| Kirsten Thisted |
Greenland's Road to Self-Government |
10/30/09 |
| Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University |
Sounding Out Austrian Radio Space: Tactical Media, Experimental Artistic Practice, and the ORF Kunstradio Project |
2/13/09 |
| Sissi Tax |
How (Not) to Translate Wittgenstein's Mistress |
10/20/08 |
| Gerald Kleinfeld and Erich Pohl |
The American Presidential Election through German Eyes: How Will our Choice Affect European-American Relations? |
9/29/08 |
| The Graduate School Experience: “History, Memory, Narrative” |
A week of advanced seminars for fifteen German majors from colleges and universities across the U.S. who are considering graduate work in German Studies. Co-sponsored by the DAAD and Max Kade Institute. |
08/16-22/2008; 08/12-18/2007 |
| Thomas Elsaesser |
“The Politics and Poetics of Parapraxis: Figurations of Past Violence in Present-day Germany” |
4/4/2008 |
| Common Senses: Perception & Perspective |
Graduate student conference |
3/28-29/2008 |
| Pascale Bos, U of TX, Austin |
“Breaking with Dutch WWII Taboos, or Reinforcing Clichés? Verhoeven's ‘Blackbook' and its critical and audience reception in the Netherlands and the U.S.” |
11/15/2007 |
| A Woman for all Seasons: Astrid Lindgren at 100 |
All-day conference featuring scholarly discussions of Lindgren's body of work. |
11/14/2007 |
| Conference for North American University Teachers of Swedish |
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10/25-27/2007 |
| Maria-Regina Kecht, Rice University |
“Austrian Women Writers and National Socialism: Creating Literary Space for the Forgotten Jews” |
10/16/2007 |
| Pier Carlo Bontempelli |
“Die Bildung des professoralen Habitus in der deutschen Germanistik” |
10/4/2007 |
| Per Petterson |
Out Stealing Horses: A Reading by the Author, followed by a reception |
9/27/2007 |
| Techno in Germany: A History and a Career |
A lecture, audio-visual presentation, and interview with Oliver Lieb |
09/16/2007 |
| German Studies - The Undisciplined Discipline |
A Conference in honor of Gerhard Weiss |
04/14/2007 |
| Anselm Hollo |
“The Dead Have a Name; The Living a Face and Ten Fingers” |
3/30/2007 |
| Jeffrey Peck, Georgetown University |
“Being Jewish in the New Germany” |
3/20/2007 |
| Faust in the Box; a presentation by Bridge Markland |
one-woman-playback-handpuppets-body-theatre In German, using German/English/American pop music from 1929-2006 |
02/15/2007 |
| Tim Szlachetko, HECUA |
“Challenges to Utopia: Nationalism & Cultural Diversity in Scandinavia" |
2/7/2007 |
| Kierkegaard & Irony |
A one-day conference addressing a deep and intriguing concern within the humanities. |
12/08/2006 |
| Gender, Genre and Political Transformation |
The conference was an outcome of a UM/UW CGES interdisciplinary research collaborative and the program includes many fine papers by U of M graduate students, as well by outstanding faculty and students from UW and elsewhere. The conference also celebrates the distinguished career of Professor Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres, who served as one of the U of M faculty for the collaborative. |
11/10-11/2006 |
| Kaja Silverman |
“Photography by Other Means”: A talk on the German artist Gerhard Richter and his highly controversial paintings of German terrorists. Two one-hour presentations and a discussion. |
11/3/2006 |
| Toril Moi, Duke University |
“First and Foremost a Human Being: Gender, Body, and Theater in Ibsen's A Doll's House” |
2/16/2006 |
| Ulrike Peters Nichols |
“Looking Back in Pain: Melancholia in Strindberg and Hofmannsthal” |
2/14/2005 |
| Hans Christian Andersen 200th Anniversary Celebration |
A celebration of the life and work of legendary children's author
Hans Christian Andersen, this conference includes presentations by
Andersen scholars, a roundtable discussion and a dramatic
presentation of Andersen's story "The Tinderbox" by Minneapolis-based
Frank Theatre. |
10/6/2005 |
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