Fall 2009 Events
Conferences
October 23 - 24, 2009
The Industrious Bee:
Francis Daniel Pastorius, His Manuscripts, and His World
A conference co-sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
For more detailed information, please click on link.
October 15 - 17, 2009
The Decline of the West?
The Fate of the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
An international conference at the University of Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
For more detailed information, please click on link.
October 2-3, 2009
Dialogues on Animality
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, University of Pennsylvania
Held at Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St., Philadelphia
Organized by Ruth Erickson and Nathaniel Prottas
Description: Today, rather than being fixed, the terms “animal” and “human” are
increasingly understood as in flux, bound together theoretically, historically,
and socially to enact a complex reciprocity that both defines and challenges the
traditional categories of disciplines. If at the heart of the humanities is the
question “what does it mean to be human?” this symposium seeks to explore the
role of animals in the history and formation of this question from different
disciplinary viewpoints.
The conference will include:
• “On Autobiography and (Animal) Locomotion,” a keynote address by Professor
Akira Lippit of University of Southern California on Friday, October, 2 at NOON
• Panels on literature, art history, Darwinism, and public policy/law
• Paper respondents: Profs. Jean-Michel Rabaté (English, UPenn), Karen Beckman
(Art History and Cinema Studies, UPenn), and Sheila Rodriguez (Law, Rutgers)
• Breakfast refreshments provided
For more information and symposium program:
http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/dialoguesonanimality/
Or contact, dialoguesonanimality@gmail.com
This symposium is generously supported by the University of Pennsylvania’s
History of Art Department, Cinema Studies, SASgov, English Department, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature Department, and the Center for the
Interaction of Animals and Society.
Lectures/Colloquia/Films
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Graduate Student / Faculty Colloquium
5:00 pm , Max Kade German Culture and Media Center, Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street (entrance next to Starbucks)
"Internationale Marbacher Sommerschule 2009:
Menschen beschreiben. Literatur-Anthropologie-Psychologie-von 1800 bis 2000"
- Tuesday, October 6, 2009
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
"On Being Jewish by Sigmund Freud"
A conversation with critics Betty Fuks and Eliza Slavet moderated by Liliane Weissberg and Patricia Gherovici
The event is free to the public.
This program is made possible in part through the generous support of the Jewish Studies Program and The Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation.
- Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Graduate Student / Faculty Colloquium
5:00 pm , Max Kade German Culture and Media Center, Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street (entrance next to Starbucks)
Presenters will be:
Dr. Julie Klein, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University
"The Jewish Question in Spinoza and Marx"
Dr. Eva Lezzi, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pottsdam
" Figurations of Desire. Christian-Jewish Love Affairs in German Literature of the 19th Century"
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
3:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
The first concert of the 2009-2010 Concert Series at the German Society of Pennsylvania will be held on October 25, 2009, at 3:00 pm, at the Society, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia.
Featured will be the Keystone State Boychoir and the Heidelberger Kinderchor. These two internationally known boy choirs will present a broad selection of choral works, including a Gospel Medley and German favorites, such as Ein Jäger aus Kurpfalz and Der Schwarze Mond. The concert will be presented in the newly renovated auditorium, which can claim to be one of the most classically attractive in the City, with superb acoustics.
Tickets are $20.00, and may be purchased at the door or by calling the Society at 215-627-2332. The purchase price includes a post-concert reception, with coffee and cakes, in the Society's Ratskeller. Additionally, the Society has a newly constructed elevator tower, which will accommodate the needs of the handicapped and those who experience difficulty in walking. For further information, call the Society at 215-627-2332, or visit the Society's website at www.germansociety.org
- Wednesday, October 28, 2009
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm , Max Kade German Culture and Media Center, Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street (entrance next to Starbucks)
"Dasdeutsche Mitbestimmungssystem"
A talk by Christian Schneider, Senior Fellow of the Wharton School's Center for Human Resourses
His lecture will be in German.
- Monday, November 9, 2009
7:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123
A Panel Discussion regarding the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
"40 Years: Remember, Respond, Reconcile"
Action Reconciliation Service for Peace
Our program includes:
Film, "Leipzig imn Herbst" (Andreas Voigt, Gerd Kroske, 53 min.)
Panel discussion, presented by Professor Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania, and featuring:
Holger Loewendorf, Ph.D. History Program, Temple University
Sara Tombergs & Hans-Christian Ziebertz, ARSP Volunteers in Camden and Washington
Hardy von Auenmueller, The German Society
Mark Simon, Photo-journalist and filmmaker
Please RSVP by November 2 at 215-241-7249 or at info@actionreconciiation.org
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009
7:00 pm, International House, 3701 Chestnut Street
Nuremberg: The Nazis Face Their Crimes
Special Guest Panel: Tim Corrigan, Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania;
Harry Reicher, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Scholar-in-Residence, Touro Law Center;
and Dr. Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Judge Phyllis W. Beck.
Director: Christopher DelageDate 2006 Country France R/T 90 minutesIn French with English subtitles
$8 in advance, $10 at the doorIn this gripping documentary, Christian Delage reconstructs the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, set up immediately after the end of the Second World War in Germany. With rare footage and material shot by John Ford, Delage brings to light twenty-one of the highest Nazi dignitaries -- among them are Göring, Hess, Ribbentrop, and Keitel, all who pleaded innocent. Using films shot during the liberation of the camps – a procedure that had never taken place before in a courtroom – the film confronts testimony from executioners and victims. The Nuremberg trials, as the first international tribunals in history to try criminal offenses, set precedents and established the charge of crimes against humanity.
Sponsored by The Philadelphia Jewish Film festival. https://www.gershmany.org/pjff.php
- Thursday, November 12, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 pm, at Penn Hillel, Steinhardt Hall, 215 S. 39th Street
Yiddish Sing-along
Alexander Botwinik (University of Pennsylvania)
Admission Free. Pizza and Drinks Served.
Alexander (Sender) Botwinik is a Yiddish lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching Yiddish, Botwinik teaches music and choir at Har Zion Temple, and music at the Kaiserman JCC. Alexander served at the music director for a documentary film about the artist and Holocaust survivor Toby Knobel Fluek. The film, entitled Toby's Sunshine, had its premier showing in June, 2008, followed by a concert featuring the songs from the film performed alongside a slide show montage of the artist's work. Alexander recently performed in three Yiddish concerts at Haverford College with singers Cantor Naomi Hirsch, Sherm Labovitz and Richard Lenatsky. In addition, Alexander has just completed preparing a book of his father's music, after many years of work on this lengthy (370-page) project. Publication of this book, From Holocaust to Life, is expected in the near future.
Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Faculty Seminar Series, and Hillel.
- Thursday, November 12, 2009
5:00 pm, Arts Cafe at The Kelly Writers House
A Sea of Voices: Women Poets in Israel
a reading by anthology editor Marjorie Agosín, with Kathryn Hellerstein and other Penn faculty
co-sponsored by: Jewish Studies Program, Middle East Center, Comparative Literature, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and The Department of Germanic Languages and LiteraturesA Sea of Voices: Women Poets in Israel is a uniquely original anthology that brings together the voices of fifty-one women poets living in Israel. Each writes in their native language as well as in Hebrew. Included are poets from France, Spain, Iraq. Poland, and the USA, who write in French, Yiddish, Russian, Spanish/Ladino, Arabic, Polish, German, Hebrew, and English. With multiple poems from each poet, this anthology, in which all the poems are translated into English, demonstrates the diversity of women's poetry in Israel and shows the multifaceted multilingual experience of writers living in an historically complex society. This mesmerizing and powerful collection evidences how exile and diaspora enrich the poetic tradition of Israel. The book includes a section on women poets who write in Arabic.
Marjorie Agosín is Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. She has written over 22 books of poetry, 8 memoirs, and 6 books of fiction, in Spanish and English, and has received numerous awards, including the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor, The UN Leadership Award in Human Rights, the Latina Award, the First Prize for Poetry from Letras de Oro, the Latino Literature Prize, and the National Mujer Award.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Graduate Student / Faculty Colloquium
5:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center, Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street (entrance next to Starbucks)
Presenters will be:
Michael P. Ryan, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
"The Whistle of Mis-Reception: M. Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder"
Kerry Wallach, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
"Jewish Women In Style: Promoting Consumer Goods in Weimar Jewish Periodicals"
- Saturday, December 5, 2009
12:00 noon - 5:30 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia
Annual Indoor Christkindlmarkt (Bazaar)
featuring a hearty, hot German meal and Coffee & Cake. We sell home baked goods, handmade items, imported German chocolates, Marzipan and Lebkuchen, fresh evergreen arrangements, tree ornaments and attic treasures. We offer activities to entertain the children and Santa visits in the library from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. The afternoon concludes with a sing along of familiar Christmas songs.
- Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Graduate Student / Faculty Colloquium
5:00 pm, Max Kade German Culture and Media Center, Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street (entrance next to Starbucks)
Presenters will be:
Mara Taylor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
title to be announced
Grit Schwarzkopf, University of Heidelberg, Germany, visiting professor at The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
title to be announced
- Sunday, December 13, 2009
3:00 pm, The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia
The German Society of Pennsylvania will present Duo Parisienne. Featuring Nancy Bean, formerly Assistant Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and her orchestra colleague, harpist Anne Sullivan, the program will include works by Schubert, Vivaldi, Bach, V. Williams, as well as L'Histoire du Tango of Piazzolla.
Tickets are $20.00, and may be purchased in advance by calling 215-627-2332, or purchased at the door.
A reception will follow the concert in the Society's Ratskeller, to which all members of the audience are invited at no additional cost, which will provide an opportunity to meet the musicians. For more information about the German Society, visit the Society's website at www.germansociety.org.
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