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Past lectures are listed below through 2000. To view a list of lectures before 2000, see our Archived Lectures list.

Past lectures and symposia which are not part of our regular lecture series are archived on our Biennial Symposium, Biennial Liselotte Dieckmann Lecture, Graduate Student Symposium, and Weekend Workshops pages.

Lecture List Archive

• Tuesday, April 22, 2008
• Title: "Prekäres und unverhofftes Glück Anmerkungen zur klassischen deutschen Literatur"
• Speaker: David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. & Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago
• Wednesday, April 2, 2008
• Title: "Orte und Praktiken religiöser Gewalt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg: Konfessionelle Unterschiede und ihre Wahrnehmungen im Spiegel von Selbstzeugnissen "
• Speaker: Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
• Wednesday, March 26, 2008
• Title: "Historical Event and Contemporary Experience: the Capture and Destruction of Magdeburg in 1631"
• Speaker:Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
• Tuesday, March 25, 2008
• Title: "Rückkehr des Autors? Literatur und kulturelle Autorität in der interkulturellen Kommunikation"
• Speaker:Doris Bachmann-Medick
• Monday, March 24, 2008
• Title: An informal discussion with Dr. Maxim and German department graduate students
• Speaker: Dr. Hiram Maxim, Department of German Studies, Emory University
• Wednesday, March 19, 2008
• Title: "The Thirty Years War as Experience and Memory: Microhistorical Views of a Macrohistorical Event"
• Speaker: Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Göttingen
• Tuesday, March 18, 2008
• Title: "Writing in the Web of Words"
• Speaker:Yoko Tawada, Max Kade Writer
• Wednesday, March 5, 2008
• "Der Dreißigjährige Krieg und die Krise des 17. Jahrhunderts: Historiker-Interpretationen im Licht zeitgenössischer Selbstzeugnisse"
• Hans Medick, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Göttingen
• Wednesday, February 6, 2008
• Wien-Zürich: Als Wiener Kulturkorrespondent bei der Neuen Zuercher Zeitung
• Paul Jandl, Max Kade Critic for Spring semester
• October 16, 2007
• Workshop: Poststructuralism, Trauma, and Cultural Memory
• by: Harald Weilnböck (University of Zurich/Berlin); and Erin Mcglothlin, Stephan Schindler, and Lutz Koepnick (Washington University)
• October 1, 2007
• Gesetze der Form - Gottfried Benn 1933
• Eva Geulen, universität Bonn
• Apr. 19, 2007
• "Mittelwärts"
• Ursula Krechel, Max Kade Fellow, Berlin
• Apr. 19, 2007
• "Ohnehin. Roman"
• Doron Rabinovici, Max Kade Writer in Residence, Vienna
• April 2, 2007
• Die Gruppe 47, von heute aus gesehen
• Wilfried Barner, Professor of German, University of Goettingen, Germany
• March 29, 2007
• 1943: The Jewish World at Ground Zero
• David G. Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture, Professor of Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary; 2006-7 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, U.S. Holocaust Museum
• March 29, 2007
• Turkish-German Constellations in Literature and Film
• Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Professor of German, University of Münster/Germany
• March 29, 2007
• The 'Conquest of Nature': Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany
• David Blackbourn, Harvard University
• March 9, 2007
• SALON WORKSHOP: Counting on God: Economic Providentialism in Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's Autobiography
• Co-sponsors: SALON; Comparative Literature
• Richard Gray, University of Washington
• March 8, 2007
• Deep Pockets: The Economics and Poetics of Excess in Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemil
• Co-sponsors: SALON; Comparative Literature
• Richard Gray, University of Washington
• Feb. 7, 2007
• Die internationale Verbreitung österreichischer Literatur
• Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York
• Nov. 15, 2006
• Jurek Becker und Amerika
• Christine Becker, Writer and Editor
• Nov. 8, 2006
• Meine Arbeit als Literaturredakteur beim 'Spiegel'
• Volker Hage, Max Kade Fellow, Kritik, Der Spiegel
• Oct. 26, 2006
• Exercises in Being Jewish, Poems and Prose
• Esther Dischereit, German-Jewish Writer from Berlin
• Oct. 24, 2006
• Extensive Reading in the Foreign Language Classroom
• Richard Day, Chair and Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
• Oct. 23, 2006
• Extensive Reading Belongs in the Foreign Language Curriculum
• Richard Day, Chair and Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
• Oct. 13, 2006
• Dr. Patrizia McBride, Associate Professor of German, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
• "Modernism and the Ethos of the Humanities"
• October 4, 2006
• Tendenzen der Gegenwartslyrik (Grünbein, Petersdorff, Hartung, Kling, Runge und andere)
• Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
• September 27, 2006
• Wiederkehr der Traditionen - im Modus der Komik (Erhardt, Rühmkorf, Gernhardt und andere
• Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
• September 20, 2006
• Sprechen und Schweigen bei Paul Celan
• Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
• September 13, 2006
• Brecht und China: Taoismus in seiner Lyrik
• Heinrich Detering, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universität Göttingen
• April 14, 2006
• Attention, Awareness, and Consciousness-Raising in Second/Foreign Language Teaching
• Richard Schmidt, Director of National Foreign Language Resource Center; Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
• April 13, 2006
• Findings and Implications from Second Language Acquisition Research
• Richard Schmidt, Director of National Foreign Language Resource Center; Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii
• April 12, 2006
• Travel Literature & Enthography: A.V. Thelen, H. Fichte and B. Vesper
• Diedrich Diederichsen, Distinguished Visiting Professor from Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany
• Feb. 17, 2006
• How Jewish Is It? Translations of Jewish Memory in Contemporary German Culture (Pedagogy Lecture) and Workshop: German Studies/Jewish Cultural Studies/Diaspora Studies: The 'Place' of Germany
• Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota
• Feb. 8, 2006
• Das Ende der Literaturkritik in den Medien
• Hans-Joachim Steinert, Max Kade Critic in Residence
• Nov. 16, 2005
• Screening of short documentary film by Yale Strom: A Man from Munkacs: The Gypsy Kelzmer
• Yale Strom, Director, Composer, Musician, Writer & Photographer
• Nov. 16, 2005
• A Wandering Feast: A Journey through the Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe
• Yale Strom, Director, Composer, Musician, Writer & Photographer
• Nov. 15, 2005
• Moving from Research to Classroom and Task Design and Talk in Tasks (Pedagogy Lectures)
• Susan Gass, Michigan State University
• Oct. 14, 2005
• Task-Based Materials Design and Current Issues in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) (Pedagogy Lectures)
• Michael Long, University of Maryland
• Sept. 21, 2005
• Das phantastische Bureau. Kafkas Datenverarbeitung
• The phantastic office. Kafka's data processing.
• Benno Wagner, University of Siegen
• Apr 19, 2005
• 'Milliarden neuer Sterne'. Ein New York Buch
• Angela Krauß, Leipzig, Max Kade Writer in Residence
• Apr 18, 2005
• Pedagogy Workshop: Technology, Language and Literacy: The New Pedagogical Challenge
• Lecture: Post 9/11: Foreign Languages Between Knowledge and Power
• Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley
• Apr 11, 2005
• Eros, der alles begonnen. Bemerkungen zur Liebesthematik in Goethes Faust
• Per Øhrgaard, University of Kansas, Visiting Max Kade Professor of German
• Apr 7, 2005
• Violent Women: Searching for Xena in the 19th Century
• Nancy Richardson, Graduate Student (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
• Mar 16, 23, 30, and April 6
• Lectures on German Literature and Culture: Women and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Germany and Western Europe
• Heide Wunder, Kassel, Distinguished Visiting Professor
• Mar 1, 2005
• Literatur und Radio
• Stephan Krass, Freiburg, Max Kade Critic in Residence
• Feb. 24, 2005
• Werner Sollors, Professor of Afro-American Studies and English, Harvard University
• "A Foreign Affair: Notes Toward a Cultural History of the American Occupation of Germany after World War II"
• Feb. 21, 2005
• 'Vernichtendes Gefühl': Zur Affektdynamik von Scham und Schuld in Schillers Jungfrau von Orleans und Kleists Penthesilea
• Claudia Benthien, Berlin
• Feb. 17, 2005
• A Medievalist Investigates the most Famous Murder of 1286
• William Layher, Washington University in St. Louis (Brown Bag Lecture Series)
• Feb. 15, 2005
• Als Kulturkorrespondentin der NZZ in New York
• Andrea Köhler, Zürich, Max Kade Fellow
• Feb. 2, 2005
• The People's War: Constructing the Home Front in 1940s American Cinema
• Jennifer Kapczynski, Washington University in St. Louis (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
• Jan. 25, 2005
• Germanistik aus koreanischer Sicht
• Chin-Gil Chang, Visiting Professor
• Nov 18, 2004
• Pedagogy Workshop: L2 Vocabulary Learning: Rehearsal Regimes, Student Awareness and Dictionary Use
• Jan Hulstijn, Amsterdam
• Nov 17, 2004
• Pedagogy Lecture: Second-language Vocabulary Learning
• Jan Hulstijn, Amsterdam
• Nov 5, 2004
• Pedagogy Lecture: Theory and Practice in Reading Chinese and Japanese as Foreign Languages: Contemplating Well-Worn Paths and Future Directions and Pedagogy Workshop: Applying Current Reading Theory to the Chinese/Japanese Language Classroom
• Michael Everson, University of Iowa
• Nov. 4, 2004
• Public Art and Social Sculpture
• Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock, Berlin
• Oct. 25, 2004
• Die Frau im Text. Wunschprojektion oder gefährliche Kreatur? Zwei Straßburger Drucke aus dem 16. Jahrhundert
• Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Växjö
• Sept. 2, 2004
• Pedagogy Lecture: Discussing his book Auf Geht's
• Lee Forester, Hope College
• Apr. 19, 2004
• Reading: Der Spaziergang von Rostock nach Syrakus
• Friedrich Christian Delius, Berlin
• Apr. 1, 2004
• 19th Century German Crime Stories
• Michael J. Divine, Graduate Student (Brown Bag Lunch Series)
• Mar. 3, 2004
• Als Schriftsteller in Krisengebieten der 'Dritten Welt'
• Hans Christian Buch, Berlin, Max Kade Fellow
• Mar. 1, 2004
• Fetish Holocaust: Reflections on a theme in contemporary discourse
• Doerte Bischoff, University of Münster
• Feb. 26, 2004
• A Reading of His Works
• Hugo Loetscher, Zürich
• Feb. 25, 2004
• Grosskritiker und kleine Popjungs: Zur aktuellen deutschen Literatur und Filmkritik
• Gregor Dotzauer, Berlin, Max Kade Critic in Residence
• Feb. 11, 2004
• Deutsche Denkmäler im 19. Jahrhundert: Paulskirche, Bavaria, Völkerschlachtdenkmal
• Wilfried Schoeller, Frankfurt am Main, Max Kade Fellow
• Jan. 30, 2004
• A Roundtable on An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New (New York Univ. Press 2004)
• Werner Sollors, Harvard University
• Jan. 29, 2004
• Multi-Lingual American Literature: What difference does it make?
• Werner Sollors, Harvard University
• Oct. 28, 2003
• "Spoils of War: Building Libraries in the 17th Century"
• Dr. Gillian Bepler, Director of Fellowships, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
• Oct. 27, 2003
• "Traveling and Posterity: The Archive, the Library, and the Cabinet"
• Dr. Gillian Bepler, Director of Fellowships, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
• Oct. 22, 2003
• "Germanistik in India"
• Pramod Talgeri, Professor of German, Nehru University, New Delhi
• Oct. 21, 2003
• "The Internet as a Resource and a Tool: Developing cultural activities for the language classroom"
• Franziska Lys, Associate Professor of German, Chair, Council on Language Instruction, Northwestern University
• Oct. 2, 2003
• "Expressionist Architecture: The Work of German Modernist Bruno Tant"
• Iain Boyd Whyte, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh, Senior Program Officer, Getty Grant Program
• Sep. 29, 2003
• "Speaking in Tongues: Religious Excitement and Working Class Germany, 1880-1914"
• Christoph Ribbat, The University of Bochum
• Apr. 16, 2003
• "Judentum und Antisemitismus- Karl Kraus und Heinrich Heine"
• Dietmar Goltschnigg, Professor of German, University of Graz
• Apr. 8, 2003
• "Paarweise": Lesung und Diskussion
• Lilian Faschinger, Max Kade Writer in Residence
• Mar. 26, 2003
• "Written Capitals: Washington D.C. and Berlin"
• Walter Erhart, Professor of German, University of Greifswald
• Feb. 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2003
• "Lectures on German Literature and Culture: Diskurse über die Liebe in der Literatur des Mittelalters"
• Ingrid Kasten, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Free University of Berlin
• Nov. 21, 2002
• "Text und Bild"
• Wilhelm Vosskamp, Professor of German, University of Cologne
• Nov. 7, 2002
• "The Third Sex: Emancipated Women and Homosexuals at the Turn of the Century"
• Robert Tobin, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of German, Whitman College
• Apr. 11, 2002
• A Reading of His Works with Philip Boehm, Freelance Writer and Translator
• Perikles Monioudis
• Feb. 19 and 26, Mar. 12, 19 and 26, Apr. 2 and 9, 2002
• "Lectures on German Literature and Culture: One Hundred Years of German Film"
• Gertrud Koch, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Humboldt University
• Oct. 16, 2001
• "Gender and Interaction in the Language Classroom"
• Dr. Monika Chavez, Associate Professor of German and Applied Linguistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Oct. 15, 2001
• "Das Eine, das Andere, und das Dazwischen- Österreichische Literatur 2000“
• Klaus Zeyringer, Professor of German and Austrian Literature, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers, France
• Oct. 3,2001
• "The Debate over National Missile Defense: The European Perspective": Luncheon Discussion in cooperation with The American Council on Germany St.Louis Wartburg Chapter
• Elizabeth Pond, Foreign Correspondent and Author
• Oct. 1, 2001
• "Verdinglichung und Objektivierung- Zur Form des Erzählens in Bertolt Brechts ’Dreigroschenroman’“
• Klaus-Detlef Müller, Professor of German Literature, University of Tübingen
• Sep. 24, 2001
• "In flagranti. Die literarische Darstellung Ent-deckter Ehebrüche“
• Alfred Ebenbauer, Professor of Medieval German Language and Literature, University of Vienna
• Sep. 20, 2001
• "The Nature of Evil: From the Simple to the Complex“
• John A. McCarthy, Professor of German and of Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University
• Sep. 4, 2001
• "Nibelungischer Zorn und sein höffisches Regulativ: Affekt und Affektkontrolle im ‘Nibelungenlied’.“
• Dr. Irmgard Gephart, The University of Bonn
• Apr. 30, 2001
• A Reading of His Works
• Ingo Schulze, Author of 33 Augenblicke des Glücks and Simple Stories
• Nov. 27, 2000
• "Looking the Other Way: Goethe and Political Conflicts in Classical Weimar"
• Daniel Wilson, Professor of German, The University of California, Berkeley
• Oct. 8, 2000
• Commentary on Texts: Liederabend, featuring: Franz Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock and music of Brahms, Strauss, and Wolf
• Paul Michael Lützler, Rosa May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Washington University
• Apr. 17, 2000
• "Dort sein, wo Geschichte stattfindet. Schriftsteller in Berlin/ Schriftsteller und Berlin"
• Brigitte Burmeister, Author, Berlin

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