Institute for German Cultural Studies

Institute for German Cultural Studies
Cornell University / 726 University Ave / Ithaca, NY 14850 / / / / / / / / / / (607)255-8408
Director: Leslie A. Adelson Assistant to the Director: Lisa Bonnes Johnson (lb433@cornell.edu)

Calendar
Spring/Summer 2008

workshops
&
lectures

	Feb 7 2008		From Mighty State to Civil Society: The Impact of Foundations on Contemporary Germany Lecture by Michael Göring (President-ZEIT-Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany) 4:30pm 153 Uris Hall
	Mar 1 2008		The Labor of the Concept: Reading the Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit A colloquium organized by Andrew Chignell and Peter Gilgen 1pm-6pm English Lounge- 258 Goldwin Smith Hall Particpants can pick up a copy of Hegel's Preface in 183 Goldwin Smith. Copies are available in English and German.
	Mar 27 2008		The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality Lecture by Michael Berkowitz (University College London) 4:30pm Guerlac Room-AD White House
	Apr 8 2008		Literarische Lesung mit Christine Rinderknecht (IGCS Writer-in-Residence,Switzerland) 4:30pm Guerlac Room-AD White House
	Apr 9,16, 23 2008		"Das Theaterwunder Schweiz" Kompaktseminar mit Christine Rinderknecht (IGCS Writer-in-Residence, Switzerland) 177 Goldwin Smith 5pm-7pm pre-registration is required. Please contact Lisa Bonnes Johnson lb433@cornell.edu
	Apr 24 2008		"Der sechsundzwanzigste Dezember zweitausendundvier: Naturkatastrophen in der Literatur" Corneller Vorlesung zur Ästhetik der Gegenwart mit Christine Rinderknecht (IGCS Writer-in-Residence, Switzerland) 4:30pm 142 Goldwin Smith
	June 16- July 27		DAAD Summer Seminar

conferences
&
symposia

	Mar 7 & 8 2008		The Limits of Love Psychoanalysis Reading Group Grad. Conference IGCS is a Co-sponsor for this event
	Mar 28 & 29 2008		Turns of the Century: Remapping the Turning Points of Germany's Twentieth Century Presented by the Graduate Students of the Department of German Studies AD White House
	Apr 11&12 2008		Diasporic Bodies and Visual Culture in Contemporary African and Arican Diaspora Art Organized by the Department of the History of Art, Archeology, and Visual Studies IGCS is a Co-sponsor for this event
	Apr 26 2008		Romantic Media Organized by Sean Franzel & Ryan Plumley (PhD Candidates in German Studies and History) 177 Goldwin Smith 1pm-6pm IGCS is a Co-sponsor for this event

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	Feb 1 2008		Davide Stimilli German and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado "Aby Warburg's Impresa"
	Feb 22 2008		Sean Franzel German Studies, Cornell University "The Aesthetics of Apostrophe in the Lecture and Novel (Fichte and Hölderlin)"
	Mar 7 2008		Johannes von Moltke Germanic Languages and Literatures, Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan Editor, The Germanic Review and Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual "Trends in Academic Publishing: Notes from the Field" N.B. There will be no advance paper for this presentation.
	Apr 4 2008		Manuel Köppen Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin "Abschied ohne Ankunft: Der frühe Wendefilm"
	Apr 18 2008		Madeleine Casad Comparative Literature, Cornell University "Reading Melancholy in Real Time: Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Tynset and the Ethics of Virtual Memory"
	May 2 2008		Brent McBride German Department, Hunter College, CUNY "Kokoschka's Denouement of Weininger's Dystopia, or, The Paradoxes of Modernist Misogyny"