Events
The Liselotte Dieckmann Lecture and Colloquium
Fall semester, bienially • Location & Time: as scheduled
Established in 1996, this biennial event honors Liselotte Dieckmann, a highly-honored scholar in German studies and a pioneer for women at Washington University and in academia. Promising young scholars are invited to give a lecture on their newest interests and to conduct a workshop for German and Comparative Literature graduate students. Check our Upcoming Events page in early Fall 2009 for more information.
Oct. 12-13, 2006
Patrizia McBride (University of Minnesota - Minneapolis)
Lecture Title: "Against Moralism: Aesthetics and Politics in Brecht's Early Works"
Colloquium: "Modernism and the Ethos of the Humanities"
Oct. 14-15, 2004
Katrin Sieg (Georgetown University)
Lecture Title: "Oriental Drag "
Colloquium: "Staging Globalization "
Nov. 7-8, 2002
Robert Tobin (Whitman College)
Lecture: "The Third Sex: Emancipated Women and Homosexuals at the Turn of the Century"
Colloquium: "Youth Cult"
Nov. 9-10, 2000
Julia Hell (University of Michigan)
Lecture: "Writing after the Fall of the Wall: Wolfgang Hilbig's Provisorium and Transitional Authorship"
Colloquium: "Theorizing Trauma: Cathy Caruth and Eric Santner"
Sep. 24-25, 1998
Dagmar Lorenz (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Lecture: "Age, Cultural Age, and Representation: Generation-specific Memories in Post-Shoah Writing in Austria"
Colloquium: "Resisting Dissimilation--Asserting Difference. Generation as an Aspect of Conflicting Intentionalities in Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria"
Nov. 15, 1996
Alice Kuzniar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Lecture: "Hypervisuality in German Romanticism"
