Monday, February 1, 7 p.m.

Anton Kaes: Weimar Cinema and the Trauma of War Director of the Film Studies Program at Berkeley. Author of From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film. Co-Editor of Die Geschichte des Deutschen Films and The Weimar Republic Source Book.

Tuesday, February 9, 7 p.m.

Patrice Petro: Cultural Dispositions, Transitory Moods: Women and Visual Culture in Weimar Germany University of Wisconsin. Author of Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany. Editor of Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video and a special issue of Camera Obscura on "Feminism and Film History"

Tuesday, March 16, 7 p.m.

Timothy Corrigan: The Cinematic I: From Michel de Montaigne to Werner Herzog Temple University. Author of New German Film: The Displaced Image and A Short Guide to Writing About Film. Editor of The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History

Tuesday, March 30, 7 p.m.

Barton Byg: Cold War Culture and Postwar German Film Director of the East German Film (Defa) Library at the University of Massachusetts. Author of Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub

Monday, April 12, 7 p.m.

Alice Kuzniar: Dyke Noir Animation (co-sponsored by the Lesbian Gay Academic Union) University of North Carolina. Author of articles on David Lynch and Wim Wenders, Kuzniar has just completed a book on German Queer Cinema. 

Monday, April 19, 7 p.m.

Eric Rentschler: The New German Cinema of Consensus: After Fassbinder and Beyond the Wall Harvard University. Author of West German Film in the Course of Time, German Film and Literature, West German Filmmakers on Film, Augenzeugen, The Films of G. W. Pabst, and The Ministry of Illusion.