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2007/2008

FALL EVENTS 2007
SPRING EVENTS 2008

SEPTEMBER

COLLOQUIUM: Josh Dittrich, Graduate Student, German Studies, Cornell University, "Undead Ends: Expression and Non-Organic Life in the Art History of Wilhelm Worringer", 3:00 p.m., August 31, 2007. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

CONFERENCE/SYMPOSIA: "The Legacy of Kant: Classical Neo-Kantianism", September 7-8, 2007, 11:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. A.D. White House. Presented by the Philosophy Department and the Institute for German Cultural Studies.

COLLOQUIUM: Patrick Schmidt, Historisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, "Monsters and Wondrous Births: Cases of Physical 'Otherness" as Media Events in Early Modern Europe", 3:00 p.m., September 28, 2007. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

ANNUAL DAAD WEEKEND: "German Mediascapes", September 29-30, 2007. HEC Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Ute Maschke, organizer. Program Agenda

OCTOBER

COLLOQUIUM: Wolfgang Emmerich, Deutsche Literaatur, Universitat Bremen, "Dritte Raume ais Gegenstand der Deutschlandforschung:', 3:00 p.m., October 19, 2007. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

NOVEMBER

COLLOQUIUM: Madeeleine Casad, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, Cornell University, "Reading Melancholy in Real Time: Wolfgang Hildeshelmer's Tynset and the Ethics of Virtual Memory", 3:00 p.m., November 2, 2007. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies


COLLOQUIUM: John Noyes, German Literature, University of Toronoto, "History and the World: The Natural History of Africa in Contemporary German Literature", 3:00 p.m., November 16, 2007. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

COLLOQUIUM: Claudia Brodsky , Comparative Literature, Princeton University, "Goethe and the Architecture of the Referent", 3:00 p.m., November 30, 2007. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

DECEMBER

Spring 2008

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

COLLOQUIUM: Davide Stimilli,German & Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, "Aby Warburg's Impresa", 3:00 p.m., February 1, 2008. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

LECTURE: Michael Goering, President, ZEIT-Stiftung, "From Mighty State to Civil Society: The Impact of Foundation on Contemporary Germany", 4:30 p.m., 153 Uris Hall, February 7, 2008. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

COLLOQUIUM: Sean Franzel , Graduate Student, German Studies, Cornell University, "The Aesthetics of Apostrophe in the Lecture and Novel (Fichte and Holderlin)", 3:00 p.m., February 22, 2008. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

MARCH

COLLOQUIUM: Johannes von Moltke, Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan, "Trends in Academic Publishing: Notes from the Field", 3:00 p.m., March 7, 2008. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

FILM: PG Kino presents German Literare on Film. "Momo", 1986, dir. Johannes Schaaf. From Momo by Michael Ende. 7:30p.m., March 11, 2008, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. PG Kino is a project undertaken by the graduate students in the Department of German Studies in an effort to educate themselves and others about important developments and discourses in German cinema past and present.

FILM: PG Kino presents German Literare on Film. "Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum" (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum), 1975, dir. Volker Schlondorff. From Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll. 7:30p.m., March 25, 2008, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. PG Kino is a project undertaken by the graduate students in the Department of German Studies in an effort to educate themselves and others about important developments and discourses in German cinema past and present

LECTURE: Michael Berkowitz, University College London, "The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminology", 4:30p.m., March 27, 2008. A.D. White House. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

CONFERENCE: Department of German Studies, Cornell University, "Turns of the Century: Remapping the Turn of Germany's Twentieth Century", March 28-29, 2008. A.D. White House. Keynote Speaker, Lutz Koepnick, Washington University, St. Louis; Plenary Speaker, Patrizia McBride, German Studies at Cornell. Presented by the Graduate Students in the German Studies

APRIL

FILM: Manuel Koeppen, Institut fur deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Wenderfilm Screening (title TBA), 5:00 p.m., April 1, 2008, 142 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

COLLOQUIUM: Manuel Koeppen, Institut fur deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, "Abschied ohne Ankunft: Der fruhe Wendefilm", 3:00 p.m., April 4, 2008. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies.

LECTURE: Christine Rinderknecht, Author from Switzerland, Writer-in-Residence, "Literarische Lesung", 4:30 p.m., April 8, 2008. A.D. White House. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

FILM: PG Kino presents German Literare on Film. "Das SchloB" (The Castle), 1997, Michael Haneke. From Das SchloB by Franz Kafka. 7:30p.m., April 15, 2008, 2008, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. PG Kino is a project undertaken by the graduate students in the Department of German Studies in an effort to educate themselves and others about important developments and discourses in German cinema past and present.

COLLOQUIUM: Madeleine Casad, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, Cornell University, "Reading Melancholy in Real Time: Wolfgang Hildeshelmer's Tynset and the Ethics of Virtual Memory", 3:00 p.m., April 18, 2008. 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

LECTURE: Christine Rinderknecht, Writer-in-Residence, "Corneller Vorlesung zur Asthetik der Gegenwart", 4:30 p.m., April 24, 2008. A.D. White House. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

MINI-SYMPOSIUM: "Romantic Media", April 26, 2008, Time and Location tbd. Presented by Sean Franzel and Ryan Plumbley.

FILM: PG Kino presents German Literare on Film. "Falsche Bewegung" (The Wrong Movement), 1975, dir. Wim Wenders. From Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 7:30p.m., April 29, 2008, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. PG Kino is a project undertaken by the graduate students in the Department of German Studies in an effort to educate themselves and others about important developments and discourses in German cinema past and present.

MAY

COLLOQUIUM: Brent McBride, Hunter College, CUNY, "Kokoschka's Denouement of Weininger's Dystopia, or, The Paradoxes of Modernist Misogyny", 3:00 p.m., May 2, 2008, 181 Goldwin Smith Hall. Presented by the Institute for German Cultural Studies

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