazifist? - Erich Maria Remarque als politischer Autor"
  October 12, 1999

Workshops

• Gertrud Koch of the Free University of Berlin
  A Workshop on Women and in German Cinema
  March 25-26, 2000.